1
00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,080
Speaker 1: Ron and Nannian this week, as I'm driving along, I

2
00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,680
Speaker 1: just happened to be behind the car with flashing break lights.

3
00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:09,440
Speaker 1: You're right, that is really annoying. It is illegal. I

4
00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,400
Speaker 1: wanted to establish that right up the best. Why can't

5
00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:16,599
Speaker 1: you fix my car? What king off? Why can't you

6
00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,720
Speaker 1: fix my car? What kin off? The car Doctor'll give

7
00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,400
Speaker 1: you a hunter bucks for the car by the way, Um,

8
00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:26,200
Speaker 1: you know I had you know, I had a try

9
00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,080
Speaker 1: sixty seven Chavells are just like I got a sweet

10
00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,280
Speaker 1: spot for that man. That's that's the last year of

11
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,040
Speaker 1: the square body. Right. Welcome to the radio home of

12
00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,760
Speaker 1: Ron Andanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car

13
00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,519
Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

14
00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,360
Speaker 1: automotive repair. If you're a mechanics giving you a busy signal,

15
00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,760
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage doors

16
00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,000
Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls

17
00:00:52,280 --> 00:01:00,560
Speaker 1: at eight five and now he running un I never

18
00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,680
Speaker 1: noticed that we have a little bell in the open.

19
00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,560
Speaker 1: Is that always there, Mikey? Is that there every week?

20
00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,920
Speaker 1: That's that reminds me the days in the gas station.

21
00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,600
Speaker 1: You know you'd be sitting in the back, Tom I

22
00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,480
Speaker 1: told you now he's hearing things. Mike, No, no, no,

23
00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,440
Speaker 1: we we just added that recently. I figured it would

24
00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,280
Speaker 1: add something. Well, you know what that reminds, you know,

25
00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,360
Speaker 1: and it's like, where did you start run? How did

26
00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,160
Speaker 1: you get your stuff? So I was I was sixteen

27
00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,560
Speaker 1: years old and I used a bicycle down to the

28
00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,039
Speaker 1: Texico station, which was about a mile and a half

29
00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,399
Speaker 1: from the house. And that reminds me of Saturday's right,

30
00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,640
Speaker 1: you know, Saturday, you'd be you'd be the kid on

31
00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,400
Speaker 1: the on the on the pump side on the island,

32
00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,839
Speaker 1: and you know, you're your responsibility was obviously the pump gas,

33
00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:45,640
Speaker 1: clean windows, correct, change, check oil, um, you know, answer

34
00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,960
Speaker 1: any questions, directions, that kind of thing. So you were

35
00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,360
Speaker 1: kind of like the go to person. But what I

36
00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,520
Speaker 1: remember most is you'd get to break and you'd sit

37
00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,240
Speaker 1: down on the back and the billy would send out

38
00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,680
Speaker 1: we'd go down to ho Hocus for for jelly donuts,

39
00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,080
Speaker 1: and you'd sit down in the back and you're just

40
00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,480
Speaker 1: about to put that jelly donut in your mouth and

41
00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,480
Speaker 1: you'd hear ding dang front great, you know it's just Tom.

42
00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,720
Speaker 1: That just sent shivers down my spine. Like but Yeah,

43
00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,120
Speaker 1: that's some really good time growing up in the gas station. That. Um,

44
00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,840
Speaker 1: you know what, this generation will never never here to

45
00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,360
Speaker 1: or see because it's just very different times. And then

46
00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,120
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, after the morning horse was over, you

47
00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,079
Speaker 1: got to learn how to work on cars. You take

48
00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,360
Speaker 1: something apart and and and get it back together by

49
00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,800
Speaker 1: five o'clock, and then you take your bicycle and you

50
00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,000
Speaker 1: ride your bike back home. Um, good times in the

51
00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,480
Speaker 1: gas station. The airbell. Bo I forgot about an air hose.

52
00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,959
Speaker 1: I should probably do that, you know what, I should

53
00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,400
Speaker 1: really do that. At the house, I could get rid

54
00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,440
Speaker 1: of the doorbell. Just put an air hose across the

55
00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,880
Speaker 1: front door. People show up, ding dang front door front.

56
00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,639
Speaker 1: So yeah, not bad week. Open. Let's go and talk

57
00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,600
Speaker 1: to Mark in Kentucky. Oh five kia and see what's

58
00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,840
Speaker 1: going on here? Mark? Are you there? Oh? Yes, I'm here.

59
00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,600
Speaker 1: There you go, sir, How are you brother? What's going on?

60
00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,520
Speaker 1: I've got a two thousand, five k a rhea and

61
00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,919
Speaker 1: I went to clean the batteries with hydrogen peroxide. I

62
00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:12,120
Speaker 1: don't know if that was the best thing or not,

63
00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,120
Speaker 1: but it kind of pulled a little bit on top,

64
00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,520
Speaker 1: and so I got in to drive it and pulled forward.

65
00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, actually where it was I put in reverse,

66
00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,800
Speaker 1: and then when I went to go forward, it just

67
00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,720
Speaker 1: didn't move. And then I put it back in reverse,

68
00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,520
Speaker 1: didn't move. And ever since then, I just will not

69
00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,680
Speaker 1: go into gear. And if it happened any other time,

70
00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,320
Speaker 1: then I would know just as send it to transmission

71
00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,800
Speaker 1: decided to go out. But since it happened right after

72
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,960
Speaker 1: I had done this, and since the transmission was working

73
00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,040
Speaker 1: perfectly fine before then, I'm thinking that it might have

74
00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,840
Speaker 1: splashed on something, shorted something out, maybe sent a search

75
00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,880
Speaker 1: to the computer. I was just hoping you can give

76
00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,760
Speaker 1: me some recommendation. Dash, no dash lights, Everything looks normal,

77
00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,600
Speaker 1: seems normal. Yeah, as far as dash readings, does the

78
00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,240
Speaker 1: prindle work, you know the park reverse drive new chill,

79
00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,880
Speaker 1: Do those lights work and function normally that they're still

80
00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,720
Speaker 1: as they were prior um. Actually I don't have I'm

81
00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,320
Speaker 1: you may not. You may not have it on that model.

