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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, it's kind of funny what's going on out there?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's there are no cars first of all,

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Speaker 1: all right, and I think you all know that by

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Speaker 1: now there are no cars. You can buy a vehicle

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Speaker 1: with heated seats, and then after three months your trial

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Speaker 1: period is up. And if you want heated seats every

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Speaker 1: morning you have to pay an eight dollar subscription figure.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor. I guess thought the two countands seven

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Speaker 1: Lincoln town Car. And I only want to see cars

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Speaker 1: with big herds of big trunk. Yeah, I mean I'd

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Speaker 1: like to be in bubble wrapp Yeah, I get it.

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

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If

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Speaker 1: your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the

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Speaker 1: phone and call in. The garage doors are open, but

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

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Speaker 1: five five six and now he running. Hey, let's get

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Speaker 1: the hours started. And as we get together to talk

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Speaker 1: about cars at eight five five five zero zero, let's

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Speaker 1: go over to Nicki, Missouri f one fifty with a

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Speaker 1: P zero one Nicholas welcome, sir, How can I help?

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Speaker 1: Didn't hear me? Now? Can? Okay? Well anyway, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got the check ins the line on and I

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Speaker 1: my mechanic had it on the scanner two three times

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Speaker 1: and it's we put a fuel rail sensor on it

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Speaker 1: and that it work. And so we put on that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you know about fuel pump module

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Speaker 1: or something back there on the back by the spare

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Speaker 1: tire fuel pump, fuel pump driver module right a fuel

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Speaker 1: pump n FPDM okay, has he done any diagnosis? Are

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Speaker 1: we just swapping parts? Well, slapping bar? It's I guess,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, that's what the that's what the scandal, you know,

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Speaker 1: three or four possibilities and any and so we dumped.

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Speaker 1: I had some cans of c phone that I put

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Speaker 1: in it to try to clean and wa, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no here. Let me let me. Let me let

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Speaker 1: me take you right to the Let me take you

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Speaker 1: right to the end of the chase here, Nick, before

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Speaker 1: you before your phone battery dies? Um P zero one

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Speaker 1: nine one, all right, is so let me let me

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Speaker 1: say the conversation this way. UM. There's something called Comprehensive

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Speaker 1: Component Monitor CCM. Is a self test that the vehicle

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Speaker 1: computer does. It's always looking at specific critical information sensors

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Speaker 1: to make sure that the vehicles operating properly. So it'll

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Speaker 1: look at it'll look at fuel real pressure, it'll look

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Speaker 1: at fuel trim, it'll look for misfires, it'll look at

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Speaker 1: all the critical things heart rate, blood pressure. Okay, all

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Speaker 1: the critical things that keep you going in the car

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Speaker 1: going period. Yeah, he did, he did that, all right, p.

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Speaker 1: Zero one nine one. The probable causes are either high

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Speaker 1: fuel pressure, low fuel pressure, a bad fuel real pressure

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Speaker 1: sensor which he said he changed, excessive electrical resistance in

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Speaker 1: the circuit, vacuum leaks lower, no fuel pressure. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's that's where the majority of this falls.

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Speaker 1: All right, check the fuel pressure, right? Did he check

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Speaker 1: the fuel pressure? Did he monitor the fuel pressure on

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Speaker 1: our road test? No? Okay, but he checked the manually though. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you know, when does the problem here? Let me

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Speaker 1: explain it like this, When does the problem happen out

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Speaker 1: on the road, right, loyality, Yeah, ok So let's clear

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Speaker 1: all the codes. Let's hook a fuel reil pressure gauge

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Speaker 1: up to it. Okay, and let's do two things let's

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Speaker 1: strap a gauge to the windshield, all right, go for

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Speaker 1: a ride. And if he has a decent quality scan tool,

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Speaker 1: which I'm guessing he does, he can look at the

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Speaker 1: computer's interpretation of fuel rail pressure on the scan tool,

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Speaker 1: they will be a pit or a piece of debt.

