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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian state governments everywhere starting the tax owners of

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Speaker 1: magic gasoline. So that's welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: ron Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car

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Speaker 1: Let's go right over the phone. Let's go at the

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Speaker 1: sandy in Wisconsin eighteen spark and some questions about maintenance. Sandy,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help? Thank

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Speaker 1: you for taking my call. I'm having an oil change

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Speaker 1: so it's it was. I brought a brand new from

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Speaker 1: Brenni Gun. I don't know if you ever heard of

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Speaker 1: need to replace it. How many miles we're on at Sandy. Well,

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Speaker 1: like I said, it wouldn't g me the miles it says,

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Speaker 1: but at last I looked at was somewhere between twelve

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Speaker 1: it's four years old. I gets, yeah, it's just about

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Speaker 1: creeping up on fifteen thousand miles. Fair answer, Well, not

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Speaker 1: quite that much as it's between twelve and thirteen. Before

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Speaker 1: let's not split hair is the difference between thirteen and fifteen.

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Speaker 1: In my mind as a mechanic, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: to be more cautious and everybody says, yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: would you? You know, you would age? Right, it doesn't matter. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously an oil changes in order. My my

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Speaker 1: four years? Right? No? They say five thousand miles, so

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Speaker 1: would that break your budget? I don't know yet how

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Speaker 1: So I agree with an oil change, all right, Um.

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Speaker 1: get something that you know, when it's really cold, that

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Speaker 1: Whereas if I do acidic test strips, if I load

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Speaker 1: A year's the maximum. I wouldn't do it by five

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Speaker 1: Somebody better be checking those fluids on a semi annual basis,

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Speaker 1: I make it happen? Set the car up, you know,

428
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,640
Speaker 1: turned on every electrical load in the vehicle. I wanted

429
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 1: to place a high electrical load on it, and it

430
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 1: wasn't able to do so, took it for a ride

431
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 1: and couldn't duplicate the problem. And I saw I saw

432
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: a charging system voltage go down as low as twelve

433
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,640
Speaker 1: point four and a half to point four five twelve

434
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 1: point four, which in theory is wrong because the battery

435
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: we're now running off the battery at that point, if

436
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: we want to believe that. But the truck never stole

437
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: the gauges, never flaked out, they never did anything what

438
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: the customer was describing to me, So move on next.

439
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: I guess I could have condemned the alternator, but you know,

440
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: I hate throwing parts at something. I want to I

441
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: want to check the things I can check. I pulled grounds.

442
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 1: All Data does a great job they I went in

443
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: and I looked under power and ground distribution. If you

444
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: don't have a wiring diagram, boy, I'll tell you what

445
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 1: you're it's like. It's like trying to plot a trip

446
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 1: somewhere without knowing the destination or how you're gonna get there. Uh.

447
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: They did a great job All Data did in their

448
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: wiring diagrams. And by the way, you can do a

449
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: d I Y subscription, just to make you guys aware.

450
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: You can go to all dada, I forget that. I

451
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: think it's all that a d I Y dot com

452
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. But you can google it.

453
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: And if you're working on a vehicle and you want

454
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 1: a wiring diagram, you know what. Whatever it is, spend

455
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: the money and get a subscription for the year for

456
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: that vehicle. It just pays. But um, they do a

457
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: great job. They showed me grounds. They were ground one dred,

458
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: one oh three, one oh four, and I believe one ten.

459
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,719
Speaker 1: I went through the grounds. Three of the grounds are

460
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: down underneath the vehicle, and these are all part and

461
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: parcel of the charging system circuit. I went through each

462
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: ground one at a time, all right, took him apart,

463
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: looked at them, took pictures of them. Two of the three, No,

464
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: three of the three. We're so badly distorted in the

465
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: wear pattern, and you could see it, all right. They

466
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 1: weren't clean by any stretch of the imagination. Rust had

467
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: crept in over the past eight years at the plow truck.