82
00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,400
Speaker 1: But the reason I ask that is because some of

83
00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,640
Speaker 1: the key is if there is a fault in the

84
00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:22,120
Speaker 1: trans module or the trans system, the D light will flash,

85
00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:27,120
Speaker 1: the drive light will flash, It will blink a repetitive blink,

86
00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,120
Speaker 1: telling you there's a fault, so now look look at

87
00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,080
Speaker 1: that next time I turn it on. Okay, you know

88
00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,880
Speaker 1: the The one thing that comes to mind is, you know,

89
00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,479
Speaker 1: unless a wire disconnected ground or you know, from the

90
00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,440
Speaker 1: ground side of the positive side, you know, it would

91
00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,880
Speaker 1: be kind of hard like what splashed, what got wet?

92
00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,920
Speaker 1: What you know, because everything is sort of environmentally protected,

93
00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,240
Speaker 1: so that doesn't make any sense. What I would say is,

94
00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,240
Speaker 1: I would suggest two things. One, if you have a

95
00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,760
Speaker 1: scan tool, can you scan this even though there's nothing

96
00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,039
Speaker 1: showing in the way of a light, you know, do

97
00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,160
Speaker 1: we get any response out of the transmission? All right?

98
00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,160
Speaker 1: And and what I would do is I would go in,

99
00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,320
Speaker 1: go into the trans module and watch what I say,

100
00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,680
Speaker 1: foot on the brake, put it in reverse. You will

101
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,240
Speaker 1: be able to see gear shift, select position in the

102
00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,080
Speaker 1: trans on the on the scan tool. If the scan

103
00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,400
Speaker 1: tool shows reversed and the car shows reverse and the

104
00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,920
Speaker 1: car shows drive when you put it and drive, the

105
00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,760
Speaker 1: computer is seeing the request. It's it's trying to work

106
00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,000
Speaker 1: for some reason. The trans itself has an internal issue

107
00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,039
Speaker 1: and is not working. That's that's one possibility. And I

108
00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,920
Speaker 1: agree it's kind of weird since the battery disconnect right. Uh.

109
00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,120
Speaker 1: There there is an adaptive uh trans learning procedure for

110
00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:47,000
Speaker 1: kias involving a scan tool and uh, you know, going

111
00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,760
Speaker 1: through and driving it at at thirty thirty degree throttle

112
00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,920
Speaker 1: angle until it warms up and then it shifts properly

113
00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,560
Speaker 1: and so on. But you're not even at that point.

114
00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,640
Speaker 1: You can't even get it to move anywhere. And you

115
00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,200
Speaker 1: know that. So I don't know that that applies. You know,

116
00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,800
Speaker 1: there's a bulletin out there if I recall correctly uh

117
00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,159
Speaker 1: Kia bulletin t R A zero eight team which talks

118
00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,920
Speaker 1: about the adaptive relearned procedure. UM, I would be curious

119
00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,279
Speaker 1: if did you take off one cable both cables neither

120
00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,520
Speaker 1: cable well at this point of unhooked and rehooked it

121
00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,040
Speaker 1: back up. But you know when I did it, I

122
00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,880
Speaker 1: didn't unhooked anything. I just kind of poured the hydroen

123
00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,560
Speaker 1: peroxide on as it was. And like I said, once

124
00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,560
Speaker 1: I moved the vehicle, that a little bit pulled on

125
00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,400
Speaker 1: there came off and went down and there are some

126
00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,839
Speaker 1: wires with some stuff. I don't know what it is there.

127
00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,279
Speaker 1: I just didn't know if maybe it might have caused

128
00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,760
Speaker 1: a surge that might have screwed up the computer. Best.

129
00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,520
Speaker 1: I was just wondering any cheap thing because it's not

130
00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,000
Speaker 1: worth even having the transmission with that of any thing

131
00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,839
Speaker 1: simple I could replace out and see if it works.

132
00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,680
Speaker 1: Tell me about the wires. What are you? What are you?

133
00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,640
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? There? Um? Yeah, below it

134
00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,200
Speaker 1: where some of it could have splashed, or some wires

135
00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,280
Speaker 1: with some boxes that looked like they contained something. I'm

136
00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,479
Speaker 1: not sure what those would be the right, So there's

137
00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,440
Speaker 1: a potential. Yeah, the only way you have, you know,

138
00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,520
Speaker 1: somebody would have to sit and diagnose that. The only

139
00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,440
Speaker 1: thing you could really do, uh is either you know,

140
00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,880
Speaker 1: a make sure the wires are dried out, you know

141
00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,920
Speaker 1: that that there's nothing wet there. And then the other

142
00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:18,680
Speaker 1: thing that's and it's not gonna hurt anything at this

143
00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,120
Speaker 1: point is disconnect both battery cables and short them together,

144
00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,920
Speaker 1: the cables, not the battery. Just touch the two ends

145
00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,320
Speaker 1: together and hold them together for two minutes. You know

146
00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,960
Speaker 1: where you could use a jumper wire and hold them

147
00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,120
Speaker 1: together for two minutes and just bleed all the processors down.

