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Speaker 1: We got Chevy Traverse that we've already put seventy miles from. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: five and running. Hey, how do you do? And here

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Speaker 1: for you to sort of vent your ideas, ask your questions,

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Speaker 1: and have your concerns qualmed. I think that's a word.

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Speaker 1: So you know it's it's you know, we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: I mean the halt word. This is a this is

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Speaker 1: Sir hi Ron, congratulations to DAUGHTA thank you, sir um.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor. I mean two thousands one

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Speaker 1: position sensor go from zero percent up to when it

426
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: hit wide open throttle. It's it's a calculated value based

427
00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: on input from the sensor. If that sensor doesn't report perly,

428
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: if for some reason it shows a negative percentage, which

429
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: I've seen them do as they age, it'll bump the

430
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: idole speed all the time. Your key, your key is

431
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: gonna be wise that service engine light on what fault

432
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: code is there? Now? You may get a fault code

433
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: that says idle air control circuit input or response invalid.

434
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it's a bad idle air control motor.

435
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: All right? There are there are, and I want to

436
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: say it like this for your and everyone else's benefit.

437
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: There are very few fault codes that say oxygen sensor,

438
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: change the sensor. It's oxygen sensor performance, idole air control,

439
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: motor performance, idle air control motor feedback, throttle position, sensor

440
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: base setting or something. It'll be. It's telling you to

441
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: look at that circuit and how it's controlled. So do this. Okay.

442
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: Do you have a scan tool? Do you have access

443
00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 1: to a scan tool? No? Okay? Do you have if

444
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 1: you have an O'Reilly order parts by you? No? I don't, okay. Um,

445
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: if you could find one, you know you could go there.

446
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: They will scan the vehicle for free and at least

447
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: tell you what the fault code is. But if not,

448
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,479
Speaker 1: then you've got to take it to your local mechanic

449
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: at least get a code skin. If you can tell

450
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: me what code it is and they can't diagnose it

451
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: more than that, call me back next week and I

452
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: can give you better information. But that key, that code

453
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: is going to be key, all right, sir. The only

454
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: thing we have down here is all though his own

455
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: and uh, they may do it as well, you know,

456
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: but I would I would go see will they will

457
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: they scan it? How many miles are on this vehicle,

458
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of possibilities. Not that mileedge, not

459
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: that miledge predicates what goes bad, But that just tells

460
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: me it's it's it's it's not a spring chicken, as

461
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect it to be. It's twenty one, twenty

462
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: years old. So uh, you know, it's just kind of funny.

463
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: You know, my friend Carpenter Bob that you guys always

464
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: hear me talking about this one isn't blue by chance?

465
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: Is it? You're this isn't a blue astro van? Is it? Okay?

466
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: I would just laugh if I had another Bob with

467
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: a blue astro van, and then if you told me

468
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: then if you then if you told me you had

469
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 1: a beard, I'd go, boy, that's just too weird. That

470
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: would just be too much of a coincidence. So um

471
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: but anyway, all right, Bobby, listen, do that. Have yourself

472
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: a good Thanksgiving, Get the code scanned, get it scanned,

473
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: Come me back next week, tell me what the code is.

474
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: I can give you a real good information from there.

475
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: All right, kiddo, alright, buddy, you're very welcome. You're very welcome.

476
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: You too, Take good care. Um. Yeah, you know everybody's

477
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: gonna sitting around the kitchen table or i'm sorry, around

478
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: the dining room table and getting you know, Thanksgiving and uh,

479
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: you know, I got some thoughts about that. Let's do

480
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: it when I come back zero I'm run on any

481
00:26:48,119 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: of the car doctor, I'll return right after this. Hey, um,

482
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: this just in from Research Canthy test Less server outage.

483
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: Did you read about this time? The test Less server

484
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: outage allegedly leaves owners unable to drive their cars. Tesla

485
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: as you have to explain the outage, but the issue

486
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: appears to yeah, well, you know, there's a Winston Churchill

487
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: quote that goes something like, never so many oaths so

488
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: much to so few, YadA YadA yan. As I'm reading this,

489
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: all I can think about is never have so many

490
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: minotes so much by so few, because they left them

491
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: locked out of their cars, unable to drive somewhere. Um.

492
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: The article goes on to point out that and unexplained

493
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: five internal server server error message, which is unfortunately pretty generic.

