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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian.

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Speaker 2: This is not an easy business. This is this business

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Speaker 2: is more than just you know, bad coffee through the

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Speaker 2: morning and a still sandwich at lunch, and you know,

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Speaker 2: working on vehicles. There's a lot of fun in this business,

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Speaker 2: but there's a lot of responsibility in this business.

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Speaker 3: I'm the leader. Move on the Bundy, I dealing sky.

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Speaker 2: The car doctor that wouldn't show up on a polo.

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Speaker 2: Well great, okay, and ask them how did they fix

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Speaker 2: cars before scan tools were invented? Did they use that

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Speaker 2: thing between the roos?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron An Aian, the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors

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Speaker 1: are open.

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Speaker 2: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 2: five five five six, ninety nine hundred and.

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Speaker 1: Now pee.

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Speaker 3: Running.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome, go out to repair. You know, order repair

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Speaker 2: is a it's a wonderful thing, it really is. It's

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Speaker 2: an industry. It started the conversation. I'll start the conversation

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Speaker 2: this way. It's an industry that is judged by many

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Speaker 2: and done by few. I was on Facebook the other

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Speaker 2: day and somebody had posted a commentary about repairs their

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Speaker 2: vehicle needed, and they were asking questions to the unwashed

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Speaker 2: and shaven of Facebook, saying, hey, how much do you

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Speaker 2: think this job should cost? It is the mechanic doing this, right,

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Speaker 2: And I had a laugh. You know, where we're doing

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Speaker 2: something as technical and as complicated as order repair, and

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Speaker 2: we're allowing it to be judged by those that can't

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Speaker 2: or don't do it to do it the best way,

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Speaker 2: the cheapest way. And it doesn't make any sense to me.

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Speaker 2: This is order repair. You know what? Build a relationship?

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Speaker 2: One thing? I know, doing things cheap doesn't usually end

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Speaker 2: in a great repair, product or event. You know, I

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Speaker 2: always think about the Space program, right, we send a

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Speaker 2: guy to the Moon in a rocket that was put

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Speaker 2: out forbid to the cheapest bidder to get the guy

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Speaker 2: a quarter million miles away from Earth and bring him back,

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Speaker 2: and we made it almost every time. You know, It's

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Speaker 2: just it's just funny, right, I just I just don't understand.

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Speaker 2: I'm puzzled by it. I was puzzled by the number

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Speaker 2: of people that talked about as if they were experts

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Speaker 2: about why the repair shops should be using aftermarket parts,

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Speaker 2: or they should be using original equipment parts, or you know,

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Speaker 2: what the repair shop should be charging. I don't understand that,

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Speaker 2: I I But yet we'll go out to Starbucks and

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Speaker 2: go to a diner and we won't complain about six

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Speaker 2: dollars for two eggs fried, Like, I just, why is

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Speaker 2: it that order repair seems to be the one thing

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Speaker 2: that everybody feels like they're an authority on. Well, I

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Speaker 2: shouldn't leave out the plumbers, the carpenters, doctors, lawyers, but

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Speaker 2: you don't hear people complaining about them nearly as much.

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Speaker 2: It's a puzzling thing to me. I just I don't

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Speaker 2: understand it. Order repair has gotten more difficult over time,

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Speaker 2: and I can only tell you that, based on my

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Speaker 2: fifty something years of doing this, that we're doing things

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Speaker 2: now in procedural manner in ways that I never envisioned,

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Speaker 2: and it's only going to get worse. The complexity is

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Speaker 2: only going to increase as time goes on. And I

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Speaker 2: don't I just and yet there are people out there

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Speaker 2: that think this is so simple. You know, this is

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Speaker 2: the way my dad did it. One thing, I know.