148
00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,480
Speaker 1: You know, on the chance that one of the electronic

149
00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,320
Speaker 1: modules is locked up, we're sort of gonna you know,

150
00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:41,360
Speaker 1: you ever, you ever, you ever get your Windows computer

151
00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:42,760
Speaker 1: at home where it locks up and you have to

152
00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,600
Speaker 1: do a reboot. We're gonna do a reboot. And if

153
00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,000
Speaker 1: the battery had been out for quite a while, would

154
00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,640
Speaker 1: that also do it? Or do I need to do

155
00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,240
Speaker 1: the touch that would that would do it too? If

156
00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,120
Speaker 1: the battery had been out for quite a while? All right?

157
00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,960
Speaker 1: But but but well, so okay, so let me ask

158
00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:01,920
Speaker 1: that then, was the battery out for quite a while?

159
00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,160
Speaker 1: What has been since this has happened? I took it

160
00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,320
Speaker 1: out and and just taught let things reset and put

161
00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,320
Speaker 1: it back in. But it didn't do anything. So the

162
00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,720
Speaker 1: car ran the day that you cleaned the battery terminals, right,

163
00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,080
Speaker 1: It was just right after I board the hygiene peroxide

164
00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,320
Speaker 1: and then moved it to where it splashed around a

165
00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,960
Speaker 1: little bit. Have you that's when it stopped working. Have

166
00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,520
Speaker 1: you taken the battery out, looked under the tray, looked

167
00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,880
Speaker 1: at that wiring? Does anything look you know, burnt, damaged? Broken?

168
00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,480
Speaker 1: Not far as I can tell now? Okay? Um, then yeah,

169
00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,199
Speaker 1: short of a true diagnosis, with a scan tool and

170
00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,040
Speaker 1: a voltmeter, you can try doing you know, battery cables

171
00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,199
Speaker 1: you know, touching them well or as you say, the

172
00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,080
Speaker 1: battery has been out for an extended period, I see

173
00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,200
Speaker 1: no purpose in in touching the two cable ends together. Um.

174
00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,400
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's got to be diagnosed. I mean,

175
00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,880
Speaker 1: sometimes you just can't get away from it. But you know,

176
00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,360
Speaker 1: the simplest thing is the module awake. And the best

177
00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,800
Speaker 1: way I know to tell if the modules awake is um, yeah,

178
00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,200
Speaker 1: moving the gear shift. And then for that matter, if

179
00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,559
Speaker 1: you move the gear shift lever from park to drive,

180
00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,640
Speaker 1: does it change on the dashboard And if you don't

181
00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,800
Speaker 1: have an indicator for that doesn't show on a scan

182
00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,760
Speaker 1: tool at the scan tools. So set up an equip

183
00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,120
Speaker 1: You've got to figure out as the trans module awake.

184
00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,720
Speaker 1: But I've got to tell you some of this doesn't

185
00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,280
Speaker 1: make any sense to me because in most cases it's

186
00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,000
Speaker 1: rare when I see a trans that won't do anything. Uh.

187
00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,680
Speaker 1: You know, it may shift poorly, it may not up shift,

188
00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,520
Speaker 1: but at least it will go mechanically into first gear.

189
00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,160
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't do anything. Um, so you know

190
00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,240
Speaker 1: you've either lost a major ground or connection at that

191
00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,559
Speaker 1: battery area, maybe not cabled, but maybe under the tray.

192
00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,880
Speaker 1: You know how dirty. Was the battery? Was the battery

193
00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,280
Speaker 1: really sulfated acid all over the place? Did it? Did

194
00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,000
Speaker 1: it damage the harness underneath? And you know you just

195
00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,000
Speaker 1: sort of aggravated it a little bit to the point

196
00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,160
Speaker 1: that now a wire is disconnected. Um, think of the positive.

197
00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,880
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if this was the poor mechanic he

198
00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:02,000
Speaker 1: cleaned the battery terminals and imagine this. You know, Holy count, Um,

199
00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,000
Speaker 1: you know this is this is the issue when you

200
00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,640
Speaker 1: get into a car with you know that needs maintenance

201
00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,040
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden one problem begets the next,

202
00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:10,280
Speaker 1: the next and the next thing. I know you don't

203
00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,520
Speaker 1: want to hear that, but you know, just just just

204
00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,920
Speaker 1: something to be aware of. So um, gott to be diagnosed. Mark,

205
00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,200
Speaker 1: you know, try the things I suggested, and other than that,

206
00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,280
Speaker 1: it's got to be diagnosed. And um, you know the

207
00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,120
Speaker 1: best danswer I have. But I agree it sounds like

208
00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,800
Speaker 1: it's related to the battery cleaning, and you know that's

209
00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,000
Speaker 1: where you're at at this moment. I appreciate the call

210
00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,319
Speaker 1: five zero nine zero ron anating the car doctor coming

211
00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:48,360
Speaker 1: back right after this. I got time righting on on

212
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,400
Speaker 1: the wall, so you don't forget to call for car

213
00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,839
Speaker 1: advice done right eight five five five zero zero zero.

214
00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,840
Speaker 1: Now back to raw quick piece of email. This comes

215
00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,760
Speaker 1: to us from Marty too and seven ray code. Hey Ron,

216
00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,560
Speaker 1: last weekend I heard your show and you were talking

217
00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,080
Speaker 1: about a company where you purchased a high power starter.

218
00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,520
Speaker 1: You're very happy with the product and support you received.

