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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, it's tough to stay true to form because

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Speaker 1: there's so many outside pressures. There's so many things that

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Speaker 1: eat on you each and every week as a shop owner,

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Speaker 1: as a mechanic, as a person, and what they given.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm working.

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Speaker 2: For live.

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Speaker 1: Fucking the Car Doctor. Maybe we should get t shirts made.

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Speaker 1: We could have a national campaign. Right, ron A amand

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Speaker 1: car Doctor on the back of WWRD across the front

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Speaker 1: million Did you see it? Tom plex shirts? Gray letters right,

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Speaker 1: just WWRDA. You never know, so I listen. I was

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Speaker 1: wrong once.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian, the Car

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Speaker 3: Doctor since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners

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Speaker 3: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 3: the phone and call in. The garage doors are opening.

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six ninety nine hundred pee.

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Speaker 3: Running.

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Speaker 1: How do you know when the car is fixed? How

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Speaker 1: do you know? You know? When you know? You know

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Speaker 1: when the computer tells you. In some cases, we had

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Speaker 1: an O eight Jeep Grand Cherokee this week that came

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Speaker 1: in for a P zero four fifty five and a

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Speaker 1: P zero four fifty six. Both of those are evaporative

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Speaker 1: emissions fault codes to refresh your memory. Evapp emissions are

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Speaker 1: basically a way to vent the gas that's in the tank,

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Speaker 1: vent the fuel system to atmosphere without putting fumes into

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Speaker 1: the atmosphere. They vent out through a charcoal canister, they

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Speaker 1: vent out through a vent valve. They've bent out through

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Speaker 1: some type of a control device that will, you know,

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Speaker 1: and reduce emissions to prevent unnecessary release. Evapp emissions are

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Speaker 1: pretty straightforward, right You've heard me talk about this, We've

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Speaker 1: I've said to you before. Basically, it's there's a front

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Speaker 1: vent valve device or a purge as it's commonly referred to,

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Speaker 1: and there's a vent valve, a purge in event front door,

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Speaker 1: back door. We say it all the time. The gas tanks,

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Speaker 1: the piece in the middle. It's like your house. If

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Speaker 1: freely without being restricted by internal pressure. In the house, okay.

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Speaker 1: And if you were to put a fan at the

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Speaker 1: A P zero four fifty five is rated as a

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Speaker 1: large leak. And when we say large leak, it's forty

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Speaker 1: thousands of an inch of drop of vacuum by a

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Speaker 1: the hair on your head, all right. A P zero

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Speaker 1: the time. I went about and I pulled the code.

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Speaker 1: These are the codes I've got. I went and did

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Speaker 1: And then I went and smoked the system. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for leaks, and to smoke this particular jeep.

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Speaker 1: If it rings the bell, the system passes. If it

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Speaker 1: So in this case, the ESOM wouldn't work because where

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Speaker 1: away the plastic and created this massive leak in the ESUM.

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Speaker 1: Hey guess what, here's my problem. Great, right, got a

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Speaker 1: new um, put it in, made sure it was sealed

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Speaker 1: which proved to me the purge valve work, the ven

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Speaker 1: The system had integrity. It's fixed, Let it go. I

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Speaker 1: It got monitors, Hey, this car is fixed, this car

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Speaker 1: What could go wrong? Famous list words. You know, I

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Speaker 1: really enjoy my customers at the shop, and Stevie is

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Speaker 1: He understood that great connection I have with Stevie, like

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Speaker 1: So I was looking for a pinhole leak somewhere, something

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Speaker 1: what is new? Meat never ever worked? Anything's possible.

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Speaker 1: Got into it the next day. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: And I said, you know, I've tested everything but the

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Speaker 1: didn't believe that was a problem. How do I know

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Speaker 1: I never tested it right, and that's the test point.

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Speaker 1: front half there's a straight pull apart, quick disconnect. I

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Speaker 1: the flow pede did not drop. The flow ped did

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Speaker 1: not go to zero. It was just up enough, you know.

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Speaker 1: I could see it was just right around twenty two

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Speaker 1: One of the things I really love about the Redline

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Speaker 1: smoke machine is it's very accurate and it's graduation on

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Speaker 1: the flow meter, and it told me exactly what it was.

