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Speaker 1: Ronan, I think electric vehicles with current technology isn't gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it can. I just I'm not wishing it.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be practical the Car Doctor. They

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Speaker 1: thought maybe that quick paint working right or something. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: they took the ball off and then it quit grade

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Speaker 1: into battery. What's really need, Paul, is if you use

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Speaker 1: a thermal imager like I was describing, that thermal imager

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Speaker 1: will find that bulb hot three hours later. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the radio home of ron Andanian the Car Doctor. Since

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

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

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Speaker 1: you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your calls at eight five and now he running.

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Speaker 1: I guess the universe is maybe telling me to slow

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Speaker 1: down just a little bit, right, Listen. I get up

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Speaker 1: here every week and I usually start the hours of

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Speaker 1: the show or two hour weekly show or two hour

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Speaker 1: get together. Every week, you and I and I tell

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Speaker 1: you the events of the week, or or a really

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Speaker 1: tough car we worked on and solve the problem or

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Speaker 1: or something right. Tell you a story from the shop,

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Speaker 1: and you, guys seem to like the story from the

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Speaker 1: shop the best. Here's one you may or may not like.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't too thrilled with it, but um, it's the truth.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of the biggest thing that happened to me

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Speaker 1: this week, and I figured I would share it with you.

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Speaker 1: Friday is always a funny day and a repair shop,

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Speaker 1: you're you're you're trying to get the week closed out.

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Speaker 1: I like to close things out on Friday. I like

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Speaker 1: least if I've got something hanging over, I've got a

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Speaker 1: just I like to have a beginning, in middle and

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Speaker 1: be what I am and who I am. This Friday,

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Speaker 1: this past Friday, it was no different. It was, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I I actually had some funny emails that

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Speaker 1: for four o'clock on Friday afternoon, and I said, what

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Speaker 1: But four o'clock on Friday is just one bad time

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Speaker 1: Next week, all the parts showed up for Mary's Montego.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes you just got to learn to say whoa,

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Speaker 1: It's Friday. Take the day. But um, that was my week.

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Speaker 1: of you know, there's just no easy path anymore. It's

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Speaker 1: It started good, it ended good. You know what, I

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Speaker 1: Um didn't even bleed. It just sort of split the

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Speaker 1: wide open eight five zero nine zero zero, run in

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Speaker 1: get over to Jim and Delaware ninety four Ranger Jim.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I have a Ranger four oh runs like a top rock.

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Speaker 1: Only problem is when I shut it off, leave a

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Speaker 1: All right. So those fault codes are for rich limits

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Speaker 1: to check fuel pressure? Jim? Um, it would be nice

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Speaker 1: You know, just real quick for our previous caller regarding

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Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. But we put a motor

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Speaker 1: It sounds like the engine went bye bye. What can

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Speaker 1: know what? You know what? The next one? You know what?

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Speaker 1: The next question is what color? What? What color? It's white? No? No,

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Speaker 1: what color is the next car? Are gonna be? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You know, if if they if they if

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Speaker 1: What kind of shape is the rest of the body

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Speaker 1: that my daughter did you know that? The concern is

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Speaker 1: Then you've got to ask yourself, is that the original transmission?

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Speaker 1: Is it the original trans Yeah? So you know, would

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Speaker 1: I see what you mean. You know, it starts, it

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Speaker 1: starts to snowball. Now, if if if you go out

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna go out and spend forty sixty grand,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe fifteen grand to re put this car

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Speaker 1: trans you know, go through breaks, tire, suspension, Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: you really gotta play? What if you're Lisa, you know,

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Speaker 1: what if this breaks? What if that breaks? Is it

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Speaker 1: worth it? What? What you're what you're describing to me

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Speaker 1: All right, you're saying, you're saying all the right things.

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Speaker 1: They're saying all the right things. You know. It's it's

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's tough. It's not your fault. It's

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Speaker 1: not because the oil was overdue by time? How overdue

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Speaker 1: Yeahs isn't gonna do it. So it's not your fault.

