1 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Ron and Ian. One of the things I don't like 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: about the recharge a C on your own kick give, 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: you know, using the little suicide cans as I call them, 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: and and charging a C without a gauge set. That's 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: that's a hand grenade the car Doctor. They'll stop making 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: the cars that are so complicated if we stop buying 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: the cars that are so complicated. Welcome to the radio 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctors. This is 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: where car owners the world overturned to for their definitive 10 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a 11 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: busy signal, pick up the phone and call in. The 12 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: garage doors are open, but I am here to take 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: the ball at eight five five five six and now 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: he running. Hey, it's time to start your engines alone 15 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: and welcome on any of the car doctor here at 16 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: eight five zero zero. Who think you call and answer 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: your questions whatever you've got going on, fender to fender 18 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: and door to door. That's what this radio show is for, 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: to help solve your automotive problem. Because you know, we 20 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: like fixing cars. That's what we do with you every day. Um, 21 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: that's that's what I do. I'm not sure what Tom 22 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: and Mike do? Um, Mike, what do you do during 23 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: the week? I don't want to know. I don't really 24 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: tell me. I speak secret. Um Mike is Mike is 25 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: our radio board operator, up and coming legendary in his 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: own time, and mind um Tom, he's just he's just old. 27 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: So let's go over to Miguel in Indiana and let's 28 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: just eliminate the oh god, you should talk well, hell well, 29 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: can I talk to Miguel? Now? You can talk to 30 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: talk away. You're you're interrupting the callers. Come on, that's 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: what this show is for. At eight five five five 32 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: zero nine zero zero. Tom will get me later. Miguel, welcome, 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: Thank you bro. What's going on? Hey? Is the Patel 34 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: n I appreciate your time, effort and energy for this show. 35 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: And uh I am the example like I can do 36 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: timing the water and all that the guy you didn't 37 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: know how to do last Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the 38 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: one question is bugging me since day when I opened 39 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: up the first break in my bit of blaxis. Like 40 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a lot of expert on YouTube 41 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: and I only listened to you. So uh so when 42 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: you open a break, of course, is a is a 43 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: this brick? So what part are you supposed to loop 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: like those ears of the break pass. Everyone says you're 45 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: supposed to put anti sea. Some says you have to 46 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: put a space shal silicon. So here's the here's the deal. Okay, okay, um. 47 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: First of all, I want to talk about why break 48 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: parts are not lubricated from the factory because I get 49 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: this question a lot. I actually asked that question to 50 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: the manufacturers one time, and the answer, I god, actually 51 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: made sense. The reason break like you could take a 52 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen whatever, take it apart and look at the 53 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: brakes and you probably won't find break loop on the 54 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: break parts and any of the slide mechanisms for the caliper, 55 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: the pads or anything like that, because it interferes. The 56 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: answer I got was that the the fumes and the 57 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: odor I'm sorry, more like the fumes coming off the 58 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: break grease, the silicon break grease. That the factor we 59 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: used this is a GM product At the time, Um, 60 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: they found that it caused contamination in the paint when 61 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: they ran the car through the paint booth. So they 62 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: assemble the brakes dry and then you know, somewhere along 63 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: the way they get lubricated, either as an active service 64 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: or as an active replacing the brakes. Fast forward enough 65 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: said what I've and I've I think I've probably used 66 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: everybody's break grease in my forty plus years, and I 67 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: still got offers coming in. Try this, Try that. I've 68 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: seen the purple stuff, the black stuff, wheel bearing grease, 69 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: yellow grease, engine oil, I've I've seen it all. The 70 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: most consistent product that I've used in the past ten 71 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: years has to be the silicon break grease that you 72 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: buy from a C. Delco Um. I don't remember the 73 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: part number at the top of my head. It's a 74 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: ten dish forty one ninety or something like that. It's 75 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: in a little probably ten twelve ounce can with a lid, 76 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: and you've got to buy a bottle brush for it. 77 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: And we cut a hole on the top of the 78 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: lid and just poked the brush right through it. Uh 79 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: like a clear white type of grease um. That stuff 80 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: works well, it doesn't get gooey. It seems to be 81 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: a very dynamically stable product in all weather extremes. And 82 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: where we place it is we'll start. We'll start from 83 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: the from the bottom, so to speak. And work our 84 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: way out. Take the break rotor or the break drum 85 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: off the vehicle. Clean the mounting surface where the rotor 86 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: or the drum would sit, either with a wire brush 87 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: or you know, just however you've got to clean it. 88 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: Put a thin schmir technical words, schmir of this silicon 89 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: brake grease around the surface of the hub. So that 90 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: and what that's gonna do is it just makes the 91 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: rotor easier, the drum easier, lift on and off right. 