494
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: The existed of the outage appears to be corroborated by

495
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: the website down detector dot com with reports of the

496
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: outage referring to the app Teslan. Tesla boss Elon Musk

497
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: responded by saying it's not entirely clear why the server

498
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: error would prevent the cars from starting, although some stafford

499
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: position that it could have something to do with the

500
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: Tesla app picking the company's servers. If the owner is

501
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 1: using their phone as a key, which many Tesla owners do,

502
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: how about that. We've got a complicated problem with an

503
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: electric vehicle. Sure can't wait till the role like that.

504
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, so wait minute, So I parked my

505
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: car under oh car poard. How does this thing get

506
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: its internet access? Is it through cellular or is it

507
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: through satellite or what what happens about in a place

508
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: with no signals? Now they're probably passing. Can't start my car? Well,

509
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: I you know, Tom, I want to know where all

510
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: these radio waves are going, that they're bouncing through buildings

511
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: and around us. That you know what I say that

512
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: sort of tongue in cheek, but you kind of wonder. Um,

513
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 1: that's why I wear my tinfoil hat. I knew laugh

514
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: at me, you know, I knew there was a reason. Um,

515
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: by the way, we got to hurry up the turkey?

516
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: Is that seven I got? I got eight degrees to go. Um.

517
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: This came in as a voicemail and I guess it

518
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: would have been a great call and we've gotten him.

519
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: It's John. He writes said, Hey, this is John from Chesapeake, Virginia. Uh.

520
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: This Monday, I was listening to your show and you're

521
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: talking about electric vehicles. I don't know if you brought

522
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: it up before, but I was really wondering what the

523
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: weight times will be with no gasoline lines. I think

524
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: what he's talking about is how will you charge your vehicle,

525
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: your electric vehicle out on the road. Um, if you

526
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: go from Chesapeake to Florida, he continues. John continues, he said,

527
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to charge it at least once.

528
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: How are you gonna manage to do that? And how

529
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: many charge stations are they gonna have available? I I

530
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: think to charge the cars? Would you have to wait

531
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: in a half hour or forty minutes between charges? Just

532
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: what would you do? I really don't need to call back.

533
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: If you're bringing up on the show, that would be

534
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: so nice. Thank you. Well, you know, John, I'll take

535
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: the hit because everybody's gonna tell me that I'm anti

536
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: electric car. But I'll take the hick. What the heck

537
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: I can. I can live with myself. I sleep real

538
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: good at night. I don't know that's the problem. Where

539
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: all these electric charging stations gonna come from? Where will

540
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: the grid come from? Will will the power come from?

541
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: You know, we've said it repeatedly here. Nobody has yet

542
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: to prove me wrong that we are charging the vast majority.

543
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: We are providing the vast majority of electricity in this

544
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: country with fossil fuel plans. So where will it come from?

545
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: Are we gonna keep using fossil fuel plans? Are we

546
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: gonna build nuclear? Um? I came across a gentleman this

547
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: week that I mean, it's really kind of impressive. We

548
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: put his stuff up on our on our Facebook page.

549
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: Mark Mills from the Manhattan Institute. He's a senior fellow,

550
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: and we're talking to Mark, and I believe we're gonna

551
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: get Mark for an interview. Just go to YouTube. Do

552
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: this all right, you know, whether you think Ron is right, wrong,

553
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: a jerk, or anywhere in between. Tom, you get no

554
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: comment on that, um, you know, just go to YouTube

555
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: and type in Mark Mills Manhattan Institute. And look at

556
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: the video that comes up, or you can go to

557
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: our Facebook page. It's there too. Look at the video

558
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: that comes up about where Mark Mills and a few

559
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: other people sat and talked to John Stossel two years ago.

560
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: Now look at the math involved. You can't you know,

561
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: math doesn't lie, physics doesn't lie. So you can send

562
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: me all the little memes about you know, we're gonna

563
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: have transporters and Star Trek and phasers and everything else

564
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen on electric cars and it's all going

565
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: to appear out of the sky. Where when? Show me how?