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Speaker 1: I said, Hey, my leak is this way, not that way,

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Speaker 1: lowered the vehicle down, started looking looking looking right where

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Speaker 1: the purge valve connects to that rubber nipple. You know,

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Speaker 1: that my test point. When it went back on. You ever,

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Speaker 1: notice how rubber is kind of supple, there's a softness

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Speaker 1: took took some spray silicon. Didn't want to spray it

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Speaker 1: You can't assume anything and you have to look for

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Speaker 1: got to look at the system, how does it work,

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Speaker 1: Because the monitor ran, the code didn't come back, and

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Speaker 3: But when it comes to fixing cars, Ron has car

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Speaker 1: Eight five to five, five six zero nine to nine

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Speaker 1: the phones and let's go to David in Maine on

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Speaker 1: nine Toyota Corolla. David, Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: how can I help?

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I'm one of your fans on your radio broadcast.

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Speaker 2: They have a Japanese made zero nine Perta Corolla one

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Speaker 2: point eight leader. And the problem is, and I'll give

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Speaker 2: you a very brief crackout on it.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Problem started with the spikes on an alternator that had

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Speaker 2: a twenty thousand miles on it. We spiked up to

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Speaker 2: seventeen volts on the digital meter and the place we

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Speaker 2: got the alternator checked it out and found the same thing.

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Speaker 2: We replaced the alternator. Any light on the dash stayed

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Speaker 2: on and it would only have charge about thirteen seven

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Speaker 2: thirteen eight. Dealer checked that out, found a broken wire

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Speaker 2: but since they also said the mixture CONTROLS two sensor

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Speaker 2: we replaced the sensor, and now we've checked out the

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Speaker 2: wiring and we find that the wiring is dead. Dealer said,

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Speaker 2: the only time they've seen that happen is for the

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Speaker 2: bad hues. Right now, we're trying to track down every

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Speaker 2: wire in it and we don't have a clue what's

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Speaker 2: going on other than it's not working. The downstream O

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Speaker 2: two sensor the after the cat is showing a very

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Speaker 2: rich mixture coming out of the catalytic converter.

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Speaker 1: Well, hang on a second, David, if the charging system

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Speaker 1: isn't functioning right, all right, I want to focus on

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Speaker 1: that's going to affect how the computer does its operation.

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Speaker 1: It's you're basically feeding poor quality electricity to a computer,

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Speaker 1: just as if your house was signing the power failure.

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Speaker 2: Say it again, that's been fixed. That's been fixed. It's

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Speaker 2: now charging at fourteen one point five to fourteen to

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Speaker 2: two even under loads. Okay, everything is working there allegedly, So.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, is it fixed or isn't it Because it's

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Speaker 1: going to affect how I explained the diagnosis from here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is definitely fixed.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And what fixed that?

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Speaker 2: Uh, there was a broken wire that goes from the

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Speaker 2: alternator to the ECM unit. Okay, am unit. Ory was

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Speaker 2: working fine.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So the problem isn't that the alternator is overcharging.

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Speaker 1: The problem now is what.

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Speaker 2: The O two sensor that does the mixture control is

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Speaker 2: not working? Okay, So the mixture is running way too rich.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So so if you unplug that O two censor,

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Speaker 1: what does the vehicle do? Where does fuel trim go?

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Speaker 2: Where? Mike, where does the field trim go? When we

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Speaker 2: unplug the O two sensor to say the same haven't

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Speaker 2: tested that yet, Okay.

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Speaker 1: You know, if we take the two censor out of

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Speaker 1: if we check if we check O two censor ground?

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Speaker 1: There's four wires at the O two sensor right, there

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Speaker 2: Be right, and one of them's a black wire.

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Speaker 1: Well, forget colors. One of them is going to be power,

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Speaker 1: one of them is going to be the heater coming down.

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Speaker 1: back to the PCUM. I take that back. There might

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Speaker 2: We're going to check them out now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, because the problem, the concern I've got is, you know,

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Speaker 1: we went from one wiring problem to another wiring problem. Correct,

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Speaker 1: So are you you know what does a wiring diagram

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Speaker 1: tell you? You are following a wiring diagram?

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Speaker 2: Right, David, that's correct? Okay, got on the computer?

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Speaker 1: You have what on the computer wiring diagram?

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Speaker 2: The wiring diagram?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you know, let's take the two centsor out

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Speaker 1: an upstream and a downstream O two here, all right, correct,

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Speaker 1: Let's take the secondary O two out of the equation.

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Speaker 1: Does that change anything? My curiosity is is the computer

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Speaker 1: the alternator? That's my question too, right, And that's my concern.

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Speaker 1: And if I can't, if I can't baseline the I

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Speaker 1: have to baseline the system now and verify if I'm

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Speaker 1: seeing a rich running condition. Is it strictly a rich

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Speaker 1: Are we adding fuel? Or is the computer does it?