92 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't rust on there, so the next time you 93 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: go to service that you don't have to pound on 94 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: the rotor and put stress on the bearing, because when 95 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: you're beat on the road or you're beating on the 96 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: bearing when the car gets a lot more miles on it, 97 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: it doesn't do it any good. So a little schmir there. 98 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: Go to the caliper, the area where they break pad 99 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: contacts the caliper on the outside, and where the pad 100 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: contacts the caliper piston where it sits against the piston. 101 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: A little schmir. It doesn't take a lot. A little 102 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: dab on your index finger zip zip, just give it 103 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: a coding you want enough so that it at some 104 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: level it can wiggle around all right, because you want it. 105 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: You want it to always be supple and soft and 106 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: have movement. If if it doesn't, it's gonna get rigid. 107 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: And that's when the brake pads are gonna start to sing. 108 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: The slide mechanism, whatever style it is, however the caliper moves, 109 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: all right, If the caliper moves cast iron to cast iron, 110 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: if it if it's mounted on a pin, whatever it's on, 111 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: you want to coat that contact area of the slide 112 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: wherever two metals contact or the pin in the metal contact. 113 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: You want to put a thin schmere of silicon brake 114 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: grease there, all right, And and and and and that's 115 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: kind of it. That's all you really need. Um, So 116 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: you don't put nothing on the ears of the brake 117 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: pads where they slide against those uh those brick pad 118 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: uh what they call it, the seems that they in 119 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: the bracket, right, So we don't need to touch they 120 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: they're gonna be back and forth with the string because 121 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: mostly I touched. Yeah, And you're right. So if if 122 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: if the brake pad, if there's a contact point of 123 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: the brake pad where it sits in the caliper bracket, yes, 124 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: you're right, I'm sorry, I forgot that part that you're 125 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: going to put a little day of a silicon there. Now, 126 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna clean all the hardware or change the hardware, 127 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna make sure that the area 128 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: underneath that steel clip, that spring steel clip is clean, 129 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: and you're going to loube underneath loop both sides of 130 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: the of the hardware. Number one, if there's silicon grease there, 131 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: it helps keep moisture out, and it helps keep rust 132 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,559 Speaker 1: from forming, which in the long haul, keep the pads 133 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: from binding. And number two, it makes disassembly that much 134 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: easier over the long distance. And two three, it keeps 135 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: the pad moving over the course of the life of 136 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: the break so that they don't wear out prematurely and stick. 137 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: And I think you because I now have four medical bottles. 138 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: Everything's like a kick that the pain little separate the 139 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: big part of little separate And and I see, so 140 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: I carry four different bottles, and I thought that should 141 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: be a better way to do it. And I'm glad 142 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: you answered that question. Is a one magical fix a 143 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: silicon It's it's a c Delco silicon break loop. You 144 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: know what, when I'm back in the shop on Monday. 145 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: I'll look up the part number and I'll either post 146 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: it up on our Facebook page or I'll talk I'll 147 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: talk about it next week and uh, um, it just 148 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: it just works well. I just purchased three cans of it. 149 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: We tend to go through a couple of cans a month. 150 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: I'm shocked at the price. I think it was like 151 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty dollars for this little tiny can. 152 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: But we get a lot of break work out of it, 153 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: and it it does do the job, and we've had 154 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: very very very very good luck with it. So absolutely 155 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: I'll do that. And I appreciate the amazing Thank you 156 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: you humble me, sir, thank you. Um. Well, you know 157 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: that's that's what this that's what we're supposed to do. 158 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 1: You know. Somebody said to me, they said, what's it 159 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:36,599 Speaker 1: like doing a weekly radio show? And I'm like, what 160 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: I do a weekly radio show? Like I I kind 161 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: of didn't. I don't really think about it. I just 162 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: get up here and do the gig. You know. It's um, 163 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 1: I go to the deli before the show. Uh you know, 164 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: you get lunch for you guys, and they know what 165 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: I do? You know, Paul now Wilkes DELI here and 166 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 1: Mala Paul's like, hey, have a good show, you know that, 167 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: And everybody kind of turns their head. And then Ellie like, 168 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: what the heck she talking about? I I don't know. 169 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: I don't tell anybody, and how I go. Thank God, 170 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: it's not TV. Anyway, Let's pull over and take a 171 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: pause and we'll come back. And when we come