566
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: And that's the point of my rants. That's what I

567
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: don't understand and nobody else. You know, one thing I

568
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: really am amazed at is how nobody else seems to

569
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: be talking about this because I seem to be getting

570
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: the most heat for it, which is okay. I you know,

571
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: I've got asbestos underwear. It doesn't matter to me. All right,

572
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: you can fry me all you want. I've been a

573
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: mechanic fort or five years. I've heard it all. Uh,

574
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: you know, show me the logic and all this, folks,

575
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: and I'll be glad to you know, patch you on

576
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: the back and say great, let's do it. But I

577
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: don't see it, and I don't I I think you're

578
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: starting to as well, or you always have now and

579
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: we're all starting to question it. But we're all just

580
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: you know. I keep thinking about what was that kids

581
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: play The Emperor has no clothes and somebody has to

582
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: be the little kid and go. But he's naked, he's

583
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: in his underwear. So I hope Tom doesn't play the

584
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: part of the emperor. Zero nine nine zero zero. I'm

585
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: gonna go check on the Turkey. I'll be back right

586
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: after this. I'm Rondaninian. Don't go away, dot Cam, welcome

587
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: back running any of the car doctor Tom. The Turkey

588
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: is at one sixty two. So what time can you

589
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: be here? Let's see, we're off the air for uh.

590
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: I can be there by four. Bring the ice cream

591
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: for dessert. But wait, wait, wait, wait, I thought you

592
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: said you had everything. Well I have almost everything. Um listen,

593
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: I think you know, and I think this is a

594
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: new record. I don't think any other radio show in

595
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: the country in the history of radio has ever cooked

596
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving dinner in the time it took to do

597
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: the radio show itself. That's kind of neat when you

598
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: think about it, you could, you know, it's like you know,

599
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: it'll probably take even less time to eat it probably

600
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: so well, Now I have to take it. Now, I

601
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: have to take it off the egg, um, bring it

602
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: into the studio kitchen and let it sit there for

603
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: I think a half hour to cool off. I have

604
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: to tent it, right, I have to hint it and

605
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: then uh, you know, slice it all. You know how

606
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: it comes out. Um. A couple of things, Um, Tom,

607
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you about this great website I found.

608
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: UM and you'll appreciate this, and you'll understand why I'm

609
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: bringing this up because we get so many questions about

610
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: how much should this cost and how much should that cost?

611
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: NAPA if you go to NAPA online dot com. And

612
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: I kind of stumbled across this the other day. I

613
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: was looking for some parts for the seventy two Monty

614
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: Carlo and NAPA has got a great, great supply of

615
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: older car parts. I mean they've got obviously they've got

616
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: new stuff, but NAP has always been like the older

617
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: car company. You know, they've got parts, They've got older

618
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: stuff in stock, it seems. And you can go to

619
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: NAPA online dot com and if you scroll through the

620
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: products listed they will you'll come up with a repair estimator.

621
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: So if everybody wants to know how much did this cost?

622
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: How much did that cost? And I tried this. I

623
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: plugged in my twenty nineteen Chevy Silverado, and you know,

624
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:52,719
Speaker 1: I asked for a break bleat and it came up

625
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: with and it asked for my ZIP code, so it

626
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: does it by relevance of where you're located in the country,

627
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: and it came up with I thought was a pretty

628
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: darn close estimate and I was really kind of impressed.

629
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: So I share that with you all today NAPA online

630
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: dot com and you can go look at their repair

631
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: estimator as well as the rest of the stuff that

632
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: NAPA does. Um, you know, their parts and their the

633
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: rest of their information there, but the repairs. The repair

634
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: estimator really kind of got me. It was it was

635
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: kind of a neat piece. It's something that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: good barometer. Hey, this comes to us from the folks

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Speaker 1: over at Mitchell one Mitchell one dot com. Of course,

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Speaker 1: um you know, they were talking in their share track

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Speaker 1: Fix of the Week about Chevrolet pick up where the

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Speaker 1: fuel pump would keep running after turning off the key.

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Speaker 1: They put the question out to the great share track

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Speaker 1: community and with the help of everybody, they were able

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Speaker 1: to resolve the issue quickly. It's a Chevy truck. The

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Speaker 1: fuel pump ran with the UH key off. It turns

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Speaker 1: out the vehicle had a bad oil pressure switch. The

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Speaker 1: oil pressure switch um was energizing the pump and the

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Speaker 1: switch was sticking and still providing a source for the

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Speaker 1: pump to run. And you know the neat thing about

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Speaker 1: that is it kind of makes you remember, Yeah, some

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Speaker 1: of the older GM vehicles did do that. The shirt

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Speaker 1: track hummunity helped keep us, help keep it fresh in

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Speaker 1: our memory, and they were able to help fix this vehicle,

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Speaker 1: which is a thirty years old. So Mitchell one mitchell

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Speaker 1: one dot com, they're doing it all. I'm not an

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Speaker 1: any in the car doctor. I'm doing it all. And

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Speaker 1: I'm reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See

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