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Speaker 2: The way my dad did order repair and the way

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Speaker 2: I'm doing order repair is not going to be the

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Speaker 2: same way. In twenty years. It'll be so different. It's

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Speaker 2: so different now, and it changes on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: Here I'll tell you this story. We had a GEPV six,

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Speaker 2: a Jeep Wrangler eighteen jeep Wrangler come into the shop

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Speaker 2: this week and a fairly new customer. But we're building

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Speaker 2: our relationship with Richard and we're just there. He needed

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Speaker 2: some help. It's starting to set a misfirefaul to P

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Speaker 2: zero three to oh two. Now, it's not a misfire

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Speaker 2: that you feel maybe a little bit once in a

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Speaker 2: while when it's cold, but it's not there all the time.

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Speaker 2: It's at random. And this is the infamous JEP you said,

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Speaker 2: a misfire will be a three h two or sometimes

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Speaker 2: went through our usual due diligence. I ran relative compression,

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Speaker 2: to take off the intake plumtum because Chrysler designed it

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Speaker 2: so that part of the intake manifold is on top

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Speaker 2: of the engine. You can't get access to spark blogs.

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Speaker 2: So I ran through relative compression, I ran through volumetric

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Speaker 2: efficiency to prove the engine could breathe. I ran through

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Speaker 2: some other tests, you know, what I call unobtrusive testing,

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Speaker 2: which to me is the right way to do this.

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Speaker 2: Let's do this as efficiently and quickly as possible to

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Speaker 2: come to some sort of a direction and a conclusion.

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Speaker 2: And I did all that. It all kept pointing that

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Speaker 2: this engine is mechanically sound. There's nothing wrong with this engine.

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Speaker 2: So if you proceed along the diagnostic path, the next

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Speaker 2: step is to isolate what's going on on cylinder two. Now,

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Speaker 2: I found an internal memo from Chrysler that we're not

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Speaker 2: supposed to have, but we have it because I know somebody.

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Speaker 2: I know a guy, and that's the way it works

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Speaker 2: in Jersey. You know a guy, and it's an internal

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Speaker 2: memo from Chrysler. It talks about this particular problem with

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Speaker 2: the V six Chryslers that Chrysler wants you to when

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Speaker 2: you reach this point of the diagnosis, they want you

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Speaker 2: to move the spark plug, the coil, and the injector

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Speaker 2: to different cylinders and then clear the code, let the

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Speaker 2: customer drive it. What fault comes back. And we did

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Speaker 2: that and within a day the fault came back. P

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Speaker 2: Zero three to zero two. I've now proven conclusively that

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Speaker 2: this vehicle has a mechanical problem in cylinder two. That

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Speaker 2: it's not spark plug, it's not injector, it's not coil.

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Speaker 2: So the next step is, well, what's wrong with cylinder two.

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Speaker 2: It passes a compression test, it passes a breathing test,

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Speaker 2: and after further research, got to do your research. Einstein

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Speaker 2: was right. After further research, I find that the rocker

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Speaker 2: arms that Chrysler installed on this engine are failing. The

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Speaker 2: little needle roller bearings that the rocker teeter totter's on

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Speaker 2: causes the rocker to momentarily hang or bind or not

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Speaker 2: So here's the here's the problem. I should I should

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Speaker 2: let Facebook fix this, fix this truck. Right, everybody's got

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Speaker 2: an opinion, you know, do you go in, do you

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Speaker 2: take the intake planning back off, which you have to

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Speaker 2: Do you do one cylinder? Do you do all the

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Speaker 2: Are you hoping it's a rocker arm? Do you take

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Speaker 2: counting on the memo or the bulletin that this possibly

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Speaker 2: could be a solution, or do you put heads on it?

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Speaker 2: Because it seems like in further research, just as many

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Speaker 2: heads get sold at Chrysler Jeep dealers as they do

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Speaker 2: rocker arm assemblies. It's probably the difference, as an educated guess,

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Speaker 2: between spending three grand or five grand. But I'm sure

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Speaker 2: the aftermarket would have something like that. I'm sure Facebook

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Speaker 2: could help fix that. I'm sure all the experts out

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Speaker 2: on Facebook could solve this for three dollars and eighty

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Speaker 2: two cents because they're all geniuses. Order repair is not

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Speaker 2: something to be taken lightly. I don't take it lightly,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not sure what Richard is going to do.