back, 172 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: we'll talk to Clyde in Houston five five five six 173 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: zero nine zero running any of the company running any 174 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: of the car Doctor and company will be back right 175 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: after this for the best in car advice. Give Ron 176 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: a call eight by five five six zero nine nine 177 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: zero zero. Now back torn, Hey, welcome back. Run on 178 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: the end of the Car Doctor. You know, just because 179 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: I want to keep things factual and above board and 180 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: I don't want to get political. So more than a 181 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: more than a few people of email, that's already different 182 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: stories and different commentaries about Alexandria Acasio Cortez's Green New Deal, 183 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: and the heart of it is that she wants to 184 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: eliminate air travel and and actually the Democratic Senator and 185 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: I got I got it down hearing the story. Uh, 186 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: let's see. Uh, the Democratic senator admitted that, UM let 187 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: me see it's here somewhere. Um that basically building. Uh, 188 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 1: you know, a train to Hawaii isn't gonna work and 189 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of tough. So, UM, I'm not crazy. 190 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: This is what they're thinking. So it just it's you know, 191 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: that's what's running the country or ruining it. Is there 192 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: a difference? Um, let's go over and talk to Clyde 193 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. Clyde, Welcome to the car doctor, sir, 194 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: How can I help? Okay? I was just passing along 195 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: the story. My wife has a brand new Explorer. We 196 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: were getting ready to go on a long trip and 197 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: it was certainly uh it's only a about three thousand 198 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,719 Speaker 1: miles from brand new, and I decided to take it 199 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: into a little local B G service shop to get 200 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: a quick old change before I went on my two 201 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: thousand mile journey. And they come out and show me 202 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: a picture of where the oil filter was starting to leak. 203 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: And had I made that two thousand mile journey and 204 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: certainly been within the uh all chained cycle of our 205 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: brand new car, I'm sure that Ford Dealership might not 206 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: have told me that I was running low on oil 207 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: because it was leaking. And I just want to get 208 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: uh uh support to your local service shops out there 209 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: for the good job that they do and services in 210 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: our vehicles, and don't necessarily rely on the O. E. 211 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: M of whatever car you buy. Well, and I hear 212 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,959 Speaker 1: where you're coming from, Clyde, But you know, then I 213 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: can also probably come up with a half a dozen 214 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: stories that go the other way. I think, and I 215 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: respect what you're saying, I do. I I think that 216 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: what we've got to understand is a repair facility is 217 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: only as good as the people in it, and the 218 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: sign over the doorway doesn't always mean a whole heck 219 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: of a lot um, you know. Listen, a couple of 220 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: weeks ago, somebody called up and they were beating up 221 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 1: the one of the national chains that manufacturers and and 222 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: sells exhaust. Right, Tom came. Tom came in today and 223 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: he told me the story about his daughter. She took 224 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: her ten escape to the local Midas shop up in Shrewkesbury, Massachusetts, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. 225 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: Thanks Tom, and they, you know, two hundred and fifty 226 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: thousand some odd vehicle college kid, young girl, and they 227 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: told her listen, you don't need the whole exhaust. All 228 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: you need is a resonator. And you know, we can 229 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: go get your oe pipe for you know three, We 230 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: can do the whole job part and labor for too fifty. 231 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: And it's got a lifetime warranty on it. So they 232 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: had they handled it right, they treated it right. That's 233 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 1: a good shop by virtue of the people in it. 234 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: But you know, and and you're right, they're all good. 235 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,959 Speaker 1: They're not all good, they're not all bad. But you 236 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: know what training my dad had given me as a 237 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: teenager with our my first car and all the cars 238 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: we worked on with him being a small town deputy sheriff, 239 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: we always had cars to work on, uh to make 240 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: extra money. And uh so I got a good education. 241 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 1: And that's the reason we have a I have my 242 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: dad's seventy four inline old or GM engine in it 243 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:19,479 Speaker 1: that still runs great. Later. You've got some mechanical aptitude 244 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: and some mechanical knowledge. But the real beauty of of 245 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: of what you just explained about you had a good 246 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: experience with that shop. Is you ever notice everybody only 247 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: wants to tell the story about how they got burned 248 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: or taken advantage of Nobody wants to tell the good story. 