468
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: And obviously plow trucks tend to they take a beaten

469
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: all right when they're used on a commercial basis, and

470
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: this one was no exception. The the ringlet of the

471
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: ground studs were corroded and rotted away, and you know,

472
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: a little tough to do because two of them were

473
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: up front against the front cross member, and I had

474
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: to get up there with a actually used a whizz

475
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: wheel that I turned on its side just enough to

476
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: kiss the steel and freshen it up and clean up

477
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 1: all the old stuff and get rid of it all.

478
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: Did the same that the wiring harness. And then I

479
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: took the bolts, clamped him in a pair of ice gripts,

480
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: took them to a wire wheel, you know, scruffed them up,

481
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: roughen the surface, give it some bite, give it something

482
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: to dig into, put it all back together. Now, when

483
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: I put a clean ground on a vehicle, I like

484
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: to coat it with something I know, old time mechanics

485
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: out there, He'll say, they coat the ground wires. I've

486
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: seen them do this with wheel bearing grease or some

487
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: kind of yellow grease, something that, uh, you know, to

488
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: help code it. It's not I'm not saying that's wrong,

489
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: but my concern is on a plow vehicle or you know,

490
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: the next rainstorm, the next time. If ever, when you

491
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: take it through a car wash, it's gonna wash away.

492
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: I used perma text high tech the same spray you know,

493
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: red gasket maker. Uh, that stuff is impervious to so

494
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: many things. And I'll just spray the ground studs. I'll

495
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 1: spray the ground wires one to three. UM I did

496
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: a voltage drop test on all of them. You know what.

497
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: Customer came by this week. He left the truck on Friday.

498
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: All we had to do is change the oil and

499
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: rotate the tires. The vehicles fixed. He was he was happy.

500
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: He said, you know, listen, you saved me the price

501
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: of a six alternator plus labor. And um, I said well.

502
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: And he asked me why and I said, you know, ken,

503
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: because you gotta go. Where would you go? I always

504
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: play what if? What if this doesn't fix it? You

505
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: know what? Would I go? Check next? And I always

506
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: do at first, before I change on an intermittent, before

507
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 1: I start looking because a lot of times a diagnostic

508
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: routine and following a procedure and telling telling me what's good,

509
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: or telling you what's good, We'll tell you what's bad.

510
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: In the case of this truck, we solved what's been

511
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: a three year old problem with this that another repair

512
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: shop had actually installed the power steering rack Uh, there

513
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: was a pile of parts replaced on this truck, all

514
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: because of ground wires that didn't age well in a

515
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: high salt you know, snowplow corrosive environment. So I'm always

516
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: look at environment, always look at condition, Always look at

517
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: how the vehicles being operated, and what kind of shape

518
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: is the vehicle, and that will tell you ultimately what

519
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: it's going to take to fix it. So I'm just

520
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: just just a success story of very happy customer and uh,

521
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: you know, a third the price of what it would

522
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: have been to to do the rest of it, to

523
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: do a alternator. So keep that in mind. Diagnostic routines

524
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: do pay you off eight zero. The car doctor is

525
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: gonna pull over. Don't go away. I'm back right after this.

526
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: I maybe, but I'm enjoying the run. I um, so,

527
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: I was at the gym the other day. I should

528
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: tell you this story before I go on. I was

529
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: at the gym the other day. Coach Sam was coaching.

530
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: It was Wednesday morning, and um, he said to me,

531
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: he said, hey, I listened to the podcast. He said,

532
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: it sounds pretty good. He said, you have a real

533
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: good voice. He said, you have a voice made for podcast.

534
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: And I explained, to him, you know that, you know,

535
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: it's not just of course, Joel said, I have a

536
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: face made for radio, so he understands. But I said,

537
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: you know, I said, it's not just the podcast. It

538
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: actually starts out as a radio show. And then they

539
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: you know, explained the business of radio. They think the

540
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: radio show, they make it a podcast and so on.

541
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: It was so weird because as he's talking and asking me,

542
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: and we're talking about this, I forgot, you know, it's

543
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: five in the morning. It's quarter to five in the morning.

544
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: We're getting ready to work out, and um, everybody starts

545
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: gathering around and they're listening to the conversation, and all

546
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: of a sudden, somebody in that back went, wait, you're

547
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: Ron and Anian I think my dad listens to you.