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Speaker 2: He understands on percent, and we've told them we'll do

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Speaker 2: whatever you want to do. I just you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: sort of appalled that something that costs as much money

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Speaker 2: as a JEP wrangler something for fifty grand, and this

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Speaker 2: spend money on something with sixty three thousand miles on

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Speaker 2: it to do engine work of some magnitude or consequence?

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Speaker 2: And then what's next? You have to ask yourself, right,

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Speaker 2: what's next? Where does it stop?

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Speaker 4: You?

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Speaker 2: See? Those are the things Facebook should be talking about.

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Speaker 2: They should be talking about the poor quality of products.

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Speaker 2: They should be talking about the way certain manufacturers not

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Speaker 2: all well, I guess all because they all have their piccadillos, right,

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Speaker 2: they all have their bugaboos. They should be talking about

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Speaker 2: that to get manufacturers to make better product. As far

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Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, an engine with reasonable care and parlance,

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Speaker 2: which Richard gave this more than adequate oil change in service.

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Speaker 2: I've seen the receipts that engine should go for one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand miles. No, there's no excuse, it's just this

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Speaker 2: is flat out a manufacturing defect. This is flat out

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Speaker 2: the vendor whoever made these rock or arms, did it wrong.

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Speaker 2: Whatever engineer subjected itself to heat treatment and procedural obligation

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Speaker 2: to put these on the table. They're bad. They just

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Speaker 2: made a bad part, flat out, and now the customer

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Speaker 2: has to see. That's what Facebook should be talking about.

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Speaker 2: That's what you should all be talking about around the

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Speaker 2: kitchen table tonight, having that coffee and coffee cake and

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Speaker 2: whatever else it is you're having for dessert. To talk

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Speaker 2: about problems with cars, not how much should the job cost.

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Speaker 2: What you should be talking about when it comes to

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Speaker 2: the shop and the job. Did the shop accurately diagnose

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Speaker 2: the problem? Did the shop fix the problem? Not how

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Speaker 2: much should it cost? Because you have no perception of

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Speaker 2: what things should cost. I went to lunch. I got

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Speaker 2: lunch today at my favorite deli here in town, and

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Speaker 2: I was talking to Paul. We were talking about business,

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Speaker 2: and he said, how's business run? I said, oh, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's kind of weird. I said, it's up and down.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about what causes that? And I said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I said right now, I said, I think

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Speaker 2: people are flat out out of money. And I said,

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Speaker 2: uder repair is getting very expensive. And as expensive as

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Speaker 2: it was, it keeps going up. You know. I look

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Speaker 2: at my primary cost on parts and I would say

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Speaker 2: my cost on parts has risen thirty to forty percent

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Speaker 2: in the last year. And he said, is that affecting business?

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Speaker 2: And I said yeah, I said for some, because some

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Speaker 2: don't want to spend that extra forty percent for a

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Speaker 2: quality part. They're going down the road to the shop

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Speaker 2: that's doing it cheap. But they're not looking at or

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Speaker 2: considering that shop because they're still out there the white

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Speaker 2: box parts, the cheap parts, the parts that come in

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Speaker 2: from what I call the bad part of China, the

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Speaker 2: place in China where they're not manufacturing to any manufacturer respect.