219
00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,080
Speaker 1: What was the name of the company. I have a

220
00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,559
Speaker 1: foreign Cubican small block board thirty over with two oh

221
00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,160
Speaker 1: two heads. It doesn't turn over, doesn't like to turnover

222
00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,160
Speaker 1: when it's hot, Marty, Marty, that was power Master power

223
00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,480
Speaker 1: Master Motorsports dot Com. I have. I have one of

224
00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,559
Speaker 1: their starters on the hot rod. I've used a few

225
00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,600
Speaker 1: of their products. I've been always happy with it. Um

226
00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,040
Speaker 1: you know, good stuff, good product, good support, and um

227
00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,160
Speaker 1: you know. I can't say enough about it. It's just

228
00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:33,839
Speaker 1: it's it works. And in this day and age, when

229
00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,400
Speaker 1: you put something on a car after market something and

230
00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,200
Speaker 1: it works, you know, that says a lot. But the

231
00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,160
Speaker 1: power Master Motorsports dot Com. I think John Babcox is

232
00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,480
Speaker 1: the owner if I remember right and tell him I

233
00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,280
Speaker 1: said hello, if you talk to them. So let's go

234
00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,560
Speaker 1: to the phones to talk to Chris in Pennsylvania twelve

235
00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,880
Speaker 1: Mercedes and some bad vibrations. Chris, Welcome to the car doctor, Sir,

236
00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:00,400
Speaker 1: how can I help? Thank you? I have I loved,

237
00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,800
Speaker 1: but recently, UM, when I'm when I'm driving on the highway,

238
00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,720
Speaker 1: when the card um usually idols around like a thousand

239
00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,080
Speaker 1: rpm going eighty miles down the highway, but when it

240
00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:18,359
Speaker 1: gets between fifteen pms, it's I started getting a vibration.

241
00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,440
Speaker 1: And I wasn't sure if it was the engine or

242
00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:26,280
Speaker 1: the transmission. So if I if I accelerate and the

243
00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,480
Speaker 1: RPMs jumped, then I get nothing. And it evens out.

244
00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,480
Speaker 1: And and I drive to and from work, and on

245
00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,440
Speaker 1: the way to work, I noticed I set the cruise

246
00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,719
Speaker 1: control on eighty and when I start uphill, and this

247
00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,080
Speaker 1: one certain area where it goes up through the mountains

248
00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,880
Speaker 1: is where it happens, I get the vibration. But coming home,

249
00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,680
Speaker 1: I don't get any vibration at all. Now, UM, last

250
00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,960
Speaker 1: time I had it looked at UM, the the mechanics

251
00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 1: mentioned that the motor mounts. There was something about the

252
00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,800
Speaker 1: motor mounts. I it's a high performance car, so I

253
00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,200
Speaker 1: run it very fast a lot of times, a lot

254
00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,040
Speaker 1: of quarter miles and a lot of hundred forty mile

255
00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,760
Speaker 1: for extended period. But it does that sound more like

256
00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,560
Speaker 1: a motor, like like an engine thing or a transmission thing. Chris,

257
00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,880
Speaker 1: where are you going hunter for Pennsylvania Turnpike? O? No, No,

258
00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,480
Speaker 1: there's a there's a stretch of Hiawa between State College

259
00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,800
Speaker 1: and Altoona. It's clear dry and there's always some subru

260
00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,440
Speaker 1: w r X or something wants to wants to test me.

261
00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,679
Speaker 1: So okay, he says, But the cars, you know, the

262
00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,840
Speaker 1: cars built for it's an a MG in the skies.

263
00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,120
Speaker 1: It's got the AMG motor the my point five this

264
00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,079
Speaker 1: is Camaro is what this is? I get it. I

265
00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,400
Speaker 1: know what you're saying. Um, and I do the maintenance

266
00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,320
Speaker 1: on it, and you know the tires and everything. But

267
00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,200
Speaker 1: so it's odd that you know, like when I drive

268
00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,760
Speaker 1: it around town nothing. I'd be curious if you can

269
00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,320
Speaker 1: get it into that vibration zone if as it were,

270
00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,080
Speaker 1: and if you took it out of it's probably what

271
00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,079
Speaker 1: is it a five speed or or a six speed?

272
00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:15,360
Speaker 1: Trans It's uh, it's a seven speed. And then what

273
00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,480
Speaker 1: if you what if you manually pull it down into

274
00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:23,440
Speaker 1: the next lower gear. Yeah, it'll it'll come out of that. See. Yeah,

275
00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,800
Speaker 1: what I thought is I thought it was like gear six,

276
00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,920
Speaker 1: you know, likes I kick it down so the RPMs

277
00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,880
Speaker 1: go up to two thousand and and and it's smooth.

278
00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:39,200
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's engine rpm related. Well, yeah, because

279
00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,560
Speaker 1: that's where I noticed it. Because like if I get

280
00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,760
Speaker 1: on and on ramp and I go zero to a hundred,

281
00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,840
Speaker 1: I do it in two gears nothing, it's it's perfect.

282
00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,040
Speaker 1: It car pulls hard and strong. It's only when I'm

283
00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,560
Speaker 1: driving along. And then I started handing up a gradual

284
00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,960
Speaker 1: inkline and then the RPM start to the it's it's

285
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,160
Speaker 1: you sort of you sort of find that sweet spot

286
00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,760
Speaker 1: where the vibration comes in. And I don't you know,

287
00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,600
Speaker 1: and I don't care if it's a Mercedes or a

288
00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,120
Speaker 1: Chevrolet or a Maserati or whatever. Dynamics and physics are

289
00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,920
Speaker 1: all the same. So we know there's the RPM band.

290
00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,240
Speaker 1: Now we have to figure out why. You know, I

291
00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,280
Speaker 1: would also venture to guess if you got it up

292
00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,640
Speaker 1: to that RPM band speed where it was happening, and

293
00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:25,920
Speaker 1: popped it into neutral, I bet it would go away,

294
00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,960
Speaker 1: because I bet it's not chassis speed related. It's engine

295
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,480
Speaker 1: speed related. Right, So I've got to think more towards engine.

