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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit. Maybe we'll read a couple

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Speaker 1: of excerpts from Steven Cook's new book O B D

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Speaker 1: week is titled success behind the Scenes. And Jeff Sandler

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Speaker 1: Calton A pleasure to talk to you, sir, and keep

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Yes,

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Speaker 1: at one thirty. So by the time you get one

425
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: forty on that truck. Uh, if you do the radiator first,

426
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: you probably won't have to do the trans because what

427
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: what wiped that? What what what wiped out the trans

428
00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: was the trans cooler leaked and contam needed trans and

429
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 1: cooling together, and that's what damage the automatic trans. Now,

430
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: my information that I've seen in the last two years,

431
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: still the best source for the best price on a

432
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: radiator is right from Nissan. And last conversation I had

433
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: with the Nissan text and just trying to stay up

434
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: on this situation because I watched these things. Um, they

435
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: still recommend, you know, seventy eight thousand mile intervals put

436
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 1: a radiator in that truck because it's not that Nissan

437
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: made the new radiator any better. It's just new. Um,

438
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: So it it becomes the you know, I've got to

439
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: think and it's been a while since I actually did

440
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 1: an oh eight, but I think the number that's stuck

441
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 1: in my head is about two to fifty for the Radiatorum,

442
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: a couple hours of labor, but you know for three

443
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: D bucks four five dred bucks whatever it is with

444
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: some cooling. Uh you know what how much was that

445
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: trans repair? That trans repair was six grand? Right? Yeah? Okay, yeah,

446
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: then X one won't be and you don't want to

447
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: go through that. Um, you don't want to go through

448
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: these it's over. The timing change will be about two grands. Um. Okay, yeah,

449
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: so the timing change. Yeah, And like I said, I

450
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: wasn't suring my number. But so maybe years does have

451
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: the noise issue. Um, and you just don't realize it.

452
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll tell you how. You'll know how

453
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: noisy the timing chain was. If it's really worn. After

454
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: you get it back, you're gonna go is the engine running? Uh?

455
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: Because it just gets so quiet? Um I asked some questions. Yeah,

456
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: go ahead on a shot material. A long time ago,

457
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: you were talking about, uh, something to spray on russ

458
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: then to paint it. You remember that zero rust? Um,

459
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: there's there's well, there's what are we trying to do?

460
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: Were trying to slow rust down so the car doesn't

461
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: rust as fast underneath the chassis and all? Now I

462
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 1: just want to spray someone and and repaint something. Oh um,

463
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: you're looking for the rust dissolver. Yeah, and I can't remember.

464
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: You know, it's been a while since i've you. Okay,

465
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: there's all the stuff he retarded. Oh are we talking

466
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: about fluid film on the on the floor pan of

467
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: the chassis like for a plow vehicle. Okay, Then it

468
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago you were talking about

469
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 1: something you could spray on it, were help retard to

470
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: rust and paint over it. I think I was talking

471
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 1: about the only thing that comes to mind that I

472
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: have to think about this during the week if I

473
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: if I come up with it, I'll mention it next week.

474
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: But I think we're talking about either Zero Rust, which

475
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,479
Speaker 1: is the brand name. Um, you can find that. I've

476
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,479
Speaker 1: I've seen it on Amazon. Zero Rust. I believe it's

477
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: in black and white and a couple other different colors.

478
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 1: It's not cheap ten twelve fifteen bucks a can something

479
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,239
Speaker 1: like that. Um, real good rust retard. And the other

480
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: thing I'll do if I get to the vehicle before

481
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: it has rust is Benjamin Moore. Benjamin Moore of the

482
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: paint Guys, Right, Benjamin Moore makes something called low luster

483
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: alkalide rust resistant paint. It's the kind of stuff you

484
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: would use on your lawn furniture if if this was

485
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: nineteen six three and you had metal lawn chairs, remember

486
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: you'd go over Grandma's house and she had all that

487
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: metal lawn furniture. It's just it's the stuff. It's the

488
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: stuff Grandpa would have painted all the launchers with muttering

489
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: under his breath, drinking the beer in the backyard on

490
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon. Um. But now we spray it, and

491
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: I'll just put that right in a spray can. I'll

492
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: cut it with a little lacquer, like you know, five

493
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: six pent lacquer just by eye, you know, kind of

494
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: measuring the shot of vodka. Just ye about that much.