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Speaker 2: They're just slapping something in a press, pounding it out

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Speaker 2: and it lasts seven eight months. And people are doing

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Speaker 2: that and they don't remember. Somehow, we all have short

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Speaker 2: term memory. I've seen this. The American public does not

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Speaker 2: have long term memory. They don't remember who put the

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Speaker 2: bad part in. They just remember it wasn't expensive. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's okay, you know, he was still two hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: cheaper than the other guy who's the repair that the

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Speaker 2: other guy did is still going That's what you should

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Speaker 2: be talking about on Facebook, not dictating what ball joints

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Speaker 2: to be putting in a Chrysler three hundred m which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, you probably can't buy ball joints from

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Speaker 2: Chrysler anymore anyway, because Chrysler doesn't make anything anymore. That's

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Speaker 2: a whole other conversation. I could sit here and talk

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Speaker 2: go to Dave in Connecticut twenty two Chevy Colorado. Dave,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir, How can I help.

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Speaker 5: Welcome? I had a twenty seventeen Chevy Colorado got hit

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Speaker 5: Little Dingley bell comes on. The driver information center says

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Speaker 5: twelve point three volts. Sometimes I'm driving the driver. If

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Speaker 5: it goes up the fifteen volts. I brought it to

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Speaker 5: they said, no, it's fine.

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Speaker 5: It goes through this mode whereas about six different modes

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Speaker 5: The truck runs like a top. I want to keep

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's I won't say it's a nonsense warning,

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Speaker 2: engine computer included. Does anybody report low voltage? Nobody reports

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Speaker 2: low voltage operating as designed? All right? That one time

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and a little bell went off it and I

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Speaker 5: It was cold, and it started fine. It cranks fine, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: That's that's the marketing department. You know, we don't want

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Speaker 5: This thing gets like twenty four miles a gallon in

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Speaker 2: I have to tell you. I like the Colorado. I

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Speaker 2: can't help it. I'm I guess I am a dinosaur

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Speaker 2: question it, David, I appreciate the call, sir, thanks for

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome back, run an Innie in the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 6: Hey? I appreciate you taking my call. On Monday, I

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Speaker 6: That certainly did indeed was the case with me as well.

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Speaker 6: That's a lovely operation. Anyway, I as I to do

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Speaker 2: Probably, you know, if your sister's not, if your sister's

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Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this question, and let me

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Speaker 2: Is the bolt accessible? Can you see it, get close

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Speaker 2: for everyday use. That's a whole that's a whole other conversation.

431
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 2: But I will say that if drilling is not an option,

432
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 2: if I prefer my actually preferred method of removing broken bolts,

433
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 2: if I have access and I can see it line

434
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,679
Speaker 2: of sight and so forth, is I will take a nut,

435
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 2: and I will place a nut against the surface where

436
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 2: the broken stud resides, and it can even be recessed

437
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 2: down just a little bit, all right. And I will

438
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 2: take a welder and I will weld that nut. You

439
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,479
Speaker 2: gotta have good welding skills here. I will take that

440
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: nut and I will weld it to the stud, all right.

441
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 2: So I will build up weld on the inside of

442
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 2: the nut, and you're basically welding a bolt head to

443
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 2: the top of the stud and making a bolt out

444
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 2: of it. If you follow what I'm.

445
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 6: Saying, Yeah, yeah, I got you, all right.

446
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 2: I have never seen this fail. It's it's it's a

447
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 2: combination of you're quick with the heat, you're just tig

448
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 2: welding it, all right, You're just going in and just

449
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 2: zip and you know, and bang away we go walk out.

450
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 6: Way above my pay grade on this one, So I

451
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 6: think I'm going to My hope is that I can

452
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 6: get it to last just until come like June or July.

453
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 6: She's going to take it into the shop to get

454
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 6: that timing cover gasket changed in the oil pan gasket, right,

455
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 6: So maybe I'll ask the guy about that too.

456
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 2: The valve valcae zero, the valve cover gaskets not leaking.

457
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 6: I had already done that one myself, just because it's

458
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 6: you know, not quite as painful, right.