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Speaker 1: How do I want to ask this question? Are you

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Speaker 1: going by how the exhaust smells.

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Speaker 2: We haven't smelled that yet, but we are going by

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Speaker 2: the fact that the two sensor after the CAT is

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Speaker 2: showing a very high level of fuel. It's not being

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Speaker 1: Wait ante, David, you're all over the place. What what

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Speaker 1: The two sensor after the cat will show a high

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Speaker 1: what sort of a signal are you seeing? Are you

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Speaker 1: seeing a high voltage signal?

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Speaker 2: I believe we are.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's normal. Good do me a favorite. Do you

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Speaker 1: have another car? Is there another car in the group? No,

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Speaker 1: you don't have. Between you and your friends, nobody owns

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Speaker 1: a different car. I want you to take the scan

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Speaker 1: downstream O two sensor on any modern day vehicle built

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Speaker 1: Look at the way that two sensor reacts. A catalytic converter,

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Speaker 1: by design stores oxygen. That's what helps you create the

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Speaker 1: And then every so many minutes milliseconds, however they're calibrate,

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Speaker 1: oxygen is reached as a catalytic converter reaches its maximum amount.

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Speaker 1: Go look at a good car. I think what you're

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Speaker 1: describing to me is a normal condition. So do you

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Speaker 1: really have a problem. Come back to me with codes

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Speaker 1: and more information. We can talk from there. I'm run

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Speaker 1: an any in the car doctor, I'll return right after this.

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Speaker 4: I'll be.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Anything in the car doctor. Let's uh, let's

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Speaker 1: go to Dan in California. Dan, Welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 2: Ron?

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Speaker 4: Pleasure to speak with you this morning, you too, sir.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, I have a two thousand and seven Chevy Equinox

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Speaker 5: seventy five thousand miles V six it has been overheating on.

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Speaker 5: It's actually my neighbors, but we've been trying to work

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Speaker 5: on it. We change the water pump, heat sensor from

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Speaker 5: a stat radiator was boiled out. And what happens is

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Speaker 5: you'll take it out and drive for maybe twenty miles,

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Speaker 5: starts it up, can't go a mile. All of a

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Speaker 5: sudden it starts overheating again.

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Speaker 6: Okay, any idea?

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Speaker 1: Is it really overheating? Is my first question? In other words,

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Speaker 1: the you know, I'm saying, are there physical symptoms as

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Speaker 1: well as by.

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Speaker 6: The gauge boils over?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Boils over? All?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: So, and all of this has been going on even

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Speaker 6: Correct all right.

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Speaker 1: So, going on the assumption that all the all the

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Speaker 1: we're going to assume that the only place we can

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Speaker 1: point is do we have an internal engine problem? Do

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Speaker 1: we have a head gasket that's failing?

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Speaker 5: And why?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, why can't we Why can't we test that? We

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Speaker 1: can surely do that. Do you have a rubber glove

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Speaker 1: rubber work glove, So why why why don't you go

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Speaker 1: the not in the radiator itself, right, right, So why

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Speaker 1: like a balloon? If it does? If it doesn't, it's cold.

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Speaker 1: Where's it coming from? It's internal pressure, right right? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean when an engine is hot, it'll blow it up.

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Speaker 1: But if you're telling me, you know, hey, ron, within

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Speaker 1: the first two minutes of running, it blew the rubber

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Speaker 1: It blew the rubber glove off, right, it popped it

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Speaker 5: But but that's it's still is still hot after Okay,

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Speaker 5: that's sure what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you don't know that. You don't know you

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Speaker 1: don't know that the symptoms not there cold the first

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true, right.

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Speaker 1: You're assuming.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The other way we could do this if we want

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Speaker 1: it to be more scientific, if you had access to

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Speaker 1: a five gas emissions analyzer. All right, okay, we could

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Speaker 1: we could you know, sniff the exhaust I'm sorry, sniff

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Speaker 1: the cooling, all right, and do we see do we

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Speaker 1: show traces of hydrocarbon? The other way you could do this.