296
00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you

297
00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,720
Speaker 1: every diagnosis starts at the same place. Now in a

298
00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,240
Speaker 1: modern car, you're gonna plug in, You're gonna you're gonna

299
00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,680
Speaker 1: plug a scan tool in and see what you get. Hey,

300
00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,280
Speaker 1: you know you get nothing. You know, no codes. Everything's clean.

301
00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,000
Speaker 1: You know what it's not? All right? You know, fixing

302
00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,840
Speaker 1: a car is no different. You know, every time you

303
00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,280
Speaker 1: go to the doctor. You ever notice every time you

304
00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,200
Speaker 1: go to the doctor, you know, my g doc, my

305
00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,840
Speaker 1: left toe hurts. What's the first thing the nurse does.

306
00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,920
Speaker 1: She takes your blood pressure and heart rate every time.

307
00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's just they're looking at basics. And

308
00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,800
Speaker 1: that's what we still do on cars and you just

309
00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, so a scan, just scan it. Do you

310
00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,960
Speaker 1: have any full codes? Yes? No. Um. What I think

311
00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,800
Speaker 1: about when I think about Mercedes, especially this is I

312
00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,400
Speaker 1: believe this has an active duty dampening motor mounts setup

313
00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,440
Speaker 1: that I believe they pulse with control the motor mounts

314
00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:31,480
Speaker 1: for vibration vibration prevention, vibration control. And I'm wondering if

315
00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,400
Speaker 1: it's working correctly, and I'm wondering if we've got a

316
00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,480
Speaker 1: mount tissue. Is that just happens to be the spot

317
00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:44,160
Speaker 1: where the failures occurring? And then that might be because,

318
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,400
Speaker 1: like I said, the last time I took it in um,

319
00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,080
Speaker 1: he mentioned something about the mounts and I wasn't paying

320
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,880
Speaker 1: attention because I'm like clad, I got dollars on the mount.

321
00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,800
Speaker 1: Are you want to go on any backstreet? You gotta

322
00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,720
Speaker 1: pay for that, brother, Um that comes, that comes at

323
00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,080
Speaker 1: a price. So let me ask let me ask you

324
00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,280
Speaker 1: this question. What year did you graduate high school? Nineteen

325
00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,080
Speaker 1: eighty four? Okay, what was the fastest car in the

326
00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:15,720
Speaker 1: high school parking lot? In four? That was? So you

327
00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,119
Speaker 1: have the iraq Z did you all mat or was

328
00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,119
Speaker 1: it your buddy? Uh? No? I built one right, I

329
00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,879
Speaker 1: and and and back then it was no holds barred

330
00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,400
Speaker 1: whatever it took. Yes, right, it hasn't changed. You gotta understand.

331
00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,040
Speaker 1: The animals gotten more complicated and it's more expensive. Initially,

332
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,320
Speaker 1: how much was that a MG? Chris? Come on, tell

333
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,880
Speaker 1: us hundred fifty? Oh no, no, no, I I used

334
00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,000
Speaker 1: to work for G M. A C. That there's financing,

335
00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,360
Speaker 1: So I buy them off lease at the rich rich

336
00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,040
Speaker 1: guys buy them and then when they're done with some

337
00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,760
Speaker 1: I take them off least because they still have warranty

338
00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,480
Speaker 1: and stuff. So how much? How much? How much was

339
00:17:55,520 --> 00:18:00,480
Speaker 1: that car? No? No, I got it forty five because

340
00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,240
Speaker 1: I negotiate it so so you still got You still

341
00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,679
Speaker 1: got some room to go, get it diagnosed, get the

342
00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,119
Speaker 1: motor mounts port and don't forget the possibility of a

343
00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,840
Speaker 1: software update to improve how those motor mounts react to

344
00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,040
Speaker 1: But um, I think that's your head in the right direction. Chris,

345
00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:16,560
Speaker 1: A pleasure talking to you. I'll run on any and

346
00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:36,040
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. We're back right after this. Don't go away.

347
00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,239
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Run in any of the Car Doctor five

348
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,639
Speaker 1: five zero, chase out on Facebook, Run on any in

349
00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,040
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. An email. I've been I've been threatening

350
00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,200
Speaker 1: to read up here on air for this this weekend,

351
00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,720
Speaker 1: um Ron catching up on your show via podcast. A

352
00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,840
Speaker 1: couple of pieces of info for you. This comes to

353
00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,480
Speaker 1: us from John. My apologies if you corrected these in show.

354
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,560
Speaker 1: If you have to listen to you spoke of Testlas

355
00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,280
Speaker 1: servis going down and making it impossible to unlock and

356
00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,320
Speaker 1: drive the car. That could only that would only affect

357
00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,639
Speaker 1: the app on the phone for the remote start. You

358
00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,720
Speaker 1: should be you would be able to unlock and drive

359
00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,160
Speaker 1: the car with a FOB or card, depending on the model.

360
00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,679
Speaker 1: My reply was and at the time, the news was

361
00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,360
Speaker 1: reporting that vehicle owners were locked out of vehicles, And

362
00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,000
Speaker 1: that's the way I left it. I you know, And

363
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 1: and if it's not true, okay, if it is true,

364
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,199
Speaker 1: it still comes down to how dependent we are on

365
00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,680
Speaker 1: technology with these cars. Back to John's comments, you also

366
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,400
Speaker 1: spoke of breaking down in the middle of nowhere. Who

367
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,320
Speaker 1: can fix it? Many times, if something acts up, I

368
00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,480
Speaker 1: can basically reset the car by pressing a couple of buttons.

