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Speaker 1: Ron and Nanian. There's no reason why something failed or

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Speaker 1: why an engine doesn't run right, and I know that simplistic.

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Speaker 1: The car doctor does the rear brake. Caliper have a

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Speaker 1: lever that comes out of the back of the caliber

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian, the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in the garage. Orders are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at eight five and now

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Speaker 1: he running. I know sooner or later I would see one.

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Speaker 1: And I saw it this week, a car that had

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Speaker 1: a bed to directional but it wasn't a bulb, and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't wiring, and it was way more involved than

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Speaker 1: you would normally expect it to be. One of the

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Speaker 1: things I've always taught mechanics over the years, and I

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Speaker 1: believed in myself, is never get fooled by the simple repair.

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Speaker 1: Never fall into the pond and think, well, this is

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Speaker 1: Because you've always got to expect the unexpected, and actually

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Speaker 1: certain things that are done in order repair are actually

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Speaker 1: done wrong right from the get go. If you if

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Speaker 1: you ever look at a receipt or an invoice for

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Speaker 1: a work order for a car that has a light out,

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Speaker 1: a bull about, a headlight, a parking light, of tail light, whatever,

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Speaker 1: it always says something to the order of or usually

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Speaker 1: says left ear directional, not working, replace bulb or check bulb.

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Speaker 1: It's never check circuit. And I think that reason is

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Speaker 1: because when cars were older, you know, the cars in

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Speaker 1: the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, it was yeah, of the

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Speaker 1: time it was a bulb, right, you know, once in

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Speaker 1: a while it was a switch, or maybe rarely it

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Speaker 1: was wiring, but it was never what I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you it is today. I had an know five Mercury

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Speaker 1: Montego come into the shop this week. And Mary's a

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Speaker 1: wonderful customer. She's been with me forever and ever and ever,

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Speaker 1: and we have a great relationship and it's just a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to work with her. And the car came in

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Speaker 1: for service. I changed the oil, I charged the air conditioning.

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Speaker 1: It was low and charge and it got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other little service items here and there. And I

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Speaker 1: diligence seasonal checklist. Check the lights, check the tires, look

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Speaker 1: at the brakes, that stuff, and finished the car and

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Speaker 1: called me and she said, hey, you know, she said,

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Speaker 1: my left directional doesn't work. You know, she said, wasn't

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, listen, my dead dog that wasn't

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Speaker 1: let me take a look. She brought it by that

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, Mary, the bulb is good, there's

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Speaker 1: left it. You know you look for simple, right, you always,

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Speaker 1: you know. I took the lamp out, I took the

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Speaker 1: ball about. The bulb was good. I owned the ball.

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Speaker 1: The bulb was fine. I checked for power and ground

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Speaker 1: because this is definitely more than just a ball. But

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Speaker 1: And I looked at the wiring for the directional switch.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, go figure, I said, it's

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Speaker 1: codes for for directionals. Are you ready for this? America?

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Speaker 1: You know? And it's it's been this way. What the

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Speaker 1: when I got through everything and I had a strong

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Speaker 1: up the right side. And now the right side directional

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Speaker 1: And I'll prove that the smart junction box is bad.

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Speaker 1: It was a good idea for the moment I unplugged

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Speaker 1: not gonna be the difficult part. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: be the car that we can't fix that's you know,

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Speaker 1: drive a car if air conditioning doesn't work, if it's

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Speaker 1: something older. You can't drive a car without directionals. You

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Speaker 1: And that's gonna be a problem. And and you know,

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Speaker 1: and it talks about how what I've been saying, and

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Speaker 1: this isn't about Hey, look, I'm right, I don't need

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Speaker 1: to do that, and you guys know I don't do that.

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Speaker 1: This article talked about how everybody is driving their health

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Speaker 1: Cats and their zero six Corvettes and their muscle cars

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Speaker 1: if they have electronic problems because the manufacturers don't build

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Speaker 1: those individual parts. They subcontracted out to a vendor. And

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Speaker 1: twenty years from now, the vendor that built the control

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Speaker 1: doesn't make it anymore. They don't. They don't have any

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Speaker 1: more of them. They don't have the blueprints. Well they

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Speaker 1: he's a small vendor. He can't leaves sitting on a

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Speaker 1: And it just made me think electronics is a going

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Speaker 1: degree and be make those cars with points and condensers

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Speaker 1: look a whole lot better as things go on from here,

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Speaker 1: zero run on any of the car Doctor and we

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Speaker 1: the garage doors open. Don't go away. For the best

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Speaker 1: let's get over to Joe and Pittsburgh. Joe, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir, How can I help? Yes, there

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Speaker 1: are two thousand four Duke was over seventy seven thousand miles.

