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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Why don't they need the card doctor. We're

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Speaker 1: are in our role here trying to get all these

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Speaker 1: calls in. Let's get over to Robert in Danbury, Connecticut. Robert,

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Speaker 1: you're on with the card doctor at eighty five to

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Speaker 1: five five six nine nine zero zero. How can it help, sir?

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Speaker 2: How you doing?

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Speaker 3: Ron?

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Speaker 2: I have about two thousand Honda Cord with sixty six

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Speaker 2: thousand miles on it, and the spring I started going

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Speaker 2: to a transmission was starting to leak off transmission food.

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Speaker 2: So I took to the dealer and they said the

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Speaker 2: right front ax the seal was leaking, okay, so they

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Speaker 2: replaced it, and about three months later it started leaking again.

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Speaker 2: So I brought it back to the same same seal, Robert,

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Speaker 2: same seal. They replaced the seal, no charge, and then

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Speaker 2: another three months after that it started leaking again.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Then I took it back to the dealer the third

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Speaker 2: time and they say, possibly could be a Warren bearing

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Speaker 2: in the transmission. This coins a leak, and they really

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Speaker 2: didn't want to replace the seal again.

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Speaker 1: For me, Well, what confuses me is, you know carrier

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Speaker 1: common and it's it's easy enough to check. I guess

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Speaker 1: my question would be, and you know, not trying to

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Speaker 1: point a finger, but say, hey, wait a minute. You know,

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Speaker 1: the bearing supports the axle and then the seal just

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Speaker 1: keeps the transmission fluid in, so the seal can't do

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Speaker 1: the job of the bearing and support it. And my

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Speaker 1: point is that you know, if they were doing the seal,

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Speaker 1: you could wiggle the axle very you know, just just

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Speaker 1: wiggle it the axle and go, you know, clunk, clunk,

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Speaker 1: clungk clunk. Doesn't have any movement in it. If they

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Speaker 1: didn't do that and just blindly replace the seal, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess what they They replaced the seal, but they

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Speaker 1: didn't solve the problem. They didn't catch it firsthand. So

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Speaker 1: you know, my question is, and you know it's hard. Listen,

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Speaker 1: there's there's one hundred moving pieces to something like this

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Speaker 1: as far as.

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Speaker 2: On the lift and they ran they wheeled up and

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Speaker 2: lift and they could see, you know, the food coming

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Speaker 2: out past the seal.

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Speaker 1: But right, well, and it's like I said, initially, when

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Speaker 1: they did the seal the first time, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: where they should have caught it. Now, again, I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 1: all right, and I'm seeing this a lot, you know,

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Speaker 1: and trying to make enemies here, but sometimes they'll they'll

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Speaker 1: get the repair right, but they'll miss the cause because

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Speaker 1: they're younger. They need the experience. And not every repair

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Speaker 1: he oversees it, and if it's deemed simple, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: down the line and you know next. So the issue

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Speaker 1: here is, like I said, it's common carrier side bearings

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Speaker 1: go bad, and it's you know, it's time to overhauld

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Speaker 1: the trans or replace the car. It's as simple as that,

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Speaker 1: all right, sir?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, then yeah, right now, I've been just checking

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Speaker 2: the dip every week and get a couple of drop right.

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Speaker 1: Well, And the problem there is in time, in time,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get it's gonna get worse, and the seal

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Speaker 1: here really has to be is it time to overhauld

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Speaker 1: the trans and for the three grand it's probably worth

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Speaker 1: to you, Robert. Let us know if we can do

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Speaker 1: anything else for you. Jeff Newton falls Ohio, Ron and

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Speaker 1: any and the car doctor eight five five five six

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Speaker 1: I help Jeff? Are you there? Jeff? Jeff once Jeff,

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Speaker 1: uh uh, look at this. We had a misfire and

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Speaker 1: are you there? Oh yeah, there you go, there you go?

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Speaker 1: So okay, sir, how you like that? Well that we

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Speaker 1: How can I help you, sir?

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Speaker 3: Okay? I just picked up a two thousand and four

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Speaker 3: I bought as is. It's had one hundred and one

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Speaker 3: you're looking online right radio doesn't work, which is an

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Speaker 3: issue right now at the moment that there's a rattle

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Speaker 1: I mean, let me ask you this is it? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Nothing? Nothing, So until you hit a pothole or something,

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Speaker 1: that's when it starts. Okay. So if we find that

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Speaker 3: It's just the left side. Even if you hit something

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you still hear the noise regardless of where

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Speaker 1: you of how you hit. You know, and this is

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of guys will just jump on shocks.

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Speaker 1: It's a bad shock. Is the shock loose? If you're

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Speaker 1: not checking that on a drive on lift it's kind

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Speaker 1: The issue is take a look at the rear sway, bar,

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Speaker 1: I believe we did that. Okay, you did the bar.

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Speaker 3: We checked both, We tried moving it. Nothing. We've already

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Speaker 3: changed out the shocks because they just looked bad. Okay,

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Speaker 3: all right, thews were good, all right.