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Speaker 1: Has he shown you that as he looked at that yet,

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Speaker 1: do you know? Yeah? Yeah, Well he's got a hand help,

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Speaker 1: but he's also got a pretty sistame thing. Is a

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Speaker 1: big screen that's not handheld. It just all ends up

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Speaker 1: on a on a big big screen. Right, Well, look

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Speaker 1: at what what color is a scan tool? Nick? Nick?

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Speaker 1: Is his scan tol? Red? Is it? Is it a

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Speaker 1: snap one? Uh? As possible? Red? But he didn't use

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Speaker 1: tell him to get away from Tell him to get

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Speaker 1: the road. It's hard to fix. It's hard to fix

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Speaker 1: performance problems on the road in the bay. All right.

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Speaker 1: The ejective older on the on that fuel real center

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Speaker 1: and it might have been a little bit. I think

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Speaker 1: we're supposed to be five and it was like four

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Speaker 1: and that didn't fix it, did it? Now? Maybe the

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Speaker 1: mot motor graph. Listen, listen to what Nick, Listen to

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Speaker 1: what I say. It's only in our show. All right,

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Speaker 1: I want you too. I want you to hook up

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Speaker 1: a mechanical fuel pressure gauge to the fuel rail. I

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Speaker 1: want you to duct tape it to the windshield. All right,

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Speaker 1: verify it's got good fuel pressure. I want you to

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Speaker 1: take a scan tool and I want you to find

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Speaker 1: the fuel rail pressure reading. The The reading on the

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Speaker 1: gauge will be displayed digitally on the scan tool because

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Speaker 1: what that fuel rail pressure center, that piece, you guys changed,

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Speaker 1: what that's doing is that's telling the computer what fuel

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Speaker 1: rail pressure is. So you can actually see the fuel

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Speaker 1: rail pressure the computer is seeing electrically from that sensor

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Speaker 1: and display it on the scan tool. All right, go

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Speaker 1: for a rod. Watch the gauge, watch the scan tool.

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Speaker 1: If fuel real pressure goes If fuel real pressure by

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Speaker 1: gauge goes down, it should go down on the tool

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Speaker 1: on the scan tool. Correct if it's if it's it's well,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna vary. It's a pulse with my I hate

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Speaker 1: to say this word, it's a pulse with modulated fuel

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Speaker 1: rail pressure. All right. You will see a range somewhere

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Speaker 1: between forty and sixty p s I. But depending upon application.

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Speaker 1: The problem is, all right, you're seeing this because it's

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Speaker 1: going too low. And and my suspicion is all right,

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Speaker 1: that you can have And just because he changed the

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Speaker 1: fuel real module in the back doesn't mean it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a problem back there wiring. All right. I've also

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Speaker 1: seen where how that module is grounded. If there's corrosion

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Speaker 1: grounded correctly, it can cause this issue too. But so far,

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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but from what you're describing,

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Speaker 1: nobody has done any diagnosis, or that they've done minimal diagnosis.

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Speaker 1: I need to know, you know, you know what the

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Speaker 1: problem is. And I just realized it. You guys are

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Speaker 1: looking for what's bad. Tell me what's good? All right?

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Speaker 1: Does this Does this thing have good fuel pressure all

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Speaker 1: the time? You know you could have. So here's my

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Speaker 1: here's my argument. You could see good fuel pressure. Let's

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Speaker 1: say fuel pressure has to be forty five pounds. You

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Speaker 1: see forty five pounds all day long by mechanical gauge.

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Speaker 1: You see forty five pounds on the scan tool, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden on the scan tool it

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Speaker 1: glitches and it goes to fifteen. But the mechanical gauge says,

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Speaker 1: what does that tell us? Well, that tells us that

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Speaker 1: the pump is working, this is an electrical issue. Or

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Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna see it the other way around, or

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Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna see it where they both go to fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Now we know the pump is incapable delivering. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: a pump the last time. Sometimes when it's go ahead,

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Speaker 1: sometimes when it's under a load, you know, it's under

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Speaker 1: a load. Sometimes going up the hill and whatever, it

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Speaker 1: will kind of sputter, you know, but then it then

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Speaker 1: so stop, it'll kind of sputter. It's not really a

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Well, perfect, but so minute it runs right runs.