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Speaker 1: There's two other ways you can do this if if

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Speaker 1: The third way you could do this is and I

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Speaker 1: know the spark plugs aren't easy to get to, but

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Speaker 1: hole and do we see coolant in the cylinder. If

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Speaker 1: last way, the last way you can do this is

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Speaker 1: if you get down to your local auto zone. They

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Speaker 1: they will have a cylinder head gas get test where

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Speaker 1: they'll have a it's another tool to buy, but it's

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Speaker 1: a it's gonna be a bottle of blue dye with

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Speaker 1: to put it, that you're gonna put over the hot

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Speaker 1: gonna draw a sample of the coolant gas up into

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Speaker 1: If it changes from blue to green or green to blue,

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Speaker 1: hydrocarbons in the coolth and it's a sign of an

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00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 1: internal engine failure, usually a head gasket. Head gaskets were

437
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: not completely uncommon on those especially on a low mileage,

438
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: short trip vehicle. Is this vehicle driven a lot of

439
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: short trips?

440
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 5: That's exactly right, Yeah.

441
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: Because the head gasket had a problem where it was

442
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 1: constantly scrubbing against the expansion rate of the head itself,

443
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: and over time it would just beat the head gasket

444
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 1: to death.

445
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 5: Right, and you would never get right ahead.

446
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: And you know in your mind you're going, oh, it

447
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: can't be a head gasket. It's only got seventy five

448
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it. Well, listen, you eliminated everything else, brother, right,

449
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 1: So if we eliminate the if we eliminate the obvious,

450
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 1: what we have left is the answer. But we can

451
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 1: prove it now by doing one of those four methods.

452
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 1: Something there is going to trip and ring the bell.

453
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: All right, all right, thanks, I really appreciate you.

454
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: Very welcome. Let us know how you make out. If

455
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: you need more, you know where to find me. Take

456
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: good care. We'll see you Dan. Yes, sir, very good.

457
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: Let's get over and let's let's go talk to Bob

458
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: and Almira New York and see what's going on here. Bob,

459
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: welcome to the car, doctor, sir. How can I help?

460
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 2: Hey? Ron?

461
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 4: All right, Bob, hopefully I get two for a nickel

462
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 4: in here. Sure, So, first question is I am the

463
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 4: house I'm in now? Is at a fifteen hundred foot level,

464
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 4: So I'm going up and down multiple times a day

465
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 4: when I'm going down. Any benefit to down shifting as

466
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 4: opposed to us using brakes? Obviously I'll use up the

467
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 4: break faster. But am I hurting the engine and the

468
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 4: engine mouth if I down here?

469
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're putting a little more load on the

470
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: engine in the drive Train's the here's the answer to

471
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: the question. Every time I get this, which would you

472
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: rather use up faster the six thousand dollars transmission or

473
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred dollars worth of breaks?

474
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I talk to you, the ser the breaks,

475
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,160
Speaker 4: so okay.

476
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 1: As simple as that.

477
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 2: So that was easy.

478
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was that was good.

479
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 4: But here's here's my comment about transmissions in general. I

480
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 4: have had this to Coleyota Camera XSC from twenty eighteen,

481
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 4: and I changed the transition fluid regularly. I went to

482
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 4: the dealership telling him I was having a little issue

483
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 4: on the transmission not shifting as smoothly as it used to.

484
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 4: They didn't want to touch it, they didn't want to

485
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 4: do the transition. Theydn't wanted me to waive everything about it,

486
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 4: saying I understand it can get worse. It's got one

487
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 4: hundred and eighteen thousand miles on it. The minute I

488
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 4: had to transmission fluid exchange performed by them. Now it

489
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 4: runs smooth silk again. Now, sometimes the dealers just are

490
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 4: hesitant to take their transmission fluid last for life, and

491
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Speaker 4: it does not.

492
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: It doesn't. And I'll I'll go one step further on you, Bob.

493
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 1: I think I think it's a lot of repair shops

494
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: in general. All right, we you know, we'll we'll tell

495
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: people right up front, you know how we are, and

496
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: we'll tell them, Look, it's got one hundred eighteen thousand

497
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: miles on it. Here's what answer taking it may fix

498
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 1: your problem, and chances are it will, but I don't

499
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: want to promise you a rose garden. Right, it's at least,

500
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, I always look at it as and I've

501
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: always looked at it as we're all big boys. We

502
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: all wear our pants and put them on one leg

503
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: at a time, so to speak, and we understand what

504
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. And it fixed it. Toyota trans

505
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: fluid absolutely positively does wear out. All right. I've seen

506
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: it over time, multiple multiple vehicles, and yet, yeah, I

507
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 1: get it. You know what, some of these guys are

508
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: just indoctrinated and they just don't want to They just

509
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: don't want to look beyond the potential problem to see

510
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: a solution. So, as always, sir, I appreciate your comments

511
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: and concerns. Good to hear from you. You stay well

512
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: and safe. You're very welcome. I'm running Nanny and the

513
00:26:43,080 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: Guard Doctor. We're back right after this. Welcome back, Runnenny

514
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 1: and the Car Doctor here at eight five five five

515
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: six hundred. Keep in mind that phone number is twenty

516
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: four to seven. If you need me, just shoot us

517
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: a line. We'll get you into the next live broadcast.