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Speaker 1: And to change out the shocks, the back seat has

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Speaker 3: Through the trunk.

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Speaker 1: All right, So you've driven it now, somebody sat in

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Speaker 3: No, No, I haven't done that.

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Speaker 1: All right, What happens if somebody sits in the back

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Speaker 3: Oh? I'm gonna have to try that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, see what that does for you?

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Speaker 1: Just say that again, I give a plug somebody, sure,

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Speaker 3: For the Steel City outlaws.

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Speaker 1: Tim Schaefer, Okay, sure, absolutely, cool beans now, Tim, Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's gone. Sorry, Jeff, all right, let's get over and

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Speaker 1: talk to Colby in Rhode Island. Kolby, Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: card doctor, sir. How can I help Colby? Colby once,

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Speaker 1: Colby twice? You know, sound on radio is really important. Colby?

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Speaker 1: Are you there?

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Speaker 4: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I sure can. I'm gonna have to diagnose

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Speaker 1: the phone system in about twenty seconds. But that's okay.

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Speaker 1: What's going on.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to two thousand yukon Excel twenty five hundred

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Speaker 4: sixth lead right. I bought it from a guy in

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Speaker 4: When the engine is hot, after it's been driven for

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Speaker 1: And you're going to tell me no codes and absolutely

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Speaker 4: And it's driving me crazy because every every person I

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Speaker 4: and it's like, I just don't want to throw money

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Speaker 1: Right, let me ask you this. Does this truck have

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Speaker 4: I don't believe so. No, it's a thirty nine gallon tank.

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Speaker 1: To this is a singular tank. Okay, gotcha. Has anybody

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Speaker 4: Fuel pressure was tested, but I couldn't replicate the hard

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Speaker 1: So you know that's going to be the first part

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Speaker 1: Look at fuel pressure and look at volume, all right.

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Speaker 1: And the way we're going to do volume is while

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Speaker 1: That's that's pretty much a standard across the across the board.

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Speaker 1: So that's number one, number two or else we're going

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Speaker 1: to look at a fuel sample. Number three has no

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Speaker 1: And what sort of information is the onboard computer reporting

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Speaker 1: You know, it could go all the way to nineteen

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Speaker 1: percent fuel trim and not set a fault code. So

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Speaker 1: give us a lot to go on. Now we've got

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Speaker 1: to start to do a no code diagnosis, and we

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Speaker 1: got to start to look at the vitals while we're

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Speaker 1: looking at the scan tool, look at temperature. Where's cool

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Speaker 1: and does cool and temperature agree with how hot the

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Speaker 1: air temp? And does that all make sense? All right?

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Speaker 1: And when you get the answers to those, then give

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Speaker 4: How's that sounds good?

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Speaker 1: All right, that's enough of a conversation for today. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to overload your calby Colby, so do that.

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Speaker 1: We'll go from there. I'm running any of the the

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Speaker 1: Card Doctor. We're back right after this. That red light

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Speaker 1: yellow light time you stand out, Welcome back, h On't

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Speaker 1: any of the car Doctor here at eight five five

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Speaker 1: Harry dot com. We'll call you back. Let's get over

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Speaker 1: this week. Dennis Crawford, Maine. Dennis, you're on with the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir. How can I help?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Ron, I was listening to your program a couple

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Speaker 5: of weeks ago, and yet I felt bad for that

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Speaker 5: gentleman in New York. It was having problems with rodents

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Speaker 5: so forth, and uh and and we basically had some

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Speaker 5: issues here and and and Maine him. At the time,

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Speaker 5: we had a Toyota and and the Toyota dealership didn't

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Speaker 5: come out and endorsed this product. But one of the

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Speaker 5: guys there came out and told us about, you know,

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Speaker 5: our our filter for you know that mice. We got

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Speaker 5: into our Toyota and it was the cab the cab filter,

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Speaker 5: and he said that, you know, he put them in

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Speaker 5: and they had talked about a product that was out.

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Speaker 5: What's the name of It's called Fresh Cab the panicle

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Speaker 5: Rodent Repellent. I don't know if you've heard of it before.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of it. Fresh Cab Dennis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called.

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Speaker 5: Fresh Cab Botanical Rodent Repellent and the basic ingredients are

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Speaker 5: it's uh, their plant fibers, balsam, fur oil is to

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Speaker 5: concentrate and you know they can I mention.

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Speaker 2: Anything to help.