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Speaker 1: So but you're saying, so, you're saying the truck is broken.

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Speaker 1: You can you can make this truck be broken, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can I can clear at all if I take

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Speaker 1: the battery cable off, will clear the light. But then

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Speaker 1: as soon as it does that, we stop stop taking

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Speaker 1: stop taking the battery cable off, because every time you

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Speaker 1: do that, the truck has to go through a real

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Speaker 1: learned process, and you're wiping out adaptive and you're wiping

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Speaker 1: out all the good freeze frame diagnostic information. Um uh,

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Speaker 1: you know you don't want to do that. You want

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Speaker 1: to use a scan tool. The last I'm gonna tell you,

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Speaker 1: all right, at the fuel pump module, all right, at

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Speaker 1: the fuel pot, at the fuel pump connection, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a brown white wire and a pink black wire,

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Speaker 1: all right. I want you to measure voltage there, all right,

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Speaker 1: and I want you to measure voltage when the problem happens.

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Speaker 1: So that means we've got to hook up a digital

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Speaker 1: voltometer and we can look at all this. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: Diagnostics isn't easy. Parts swapping is hard, all right, but

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Speaker 1: diagnostics is harder, all right, because you're gonna spend more

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Speaker 1: money swapping parts. If you measure voulta between those two

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Speaker 1: circuits and you see greater than ten volts when the

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Speaker 1: problem is happening, all right, it sounds like you've got

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Speaker 1: a bad fuel pump, all right, and I would focus

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Speaker 1: me back again. I'm gonna make your work for this.

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Speaker 1: You gotta disconnect the fuel pump driver module and read

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Speaker 1: some different voltages. But but by all means, let's let's

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Speaker 1: start the diagnosis and stop throwing heart set it because

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Speaker 1: every time you throw apart at it, it could be

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Speaker 1: a bad new part. Not saying they are, it could

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Speaker 1: if it's a I hadn't fuel pund trouble before and

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Speaker 1: they never acted like that usually clear. But I guess

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Speaker 1: I guess, well, that's not if you were driving an

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Speaker 1: older vehicle, If you were driving a ninety two Ford

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Speaker 1: pick up, the fuel pump is on all the time,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't vary its speed, and it's just a constant

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Speaker 1: Fuel pump fuel pump modulated displacement means they actually use

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Speaker 1: the computer to control the speed of the fuel pump.

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Speaker 1: You ever play with a slot car when you were

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Speaker 1: a kid. I don't remember all right, but but you

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Speaker 1: remember slot cars, right, Remember the faster you pulled the trigger,

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Speaker 1: the faster the little car went. The faster the little

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Speaker 1: electric motor went. The computers, it's like driving a slot

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Speaker 1: car the fuel pump. The computer is sitting there saying, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we want to run the pump faster. We need more

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Speaker 1: fuel pressure. It spends the motor up faster. Hey we

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Speaker 1: don't need as much fuel pressure. We spend the motor slower.

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Speaker 1: The car goes slower. Same thing, different application. So you

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Speaker 1: can't look at dead. It's only got three you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just broken in it. So um, just broken in. Brother, Listen,

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Speaker 1: do some of the things I'm saying, And by all

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Speaker 1: means if you're if you guys are gonna shotgun this

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Speaker 1: thing and just throw a fuel pump at it. Get

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Speaker 1: out to your local orelio To parts store. Go in

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Speaker 1: there and tell them I want the best fuel pump

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Speaker 1: you got on the shelf, um, whether it's a motor

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Speaker 1: craft or whatever, and put a good quality pump in it.