459
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. The cam seals, it's not the whole time, it's

460
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 2: not the whole time and cover it's actually the cam

461
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 2: seals for the cam sensors, the round sensors. And you

462
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 2: know you're gonna buy those as sensors. By the way,

463
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: to buy the seals was silly. We've done more than

464
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 2: a few of those the seals cost almost as much

465
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 2: as the sensor assembly itself, so you just put a

466
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 2: new sensor assembly in it, because I've also seen them

467
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 2: where they start to leak through the center connector through

468
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 2: the plug, and you know you're going to just find

469
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 2: it's just cheaper to put a whole sensor assembly on there.

470
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's common. That's common. Listen, Cruise is a

471
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 2: cheap car. How many miles are on it now, Jeremy, Jeremy.

472
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 6: It's a hundred and fifty k right, Yeah, you.

473
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 2: Know it's I'm happy it got that far. Cruise was

474
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: a Cruise was a great car when they came out.

475
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 2: They they were, you know, their first fifty sixty thousand miles,

476
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 2: and it seemed that the amount of plastic used in

477
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 2: the engine design and construction just took its took its

478
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: death toll on that vehicle.

479
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 6: Ron It has been painful the whole time. Yeah, it's

480
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 6: like an every six month thing.

481
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 2: All right, yep. But yet we're not talking about that

482
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 2: on Facebook. I don't know if you've heard my opening

483
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 2: conversation with myself, but you know, those are the things

484
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: we should be judging on. I defy anybody to come

485
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 2: in and do what mechanics do on a daily basis,

486
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: not just me and my shop, just everywhere in general.

487
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 2: To see what we go through, to look at the

488
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 2: stupidity of design and the way things are created, it's

489
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 2: it's it's mind boggling.

490
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 6: And yet we accept that they just don't care.

491
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 2: No, they don't care. They don't realize. Here's one for you.

492
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 2: I was going to talk about this later on. I'll

493
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 2: talk about it now real quick. If you want to

494
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 2: start stop? Do you want to start stop vehicle, jeremy,

495
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 2: not a start.

496
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 6: Stop viehico Silverado in fact with a push button?

497
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, try this. We had this happen this week.

498
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,479
Speaker 2: We had a very nice older customer. She just has

499
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 2: a twenty one Toyota RAB four and she came home

500
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: one night, parked the car, got up the next morning,

501
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 2: the car's in the middle of the street and it

502
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 2: won't start, and she couldn't figure it out. And I understand,

503
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 2: she's she's she's she's older. Now she's getting a little confused,

504
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 2: all right. She shut the car off. My my, My

505
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 2: theory is she shut the car off in drive and

506
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 2: got out of the car and the car rolled down

507
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 2: the driveway, and I and I can prove it's well.

508
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: I can prove it's possible because when she came with

509
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 2: the car, I went out right. She gave me the key.

510
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 2: I sat in the car, I started the car, I

511
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: put the car in drive, I shut the car off.

512
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 2: I hit the button, the car shut off. I got

513
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 2: out of the car. The car started rolling away. Now

514
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 2: now now I understand all the warnings. I understand that

515
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 2: everybody's gonna say, well, she should she shouldn't be driving. Yeah,

516
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 2: but that's not the question. It shouldn't happen in a

517
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 2: day and age. Listen, I've gotten seven recall notices from

518
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 2: Amazon that the type of tide pod washing machine detergent

519
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 2: pods I'm using to wash clothes is under a recall

520
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 2: by the federal government. I'm getting recalls for tied Emergent

521
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: for tide pods, but I'm not getting a recall about

522
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 2: Toyota's with stop with push buttons that they shut off

523
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 2: and the parking brake doesn't set in the car rolls

524
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 2: down the driveway. Aren't our priorities kind of backwards?

525
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 6: It's like technology for technology sake, right, It's serving no end, right, And.