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Speaker 1: It's a harsh shift only when the set of cooling

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Speaker 1: temperature gets above one nine two or so um and

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Speaker 1: uh probably been to several transmission shops. You know what

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Speaker 1: they will say, all you've got to rebuild it for

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred other guys, they just drive it. So I

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Speaker 1: was wondering if I could just put a transmission cooler

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Speaker 1: on it and put some of that thick locusts in it,

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Speaker 1: and that wouldn't help or probably not, probably in those things. Well,

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Speaker 1: has anybody scanned it? Joe? Yeah, I had a occud

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Speaker 1: one time, pout a year ago. Then it went away.

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Speaker 1: I never come back. Was it a P eighteen eleven? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I believe so. Okay, So P eighteen eleven is is

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Speaker 1: a pretty good indicator of an internal trans issue. Just

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Speaker 1: guess maybe Pittsburgh's labor is a little different, but you know,

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Speaker 1: that is between three grand and thirty bucks, So you know,

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Speaker 1: use that as use as so after ten or so

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Speaker 1: that it sets an eighteen eleven tells me the trans

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Speaker 1: had an issue. Have you checked it recently for codes?

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Speaker 1: It hasn't had a code for over a year, now, okay,

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Speaker 1: you have you checked it recently though in eighteen eleven

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Speaker 1: So have you checked it recently for codes? No? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I said, the light may not come on all right,

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Speaker 1: Get Phil. Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can

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Speaker 1: it both ways. Brother, Yeah you can't. You can't. You know,

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Speaker 1: Well I understand that. Yeah, we're not too concerned it's

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Speaker 1: I would try forums, I would talk to people. The

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Speaker 1: research all one could take you up to a year.

427
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Speaker 1: I would be I would be diving into Hemmings and seeing,

428
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Speaker 1: you know, who's doing what in Hemmings. Read some of

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Speaker 1: the articles there, some of the shops they talk about there.

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Speaker 1: There's a few guys in Connecticut. I can't think of

431
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Speaker 1: their names that I've read stories about their shops in Connecticut,

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Speaker 1: and I believe there's one in Vermont. Uh. If I

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Speaker 1: think of it, I'll mention it. And if the listeners

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Speaker 1: have any suggestions somebody to restore something like that, we'll

435
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Speaker 1: talk about it here on air. I'm glad to give

436
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Speaker 1: somebody a plug on air. You have to do the

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Speaker 1: research to verify the accuracy of it. But um uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that's how bad do you want it?

439
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: And that's the problem. You can't put a price tag

440
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Speaker 1: on something without even speaking to somebody because every move

441
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Speaker 1: somebody makes. You have to understand when you're doing a

442
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Speaker 1: restoration on an older car, parts show up parts or

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Speaker 1: wrong parts going, They don't fit. Parts have to be

444
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Speaker 1: made to fit. This isn't well, we're gonna hang a bumper,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's an hour's worth a shop time.

446
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Speaker 1: It's we're gonna hang a bumper. It didn't fit. We

447
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,719
Speaker 1: gotta take the bumper back off, redrill the whole file, modify, shape, chrome, polish. Whatever.

448
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Speaker 1: It took us seven hours to hang a bumper, you're

449
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Speaker 1: gonna get charged seven hours. That's the way it works.

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Speaker 1: It's your You're you're not doing straight up body work

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Speaker 1: on the hot rod. If you ever, anybody ever gets

452
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Speaker 1: a chance to see it, look at the tail lights

453
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Speaker 1: on the hot rod. They fit better than they did

454
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Speaker 1: from GM. Absolutely that's because I spent two sundays. I

455
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Speaker 1: moved this, I polished that, I ground this, I drilled

456
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Speaker 1: the whole, I slotted this, I filed that, and I

457
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: made the bezels. I made the tail lights fit just

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Speaker 1: right in the body, and then I made the bezel

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Speaker 1: around it the gaps around the because I couldn't stand

460
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Speaker 1: GM did such a poor job of making them fit

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Speaker 1: back in, and now they fit perfect. So just you know,

462
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Speaker 1: just goofy things like that. What is that worth? And

463
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: that's my point. That's what it's gonna cost. You've got

464
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Speaker 1: to decide to what level of restoration you want. I

465
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Speaker 1: wish you well. Phil s into some pictures if and

466
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Speaker 1: when you ever get it done. Hey, zero the car

467
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Speaker 1: doctors coming back right after this. It's not up and

468
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Speaker 1: all night with me. Hey, welcome back car door. Let's

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Speaker 1: go over to John and vermont O five Chrysler. John,

470
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Speaker 1: what's going on with this car? It's the guess cap.