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Speaker 1: But the folks that your local orelio To parts will

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Speaker 1: know and then call me back and tell me what

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Speaker 1: you guys decided to try and do because I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of curious how you're gonna end up fixing this thing

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Speaker 1: without diagnosing it. But I can. I I applaud your efforts,

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Speaker 1: young man. Um just uh, you know, a little diagnosis

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Speaker 1: goes a long way. Zero. The car Doctor's back right

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's go back here to this. Um, Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 1: c RV RON. Welcome to the car doctor. How can

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Speaker 1: seat here, the module that's going to to make it's

427
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: going to take authority over everything else. Is the check

428
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 1: engine light? Why is the check engine light coming on? Okay, yeah,

429
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: I do not know. M Here's what I want you

430
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 1: to do, bron, this is what I want you to do,

431
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: all right. I want you to go to your mechanic

432
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: wherever it is, the dealer, independent shop, whoever it is.

433
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: I want them to do a complete vehicle scan. There's

434
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: there's probably better than thirty five computer modules on that vehicle,

435
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: depending upon how it's equipped. All right. The fact that

436
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 1: the fact that all the lights are coming on tells

437
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: me that one of the modules has a problem. One

438
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: of the systems has a problem, and what a lot

439
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: of the manufacturers will do is, for example, let's say

440
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: you've got to check engine light fault. Let's say there's

441
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: a bad oxygen sensor in this car, and I'm just

442
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: making that up. I'm just coming up with an example.

443
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,719
Speaker 1: If that vehicle has an O two cents or fault,

444
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: because the vehicle will struggle and likely not run in

445
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: emission's compliance, they will disable the other safety features and

446
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: I locked brake control, traction control, crash avoidance, whatever that

447
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: vehicle has because they don't want to strain the engine.

448
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: The check engine light has authority. If you told me

449
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: you were getting an A B S light and the

450
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: check engine light wasn't on, you've got a fault in

451
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: the A B S system. But the fact that you've

452
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: got to check engine light on at the same time

453
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: as ABS, traction control, stability, etcetera, etcetera, tells me you've

454
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 1: got a fault in the check engine light and that's

455
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: what's triggering the other lights to come on because those

456
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: systems are now in shutdown. Does that make sense, Yes,

457
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: it does. But then then all of a sudden they

458
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 1: all go off and everything is normal again, right, because

459
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: the glitch went away, okay, And I even I had

460
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: I had a new windfield put in, and they, you know,

461
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: they align everything up for all your because all your

462
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: sensors up right, because you have eight do you have

463
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: a camera by the rear view mirror? Right? And you

464
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:48,959
Speaker 1: know I took it back there and they checked out.

465
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: You didn't know everything. We didn't do nothing wrong here,

466
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 1: everything checks out. You're just fine. So pay attention. Tell

467
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: wherever you're going next week, you know, pay attention to

468
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: the codes. The codes are going to be the key,

469
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: all right. And I would the way I would treat

470
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: this is I would scan it, print or write everything down,

471
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: clear the faults and see what comes back, only because

472
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking to verify and duplicate the problem, and that

473
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: will just repeat the process. So it could it could

474
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: be related to the windshield. It could. I don't think so.

475
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: But let's let's scan it. Let's proceed in that direction.

476
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: But the answer is right there on the dashboard in

477
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: front of If somebody just hasn't found it yet, all right,

478
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: they're trying to they're trying to connect the dots. The

479
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: dots may not connect. Something's driving all those lights on

480
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be one module that's creating the entire problem,

481
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: is my bet? All right? So okay, very good, go

482
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: get them all right, kiddo, you're very welcome. Could be

483
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: well zero. The car doctor is coming back right after this.

484
00:26:48,680 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Welcome back, go over to carl and

485
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: Louisiana with a car. What do you welcome to the

486
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: car doctor? Well, I appreciate you taking my call. Thank you.

487
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: What I have is a I think it's an auxiliary

488
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: fan or some type of problem associated with that. When

489
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: I run my air conditioning, I get this like a

490
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: fan kicks on super loud to a point where you

491
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: have hard time communicating, or it sounds like your truck

492
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: might be, you know, screaming at you. And I've I've

493
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,479
Speaker 1: looked into things that my coolant level, um, my air

494
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: conditioning pressure in the A C lines, and I can't

495
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: seem to figure out how to quiet this thing down.