548
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: I just, you know, it's so weird. The gang at

549
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: cross Fit Bice in Midland Park, New Jersey. Email. Ron

550
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: answered this by email. I've got a twenty nineteen Honda

551
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: Civic LX I treated like a new baby. It only

552
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: has seventeen thousand miles on us, so I don't drive

553
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: it much at all. My old changes, uh go between

554
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand to less than four thousand miles. I've

555
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: only used Mobile one fuel Economy version or extended version

556
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: with extended Mobile one oil filter. It sounds like a

557
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: man after my own heart. I'm sixty four in my day.

558
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: You just changed by mileage, but now listening to every

559
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: podcast you've ever made, Well, actually that's not true, because

560
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: there were podcasts before two thousand and fifteen, but they're

561
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: lost it for forever in time. I'm hearing change because

562
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: of time instead of mileage, which is absolutely right. So

563
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: with my driving very little, when should I change oil?

564
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: I do my own changes because I know it's being

565
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: put in and stuff my car has kept outside some

566
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: warm weather. I don't think there would be as much condensation,

567
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: which you've never heard of before an engine oil. Thanks

568
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: from Stephen Knoxville, Tennessee, home of your Calhoun's Barbecue. Still say,

569
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: if you ever see a famous Dave's barbecue, try it.

570
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: I think it will change your mind. Steve, I think

571
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: I'll have to do that the next time I'm down

572
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: Knoxville Way. Um, we'll go to with Dave's barbecue, a

573
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: famous Davis barbecue. Um, listen, oil changes to me. And

574
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: this is the unscientific approach, And we could go through

575
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: the drama of sending it out to a lab and

576
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: and doing complete oil analysis and get into analysis paralysis,

577
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes common sense still takes hold. All right, Um,

578
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: if you're not driving the mileage and you want to

579
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: do this on a time basis, every six months, I

580
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: think every six months is a good number, synthetic or not,

581
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: especially if you're driving an older vehicle and a lot

582
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: of you are driving older vehicles judging by there's no

583
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: new vehicles to buy. You know, we had a call

584
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: this hour or was it the previous hour this weekend

585
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: shows where a woman from Wisconsin called up with her

586
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: Chevy Spark and she's getting the oil chains. It sounded

587
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: like every three to five thousand miles, depending upon what

588
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: the intervals were, and it sounds like it takes her

589
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen months or twelve to eighteen months to

590
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: get to that point. The danger is that condensation does

591
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: have an effect. You know, cars are like kids. Okay,

592
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: when you're young, you can you know, you can fall

593
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: off the top of the see saw or the teeter

594
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: totter or the monkey bars, and you know you survive, right,

595
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: but you're you're flexible, you're young, you're agile. As you

596
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: get older, you tend to you bruise a little bit more,

597
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, one day you break something.

598
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: Cars are kind of the same way as they get older.

599
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: When they're young, they're very forgiving. Things are fresh, things

600
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: are just assembled. They haven't been heat cycled, they haven't

601
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: been beat up by the road, they haven't been beat

602
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: up by environment, and they tend to last longer. So,

603
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: you know, you get that vehicle that you're draw having

604
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, less than four thousand miles a year or

605
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: not even Um when do you change oil? I do

606
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: it every six months. Because I'm also concerned about is

607
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: anybody pulling the dipstick every once in a while In

608
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: Steve's case, Steve, you're probably pulling the dipstick because you're

609
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: a car person. But for the person that isn't And yeah,

610
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: I believe it or not, there's people out there like that.

611
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: I know people that don't know which end of the

612
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: car the engine is actually in. Um. I know people

613
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 1: that don't even know they have an engine except they

614
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: have to put gas in if they're not quite sure

615
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: how to do that either. Um. They also can't chew

616
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: com and walk at the same time. That's a whole

617
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: another conversation. Uh. You know, changing the oil every six months,

618
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: checking the oil on a regular basis, looking around the

619
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: fluids on a regular basis on an older vehicle is

620
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: only gonna pay dividends by preventing a small problem from

621
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: becoming a much more expensive one. You've got to think

622
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: like this. Uh, you know, I don't know where the

623
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: fascination with how long can I get on my oil

624
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,719
Speaker 1: change came from. To me, that ranks right up there

625
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: with the stupidity of I've got a five year battery

626
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: that's nine years old, um, and there's people out there

627
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: like that. I'm gonna get hate mail from that comment

628
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: this weekend, and yes, so be it. I don't care,

629
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: all right, I think you're asking for it, you know.