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Speaker 1: So get get rid of the get rid of the guilt,

430
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, get rid of the guilt. I could tell that. Yeah, well,

431
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: and that's you know, so if I were if I

432
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: were talking, you know, if we're having the conversation and

433
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: it's it's limited means and and and so forth. The

434
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: next thing you have to think about is do you

435
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 1: do um? You know? Do you do uh? Is it

436
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: time to look at something that will give you a

437
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: fixed exposure in terms of do you go out? And

438
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: is it something in a lease that gives you the

439
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: ability to you know, plan Hey, here's your projected expenses

440
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: for the next two or three years till you get

441
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: yourself back on your feet financially, whatever the case might be.

442
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: If that's the issue, and you know, that's just something

443
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: to think about. Um yeah, I mean, listen, you know

444
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: what cars are a lifestyle. I don't I don't care

445
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: if you live in Illinois, New Jersey, California, Florida, or

446
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 1: any point in between. All Right, it sounds like I'm

447
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: gonna guess here, so you know, let me stick my

448
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 1: neck out. Um. You know, maybe you're a single mom

449
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: or you know, you're on a limited budget, something along

450
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: those lines. Retired Okay, all right, so you're on well

451
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: but you get my point, you get my point, right,

452
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: Um yeah, you know it's it's you're you're you're retired,

453
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: you're on a budget, you're trying to hold down expenses.

454
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: If if you know it's it's it's real simple. Look

455
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: look at your income level over the next couple of

456
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: days and go, I've got you know, if I if

457
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,719
Speaker 1: you can cut two to four free from you know,

458
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: the budget and say this is going to go towards

459
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: the car every month, I guess what you're now going

460
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: to enjoy that lifestyle. Okay, But but the issue becomes

461
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: you've got to find the right car, the lowest down payment.

462
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: You've got to realize that this is money you're never

463
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: going to get back. You're gonna go from being you know,

464
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: you haven't had a car payment and what probably ten years, Okay,

465
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: so now you're gonna go back to having a car

466
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: payment forever. So you've got to think about that. They

467
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: told me that they had done the full inspection, everything

468
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: was perfect, and I would be assured of being able

469
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: to put a whole lot more miles on it than

470
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 1: I have, and that didn't happen. Can I understand, biore? Beware,

471
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: but I don't know enough about cars or car engines

472
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: to know whether or not, which is why I called

473
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: find out whether or not was worth towing somewhere else

474
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: and getting a second opinion or whatever you call it

475
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: with that car, having it put on the computer system. Right,

476
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'm gonna hold you over. Let

477
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: me just hold you over real quick. Let's let's uh,

478
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: let's let's let's pick that up when I get back,

479
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: because I don't want to rush through this. I'm running

480
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: anady in the car. Doctor, we'll be back with Lisa

481
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: from Illinois. Right after this, we'm back the need of

482
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: the car doctor. Lisa from Illinois. You're still there, eight Lincoln. Yeah,

483
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was caught up in the commercials. That's okay,

484
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: that's okay. At least we know we're writing good commercials. Um,

485
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: so you know they're Your question before we took the

486
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: pause was does it do you get a toad somewhere

487
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: for a second opinion? So let me ask you this question.

488
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: You're you're a retired single mom, right who's been working

489
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: on the car all this time? Is it? Is it

490
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: quick loudes? Is it one regular guy? Is it you

491
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: know somebody? A couple of different shops? What's going on?

492
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: Different places? But I mean I think they're reputable. There's

493
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: done business. It was like, you know, a regular loop

494
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: company business. And then then was at Um it was

495
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: the same thing. So let me ask you this question,

496
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: why do you why do you go to two or

497
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: three different repair shops because of my schedule. It was

498
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: not repairs. I didn't have repairs on it, but to

499
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: get the oil changed, that was only because of my

500
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: schedule when they could get me in, right know, And

501
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: I get that and listen. One of the things I

502
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: always like to point to is I think auto repair

503
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: is really important. It's to me. It's to me, it

504
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: ranks right up there with you pick a doctor, you

505
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: pick a lawyer and accountant, and you pick a mechanic,

506
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: and you know, one person gets than e. Lise's car,

507
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: Elese's cars because the car is actually to me. You know,

508
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: it's so important that it's safe, that it's reliable, and

509
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with somebody that you have a relationship with.

510
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the things I just want

511
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: to ask you to consider when we end our call

512
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: today is you know, do you want to be a

513
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: name or a number? Do you want to be in

514
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: a place where they Yeah, you want to be a name? Right?

515
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: You go to the You probably go to the same

516
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: doctor for years and years. You like their bedside man,

517
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: or you like the way they explain things. You trust them.