496
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure what's happening. Okay, how does the

497
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: A C work? Does the A C working? Okay? Yes,

498
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: the A C functions properly. Um. At one time I

499
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: thought it wasn't, so I boosted it up with some

500
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: pressure and I checked those readings with a set of gauges.

501
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily what the piece M says. But I've

502
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: used a set of gauges and put it towards the

503
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 1: Hines manual. Okay. And what's high sight a C pressure?

504
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 1: Do you ever see it go you know, high over

505
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 1: over to fifty four hundred? No? Okay, so high sight

506
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: pressure always stays low when I the last time I

507
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: put gauges on there was probably a year ago. But

508
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: when I'm I guess my point being is that I

509
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: don't have problems with my air conditioning unit functioning. I

510
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: have problems with a fan that's kicking on and staying

511
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: on like you know, um, very loudly. Have you owned

512
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: the truck since New Carl? Yes? Okay? And it wasn't

513
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: always that loud, Uh No, it happened, you know through time.

514
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: Some of the forums I've read about have talked about,

515
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: you know, a therm of stat in the um, the

516
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: thermostat for the cool int or high pressure switch in

517
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: the ACE unit, some things like that. But I haven't

518
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: diagnosed all that myself, and I don't know you know, um,

519
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: you're the card doctor, so I figured perhaps you might

520
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: have some kind of you know, well I encountered it,

521
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: and you're like, hey, go check that out. Yeah. The

522
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: real and the reason I'm asking so much about the

523
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: a C is because this is generally a complaint somebody

524
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: will give us that's associated with higher than normal a

525
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: C pressure. And there's actually a bulletin from Ford out

526
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: a year ago twenty one day that talks about problems

527
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: with the a C um higher than or intermittent or

528
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: random high side pressure that will cause you auxiliary fan

529
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: to kick on. Is it a case where the fan

530
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: kicks on maybe early, right after you start the vehicle,

531
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: as soon as you throw the air on, or even

532
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: without the air on. Yeah, Yeah, Mostly it involves that

533
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: because I can if I want to quiet the fan down,

534
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: I basically turn the air conditioning or the you know,

535
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: the cooling system off, and then after a period of time,

536
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: that fan will it'll go quiet. Right, get your hands

537
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: on twenty two dish. It's gonna talk about cooling, fans

538
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: running continuously, and a C performance issues, and there's a

539
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: bunch of different things going on there. They talk about

540
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: evaporator issues, they talk about evaporator pressure sensors uh causing

541
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: the problem. I'm just questioning. You know, it sounds like

542
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: the auxiliary fan because it's pulse with modulated. Second time

543
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: I'm using that word today. Um, it's it's they've got

544
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: the ability to run that fan faster or slower depending

545
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: upon what it perceives as load. So you know, so

546
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: it it thinks that, for example, if it sees four

547
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: ps i high side pressure, it thinks the systems under

548
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: duress and it will run that fan full blast. So

549
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, twenty there is going to talk about that

550
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: a little bit, and it's gonna talk about some of

551
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: the diagnostics I believe if I remember the bolleting right,

552
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: but I would focus more on the a C as

553
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: far as an input. Um, if you look at what

554
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: sort of scan tool do you have? Because I'm sure

555
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: you've gone I have, uh the one I bought one from.

556
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, uh, your recommendation after I

557
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: told you, But I have a Nova tool that I

558
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: purchased from O'Reilly. Um, I think it's the six the

559
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: higher in that they had. Well, unfortunately that particular scan

560
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: tool doesn't give me the data that I would That's

561
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: part of the other thing I was gonna ask you, like,

562
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: what would you recommend because as a wrenching guy at

563
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: your house, under your garage or a tree in your

564
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: front yard and trying to fix your vehicle, nowadays, you

565
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: have to have a piece of technology that can help

566
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: you diagnose all the automated things that manufacturers are putting

567
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: on vehicles. And it's like your new wrench that you need.

