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Speaker 1: Ron Anians, you've got to watch where you're buying fuel.

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Speaker 1: You know that that Nicolie might be saving a gallon

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Speaker 1: on something somewhere cheap. How well are they taking care

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Speaker 1: of their tanks? What's the likelihood of their fuel quality

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Speaker 1: being okay? The car Doctor, how many miles on the car?

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Speaker 2: We think like one hundred and for wall.

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Speaker 1: I'd probably I probably do in taking menifold doll rings.

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Speaker 3: Billy, Yeah, I'm thinking I didn't want to grow part

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Speaker 3: to the problem.

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Speaker 1: No, I get it.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the radio home of Roninanium, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 4: Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the

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Speaker 4: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 4: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 4: the phone and call in the garage doors.

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Speaker 1: Are open, but I am here to take your call

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Speaker 1: at eight and now he running and there it is.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I don't think how it could be much

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Speaker 1: of a love machine in the condition i'm end today,

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Speaker 1: But what the heck, I'm willing to give it a try.

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Speaker 1: Let's get over to the phones and let's go to

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Bill and Main nineteen Chevy Equinox. Bill,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car. Doctor, sir. You're on at eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. How

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Speaker 1: can I help?

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Speaker 5: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Roman? I bought this Cardo in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 5: Love it.

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Speaker 3: It's two leaders, makes like two hundred and fifty two

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Speaker 3: horse power. It's crazy right, it's got the nine speed

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Speaker 3: transmission and Chevrolete discontinued carrying offering this motor in Equinoxes

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Speaker 3: a year or two later, and the motor and the transmission,

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Speaker 3: So that's a little worriesome. It's been fine for I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's got seventy five thousand miles on it, around sixty

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Speaker 3: thousand miles, and I started smelling combustion smells in the

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Speaker 1: Exhaust and exhausts, any oil exhaustil?

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Speaker 3: Bill?

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Speaker 1: Would you describe it as exhaust and exhaust smell in

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Speaker 1: the passenger compartment?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it's tough. It's to me. It smells like

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Speaker 3: you know, when you're behind a car that's burning oil.

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Speaker 3: It's got that smell.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, has anybody has anybody looked at it? You know?

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Speaker 1: Are we leaking oil somewhere in an obscure spot that

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Speaker 3: I had Main has a safety inspection still and last

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Speaker 3: inspection a year ago. They pointed it out to me.

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Speaker 3: I think Main has if they if it drops while

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Speaker 3: they're watching it. If there's a drop, then they sail it.

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Speaker 3: But there was just wetness there.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't it was. I wouldn't count on that. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean there's a wet there's a wetness where?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it's it's on the bottom side of the

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Speaker 3: engine passenger compartment, and you know, it looks like it's leaking.

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Speaker 3: I took it in because it still had see one

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Speaker 3: thousand miles left on the warrant, and I took it

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Speaker 3: in twice so they couldn't find anything. Well, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: I've not put a drop. It never uses any aisle.

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Speaker 1: Okay, time wait minute, is there is it? Is it

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Speaker 3: It's wet on the bottom side of the engine.

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Speaker 1: Yea, so it's got so it's it's it's got a leak.

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Speaker 1: Is it in line? Is it in line? Is it

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Speaker 1: It's either it's either leaking something and hitting the exhaust

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Speaker 1: people will maintain their car on their own. I don't

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Speaker 1: So I would take it to a mechanic. Hey, I'm

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Speaker 3: No? No, it's really intermittent, and sometimes I don't smell

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Speaker 1: And I mean, all the all the more reason to

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't gauge is my car broken based

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Speaker 1: Those are the three areas you got to focus on.

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Speaker 1: But there's no I've seen some things with the turbo

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Speaker 1: Somebody's got to somebody's got to actually diagnose this. And

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Speaker 3: Well, I took it to the dealership twice. So after

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Speaker 3: after that state inspection, right, they claim they couldn't find.

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Speaker 1: It, Well, why is it wet?

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Speaker 5: Well it wasn't.

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Speaker 3: Now I can dry it off with striting fluid or something,

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Speaker 1: It's somebody's somebody's not giving you the whole picture, or

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Speaker 1: what is there's too many scenarios here. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's that got that fluorescence to it, then you know

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Speaker 1: it's leaking out of the engine. It's just as simple

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Speaker 1: you're you're breathing. Yeah, all right, so yeah, let's let's

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Speaker 1: let's diagnose it. Baby. I'm not trying. I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: the car fixed, all right, Okay, So all right, you're welcome, sir.