249 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to tell the story of Hey, I went 250 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: to this place and they were the absolute best. They 251 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: treated me right. You know what we we seem to 252 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: and it sets the national tone. We all want to 253 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: talk about how miserable we are. We don't want to 254 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: talk about the good that we see each and every day, 255 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: and I see a lot of good. I think the 256 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: best thing I saw this week was not automotive related, 257 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: not to be corny or any other way. I was 258 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: driving home last night and there was a father out 259 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: on the front lawn on his knees playing catch with 260 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: his ten year old kid. That was the best thing 261 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: I saw this week. And we don't talk about those stories, 262 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: not just in the world of cars, but in the 263 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: world of life. And that's that's a big deal today, 264 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: and we need to we need to. My son bought 265 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: a little nine eight l S one Camaro used and 266 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: I tell you, even though he's at that he was 267 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: a young grown man at that point. And I told 268 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: him he needed to rebuild the transmission. He said, no, Dad, 269 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: And six days later I get the call, there's no 270 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: second And it took him eight weeks of paychecks to 271 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: put all the parts we put in that transmission. But 272 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: he and I worked together on that six speed manual 273 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: transmission and he came out pretty good. He did eleven 274 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: seven a twenty five at Baytown. But you know, he 275 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: got married in babies house. The race cars now gone. 276 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: Kind of the same thing happened to My dad really 277 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: bonded when we were working together on that transmission, and 278 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: you know, that's something that you can't explain to people, 279 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: and I think that was the beauty. You know, I 280 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: really believe that the anxiety in the country is people 281 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: are pent up and frustrated at a lot of things, 282 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: and they can't go out and accomplish things the way 283 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: I could when I was a kid. You know what, 284 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: when I was a kid, my dad died when I 285 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: was very young. My dad died when I was eleven, 286 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: and I was I was a lost little boy, and 287 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: I learned how to fix cars at a very very 288 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: young age just by taking things apart. I didn't put 289 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: too many things back together until I was fifteen or sixteen. 290 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: And I can still see my mom coming out and 291 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: telling me, listen to you put something together, You're out 292 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: of here. And I was sixteen years old. So that's 293 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: when I learned how to really fix cars. It's like, 294 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: all right, I guess I gotta take this mess and 295 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: make it into something. But my point is taking cars 296 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: apart and learning how something worked and figuring it out 297 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: and using your brain, you know, taught you confidence and 298 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: self reliance and assuredness and it helped you grow into 299 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: something back then today, tell you my first job at 300 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: years old? Ahead, Well, at first I've worked in a 301 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: TV shop at age fourteen, and at twenty years old, 302 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: I was writing maintenance and diagnostics procedures for a safeguard 303 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: anti intercontinental ballistic missile system from all Bell Wow. And 304 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: then I've made beer CANSID it pays three times more 305 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: than making missiles. That that makes you and I could, 306 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: I could, I could see that right. Um, you know 307 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: it's and that's you know what those are the great stories. 308 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: And you take stories like that and and and you 309 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: know you share those with your son that you rebuilt 310 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: the six speed trands on and you guys will be 311 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: best friends for the rest of your life, even though 312 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: he's not around all the time. And that's you know, 313 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: that's what makes it all interesting, and that's what I 314 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: always say about cars. Cars are that microcosm. They're the 315 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: glue that holds families together. At least they were. I 316 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: don't know what they are today. Today, they're just disposable items. 317 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: I think that they're just transportation devices. But you know, 318 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: you can see it. You take out an old car, 319 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: you take out a hot rod, you take out something 320 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: that's a little different, and you pull up to a 321 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: traffic light and the old man sitting next to you 322 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: looks over and he gives you the thumbs up or 323 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 1: the smiler or the wink of his eye, and you 324 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: know you've got somebody's attention. You stir a memory inside 325 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: somebody about when they were a kid, and it just 326 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: it just translates into you know what, we're only here 327 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: for a short time. We might as well have a 328 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: good time while we're doing it. Clyde, I want to 329 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: thank you for the one more Dad, my first regulastics 330 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: and of helping dad. I was somewhere around five years 331 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: old and he put me up under the hood and 332 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: my job was to hit it when it came up. 333 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: And I know later that he was doing a valve 334 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: job on a flathead six and he was compressing the 335 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: spring and he didn't have to go up and down 336 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: to uh take the retainers out. But my job was 337 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: to hit that valve when it came up. When he 338 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: said hit it had to break it lost seeing you 339 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: remember that. You remember that, and I have. I had 340 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: my three year old pulling wrenches already when I was 341 