518
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: There's a relationship there, right, And I think that's really

519
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: to me my opinion from my corner of the world,

520
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: I think that's a lot to be said about auto repair.

521
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: And you know, do you tew this somewhere else? I

522
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: don't know what that's gonna get you. I think that's

523
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: you know, going to kind of bring it along the

524
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: lines of um uh, you know, you're just gonna have

525
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: to hear the same story all over again, and then

526
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,959
Speaker 1: do you put another five six thousand dollar engineer it

527
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: all over again, and you know, and what kind of

528
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: shapes the rest of the vehicle and do this. Okay,

529
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: let's end it here. Do this. Go look at your budget.

530
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: How much car can Lisa affard, how much can Lisa

531
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: put down on a down payment, how that will affect

532
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: her monthly budget, and then who's gonna work on it,

533
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: and where you're gonna purchase that car from used or

534
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: know what's out there. There's a lot of issues with

535
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: buying cars right now because of the pandemic and ship shortages.

536
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: But you know, make an intelligent decision, not emotional, based

537
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: on what's in Lease's wheelhouse at this point, and then

538
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: we can talk about it next week or the week

539
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: after if you need more advice. But you need to

540
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: get some numbers together in a direction in your head. Yes,

541
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: it sounds like this vehicle needs an engine and it's

542
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 1: not worth putting money into based on its age um

543
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: because of the potential of other things that could go

544
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: wrong that you may or may not be financially prepared

545
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: to take care of as well. Two thousand miles. He

546
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: did pretty good. Call me back, we'll talk about it. Zero.

547
00:31:54,560 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. Tut burning the car doctor,

548
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: Let's get over to Kennon, Wisconsin. I mean, I met

549
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: Subishi with no headlights ken Welcome aboard, sir. How can

550
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: I help? Yes, I've turned the headlights on one day

551
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: to the car. Well, they didn't work. So I went

552
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: out there and I checked the fuse. The high and

553
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: low beams didn't work, so I checked the few as

554
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: all the other lights worked, the running lights and all that.

555
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: I wiggled the socket on each light and they came on.

556
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: But the sockets were very hot to the touch. And

557
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: I found where the black ground wire on the driver's

558
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: side it melted the socket itself, but not the insulation

559
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: on the wires. Are those are they standard bulbs? Can?

560
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: Or they are they? They're the HB two so they're

561
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: high output bulb, Yeah, fifty sixty five, but I guess

562
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: they're called nine zero zero threes now right? But are they?

563
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: Are they? Are they any kind of a fancy aftermarket

564
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: high output bulb? Where they have standard. This is this

565
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: original one. Okay, so you put you put connectors and

566
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:23,479
Speaker 1: bulbs in it, and or wouldn't put in because because

567
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: those still work. I put it new socket on from

568
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: O'Reilly and it works fine. Is that from a bad ground,

569
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: dirty old connection? Is it normal to be very hot

570
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: to the touch? Well, it's there. They are hot to

571
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: the touch. They can be hot to the touch. You've

572
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: gone this. You're talking about the socket itself, right, They

573
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: do get hot. The bacon light gets hot and it

574
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: gets brittle. What what I would tell you if listen,

575
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: let's do it like this, if it had a bad ground, okay,

576
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: what would happen to current flow through the circuit? Well,

577
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: that's what I think. I think. You know there has

578
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: got this eighteen gage wire on which is really thin.

579
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:09,919
Speaker 1: I think only one strand was probably grounding. So did

580
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: you are you saying you? Are you saying you repaired

581
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: the ground from the broken wire? You put a solid

582
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: ground and now is it? Yeah? I replaced the whole

583
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: three prong prong socket use to use the old bulbs.

584
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: It works fine? Is it still? Is it still to

585
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: the touch? How that is it? Just? Is it just

586
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: so old that would cause this well, is it still

587
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: hot to the touch or since you changed the socket

588
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: it's working. No? No, that one's cool, but the other

589
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: one I didn't change because the socket didn't know. Uh,

590
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: you know what. Can It's probably a question better suited

591
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: for a longer time. But yes, broken wires can create

592
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 1: electrical issues, so you've probably solved it. Check the other

593
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: one and you might want to replace that as well.

594
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. I'm on a na of the car.

595
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: Doctor of Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you