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Speaker 1: That's what the book says. If the engine light stays on,

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00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: check everything else. And the gas cap, Well, what's the

473
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: check the gas cap? What's the John? What's the actual fault? John? John?

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Speaker 1: Listen to me, John, what's what's the actual fault code.

475
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Speaker 1: What's the actual fault code? Has anybody scanned this? No? Okay, well,

476
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Speaker 1: then you're spending money. You shouldn't spend the check agente light.

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Speaker 1: You're you're reading a marketing manual. Okay, it's not an

478
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Speaker 1: owner's manual. It's a marketing manual. It's trying to tell

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Speaker 1: you that there's something simple wrong with the car. It's

480
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: trying to tell you something to alleviate your concern over

481
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: your vehicle purchase. That tells you, hey, you don't need

482
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of money to fix it. The

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00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: car's broken, all right, if you had to, if you

484
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Speaker 1: had if you had a sore throat, would you automatically

485
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: start taking medicine or would you go to a doctor

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Speaker 1: or speak to somebody? Right, same thing, because there's multiple

487
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: reasons why you get a sore throat, right, there's there's

488
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: multiple There's eighteen hundred reasons on average why I check

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Speaker 1: engine light comes on on a modern vehicle. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: it's until it's scanned. This could be anything from you know,

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Speaker 1: a an evaporative emission's fault. It could be an evap

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Speaker 1: gas cap related fault. But it may not be the cap.

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00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: It may be the evaporative emission system. It could also

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Speaker 1: be an oil pressure sending you a problem, which is

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00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: common on these cars. There are a slew of things

496
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Speaker 1: that are common failures. But I did, it didn't last long,

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Speaker 1: It didn't help. But John, how I needed grease? John

498
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: put underneath the toilet bees wax? Oh John, John, listen

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Speaker 1: to me. How can the John how can the dealers

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Speaker 1: say put grease on the gas cap if he hasn't

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00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: even diagnosed it. Well, I don't know if he did

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Speaker 1: or not. What did you take the car into him? Yeah?

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00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: I actually work, okay? And and and why did he

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00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: say the fault code was on I I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't know. I didn't ask him.

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00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: He said, but we greased the gas cap and the

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00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: light one out. Okay. So what you're telling me is

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Speaker 1: women womnut womenute. You're telling me you took the car

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Speaker 1: into an alleged professional Chrysler dealer, a Chrysler dealer, okay,

510
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: which just means that he was drinking with the Chrysler

511
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: rep and they signed the deal to make himself a dealer.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he's a quality repair facility and I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying he is a and I'm just saying, think about

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00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: what you're saying to me now. And they scanned it,

515
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: and their solution was to put grease on the gas

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Speaker 1: cap and if they thought it was a gas cap

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00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: fault instead of replacing it. Why doesn't that sound right?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: ow our professional effect that well, what they're what they're

520
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: what they're talking about is if the rubber on the

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00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: gas cap is dried out and rough, grease will help

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00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: see it. Right, Grease will help see it. It's it's

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00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: an over ring. But but there are there are multiple

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Speaker 1: reasons why a gas or why a check engine light

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00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: will come on. I'll assume at this point it's for

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00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: an evaporative it's it's for an evaporative as emissions fault,

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00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: UM an evap system failure. But you know they can

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00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: diagnose a bad gas cap. That's pretty simple to do.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, yeah, it didn't right? How did I know? Okay?

530
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: Did that? Did that? Did that? Groove up with grease?

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00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: And then I put the way in and heavily agrees

532
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: that and it's hanging in there. It's okay. So What

533
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: that tells me is the gas cap is bad or

534
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: the fuel filler neck is bad. So if we want

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00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: to go on the assumption that it's a gas cap, again,

536
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: it's an assumption. It's a big gas here, all right.

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00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: How about it's not the gas cap. How about it's

538
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: the top of the fuel pipe that the cap sits against.