369
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,240
Speaker 1: If that doesn't take care of it, test the service

370
00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,439
Speaker 1: can connect, the car, can connect to the car and

371
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 1: repair and the software glitch no matter where I am.

372
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,720
Speaker 1: I doubt a similar issue can be fixed in a

373
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,080
Speaker 1: regular car without getting towed to a dealer. Yeah, but

374
00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 1: the point becomes, what happens when that reset doesn't work?

375
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 1: Who's going to fix it? You're missing the point. What

376
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,480
Speaker 1: happens when the blue screen of death comes up? Like

377
00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,600
Speaker 1: your computer? What happens when the blue screen of death

378
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 1: comes I want to see them do that in Wyoming.

379
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,159
Speaker 1: Nothing against Wyoming, and not that I wish a Tesla

380
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 1: upon you, but I want to I want to see

381
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,560
Speaker 1: them do that in Wyoming, in the middle of nowhere

382
00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,159
Speaker 1: John happens to live. I believe I'm gonna guess in

383
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,400
Speaker 1: sample on Cape Cod. I kind of got that impression

384
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 1: here somewhere, um but somewhere in the northeast. It's very

385
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,879
Speaker 1: different when you're in other parts of the country. So

386
00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,720
Speaker 1: don't say it's gonna work anywhere. I get it. My

387
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,439
Speaker 1: answer was, I see your point, but understand, computer resets

388
00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 1: and flashing does not always work. At some point you

389
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,040
Speaker 1: will be stuck in A technician will be needed. Where

390
00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,639
Speaker 1: will you be near a major population hub or in

391
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 1: the or is the coverage as good in Wyoming as

392
00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 1: it is in Cape Cod, Boston, New York City, et cetera.

393
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 1: And I think this is the most important part about

394
00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 1: electric vehicles my opinion. At the diameter of the circle

395
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:50,040
Speaker 1: of technology grows, so does the perimeter of potential problems,

396
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 1: just like in internal combustion engine vehicles. And you've got

397
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 1: to realize that. Back to John, he said, I goot

398
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,880
Speaker 1: to use Tesla model as a year ago, and I've

399
00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 1: been happy with it. It's plugged in nightly and always

400
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,159
Speaker 1: has a full tank. Of fuel. Traveling is no problem

401
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 1: since superchargers are placed pretty well along interstates and other roots.

402
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 1: There's even one near Cape Cod. It's in Sagaware Beach

403
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,920
Speaker 1: near Dunkin Donuts. Wow, one supercharger serving all of Cape Cod.

404
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: It's not like that could get backed up in the

405
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,639
Speaker 1: middle of winter, and as I wrote back to them,

406
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 1: in the middle of summer. The Cape Cod charger is

407
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,719
Speaker 1: new for my understanding. As for the rest of them

408
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 1: were My question is who pays for the installed the

409
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 1: electricity being supplied, You me, all of us, and when

410
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 1: the days come to electricity is in much higher supply,

411
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 1: will the infrastructure be there to support it or in demand? UM.

412
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: I enjoy your show and very impressure with your knowledge.

413
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: I understand having a bias in favor of mainstream technology.

414
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,679
Speaker 1: I kind of take exception to that. I don't have

415
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 1: a bias against technology. If anything, I have to I

416
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,439
Speaker 1: deal with technology every day. You've got to understand what

417
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: you're getting on this show is my interaction with technology

418
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,280
Speaker 1: and the successes and the failures. This isn't I'm not

419
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 1: up here, listen. I'm not stupid enough to think that

420
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: I can control three fifty million Americans and force you guys,

421
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 1: not the bio electric vehicle. I'd be a jackass if

422
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: I thought that. But you know it's if you have

423
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: to bleep that, Mikey, I don't care. So you know,

424
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: the point becomes, though, I've got to make you aware

425
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: of of of of Tom saying he is anyway, So

426
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: what differ doesn't make I heard that. Um. The point

427
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: is you've got to be aware of what you're getting into,

428
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: all right, Um, and I responded, I don't see it

429
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 1: as biased truth be told, I try not to limit

430
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 1: my bias leaning towards practicality and common sense, or I

431
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: try to bias lean needs more towards practicality and common sense,

432
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: and as the truth. I try to present hard facts

433
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: and situations. I may not always be successful at it.

434
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: I think electric cars have their place, but they're not

435
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: the holy grail we're making it out to be for

436
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 1: many reasons, both mechanical, technical, and thirdly economic. As John

437
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: continues and closes, you've been immersed in You've been immersed

438
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 1: in it for decades and it served you well. I

439
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 1: would just like you to be a little more open

440
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,959
Speaker 1: to electronic technology, or at least do a bit more

441
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: research for me making statements against it. Thanks for letting

442
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 1: me give my opinion, I and I wrote back, John,

443
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,199
Speaker 1: I always appreciate my listeners opinions and beliefs. Thanks for

444
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: taking the time. Have a great day, John Youtubo regards wrong.

445
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: You know what, I wouldn't have a radio show without

446
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: every one of you, And I mean that. Believe me.

447
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna let me sit up here and and and

448
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,439
Speaker 1: and talk to empty empty airwaves. It just it doesn't apply.

449
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: But if I don't tell you my experience, if I

450
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: don't try to point out some of the things I see,

451
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: who will the car manufacturer? You really think GM those

452
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 1: what you know, has your better interest at heart? And

453
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: by what are they gonna have seventeen or twenty three

454
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 1: electric platforms out there? Do you really think that's the

455
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: way of the world. Nobody seems to be able to

456
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: answer the question what will big oil do? How a

457
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: little affect us economically? Are we gonna be able to

458
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: do computer resets to electric vehicles in the middle of Wyoming?

459
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: Where will the technicians come from? It's so hard to

460
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: get mechanics now technicians if we want to use that term.