526
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 2: I have to say, all week we started, we found

527
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 2: a bunch of cars that you can shut off in

528
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 2: gear and they will roll. Some do set the parking

529
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 2: brake to their favor. Higher end cars do set the

530
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 2: parking brake. Cars with rotary knobs for transmission shifting do

531
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 2: set the parking brake or will shift to park if

532
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 2: you shut it off in gear just by pushing the button.

533
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 2: But the majority of them do not. And I want

534
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: everybody this week to go out and try their push

535
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: button car and see if it shuts off in gear.

536
00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 2: Can they get out of the car with the key

537
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: in their pod not realizing they left the car.

538
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try that in my tup.

539
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's I was like stunned. I was stunned. Anyway,

540
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: I gotta go, Jeremy. Oh, it's a pleasure, sir, you'd

541
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: be well, you're very welcome. I'm running in in the car. Doctor.

542
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: We're back right after this. Don't go away, leave, welcome back,

543
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: run an indie in the car. Doctor. Let's go over

544
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 2: and talk to Ken in Virginia. Ken, how can I

545
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: help you?

546
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 3: Sir?

547
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 2: Well, yes, sir, can I help you?

548
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 4: Yeah? This is Ken?

549
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 2: Hey, Ken, this is Ron the car doctor, How can

550
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: I help you?

551
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, sir, I have a twenty twenty two Ford

552
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 4: Edge and in the first eighteen thousand miles I put

553
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 4: on three catalytic converters. Wow, any idea of what's causing that.

554
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: Ford's doing this? This is at the dealer.

555
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's under warranty.

556
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 2: Yep, should be under warranty.

557
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 6: But it's a pain.

558
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 4: And I've never never replaced the catalytic converter in any car.

559
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: Right, is this the V six or the four cylinder? Can?

560
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 4: Four cylinders?

561
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: All right, so my one concern. You know, catalytic converters

562
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 2: don't go bad. Something breaks them, all right. You know,

563
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: there's there's there's a there's there's something there that's that's

564
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 2: causing that cat to fail. So you know, first of all,

565
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: i'd love to see there's a series of tests we

566
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 2: can do before and after. One of them is called

567
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 2: index ratio testing, where we look at the difference between

568
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 2: the front oxygen sensor and the post or the downstream

569
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: oxygen sensor of the cat and look at, you know,

570
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: how efficiently is it changing. It's it's sort of like

571
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a blood pressure test on the car.

572
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: We're gonna check it before and after. I would love

573
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: to see if that's what Ford is doing, just to

574
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: be sure. What makes them think the cat is bad

575
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 2: just because it gets a fault coach so they automatically

576
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: put a cat on it? Or is it something else?

577
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 4: Well, I would get the check engine light. And fortunately

578
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 4: the owner of the dealership as a close personal friend,

579
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,239
Speaker 4: and they would take me in and come back and

580
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 4: say we've got to order a catalytic converter, and we'll

581
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 4: lend you a car and so forth, and they replace

582
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 4: it and to go forth. Well, just when it gets

583
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 4: out of warranted, and that's going that. If it happens again,

584
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 4: it's going to be expensive. Right.

585
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 2: I think my question to them, or my conversation with

586
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: them would be the catalytic converter is the result, But

587
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 2: the catalytic converter is not the cause. Something's causing it

588
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: to fail. It could be something as simple as the engine.

589
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, something as complicated as the engine itself. The engine.

590
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: If the engine has a bad head gasket, for conversation's sake,

591
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: is it losing any coolant?

592
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 6: Right?

593
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,719
Speaker 2: Do you find are they adding coolant to it during service?

594
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 4: Ken? Not, to my knowledge, all right.

595
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 2: Ask them that question, you know, is it running low

596
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: on coolant from time to time? If it is, that

597
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: tells me that it's cycling through the cat and that'll

598
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: cause the cat to fail.

599
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 3: You know.

600
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: The second thing I would ask them is have they

601
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 2: talked to Ford, you know, at the engineering level about this?