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Speaker 1: Anything, to help people with car problems. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: all for it.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Ace Hardware and in Kallismen handles it. So I

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Speaker 5: don't know if all of the Aces do Tractor supply

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Speaker 5: did have it, but some do something. But anyways, we

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Speaker 5: tried it. We tried it one year here because we

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Speaker 5: store our peep down in the basement and we didn't

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Speaker 5: have any incursions. So I mean, we're going with it

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Speaker 5: again this year, and we're basically putting there. They come

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Speaker 5: in packets and you can you know, we're putting one

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Speaker 5: in their glove compartment and we're putting, uh in fact,

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Speaker 5: for both vehicles that we have, we're putting on the

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Speaker 5: love compartment and to see whether or not that's going

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Speaker 5: to be effective or not. But that's to that, gentleman.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I thought, I just, you know, send

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Speaker 5: the email off. I wasn't expecting Harry to call me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, no, well, you know, and we always we always

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Speaker 1: thought that, you know, for everyone's benefit, let's get it

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Speaker 1: out here on air. So hey, Dennis, listen, I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you sharing the information and taking the time, and

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Speaker 1: I'll have Harry look into that and then we can

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Speaker 1: report back next week on air. We'll do a little research,

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Speaker 1: but we can get somebody from Fresh Cab up here

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Speaker 1: everybody because critters and cars really is a problem. Thanks Dennison,

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Speaker 1: that we appreciate you listening up there in Crawford, Maine.

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Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car. Doctor. We're back right

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Speaker 1: after this. Hey, run on any of the card doctor here,

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Speaker 1: let's see if we can finish up. Joe from Vorhees,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. Joe, Welcome to the Card Doctor, Sir. How

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Speaker 1: can I help in my last three minutes?

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Speaker 6: YEAHI ron first and foremost. I want to thank you

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Speaker 6: for passing along a lot of great information. I have

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Speaker 6: a condinental. I lost all my interior lamps short Okay,

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Speaker 6: he placed the fuse twice within a half a second

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Speaker 6: they blow out again. I don't know where to start.

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Speaker 1: Which, Which fuse is it? Joe, fuse thirty three?

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Speaker 3: Which?

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Speaker 6: What is it?

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Speaker 1: Fuse thirty three? Is it the same? It's the same

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Speaker 1: fuse that powers the sun visors exactly.

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Speaker 6: The supervisors, and also the automatic dimmer on the rearview mirror.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you. I'll tell you how to diagnose it.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, and then I'll tell you where I think

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Speaker 1: the problem is. All right, So I just want everybody

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Speaker 1: to gain some knowledge. I come across this. You know

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Speaker 1: this is the problem. Where do you start? All right?

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Speaker 1: You got to get a wiring diagram, You got to

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Speaker 1: look at you know, every wiring diagram is fuse or

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Speaker 1: power load and the wiring in between. All right, So

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Speaker 1: in this case, you know what I would start to

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Speaker 1: do is I'd start popping bulbs. Well, I wouldn't do that,

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Speaker 1: But in most cases, I would start popping bulbs. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why I wouldn't do that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: I would start popping bulbs. You know which bulb causes

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Speaker 1: the problem to go away, Which door causes the problem

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Speaker 1: to happen. If it happens with both front doors, then

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Speaker 1: we're going to start to think about a light. If

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Speaker 1: it happens only with the driver's door, then the problem

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Speaker 1: is something driver door specific or passenger door specific. Now

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Speaker 1: you know, once I determine what's causing it and how,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to look at my wiring diagram, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not opposed to cutting the system in half. I've wired

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Speaker 1: fuses in the middle of the circuit to see does

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Speaker 1: the fuse blow from that direction or that direction? And

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Speaker 1: I've wired inline fuseholders in and that's helped me pinpoint

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Speaker 1: If that makes sense, and then when I'm done, if

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Speaker 1: I want to, I'll take it out. If not, I'll

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Speaker 1: leave it in. If I take it out, I solder

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Speaker 1: it up, he shrink it. We're done, all right. I

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Speaker 1: think this problem is and what's real common and nobody

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Speaker 1: ever thinks of it is it's in the sun visors.

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Speaker 1: The sunvisor wiring gets frayed up inside the headliner where

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Speaker 1: you won't see it, or in the visor itself. So

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Speaker 1: what I would tell you to do? Does this problem

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Speaker 1: happen every time? Joe?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I retire placed the fuse, like I said,

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Speaker 6: a half a second and blows.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So just for giggles, why don't we drop the

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Speaker 1: sunvisors down, unscrew them, unplug them. Now you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to pull the connector through the headliner, all right. Be

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Speaker 1: mindful when you pull it through the headliner, look at it.

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Speaker 1: Be visual on the wiring. Does it look fraid? Does

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Speaker 1: it look damaged? If it does, you got to kind

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Speaker 1: be shorting up in the roof where you can't see it. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I've also had it where the sun visor itself, because

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Speaker 1: that's a whole other game. So I say, pay attention

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Speaker 1: to the visors. Remember what I said about looking at

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Speaker 1: a wiring diagram splitting the system in half, and then

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Speaker 1: we can kind of talk about it again next week

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Speaker 1: if that still doesn't do it for you. And I

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Speaker 1: appreciate your kind words, and I appreciate counting you as

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Speaker 1: among the Car Doctor listeners out there these many years. Joe, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm running any in the Car Doctor looking up, and

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Speaker 1: I want to say thank you to everybody for welcoming

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Speaker 1: us back from Sema. We'd even talk about that this week.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot going on there. We should cover

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Speaker 1: even Fast Harry for all his hard working efforts. And

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Speaker 1: I'm run an Anie in the Car Doctor reminding you

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Speaker 1: the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you