495
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: And um, you know, I'll actually spray chassis and frame

496
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: and and or floor pan and um you know that

497
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: that stuff. I mean it'll it'll it'll stick the chicken

498
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: feathers and it just really takes a lot to knock

499
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,239
Speaker 1: it off and wear. And you can get that at

500
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 1: the local paint store. Uh you know, um Benjamin More

501
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: low luster alkaloid. It comes in a choice of colors,

502
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: either black or like a blood primer. And that works

503
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: really well too, uh for slowing down rust. Um, both

504
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: really good. Back At the same time, you're talking about

505
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: a new uh, I forgot what you call it? Not

506
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: a soap but something to clean up. Somebody introduced you

507
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: to what soap was that? You know? There was It

508
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: was a new product somebody introduced you to a couple

509
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: of years ago, and for washing your hands, for washing anything.

510
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: They said it was bod degradabile. You use it on anything?

511
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what the heck is that? God, I haven't

512
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: used it in about a year because we haven't really cleaned.

513
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: It was a degreaser. It was. It was a degreaser

514
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: that was safe to run. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

515
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And why do I think that was Berryman

516
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: makes that? Um? I think it was Berryman. Go to

517
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: go to Barriman Products dot com and and see if

518
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: it's see if it's there, Eric and if it's not.

519
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: If it's not, shoot me an email um Ron at

520
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: card Doctor Show dot com and I'll poke around. But

521
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: I think it was Berryman that made that. Barrriman Products

522
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 1: dot com. They make a bunch of different things. And

523
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, if you're looking for an

524
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: oil additive and you want to look at it, you

525
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: can look at at at their line of oil additive products.

526
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: To it's I don't know, it's not gonna necessarily hurt you.

527
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: I just think what you're experiencing with oil consumption is

528
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: the nature of the beast based on its age. Um.

529
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: You know. But the fact that the Nissan dealer is

530
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: suggesting it sounds like the Nissan dealer is suggesting a

531
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: timing chain replacement. I I think that's something you want

532
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: to I talked I talked to you about that a

533
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and you told me about the

534
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: sound to listen for. I got a price on it,

535
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: and he said about and they're and they're doing a

536
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: water pump for that too, right, yes, sir, Yeah, okay, cool,

537
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: all right, so good anything else, Eric, Yeah, A couple

538
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: of weeks ago you were talking about the stuff to

539
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: spray on the window rubber to make it go up

540
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: easier and down. I forgot what it was. Silicon spray, silicone,

541
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: that one's easy. Yeah, all right, I gotta go. I'm

542
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: up against the clock. So but you're very welcome. Might

543
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: appreciate your calling, and Eric, and thanks for being such

544
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: a loyal member of the Car Doctor Nation. You take

545
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: good care. Five zero nine zero zero. We're back right

546
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: after this for the best in car advice. Give Ron

547
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: a call eight five five five six zero nine nine

548
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: zero zero. Now back to Ron. Let's gonna talk to

549
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: Joe and Virginia ninety eight Dodge. Joe, Welcome to the

550
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Thank you? Ron?

551
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: My idly dodge grand caravan and the computer is playing

552
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: games with his car um the least bothers. Some problem

553
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: is that once every few months, as I'm driving down

554
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: the road, the computer just turns off the control panel,

555
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: the gas goes to zero, tax goes to zero, sometimes

556
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: the speed go zero. Sometimes it goes up to hund

557
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: twenty miles. Now that's what it says. I'm obviously not

558
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: doing hard. Twitter Then UM, every oh every random times

559
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: it turns on the windshield wipe and UM for a

560
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: random amount of time and then just leaves them off,

561
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: and that destroys windfield wipers. So I have a couple

562
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: of socks over the windshield wipers when it's not raining.

563
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: And the most the biggest problem is that once every

564
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: ten or twenty times when I turned the car on, uh,

565
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: the computer turns the car back off, and whether when

566
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: I try again it just turns it off again, won't

567
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: let me drive it for a few hours to to

568
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: a day. It's as if someone took a tennis ball

569
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: and stuck up your tail pipe. But I've been able

570
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: to eliminate all the other problems down and down to

571
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: the computer. It's hot. I don't notice a correlation other

572
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: than with other events other than UM, when I turned

573
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: the car on. If the tack rate is a little high,

574
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: then it's more likely to the computer is more likely

575
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: to turn the car off. And I should say I'm

576
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: kind of personal who typically only drives the car on weekends.

577
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: I think there's there's there's a couple of different issues

578
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: possibly going on here, Joe Um. First of all, if

579
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: this phenometer is is hitting a hundred and twenty on

580
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: the display, that information is controlled by or triggered through

581
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: the body module. Al Right, if the and and it's

582
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: interesting take note because if the the PCM, I believe

583
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: fuel cut on a dodged caravan is a hundred and

584
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: thirteen miles an hour. Fuel cut is the legal limit.