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: changing battery the other day. You know, that's and that's 342 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: what cars. It's all right, hey man, listen, you have 343 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: a good you have a good rest of the weekend. Well, 344 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: thank you, sir. We're glad. We're glad to uh catch 345 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: you among the many listeners ship and we were happy 346 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: to be down there in Texas in any way, shape 347 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: or form. So you take good care. I'm yeah, you 348 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: know that's the problem. And that's the good part about cars. 349 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: It's they're just such a microcosm. They're just woven into 350 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: our fabric and they'll never take that away. Five five 351 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: six zero zero zero. Rondy in the car, doctor, I'm 352 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: back right after this. That's right. If you call and 353 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: we're not live, you can leave a message and we'll 354 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: call you back to get you on the air with 355 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: Ron zero zero zero. Speaking of Ron, there he is. Hey, 356 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: let's get over and talk to Nancy and Maryland eight 357 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: Honda fit. Nancy, are you having a fit over your fit? 358 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: How can I help you? I am Ron, I love 359 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: your show. Yeah. I recently have an O eight condo 360 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: fit and it has one of his radio theft protection 361 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: systems and the alternator died recently, and I mean died, 362 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: so I had to be towed and got that replaced. Um. 363 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: But now when I go to plug in the radio code, 364 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: it plays for like a minute and it goes off, 365 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: and so every red light, every stop sign, and it's 366 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: a two handed procedure. You can't do it with one hand. 367 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: So I had to just do this over and over 368 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: and never again. So was another radio and it plays 369 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: for a minute and then it quits. And no one 370 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: I've spoken to has any clue why that would be happening. 371 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: Are you a stupid question? You sure you've got the 372 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: right code? You have to have the right code or 373 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: wouldn't even come off anti theft. You've got the little 374 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: You've got it on the little card. Yeah, yeah, I 375 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: got the all the things that came with the car, 376 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: so it is a correct okay. Um. And it didn't 377 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: do this prior to the radio or to the prior 378 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: to the alternator failure. No, it did not. Okay, did 379 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: anybody jump start the car at any time because of 380 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: the alternator failure to get the car going? Well, yes, um, 381 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: I have Triple A. So they came out and I 382 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: managed to get it back to my driveway that night. 383 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: And this morning Triple A came out with their little 384 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: box and started the car so they can back it 385 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: out of the driveway and tow it in. You know, 386 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: I hate the point fingers, but I've seen the occasional 387 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: jump start do some funny things, and you know, a 388 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: surge at the wrong place in the wrong moment. Honda's 389 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: Hondas are a little weird. I've got to tell you, 390 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: we we we see some strange things with Honda's. Obviously, 391 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: I would want to look at the radio circuit visa 392 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: visa wiring diagram and make sure there's no blown fuses. 393 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: And I've I've seen cases where a blown fuse or 394 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: a partially burnt fuse, a fuse that has a little 395 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: bit more resistant to it than than others um will 396 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: affect radio operation on one of these. If you use 397 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: a memory saver where you plug in under the desk 398 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: to the O B D two connector there's a little 399 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: off topic for a second. Indulge me um on a 400 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: late model Honda thirteen or fourteen. You'll save the memory 401 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: of the vehicle, but actually blow a fuse that the 402 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: vehicle will not start and it'll crank, but it won't start. 403 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's it's the goofiest thing in the world. 404 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: We've learned not to use a memory saver. It's like, 405 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: what do we do wrong? Um, which presents all other issues. 406 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: So you know, I would think I would go through 407 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: the basics. You know, are the fuses right? Do I 408 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: have any fuse issues? And if everything else appears to 409 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: be correct, I would try to do a system reset, 410 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: disconnect both battery cables, both battery cables, jumper the two 411 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: cables together, um. And I always like to jumper cables 412 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: together when I'm doing this with a ten on one 413 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: want wire just because I want to bleed memory out 414 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: of all the power control modules slowly, and you know, 415 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: give it fifteen minutes to bleed down and then you know, 416 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: hook the battery back up and let the kids get reacquainted. 417 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: And if it continues to do that, I've got to 418 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: think it's a bad radio. I've I've got, I've I've 419 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: got no other, no other choice or no other option. 