461
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 1: The local land rover dealer has a twenty thousand dollars

462
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: signing bonus. Okay, think about that for a minute. You're

463
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: gonna get a twenty grand signing bonus if you go

464
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: to work at the land Rover dealer and stay. I

465
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 1: think it's up to two years as a technician. They're

466
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: servicing their vehicles. That's how tough it is. And it's

467
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 1: not like you can get somebody up to speed lickety split.

468
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: The amount of training and education it could take a year.

469
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna bring out an electric vehicle, you know what?

470
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: Are we gonna just swap parts? Um tires or tires?

471
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: Breaks or breaks, I guess. But then the electronic problems,

472
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: the electrical problems. I recently attended SCOPE class down here

473
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 1: in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and I was the only

474
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: stupid mechanic from North Jersey because I was the only

475
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: one in the room. Everybody else was from Central and

476
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: South Jersey. And we say that kind of tongue in

477
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: cheek because I guess everybody else is so smart they

478
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 1: don't need the class. And it's not like scope classes

479
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: come up all that often. I was fortunate I only

480
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,360
Speaker 1: had to travel an hour and fifteen minutes each way

481
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: to get to mind. I know guys that are traveling,

482
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: you know, miles to get to a scope class, spending

483
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: three or four days in that in that city or town,

484
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: and then going back home to work. You know, it's

485
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: not a matter of not wanting to embrace the technology.

486
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: I have legitimate concerns in my opinion of of how

487
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,479
Speaker 1: are we going to deal with this and at what price.

488
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: Not everybody can afford an electric vehicle, not everybody can

489
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: afford to repair an electric vehicle, and not everybody needs

490
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: an electric vehicle, and it's going to change us in

491
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: many many ways that we're just not we're just not

492
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: aware of so Um. But I'm being very straight and

493
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: honest John Um. I'm really proud of you that you

494
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: wrote in with your opinion. I want your opinion. I

495
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: want everybody's opinion. I don't care if I get ten

496
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: thousand of these, I will go through each and everyone

497
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,719
Speaker 1: and present them because your opinion counts. That's what this

498
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: rate your show is about, Um, And I mean that

499
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: in no sincerity from the bottom of my heart. Zero

500
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: the car doctors coming back right after this, Welcome back Nardicle.

501
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: Let's go to frank In Delaware. Frank, you've been listening

502
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: to my babbling for twenty minutes, sir. I appreciate your patients.

503
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 1: How can I help? Oh? I'm fine, Ron? How are

504
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: you doing good? Sir? What's going on? Just a question.

505
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: I was thinking of purchasing a Silverado and I was

506
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: doing some reach out Johnline, and then I, uh, something

507
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: caught my eye. This uh uh proverbial. I don't know

508
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: if it's science fiction or if it's fact. What they're

509
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: calling a Chevy shake. They're they're in some SUVs and

510
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, both GM vehicles and you know, General Motors.

511
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever heard of that. I

512
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: have to tell you I have not, and you know,

513
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: you kind of made me turn my head to the

514
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: side and go huh um. And I've if if there's

515
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: one thing, I've had a few of its SUVs and

516
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: pickups all from General Motors Chevrolet specifically, so I I

517
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: have not seen or experienced that. I'd love to see

518
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: what model years they're talking about. UM. I know Ford's

519
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 1: got some issues right now with the the the steering

520
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: shake on the nineteen UM two fifties and three fifties,

521
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: and there's a steering damper replacement and they're doing some alignment,

522
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: some castor adjustment and things like that. But I have

523
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,719
Speaker 1: not seen this as a as an issue on GM

524
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: any idea what model years they're saying is affected now

525
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: just I I didn't pay too much attention to that.

526
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: Just uh that people have videos of uh, I don't

527
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: know if faith modified, and it seems like a good

528
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: portion of are modified. Degree you know, from that point.

529
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: Do you ever notice do you ever notice, um, you

530
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: ever go to car shows, Frank just locally, Yeah, you

531
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: know you got to you go to you go to

532
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: cruise car shows, and um, you know, you'll see that

533
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: guys have their hot rods and they've they've modified their

534
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: their their their cooling system, they've got different diameter pulleys,

535
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: and those seem to be the cars that always overheat

536
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: and they don't really run right and they're heavily modified,

537
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 1: et cetera. Do you ever do you ever think that

538
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,719
Speaker 1: people just sort of create their own misery because they

539
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: don't understand that the dynamics and physics of what it

540
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: is they're trying to do. Um, you know, yeah, uh,

541
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, somebody wants asked me because I don't I

542
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: don't lift the hood on the hot rod offen And

543
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: obviously I got a zillion questions when I do, and

544
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: somebody wants to ask me. They said, hey, how can

545
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: you lift the pulleys all stock? Because if you lift

546
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: the hood of the hot rod it looks like a

547
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: big nothing. It's a small block with a four barrel

548
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: and just stock GM police from nineteen and um. I said, well,

549
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: why would I want to change? And well, don't you

550
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: want to make it go faster? What the water pump? Yeah? No,

551
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: you know. The the logic was the slower it goes

552
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: within a certain limit, You're holding the coolant and the

553
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: radiator longer to allow it to exchange heat, to give

554
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: off heat, to dissipate and properly cool before it's returned

555
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: to the engine. The guys that are cars are overheating

556
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: is because they put a small diameter pully on it

557
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: and it runs through so fast. It goes through the

558
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: cooling system so fast it doesn't have time to sit

559
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: in the radiator and go through the heat exchange process.

560
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: And I think that's sort of the same thing as

561
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: the guys with the lifted trucks that sometimes they are

562
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: lifted to the extreme that the physics and the dynamics

563
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: of how that suspension works is is now creating other issues.