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Speaker 1: You know, in New Jersey, I have put stickers on

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Speaker 1: that doesn't tell me I've got a good safe vehicle.

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Speaker 1: That just means it turned off the light. And you know,

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Speaker 1: state inspection is not a diagnosis. State inspection is really

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Speaker 1: kind of useless in many states. So I'm just food

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Speaker 6: Give Ron a call eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's go over and talk to George and tennessee

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Speaker 1: This is George, Sir.

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Speaker 2: I have a two thousand and eight Chevy Colorado pickup. Okay,

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Speaker 2: three or four times a year I get in to

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Speaker 2: start it, and no cranking at all, no light dim

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Speaker 2: on the uh dash right, and it doesn't start. Okay,

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Speaker 2: And after five, three or four tries, no luck. Then

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden you turn the key and it starts.

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Speaker 1: Okay. It when it doesn't start, it goes into that

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Speaker 1: no crank. Have you tried? Do you do? You know

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Speaker 1: if you have do you have a horn? Do you

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Speaker 1: have headlights?

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Speaker 2: Yes? And I like, I say, my dash lights stay lit?

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Speaker 1: Right, okay, so you know, and then it just sort

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Speaker 1: of starts working again and it's fine for a while.

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Speaker 2: After five six minutes it will start.

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Speaker 1: How many miles on it? George?

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Speaker 2: And to be honest with you, I had a mechanic

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Speaker 1: So how many miles on this, georgey?

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Speaker 2: Eight thousand?

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Speaker 1: Right? Not a lot.

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Speaker 2: This has been going on for three or four years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you know, obviously I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 1: to look at you know, consider connections at the battery

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Speaker 1: cables where it connects to the block and so forth.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's easy. You said that you see some

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Speaker 1: dimming of certain dashboard lights. Did I hear that correctly? No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, DEMI.

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Speaker 1: Okay, no dimming. So you have everything. It just it

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Speaker 1: just doesn't crank, George.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't crank, and you can't hear the you know,

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Speaker 2: the thing goes when the battery's dead and they give

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Speaker 1: Right, Which engine is this, George, the three seven five cylinder.

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Speaker 2: It's just I don't know. It's a four cylinder, y'all.

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Speaker 1: any way you could get it scanned for faults, George,

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Speaker 1: This could be just a plain old you know, bad starter.

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Speaker 1: It's just so random as it happens and as it occurs,

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Speaker 1: So you know where do you attest? But I can

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Speaker 2: Of time delay in this for stealing cars.

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Speaker 1: No, sir, No, sir, you know? Well, well are you

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Speaker 2: It doesn't to my knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Right, it doesn't to my knowledge either. I would check

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Speaker 1: the owner's manual. Have you owned the truck since New George?

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Speaker 1: It had four thousand on that way, right, so you

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Speaker 1: try shifting it into neutral automatic, right I assume I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that was tried, turning the steer your wheel.

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Speaker 2: And also I was wondering about there's a contact if

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Speaker 2: it's not in uh or park, right, it.

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Speaker 1: Has to be it has to be right, No, it

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Speaker 1: would not. Well, it has to be a neutral or park.

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Speaker 1: But if the park portion of the prindle switch is

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Speaker 1: off the list. All right, But like I said, I

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Speaker 2: All right, okay, I could do that, all right.

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Speaker 1: George, you'd be well, all right, you're very welcome, sir. Yeah, yep,

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Speaker 1: bye bye, Yeah, No, kidd in. Grounds are tough, I mean,

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Speaker 1: We got to focus on what's good. Let's do a

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Speaker 1: what good and I'll tell you what's bad. Like I

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Speaker 1: right after this, you know, going back to Georgia, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: with his no start condition on his Ohivy Colorado looking

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Speaker 1: You know. It reminded me. That call reminded me of

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Speaker 1: something I recently read in the Old Data News. I enjoy.

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Speaker 1: All Data has a resource section. If you go to

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Speaker 1: Old Data News, the current edition, and they've got tech bulletins.

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Speaker 1: They've got tech articles there rather and I was reading

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Speaker 1: one this month. Morano no start ignition stays on multiple

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Speaker 1: This is a case of a twenty eleven Nissan Morano

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Speaker 1: V six three point five liter that one have more

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Speaker 1: it's a bad starter, right we Yeah, I get that.