420 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: If if somebody says, if somebody says, hey, I think 421 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 1: it's the I think it's the alternator that was replaced. Okay, 422 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: go through and do what I said. And if that 423 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: doesn't work, go through, do what I said, unplug the 424 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: alternator and reconnect the car. And if the problem goes away, 425 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: then somehow the alternators affecting it. But I don't. I 426 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: don't see how it would be. Um, let me ask 427 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: you this question. If you're just sitting there in the 428 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: driveway key and the accessory position so that the radio 429 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: would play, does does the radio come on and play 430 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: or does the radio come on play and still go off? 431 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: I can't tell you that. I don't recall, um, and 432 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: I've specifically done that, right. I always like to try 433 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: things different, you know. Whenever I've got a broken car, 434 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: I always sit there and I say, and I'm trying 435 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: to diagnose it. What happens if I change the operating environment? 436 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: What happens if I do it this way instead of 437 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: that way? It makes a noise on right turns and 438 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: turn left? If it makes a noise on left turns, 439 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: turn right, it makes a turn, has a problem going 440 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: forward back up. You know, I always try to think 441 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: backwards are different or alter it. And you know there's 442 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: there's situations where you'll learn something. If the radio works 443 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: while the car isn't on, but it's an accessory, then 444 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: that would tell me that maybe a module on the bus. 445 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Because when I say it like that, everything today is 446 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: a computer network. You know, maybe I've got a bad 447 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: computer somewhere else in the vehicle talking to the radio 448 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: telling it the shutdown. I've seen. I've seen that too. 449 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: You know. I'll tell a quick story. A friend of mine, 450 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: Tim works for Nissan, right and and Tim's the shop formative, 451 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: the local Nissan dealer. They've got a brandy spanking new 452 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: Nissan something that Tim can't fix. And if Tim can't 453 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 1: fix it, there's something wrong, like the University Earth's gonna 454 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: tilt off its access you know, it's just it's just weird. 455 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: And it's got like thirty seven miles on it. And 456 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're going through this car. They gave 457 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: it to the customer, the customer brought it back. They're 458 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: going through this car and they're out of options. They've 459 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: changed everything in the in the circuit that it could be. 460 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 1: And you know, Tim and I talk. He's my morning 461 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: cup of coffee sometime during the point in the week 462 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: and we we chat about cars and headaches and you know, 463 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: what have you seeing? And I saw this and saw 464 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: that and so on, And I said, how do you 465 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: know that? You know you've changed everything within the circuit? 466 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: I said, how do you know something else outside of 467 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 1: the circuit but still connected because it's on the car 468 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: and it's on the bus. Isn't talking to one of 469 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: those two modules creating the problem telling it to shutdown? 470 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: They said, you know, we never thought of that. Um, 471 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 1: I'm waiting to get the answer that was that was 472 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: last week. So I always try to think you know different. Um, 473 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: you know, so tell me what happens right, turn the 474 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: turn the car off, try it with the radio, and 475 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: you know, does it right? And you're sure it's the 476 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: right anti theft code? Correct? Absolutely. It's a little credit 477 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: card sized thingy that comes with the package of paperwork 478 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: that you when you buy the car. Did you buy 479 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: the car now, yes, from a hundred dealership three hours 480 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: from here? Okay, then yeah, let's let's let's try. I 481 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: called the dealership up and asked them about it, and 482 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: they said, uh, we just think you probably need a 483 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: new battery. And I called a local guy and he said, 484 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: we'll just connect the negative uh on the battery the 485 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: negative cable and you know, late ten minutes and reconnected 486 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: and try that. Well, I'm not very car well and 487 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: did and I'm you know, I've not done that well. 488 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: And That's that's that's that's kind of what I'm telling 489 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: you to do. Nance. But the catches. I like to 490 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: disconnect both cables. I'm just a disconnected Yeah, I like. 491 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: I'm a disconnect both cable guy. That's the school of 492 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 1: thought I was taught, um. And I know it works, 493 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: and it's it just gives me consistency. Um. So let's, 494 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: you know, let's let's do some of those things to 495 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: see what that does for you. All right, darling, I'll 496 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: do that. Thank you very much, trying. You're very welcome. 497 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning us in down there in Maryland. Way. 498 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: You take good care. Zero, I'm on an ady in 499 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: the car doctor, I'll be right back. Welcome back, car doctor. 