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00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: If you look at the surface of it, is it

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00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: pitted and rusted or is it pitted and beat up

541
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: from age? The car is fifteen years old? And would

542
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: it take a matter of gently and I put a

543
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: rag and so grit doesn't fall into the tank, but

544
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: stuff the neck so you have a reg so you

545
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: can pull it back out. You'll understand why on a

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00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: second and gently emory paper the top of the neck

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00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: where the fuel neck seals. Wouldn't that make more sense?

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00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: But you know, to keep gas on a to keep

549
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: grease or bees wax on a gas cap. I don't

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00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: think that's how Walter p wanted that car to go

551
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: out the door. Somebody's gotta do some diagnosi in John,

552
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: And you know there's some miscommunication going on here that

553
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. So take

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00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: it back to the dealer or take it to a

555
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: repair shop that will talk to you, but you have

556
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: to be willing to listen. I want to stress that fact.

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00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: Listening is a big part of the auto repair process.

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Speaker 1: A five five five zero nine zero zero. The car

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Speaker 1: doctors coming back right after this, welcome back. When I'm

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Speaker 1: naming the car doctor here at your service at five

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Speaker 1: zero zero, I should point out the five zero zero

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Speaker 1: zero phone number is seven. You can call any time

563
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: day or night as we're broadcasting around the country and

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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: around the world on the internet, on podcast and streaming,

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00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: and Tom Ray, our executive producer, will get you in

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Speaker 1: the queue for a live broadcast Saturday afternoons to to

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Speaker 1: four pm East Coast time. Let's go over to Lisa

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Speaker 1: and Maine oh six camera and there's some problems with

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Speaker 1: the key remote. Lisa, Welcome to the Car Doctor. How

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00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: can I help? Well, thank you for taking my call.

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00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: You're welcome. I have an issue with the remote the

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00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: opening the car, unlocking the car, and uh it works

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00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: for a little while. Guy at the garage got a

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00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: going by doing opening the door, turning the key, slamming

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00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: the door, opening the door, and it worked for about

576
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: till three hours and then it just doesn't work anymore.

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00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: Stop working. So now my question to you is do

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00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: I have to take it to a Toyota dealer to

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Speaker 1: get it reprogrammed or can anybody do it? Well, anybody

580
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: with proper equipment can do it. So so let's let's

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00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: just talk about this a second. First of all, is

582
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: this a Toyota Factor remote setup? This is nothing after market, right,

583
00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: These these remotes are right from Toyota. Okay, so have

584
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: your mechanic. Your mechanic must have some kind of information system.

585
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume he's either got all Da or Mitchell

586
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: or something he's got to in this day and age,

587
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: ask him to get his hands on Toyota bulletin E

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00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: isn't Edward Ellis and Larry double oh Nineta. There's a

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Speaker 1: Toyota bulletin E L Edward Larry double O nine E

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Speaker 1: L E L double O nine O nine right O

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Speaker 1: O nine Dash show seven that talks about keyless keyless

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00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: remote function, all right, and it in there. It'll talk

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00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: about making sure that the body computer can see things

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00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: like the the driver's door open and close, and some

595
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: of the switches, what the switches are doing. It's possible

596
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: that the remote aren't working or able to be programmed

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00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: or hold the program because there's a fault in the

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00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: bc M and the body computer. So you know, we

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00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: need to verify all right now, if if both remotes,

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00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: you have two remotes and they both do the exact

601
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: same thing. Uh huh, Lisa, Lisa, do you have two

602
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: remotes one remote or two remotest but they don't work? Right?

603
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: They both do the same thing. Okay, well, that's that's

604
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: a good first step. But the fact that they both

605
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: do it and they both have fresh batteries tells me

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00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: it's likely not the remotes. Now, a properly equipped shop

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00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: with a correct scan tool something dealer level will be

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00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: able to verify the accuracy or the quality of the

609
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: remotes too, or most shops today have tire pressure monitoring

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00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: system tools. They can verify most remote function through those

611
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: as well, to see if they're wireless capability as operational

612
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: as well. I don't think it's the remotes. I think

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00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna find it's going to be in the programming.

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00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't take programming, it could have anything

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00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: from a bad door receiver to a vc IM problem,

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00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: or perhaps the uh something in between in terms of wiring.

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00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: So let them diagnose it, take a look and go

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00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: from there. I'm not anating in the car doctor, reminding

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00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: you until the next time. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: To see you