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Speaker 1: In the case of this Morano, according to All Data,

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Speaker 1: A fusible link is a wire, it has fused capability. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there was no power at the fusible links, which are

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Speaker 1: And my point is, as the article on all data

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it all the time. But scanning for codes,

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Speaker 1: in detail. Diagnostics doesn't have to necessarily just be a

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Speaker 1: diagnose it. Start to tell me what's good. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what's bad. Let's get back to the phones. Let's

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Speaker 1: go over to Terry and Wisconsin seventeen Subaru outback Terry

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Speaker 1: around with the car doctor. How can I help.

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Speaker 6: Hi, thanks taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, sir. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: There are twenty seventeen out back? And when you push

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Speaker 6: gas and jerks. Okay, And as long as you're drop

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Speaker 6: and once a while to do it when you know

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Speaker 6: we're up there too. But somebody told me was injectors,

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Speaker 6: so I put jack a cleaner in. It worked for

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Speaker 1: Any real diagnosis done to this car, We look at

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Speaker 6: It's consistent. Okay, that's abas. I don't have to put

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Speaker 1: While, okay. How many miles are.

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Speaker 6: On this and there's there's no there's no check engine

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Speaker 1: All right? How many how many miles around this Turra

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Speaker 1: tw in six thousand? Last time you put sport plugs

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Speaker 6: I've never put part plugging it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you've gone four times past the limit of

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Speaker 1: wondering why it bucks. I'm not being a wise guy.

432
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, why aren't we looking at this? Why

433
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: are we looking at everything else? But right?

434
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: That's a good question.

435
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 6: That's a good question.

436
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're you're waiting for the check engine

437
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: light to come on to tell you what's wrong. Yeah,

438
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: nothing beats normal maintenance. We did a set of plugs

439
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: this week and an eighteen outback, all right, and we

440
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: did him at one hundred and two thousand miles. They

441
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: were melted, they were gone, like you like, I'm surprised

442
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: the car ran, which is a testimony to how good

443
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: these cars will work and how good the systems are.

444
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 1: You've got double that mileage. First of all, I wonder

445
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: if the plugs are actually going to come out.

446
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 3: Of the head, right boy.

447
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: And then and then you've got to realize, depending upon

448
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: the gap of the plug, if the gap is supposed

449
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: to be forty thousands and now it's worn two eighty

450
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 1: thousands or more, you've I now asked that two hundred

451
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: thousand mile ignition coil to you know, do double the work,

452
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: and you've strained and stressed it out. Ever so much more.

453
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: I think where I would go with this is I

454
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: would look, I would do a code scan, even though

455
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: the light's not on, I'm going to look what do

456
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: I have pending? Do I have any pending faults? Where's

457
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: fuel trim? Can I duplicate this? Can I see missfire PIDs?

458
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: I don't think I can in a seventeen, But can

459
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: I see misfire pits? Or can I go? Look at

460
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: mode six data? And this is what a real mechanical

461
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 1: do Mode six data is? And I'll use the analogy

462
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: of me. I was fine on Wednesday. I woke up

463
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: Thursday with a scratchy throat. Friday my nose started to run,

464
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: and here I am sick on the weekend. So you know,

465
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: my Mod six data would show I was starting to

466
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: fail tests around Thursday, and all of a sudden Saturday,

467
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: my check engine light came on and here I am.

468
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: So Mode six data shows you the behind the scenes

469
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 1: calculations the computer is doing to look and decide is

470
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: that vehicle running correctly and operating as it should? So

471
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,719
Speaker 1: you know, and I would be very careful what plugs

472
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: I pick. I believe this is gonna have NNGK high

473
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: ignitability plugs in it. I would make sure I put

474
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: those back in. That will make a difference on a

475
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: subru Yeah, fuel system cleaning is not a bad idea.

476
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: But a formal fuel system cleaning, right, you know something

477
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: where we're going to hook up a fuel system cleaning

478
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: kit like a BG Fuel System Service and do a

479
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 1: real carbon cleaning two hundred thousand miles, No spark plug

480
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: replacement UFA. You know it's it's you'll start changing everything

481
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: under the sun before you get to the root cause

482
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: until somebody diagnoses us. All right, right, so let's let's

483
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: start there. You're very welcome, sir. Would I would go there.