500 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: Let's go and talk to Daniel and Main. Oh five 501 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: Toyota Prius Daniel, Welcome to the car doctor. All right, Yes, 502 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: we'll good. I'm looking at a oh five Toyota pray 503 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: Us Hi Bread. It's a four door sedan, got two 504 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand miles on it. But I'm not 505 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: familiar with the type of car. What would be a 506 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: general basic check over for the car? Or is there 507 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: a website I could go to that would have some information. Well, Mike, 508 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: not familiar with a car type at all. Yeah. The 509 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: the issue here is, you know, let me ask you 510 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: this question, why something this old with this many miles 511 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: oh cheap can get it on the cheap. So you're 512 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: gonna get it on the cheap, and depending upon what's 513 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: been done to it, you may pay for the car 514 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: two times over all. Right, Um, you know they have 515 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: problems with the as as they age. They do have 516 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: issues with the hybrid battery. Have you done any research 517 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: as to what the cost of the hybrid battery replacement 518 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: might be? None? Okay, I'm looking at it for the 519 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 1: first time. All right, are you sitting down anywhere from 520 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,239 Speaker 1: three to four thousand dollars? Whoa so? Right? So, all 521 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, it's it's it's it's not 522 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: the bargain that it appears. The hybrids are very well engineered. 523 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: There they are. I you know what, I I'm not 524 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: a fan. I think you've really got to like the car. 525 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 1: I don't discount them in the sense of telling people 526 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: not to drive them. But just be aware of what 527 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: you're buying. You know, are you buying it because you 528 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: want to drive a hybrid? Are you buying it because 529 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: you're looking for fuel economy? Are you buying it because 530 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: you know what's your reason? Just say again, never never, never. Uh. 531 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: You know, I've had nothing to do with them. Okay, 532 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: just to be a first experience, I decided to do. Right, Um, 533 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: here's here's what you have to think about. Um, you've 534 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 1: owned houses in your lifetime. Okay, they've got roofs on them. 535 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: They've all got asphalt roofs, single roofs, basic roofs. Right. 536 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: What kind of cars you've been driving up till now? Oh, 537 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: a lot of trucks and uh uh chevies. And for 538 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: you've you've been driving houses with asphalt shingle roofs on 539 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: them all right. Now you're about to buy a house 540 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: that's got a copper a copper plate roof, and the 541 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: technician required to repair that is very different than the 542 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: technician that repairs that asphalt shingle roof. So it's it's 543 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it has to be the dealer. 544 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: There are you know a lot of independence that deal 545 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: with hybrid. Deal with hybrid, well, that could be another story. 546 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: So you're buying a particular model, a particular style of 547 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: engineering on a fifteen year old car with two hundred 548 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles on it. You can't be thinking, hey, 549 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: I'm getting something cheap at a bargain. I'll never have 550 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: to put any money in it. You just can't be 551 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: there's there's It's just not possible because you've got to 552 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: sit there. You're gonna look at it things pretty much 553 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: the same. You're gonna look at exhaust and tires and 554 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: front end and breaks. But the hybrid propulsion system, there's 555 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: an auxiliary radiator in that vehicle. There's a secondary water pump, 556 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: there's a secondary cool and supply. There are secondary systems 557 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: in that vehicle to get it to do what it 558 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: does that require a dedicated I I'll say it like that, 559 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: and you know, at first it's it's a great idea. 560 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: And if you buy one new, it's an even better 561 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: idea because you will get to two fifty thousand miles 562 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: out of him on average. But you know, if you've 563 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: got one younger, if you get one of the one 564 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: eight range, and all of a sudden that needs a battery, 565 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: and it's big bucks, and you know what's the cost savings? 566 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: Have you driven? Have you driven this car yet, Daniel, No, 567 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: haven't started. Don't even know how to start it. I mean, 568 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: I haven't messed around with. Do yourself a favor. Go 569 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: take it for a rude, Take it for a rod 570 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: and see what you think. Take it out on the highway. 571 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: Take it out on the highway and find the biggest, 572 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: fastest eighteen wheeler barrowing along what's the interstate near your house? 573 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: All right, so take it. Take it out on at 574 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: oh rush hour or maybe you know, pre before rush hour, 575 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: when the truckers are trying to make time, and you know, 576 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: get getting next to an eighteen wheeler doing me see 577 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: how comfortable you feel? All right? When he lets out 578 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: the air brakes and the car changes lanes, then you 579 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: know that's not the car for you, all right. My 580 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: first impression of the priest back when I and it's 581 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: been ten years since I wrote in one, and I 582 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: know they've gotten better. And but the first time I 583 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: wrote tested one for Toyota, my first impression was it 584 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: was a motorcycle with a body on it, and uh, 585 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: looking out the back window, I couldn't see anything. Even 586 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: even going forward, you couldn't see out the back window. 