518
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: And for the record, from what I understand, and they

519
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: keep trying to fix it, I'm not sure what's going on,

520
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: but the contact us button on theecardoctorshow dot com web

521
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: page is broken. It's been broken for three weeks. Every

522
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: time they fix it, it breaks again. So must be hackers.

523
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: So the uh, the commedis are getting us. But whatever,

524
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: you know, we're h Yes, Tom, I think that nobody

525
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: wants to talk to you. Well, I know you want

526
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: to talk to me all the time because you're always there,

527
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: so I try not to. You know, actually I was

528
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: Actually I was gonna actually I was going to talk

529
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: to you today. But you know, should I get to

530
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: the phone or should I let everybody hear your PB

531
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: blaster story this week? Well, why why don't you get

532
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: to the phone and then we can tell TV Blaster. Okay,

533
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: then we'll tell p B Blaster. Let's see how long

534
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: this takes. So let's go over and talk to Sam

535
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: and Arizona.

536
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 6: Sam.

537
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, Sir, how can I help?

538
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 6: Thanks? Hey, I'm looking to purchase OBT two scanner.

539
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: Okay.

540
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 6: My first question is are there after market scanners that

541
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 6: will do everything that the Tech two GM TECH two

542
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 6: scanner will do?

543
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 1: No? See how easy that was? Well, the right answer

544
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: is yes, there are aftermarket scanners. You'd have to buy

545
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: an Opus, which you know, if you're a professional repair shop,

546
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: that's the tool to have, all right. In my opinion,

547
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: an Opus IVS scan tool does because what that tool

548
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 1: may not be able to do for form or functionality,

549
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: you can call up in the service will download factory

550
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: software onto the tool, and you're as good as the dealer.

551
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: At that point you can do everything Opus Opus iv S.

552
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's the tool now, you know, it's

553
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: a monthly subscription. Okay, not a big deal if you're

554
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: a repair shop, if you're a do it yourself or

555
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: I think that's a different kind of an issue.

556
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna do.

557
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: You do it yourself? So, you know, the question here

558
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: becomes how much of the car do you need to fix?

559
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: You know, and how much of the car would you

560
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: want to fix? What are you primarily working on? What's

561
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: in the family fleet?

562
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 6: GM cars, Lexus?

563
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 1: How old but the older?

564
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 4: Yeah?

565
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: All right, so whe don't why don't we go out

566
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: to flee Bay and you know, pick up a used

567
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: scanner out there, maybe purchase something older.

568
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: You know.

569
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: The trick is if you buy an older for example,

570
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: an older snap on scan tool on on on eBay,

571
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: you want to get something old enough that it's not

572
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: too expensive, but new enough that it's got coverage, but

573
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: new enough that if they if it were to break,

574
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: you can still get it repaired. So there's that, there's

575
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: a there's a walk there. All right, what's your what's

576
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: your budget? What do you what do you what do

577
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: you think you're what do you think you're going to spend?

578
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what you really are going.

579
00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 6: To spend anywhere from two hundred just seven.

580
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: Hundred, right, you're probably gonna spend fifteen hundred and two grand. Realistically.

581
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 6: Is Opus a snap On brand?

582
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: Nope? Opus. Opus is a private company unto themselves. I

583
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: believe it's opusivs dot com. But now understand, that's a

584
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars scan tool. That's why I said, what

585
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: do you what? You know? What do we that's a

586
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: professional grade scan tool for a professional shop. I don't.

587
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't see how a professional shop could survive without one.

588
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: I think they're making their life more difficult if they

589
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: don't have one. But that's just me, now that's what

590
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: you're Yeah, that's my listen. I have an Opus, I

591
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: have a snap On, I have a Launch. I still

592
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: have my OTC stuff. I still have my tech too,

593
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: I still have my Chrysler tools. I still have my

594
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: four you know, I really do have seventeen or eighteen

595
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,959
Speaker 1: different scan tools. And it's you know, the only thing

596
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: actually I take back that we did get rid of

597
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: We sold our ford IDs because we didn't need it,

598
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: because we have an Opus, and we're very comfortable with that.