484
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: You're welcome you too. If you need more, you know

485
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 1: where I am. Yeah, I geez, why aren't we doing

486
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: spark plugs to that? Two hundred two, two hundred thousand

487
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 1: miles anyway? A five five five six zero nin nine

488
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: zero zero. I'll be back right after this.

489
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 7: Don't go away.

490
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: And here we go. We're coming up on the finishing line.

491
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: I can see it. Let's go to Milo and Vermont. Oh, wait,

492
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: buic lecrosse. Milo. Welcome to the card doctor. How can

493
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: I help hi?

494
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 5: Doc? How you doing pretty good?

495
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: I'm getting there, So what's going on?

496
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 5: I got a two thousand and eight buy Lacrosse three

497
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 5: point eight B six cold starts. It won't start. You

498
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 5: can crank on nothing all day and it just doesn't

499
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 5: get any fuel. So I tried putting a little shout

500
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 5: of ether in their steef of do anything. Still wouldn't fire.

501
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 5: So I brought it to a dealership. They did a

502
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 5: scan read on it and it came back as P

503
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 5: zero three hundred and zero one seven one right. And

504
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 5: I also wanted to replaced all this plugs, replace the wires,

505
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 5: replace the coil, and it seemed to be acting okay.

506
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 5: So what it was what I noticed was when it

507
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 5: was in this dealer's garage for like three hours, that

508
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 5: thought out a little bit and the vehicle was acting

509
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 5: very well. So the mechanics suggested to me to put

510
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 5: some non f and al high test fuel in it

511
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 5: and run it after I'd done a whole series of

512
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 5: other things to it. And I did, and when I

513
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 5: was coming back from another town, it got to be

514
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 5: about five o'clock in the afternoon to turn fifteen degrees

515
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 5: and the car started doing the same thing. So the

516
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 5: other codes that do populate that still come up this

517
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 5: P zero three hundred, P zero one seven one and

518
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 5: a P zero one zero six. It should be a

519
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 5: barometric sensor.

520
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: Let me ask you. Let me ask you.

521
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 5: So, with it being cold up here and the temperature

522
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 5: and everything, the car will not start if it goes

523
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 5: below twenty degrees. So I have to start the car

524
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 5: just about every two hours before the engine cools down,

525
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 5: and then before I go to bed at night, I

526
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 5: start the car and get up the next morning. Thankfully

527
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 5: it's still run it, so I can go somewhere.

528
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's let's do this. We gotta stop. Do this.

529
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: My look, do you have it? Do you do you

530
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: have a scan tool or you have a good mechanic

531
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: you can go in and talk.

532
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 5: To I just recently got a new mechanic. Yes, and

533
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 5: I do have a scan tool.

534
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: Okay, So shut the car off. Let it sit for

535
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: eight hours, all right, go out with your scan tool.

536
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: I want you to look at the coolant temperature PID,

537
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: which will show you engine temperature. And I want you

538
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: to look at the intake air temperature PID. I A T.

539
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's abbreviated as all right. If there is a

540
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: barrow PID, all right, go look up your barometric pressure

541
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: for the day wherever you are in Vermont, right, yeah,

542
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: And does it match what the scan tool says. Does

543
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: this have a bad barrow? Does this have a bad intake?

544
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: Does this have a bad coin? If all three of

545
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: those match and they're correct, then we're going to look elsewhere.

546
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: Then at the moment where it doesn't start, do we

547
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: have spark? Do we have injector pulse? Now we don't

548
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: have to get fancy listening to injector pulse a twenty

549
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: dollars thirty dollars mechanics deethoscope available in a neuropart store.

550
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Just listen to the injectors. Do

551
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: they click while you're cranking it? Click click, click, click click.

552
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: If we find we've got no injector pulse and we've

553
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: got no spark when it goes into this failure, because

554
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: I haven't heard you say anybody tested for any of that.

555
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: Everybody's kind of working on that. It's fuel and it

556
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: could be right. But you know this is a fair.

557
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 5: One of the original codes they're about weeks ago was

558
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 5: something about a module or something locator underneath the car PC.

559
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: Was it a P zero six? Oh, one six oh three.

560
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 5: Something like that. I should.

561
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: And it could be that's an internal memory error message

562
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: inside the PCM. But that's why I say, you know,

563
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: I want to know. Listen, do you have a snowblower?

564
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: You must have a snowblower. You live in Vermont, right, absolutely,

565
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: If your snowblower didn't start, how would you diagnose it?