587 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: You're you're, you're, My obstruction was limited. I just I 588 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: wasn't impressed. Um, you know, and I've I've always said it. 589 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: You know, the cost of what I can purchase a 590 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: hybrid for versus a gas model. It's a little simpler 591 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: and easier to fix in better technology, I think are 592 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: simpler technology. I don't get the fascination either let's go 593 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: all electric or let's stay with gas. Let's make up 594 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: our minds. But these these in between cars, they do 595 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: get to be expensive to repair. Just the battery here, 596 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this story, just the battery, and then 597 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go the conventional battery that you would know 598 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: as the battery that starts the car, the conventional battery. 599 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: And I think you're really you know, it needs to 600 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: be from Toyota because it's a specific case size and 601 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: shape and form and fit and function. It's got to 602 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: do so many things in an exact manner. Just that battery, 603 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: the last one I bought was two bucks, you know, 604 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: price at out comparative to a conventional gas combustion engine 605 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: battery in fifty range. Um. You know, listen, I'm all 606 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: about saving the planet to I just don't want to 607 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: be the only guy doing it with my check book. So, uh, 608 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: you know, all that stuff has to come into it. 609 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: You go for a riding it. You go for a 610 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: riding it, and tell me how secure you feel. And 611 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: tell me how confident you feel. And uh if if 612 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: you're buying it from a used car deal, or make 613 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: sure you get whatever they say in writing zero zero. 614 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: The car doctor is coming back right after this. I 615 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: know I stopped. I haven't. I keep not looking at you. 616 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: I can't help it. I'm well because I'm thinking of 617 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: show is not over. You don't go to sleep. I'm 618 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: not going to sleep. I'm just thinking about you know, 619 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: how do you close out the next two three minutes? 620 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: And it's this letter. I gotta let her hear from Joshua, 621 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: And you know, I think out of doing this show. 622 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: This is the most fun. This is what it's about. Ron. 623 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: I listen to your show regularly. I went through mechanics 624 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: back in but never became a professional. But I've always 625 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: worked in my own car and sooner into plenty of 626 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: people who also needed items fixed on cars, oils changed, 627 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: et cetera, but we weren't able to afford it at 628 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: the time. I've had a hard time turning my back 629 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: when orfered to do the work for the cost of 630 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: the parts, and have done that for twenty some years now. 631 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: I'm a paramedic, so I get to do this on 632 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: the side of list both my parents within a year. 633 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and when my mother passed, she told me 634 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: to never stopped doing what I was doing. She always 635 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: tried to pay it forward to people, and I believe 636 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: that's where I got it from. I'm not rich, but 637 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: I enjoy helping people, and even if they can't pay 638 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: at the time, I always believe what goes around comes around. 639 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: I love that you're able to help all the listeners 640 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: learn about the importance of maintenance and troubleshooting. I'm hoping 641 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: you out to spring for a scan tool. The launch 642 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: four thirty one Good Boy bi directional testing in the future. 643 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: But as the law of physics goes, just when you 644 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: can something comes up. Yeah, I understand that, brother, Keep 645 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: paying it forward. Wrong. We love you, and you're doing 646 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: a family's job with your radio show and podcast. You're 647 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: my continuing education and mechanics Josh and Sturgeon Bay. You know, 648 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: I've been a lot of things. I don't think I've 649 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: ever been anybody's continuing education. Um, you know, I'm just I. 650 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: The problem is when I come off airing about a 651 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: minute and a half, They're gonna turn off the switch 652 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna fall asleep for a week and then 653 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: I come back on and I light up, and you know, 654 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: but that's what it's all about, you know. And look 655 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: at look at this guy right, he's up, he's he's 656 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: he's trying to pay it forward. And that's what I 657 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: was talking about earlier in this hour, about trying to 658 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: pay it forward. You know what, why do I do 659 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: this show. I'm not doing this show because we're getting rich, 660 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: that's for darn sure, all right, We're doing this show 661 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: because we're just trying to help people understand and and 662 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: and you know, be comfortable in their cars and The 663 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: fact is cars really are such a huge part, a 664 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: huge part of who we are and what we are 665 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: as as as a people here and abroad. Um I 666 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 1: I let no one out. I'm going to dinner tonight 667 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: with Tanino. Tanino's driving an eighty eight Lincoln town Car 668 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: that his mother in law gave him. Was the last 669 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,280 Speaker 1: gift she gave him before she passed. I can't convince 670 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 1: him to get rid of this thirty four some five 671 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: year old car with almost two hundred and fifty thousand 672 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: miles on it, because he loves the car, and that's 673 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: what makes this show interesting. Things like that. Until the 674 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,280 Speaker 1: next time, it's been my absolute pleasure. I'm ron Anandi 675 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: in the car Doctor, reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, 676 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: they're placeless.