585
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: You have to look at the speed rating on the

586
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: tires and see what tires are on the car. Back

587
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: in the back in the eighties and the nineties, the

588
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: federal government required that vehicle manufacturers. I know that they

589
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: necessarily do it anymore. It's been a while since I've

590
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: seen the problem. I've never seen it on anything made

591
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: after two thousand five, but older cars had fuel cut.

592
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: Fuel cut was if the vehicle had a t rated

593
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: tiro on a t rated tire was good for a

594
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: hundred and six miles an hour. When it hit a

595
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: hundred and eight, the car was shut off because of

596
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: the liability factor. So if this phenometer is hitting a

597
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty and it doesn't have I think it

598
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: has to be an H rated tire from the factory

599
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: for it to be better than one twenty UM or

600
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: better than an H rated tire. That vehicle would turn off.

601
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: So I would have to think the BCM is causing

602
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: this phenometer to drive that far. Because the BCM has

603
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: some command authority and how it approaches instrumentation control and

604
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: the fact that it's losing all the instruments tells me

605
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: we're looking for the master control, not just one input

606
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: for the computer does not turn the car off while

607
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: I'm driving down the road, just when I turned the

608
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: car on right right. So what I'm saying is, you know,

609
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: perhaps the BCM is confused, creating an instrument cluster issue.

610
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: But perhaps and I would look at grounds related to

611
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: the BCM, and the BCM should be below your feet,

612
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: I think, to the left side of the steering column

613
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: on that car. Um not a completely uncommon failure. We've

614
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: had issues with static discharge on the b c ms

615
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: on those cars where they have to be replaced because

616
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: they can only take electrical shock so many times. If

617
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, Because it's an older Chrysler,

618
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, and obviously it's got to be gone through

619
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: one module or one component at a time. But because

620
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: it's an older Chrysler, it's twenty one years old. The

621
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: first thing I would look at, you know, stable battery,

622
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: good charging system, voltage too, is make sure all the

623
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: powers and grounds, ground connections at the engine, the chassis

624
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: and all points in between or voltage dropped and load

625
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: tested to be sure that they're good, clean and tight.

626
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: If there's any issues with with with ground and power

627
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: on that vehicle, it will be as erratic as you're

628
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: describing to me, and it will be it will be

629
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: all over the place and it'll just you'll never find it.

630
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: Um So we've we've got to start with the basics.

631
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,719
Speaker 1: Short of that, it's gonna be breaking down component by

632
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: component and start pin testing power and grounds at the

633
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: point of failure and catching the failure in the act

634
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: of decide what makes it not start? The fact that

635
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't start. Simple thing doesn't have injector pulse, doesn't

636
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: have spark, does the fuel pump run? And that I'll

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Speaker 1: give you a direction on what might be causing the problem.

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Speaker 1: Do a little bit of that, call me back. We

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Speaker 1: can talk about it some more. I've got to go

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Speaker 1: right now. I'm running Eating the car Doctor will return

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Speaker 1: right after this. Hey, let's get over to Nathan in Michigan. Nathan,

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Speaker 1: run on eating the car doctor. I got about two minutes, Babe,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Well, I've got a two thousand three

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Speaker 1: out of r S six, which was a very high

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Speaker 1: performance variant on an A six. I haven't unstable high

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Speaker 1: charging system voltage. Um. What I mean by that is

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Speaker 1: you can start the car, It'll sit there at about

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Speaker 1: fourteen and a half volts or so, and then intermittently

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Speaker 1: it will start to creep up until both passport radar

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Speaker 1: detector built into the vehicle will shut itself down to

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Speaker 1: the voltage exceeding sixteen volts, and then the gauge will

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Speaker 1: peg itself to all the way up. Turn the key off,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it will come right back to U a

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Speaker 1: normal voltage. Sometimes it will come back at a high bultage.

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Speaker 1: I have tested everything I can really think of. Okay,

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Speaker 1: when you when you test it, have you gone through

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Speaker 1: the alternator in the charge control circuit, the plug at

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Speaker 1: the back of the alternator with the volta regulator input. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I have checked to resistance at both ends the wires.

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Speaker 1: I've checked for resistance on the actual charging cable, well,

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Speaker 1: the I mean the battery cable, leaving the battery in

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Speaker 1: the trunk. Okay, what makes you think this isn't an

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Speaker 1: internal alternator problem and I'm gonna have to leave it there?

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Speaker 1: But think about the volta regulator itself being a potential fault.

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Speaker 1: Probably the number one failure on those vehicles is the

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Speaker 1: regulator and or the alternator assembly. I wish there was

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Speaker 1: more time nathing on mon in Indian Good mechanics are

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Speaker 1: on expensive their places