568
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta you gotta have a scan tool. Yeah,

569
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: no you can't. You're lost with that. I'll tell you what, Carl,

570
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: Sit tight, let me pull over, take the pause. When

571
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: I come back, I'm gonna answer your question. Everybody else's

572
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: because I've got an email that addresses that exact question

573
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: about a scan tool to purchase. Stay put, I'm running

574
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: naming the car Doctor will return right after this. Don't

575
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: go away. Welcome back on any of the car doctor, Carl.

576
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: You'll store there in Louisiana. Okay, So a couple of

577
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: weeks ago, I got an email from a listener. I'll

578
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: read it real quick and brief. I'll paraphrase, and Hey, Ron,

579
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: longtime listener and neighbor to your north up here and

580
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: Tom Ray, Tom raised Nicko of the woods. Look at that, Tom,

581
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: You're famous. You have friends. I just listened to the

582
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: podcast with the Launch Product Guy in the radio show

583
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: with the Lunch Product Guy. I have a full working

584
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: home shop set up and always done my own repairs.

585
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: This sort of sounds like you, right, Carl. I've owned

586
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: several scan tools, most recently and Autel. Based on the

587
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: older episode of your show. As you say, the age

588
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: out fairly quickly, and I'm looking for another one, and

589
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: like your opinion, by directional functionality is high on my

590
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: priority list. I want to be able to command certain

591
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: functions like evapp, blend doors, et cetera. What Launch tool

592
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: do you recommend it would keep me happy for the

593
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: next few years. I'm willing to spend five D seven hundred.

594
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can do that. Um, that's

595
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: me saying that, but he says, I know this is

596
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: a very broad question. Thanks in advanced Mark, so I wrote.

597
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: I wrote the Haresh Gobin who was on with us

598
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: from Launch a couple of weeks ago, and he wrote

599
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: back to me and said, Ron the Millennium Master is

600
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: the top d I Y tool in terms of functionality.

601
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: Here's the catch. No d I Y tool from Launch

602
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: has bi directional functionality, and I think You're gonna find

603
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: that across the board on all scan tool manufacturers because

604
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: the cost factor. Right. Then Harress goes on to say,

605
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: the selling point in the bridge for discussion for everyone

606
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,479
Speaker 1: is to a professional line of scan tool. In our

607
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: case Launch now the X four thirty one and the

608
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: entry level for the professional line would be the Launch

609
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: X four thirty one Turbo. And you're into the all arrange,

610
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: so you know, maybe that gives you Carl back to you,

611
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: Maybe that gives you a point of reference on what

612
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: you need to spend in order to consider doing this.

613
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: And then he points out you can go at the

614
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: Launch tech USA dot com and look at the different

615
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: products and see what's out there. But you know that's

616
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: where this is at now because look at the complexity

617
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: of what you're dealing with, right, Wouldn't it be great

618
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: if you could sit there with a scan tool and

619
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: command the cooling fan on and off and say, gee,

620
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: you know that's the noise, and so I think that's

621
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: what you've got. Now. The other thing you want to

622
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: look at is, in the case of Launch, they'll do this,

623
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: but you don't want to scan tool that only gives

624
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: you O B D two. You want to go in

625
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: year make model. All right, you want to go look

626
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: at specific manufacturer data because that's the you know, that's

627
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: the meat and potatoes, that's where it all comes from.

628
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: Last thought, go check out a company called Solara. All right.

629
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: They make a product called Identifis identifis dot Com. Identifis

630
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: is a series of compiled problems and solutions. It's available

631
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: to technicians. I've heard stories to the fact that it

632
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: might be coming out with a consumer edition, but identifis

633
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: dot Com is the place to go for a lot

634
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,479
Speaker 1: of technicians. Some really great information there as well would

635
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: help in a problem like this. Until the next time,

636
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: I'm rotting any in the car doctor reminding you who

637
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you