602
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 2: And I would think they have three failures in eighteen

603
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: thousand miles. I would think they've opened up They can

604
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: open up an engineering case. I believe it's called where

605
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: they'll talk to Ford hotline and they'll say, hey, i've

606
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: got a twenty two edge with this mileage. We've had

607
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: repetitive cat failure. Because you're not the only guy that's

608
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,719
Speaker 2: having this problem in the country, I guarantee you and

609
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: Ford Engineering will come up with an answer and tell them, Hey,

610
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: here's what they have to do because you're absolutely right

611
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: in time. If this happens outside of warranty, you are

612
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 2: going to be respond and that's an expensive repair. So

613
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: I would use your friendship with the owner and say, hey,

614
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 2: we both know that the cat going bad isn't the

615
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: result of Ford making a bad part. We know it's

616
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: the result of something else is going on with the car.

617
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: Can we dig a little deeper, and that's really what

618
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: it's going to take. I know how I would do it.

619
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 2: I just I can't push forward to get them to

620
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: do it unless I ask the right questions. Does that

621
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: make sense.

622
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 6: Right?

623
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: Okay?

624
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 6: So I.

625
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 4: Wanted to write a nasty letter to Ford, but I didn't.

626
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,959
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't write a nasty letter. Listen. I wouldn't

627
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: write a nasty letter. Not yet. I would ask them, Hey, listen,

628
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 2: I've had three cats in eighteen thousand miles, you know,

629
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 2: And I would say, we both know that this isn't

630
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: the cause of it. We know this isn't why all right?

631
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 2: That it's not a bad cat going bad. Something's breaking

632
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: the cat. I'd like to have an engineering evaluation done

633
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: on this vehicle because I don't want to be responsible

634
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: for it once it's out a warranty. Ask them that

635
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: come back to me, let me know what they say.

636
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 2: We can go from there. I'm run a name and

637
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: the card doctor. We'll return right after this. Fuck it

638
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 2: back Ron and Ady and the car doctor. You know,

639
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 2: we opened this hour talking about, well, some commentary about

640
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 2: the way order repairs judged and it's it's solely on price,

641
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 2: and you know, accuracy, which all fair points, but it

642
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 2: should also be judged on you know, who does who

643
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: does the possible better research? And I think research counts, right,

644
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: you know, because sometimes auto mechanics are presented with difficult

645
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: challenges and just finding parts. We had a two thousand

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Speaker 2: and six Magnum, the Dodge Magnum RT, which was the

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Speaker 2: station wagon version if you recall back in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and six that christ there had come out with, and

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Speaker 2: it kind of a neat P six point one, big engine,

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Speaker 2: light body, really goes fast, and it was like the

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Speaker 2: equivalent of the srt V eight jeeps and so forth.

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Speaker 2: And it needs run end work. It needs what I

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Speaker 2: would traditionally call lower control arms and a front radius rod.

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Speaker 2: But Chrysler and its infinite wisdom makes it difficult. They

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Speaker 2: no longer manufacture some of the pieces, but they also

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Speaker 2: call them different things. And lo and behold. You know,

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Speaker 2: we had to go out to AutoZone Pro. We how

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Speaker 2: to go out to azpro dot com AutoZone pro dot

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Speaker 2: com rather and look up parts by picture in order

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Speaker 2: to be accurate about what we're ordering. See, and that counts.

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Speaker 2: Just getting the right parts sometimes is the bigger challenge

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Speaker 2: in order to repair because they're called radius rods or

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Speaker 2: tension bars or tension rods or control arms, even though

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Speaker 2: there's a control arm right next to it. So I

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Speaker 2: leave you with that today. Sometimes looking parts up is difficult,

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Speaker 2: and that's a big part of the repair too. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for AutoZone pro dot com. I'm ron An eighty

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Speaker 2: in the car doctor, un till the next time, reminding

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Speaker 2: all of you good mechanics aren't expensive. They're priceless. See you,

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Speaker 2: Jacks and the boots about the