630
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: I also want to make one last comment too, is

631
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: as as Steve, I hope that does it for you.

632
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: For everybody in what I call upstate New York that

633
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: I've insulted over the past three months by calling up

634
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: state New York up state New York, I've received enough

635
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: mail already. I understand if you live up in Buffalo,

636
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: Rochester to you guys, it's Western New York to somebody

637
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: down here in New Jersey and New York. It's upstate

638
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: New York, all right. I that's just the way we

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Speaker 1: look at it. UM. At least you guys aren't totally confused.

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Speaker 1: I can't stand the people that live in New Jersey

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Speaker 1: that say we're gonna drive up to North Carolina. And

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Speaker 1: I've got a few of those hanging around to those

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Speaker 1: totally just confused. The Heckcademy. I don't get it either.

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Speaker 1: Zero zero zero The car Doctor is back right after

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Speaker 1: this alorad. Welcome back running in the car Doctor. Hey,

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Speaker 1: there was some really positive news on the e V

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Speaker 1: front this week, UM that I want to report. Siemens

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Speaker 1: s I E M E N s UM has come

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Speaker 1: out with a device that sits the way the article reads,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it plugs into the households utility meter,

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00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: so it plugs in ahead of the service box unless

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Speaker 1: you charge your electric vehicle through that, so you don't

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00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: have to do a service panel upgrade. You're just pulling

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Speaker 1: right from the pole straight through with that having to

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Speaker 1: go through a panel. So that was kind of interesting

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Speaker 1: that they've got that technology working. So UM. I took

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Speaker 1: that as a positive sign. I want to just talk

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Speaker 1: to you. I want to leave you with some thoughts

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Speaker 1: about vehicle maintenance, UH this week, because you know, we've

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about what to do. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about the consequences of when you do nothing. We

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Speaker 1: had a sixteen f one fifty with a hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand miles on it come into the shop this

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Speaker 1: week for the first time, first time customer, first time

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Speaker 1: we saw them, had a check engine light on, and

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Speaker 1: the concern was that the vehicle felt like it was

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Speaker 1: stalling every now and then due diligence, right what I

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Speaker 1: always tell you guys. We ran through my my basic

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Speaker 1: routine of you know, steps one through seven and scanner

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Speaker 1: for codes, reporting a misfire on cylinder five, reporting a

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Speaker 1: problem with the variable valve timing control for the opposite

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Speaker 1: bank of cylinder five. And it also was lower court

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Speaker 1: and a half of oil, even though the oil had

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Speaker 1: been changed less than eight hundred miles ago. There was

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Speaker 1: a wine in the rear end that was so loud.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you could turn the radio up loud

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Speaker 1: enough to drown the noise out if that was your

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Speaker 1: if that was your objective. And when I looked at

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Speaker 1: this vehicle. You know, how do you attack this? How

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Speaker 1: do you decide what you want to chase and give

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Speaker 1: the customer back of vehicle that works. In the end,

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Speaker 1: I put the right amount of oil in it, I

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Speaker 1: cleared codes. I explained to her the consequences of what

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Speaker 1: we were doing and where I thought this was going,

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Speaker 1: and how you know we could have an oil consumption problem.

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Speaker 1: Five liver forwards this generation do consume oil, especially if

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Speaker 1: they've been overheated. And she had no service, no good

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Speaker 1: service records. UM it could be a variable val timing,

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Speaker 1: solid could be something worse. And I kind of laid

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Speaker 1: out a diagnostic routine in the service pattern of what

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Speaker 1: she needs to do in order to meet the needs

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Speaker 1: of this truck. I think it's too late for hers,

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Speaker 1: don't let it be too late for yours. Do your maintenance,

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Speaker 1: take care of what you got until the next time.

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Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, get priceless. SI