564
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: So if you come up with a standard model year,

565
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, hey, Ron, we've seen this happen in Silverado

566
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: fift hundreds. Uh you know, stock hid stock trim thirty

567
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: two miles. I'll do some research, but I I'm not

568
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: aware of any of that. I have not seen any

569
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: of that just one round before. So it will take

570
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: two on one comment we got. I bought a Prius.

571
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: It was a left over, and so I finally called

572
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: a local dealer to find out what it would cost

573
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: to replace the battery, and it was about six grand

574
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: to put it in, you know, replace the battery, put it,

575
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: put it in the car, and I thought, I didn't

576
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: look any further in research. I just said, you know what,

577
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: I'm getting rid of this car. I don't know what

578
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: the life time of the battery is. They'll go they'll

579
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: go a hundred thousand. I've seen them go a little longer.

580
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's it's like I've always said,

581
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: not to pat myself on the back, but the battery

582
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: is like the engine in that car. You're gonna put

583
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: it you're gonna put six thousand dollars worth of engine

584
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: in a car at two hundred thousand miles. No, you're

585
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: gonna go out and buy another car. Whereas if you

586
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: if you buy an internal combustion engine. And I know

587
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: that Prius owners are gonna send me hate letters. Hey,

588
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. It's your show too, you know.

589
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you my experience. Keep changing the oil,

590
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: keep putting gas in it, keep doing maintenance. Let me

591
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: know what three hundred thousand miles looks like. Uh, you

592
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: know without a component failure and the majority of cases

593
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: that will happen, you know. So I you know again,

594
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: Prius has its place. I drove a couple of I've

595
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: driven prius Is over time. I drove them when they

596
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,959
Speaker 1: first came out, and I my belief system still sticks.

597
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: Um A. I wouldn't want to be on the highway

598
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: in one next to an eighteen wheeler when that's out

599
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: the air brakes. UM would be like standing next to

600
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: an elephant as he passed, when you'd get knocked over. Um.

601
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be in an accident in one

602
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: unless I had a death wish. I can't imagine what

603
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: the survivability rate is it's so small and it's so frail,

604
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: and three I still believe and I can remember it

605
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 1: to this day, driving up the New York State through

606
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: a in a Prius at sixty five that I said,

607
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: this thing reminds me of doing sixty five on a

608
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: motorcycle with a body on top of the wheels. The thing,

609
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: the things shook so much. So I just, you know,

610
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: give me something, give me something with four wheels, metal

611
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: and an engine, and you know what, I'm sorry. I

612
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: just come up with a better system. Prove me wrong.

613
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: So exactly from My wife loves it, but I don't

614
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: know around town, around town it works, Frank, I gotta go.

615
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm up against the clock. I appreciate your calling you

616
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: input sir, Thank you very much. I'm running any of

617
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: the car doctor. We're back to talk to stand right

618
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: after this welcome back end of the car doctor. Wow?

619
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: Where did this hour go? Where did the two hours

620
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: go that I get to spend with you every weekend?

621
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: I it flies by, and I love each and every

622
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: minute with you. Let's go over stand in Minnesota, Stanley,

623
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging on and waiting so long. How can

624
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: I help run any in your service. Yeah, I'm glad

625
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: touch you. Hey run, I'm got a two park avenel okay,

626
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: and I always have a low low tire pressure. Check

627
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: tire pressure, and I'll check and hit the reset and

628
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: it never goes away. How does that system work? Okay?

629
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: So when you look at it in No. Three, do

630
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: you have rubber valve stems? Yeah? Okay, so you have

631
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: rubber valve stems. So there are no sensors in the wheels.

632
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: It's based on tire diameter and it's looking at wheel speed. Now,

633
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: when you do go through the reset, the light should

634
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: go out. There's a very specific procedure to do that reset,

635
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: so you've got to make sure you're doing it. If

636
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: you can't, if you've got proper tire pressure in all

637
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: four tires and the light doesn't go out, then there's

638
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: possibly a fault in the module itself, which I believe.

639
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: I believe in OH three there wasn't a separate TPMs module.

640
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: I believe it was in one of the other remote

641
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: control lock unlocked modules itself. I'd have to look at

642
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: a wiring diagram to be sure. But if if it

643
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: doesn't do a reset hitting the button, whatever, the procedure

644
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: is then there's a fault there, and I'd start with

645
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: a code skin and can you communicate with the module

646
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Um more importantly to address you know,

647
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: why the wheels are always going low on air, the

648
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: tires are always going low on air. And I'm sure

649
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: you've had the tires replaced. Check there's no punctures, et cetera. Right,

650
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: is my guesses are they aluminum or steel wheels? I

651
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: think they're aluminum wheels, right and no three you know, yeah,

652
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: and the aluminum wheels corrode especially. Let's see Minnesota. Do

653
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 1: you guys get any of that? Um what's it called

654
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: that white fluffy stuff called snow? Oh geez, I'm only

655
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: nine amounts in Katie and Border we get it once

656
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: in a while, like every other day. Yeah, right, so

657
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: a matter of if you don't get snow one day,

658
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 1: you think God's mad at you. Um. So what happens

659
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 1: is the chemical they throw on the road gets wedged

660
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: up into the rim and it starts to corrode and

661
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: rot the him. I bet the rims themselves we do it.

662
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: We do a procedure where we call it grinding and

663
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: beat sealing. We grind out the crud and we put

664
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: some tire beat seal in there and that will stop

665
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: the leak um. So some things to try and some

666
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: things to be aware of. Appreciate the call. Stand I'm

667
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: rondingading in the car doctor, reminding each and every one

668
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: of you until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

669
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: they're priceless. Let's see you