599
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 6: All right, So I think I see Launch includes updates yeah, they.

600
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: Might, they might. Sure, absolutely, I would probably go look

601
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: at launch I would. You know, it'd be great if

602
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: and if I believe, don't quote me on this, that

603
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: AutoZone certain autozones do carry launch scanners. And you know

604
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: it's nice to go down there and turn one on

605
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: and push some buttons and you know, what's your what's

606
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: your what's your comfort level? I always I always akin

607
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: buying a scan tool to the first time I used

608
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: computer software. I'll never forget the first time I used Quicken,

609
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: you know, back well back, yeah, all right, first time

610
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: I turned on Quicken and I used it, it made

611
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: sense to me. I just clicked right through it and

612
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: all it was right there. And that's what I look

613
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: for in a scan tool. My absolutely favorite scan tool,

614
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: all right, is the cheapest one I own. It hangs

615
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: by the door. All it does is OBD two. It's

616
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: our quick tool, all right. It's when we want to

617
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: do a quickie in the parking lot and just scan

618
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: for codes. And it's an older tool made by when SPX,

619
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: when Sealed Power owned OTC, which is over twenty five

620
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: years ago. And you know, to show you the staying

621
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: power of OBD two, I'm using a twenty five year

622
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: old OBD two scan tool. It's never been updated on

623
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty four model year car, and it works.

624
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: It will give me OBD two. It won't give me

625
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: anything else, all right. So OBD two is always a

626
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: good thing. It is basic common language. And then if

627
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: I want to get into your make model, that'll define

628
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: the rest of it. So you gotta go, you gotta go.

629
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: You gotta go play with some scan tools and see

630
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: what you like that's out there. I'm not a fan

631
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: of the phone scan tools. I think, you know, you're

632
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: depending on the processing speed of the phone and all

633
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: the other apps that are on the phone. I mean,

634
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: if you want to get codes or something, you're on vacation,

635
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: the check engine light pops on and you want to

636
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: get codes, and you know, maybe you look at something

637
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: real quick. But I don't think you're going to do

638
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: hardcore diagnosis on a consistent data day level using a

639
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: phone based scan tool. I don't see it working.

640
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 6: What's the limitation of launch? Will do everything tech two

641
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 6: does or no?

642
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: Well, when you say everything that Tech two does, tech

643
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: two does programming, all right. So when somebody says and

644
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: compares anything to a tech too. A TECH two does

645
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: actual physical programming body computers, engine computers, PCMs, et cetera.

646
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't buy a scan tool to do programming

647
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: for that. I'm going to use a JA twenty five

648
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: to thirty four box or I'm going to use an opus.

649
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: All right, different, different, different perspective, different way to look

650
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: at it. For what you're trying to do, I think

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Speaker 1: you need to go down, like I said, and play

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Speaker 1: with a couple of different scan tools. Yeah, maybe you're

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Speaker 1: in the nine hundred to twelve hundred dollars range, but

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Speaker 1: Launch would be a good place to start in a

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Speaker 1: good source to go look at. If you can't find

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Speaker 1: it at AutoZone, then take a look at the Launch

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Speaker 1: website and go from there. I'm running any in the car, doctor,

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00:33:53,640 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Hey, Hey, we started

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Speaker 1: this hour talking about the life of a mechanic. Let

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Speaker 1: me close with the life of a mechanic. So you

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Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna get thrown at you. Let

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Speaker 1: me take you in the shop. Courtesy of AutoZone. We

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Speaker 1: had a nineteen fifty three MGTD scheduled for an oil

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Speaker 1: change this week. I think that's what it was. Something

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Speaker 1: like that. Well it sort of wasn't. It wasn't because

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00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: it turned out to be a Volkswagon undercarriage. They had

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Speaker 1: taken an MGTD body and put it on top of

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Speaker 1: a sixty seven Volkswagon and we had to do an

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Speaker 1: oil change on it. Imagine our surprise when the engines

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Speaker 1: in the back and we needed special oil. Who else

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Speaker 1: do we call AutoZone? When on the website found what

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Speaker 1: we wanted oil rated for a sixty seven Volkswagon. They

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Speaker 1: ran it up, delivered it, and we got it out

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Speaker 1: the door. So sometimes the life of a mechanic is

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Speaker 1: a life of surprise, and that's what gets you through

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Speaker 1: the day, just like AutoZone gets us through the day.

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Speaker 1: I'm running andy in the car doctor, reminding you till

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Speaker 1: the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See

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Speaker 1: yash