566
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: Spark fuel mechanical to plug out.

567
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 5: I'd see why or not it was actually getting any fuel? Right,

568
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 5: Maybe I plotted it out, maybe I didn't chill.

569
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: This is it? This is a giant snowblower. Brother, all right, Yeah,

570
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: I don't care how. I don't care how complicated it

571
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: is or looks. Right. I want to know. Do I

572
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: have injector pulse? Do I have spark? Go down to

573
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: your local otoparts store you want to buy I'm going

574
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: to make you spend some money. You want to buy

575
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: a spark tester. Now, a spark tester is more much

576
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: more accurate than what everybody does where they'll put the

577
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: screwdriver against the cylinder head and look for spark. A

578
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: spark tester, an adjustable spark tester will open up the

579
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: gap to stress the ignition system under durest just as

580
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: if the plug was in the cylinder. All right, if

581
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: you spend one hundred bucks on all this stuff, I'll

582
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: be amazed. A spark tester, a mechanic stethoscope. Right. The

583
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: one that's going to cost your money would be a

584
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: fuel pressure gauge. It would be nice to know it.

585
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: It would be nice to know fuel pressure. Right.

586
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 5: That's what one when mechanics said something about pressurizing assistancy

587
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 5: when it's getting proper fuel right, they also mentioned something

588
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 5: about a filter sock being in the tank.

589
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

590
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 5: And this is the one thing I forgot to tell

591
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 5: you was this was when the vehicle is sitting idle,

592
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 5: it runs perfect. When you put it in drive and

593
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 5: go to leave to go somewhere, it knows dives. So

594
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 5: I have to manually shift that from first, second to third.

595
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 5: And thankfully I'm on a downhill slide going to any

596
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 5: talent I need to go to.

597
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what, sit talk come back.

598
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 5: I tell you back from town coming to my home. Yeah,

599
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 5: you have to put it in like first or second,

600
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 5: and then you're only doing twenty miles an hour.

601
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: Col right, George, I mean mylo I'm sorry, Milo sit tight,

602
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: let me pull ever take this pause. We'll finish up

603
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: on the other side. I'm running ay in the car, doctor,

604
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. Yeah, and we're back Milo, you're still there.

605
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

606
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: Before I forget, before we run out of time, go

607
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: out to Amazon. I'm gonna spend another fifteen bucks. Go

608
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: buy a four TV O F O R T I

609
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: v O two pack ethanol test kit. It's just these

610
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: two plastic bottles. It'll make sense to you when you

611
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: see it, all right, And you know you just got

612
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: to pull a fuel sample from the vehicle, which you

613
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: can do. Disconnect the fuel line, hook up a fuel

614
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: pressure gauge, hit the dump valve, fill the bottle. Let's

615
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: eliminate fuel. Do we have water in the tank? Do

616
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: we have incorrect ethanol rating? Right? You know where you

617
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: just in your fuel from name brand or is it

618
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: just various places? You're not fussy.

619
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 5: Most of our fuel is actually coming out of Canada,

620
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 5: seeing sense, we're so far north in Vermont, So okay,

621
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 5: all of our fuels coming from Canada's coming from irving fuel.

622
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: All right, So let's eliminate fuel as a problem. For

623
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks. You can afford it, all right, let's just

624
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,959
Speaker 1: take that off the table. I'm not so concerned about

625
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: the codes that this is setting. The P zero three

626
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: hundred and the P zero one seven to one. You know,

627
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: they really shouldn't have an effect on a no start condition,

628
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: all right, unless it's severely running lean and misfiring because

629
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: of lack of fuel pressure or lack of fuel quality.

630
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: Too much water in the fuel, right, too much water

631
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: in the fuel won't support combustion. It won't support it cold,

632
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: it won't support it warmth. I want to know fuel quality.

633
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: I want to know temperature, pit values. I want to

634
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 1: know spark. I want to know injector pulse. All right,

635
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: and then we can talk in minutia about ignition, module,

636
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: hot wire, pain doesn't have power that you know, a

637
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: bunch of things we can talk about. Do those tests

638
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: this week, call me back next week. This car should

639
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: be easy to fix. My low. I'll be around for

640
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: you until the next time I'm running Andy and the

641
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: car Doctor. I made it. I made it good. Mechanics

642
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: aren't expensive. Even when they're sick, they're still placeless. See

643
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: you