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Speaker 1: Hey, ron an Ny and the Card Doctor. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: back to the busy phones. Let's go over and talk

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Speaker 1: to Curtis and Conroy Texas and problems with his two

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Speaker 1: thousand and Ford F one fifty. That's sort of like

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Speaker 1: the national symbol of Texas, isn't it, Curtis the Ford

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Speaker 1: pick them up truck.

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Speaker 2: Hey, if you're in Texas and you don't have a

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Speaker 2: Ford pickup truck, you're just not from Texas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what I think. You know, It's like,

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Speaker 1: that's it, that's the vehicle to have. So what's going

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Speaker 1: on here?

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Speaker 2: It's been a good when I got a three thousand,

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Speaker 2: f one fifty extended cab with a five point four

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Speaker 2: tritten engine. Right, I have a one hundred and forty three

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Speaker 2: thousand miles on it. I've changed all since new, and

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Speaker 2: I bought it new every three thousand miles with ten

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Speaker 2: ws are you penzil or ten W thirty vaveline?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: And right now with one hundred and forty three thousand

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Speaker 2: miles on it, I am burning about half a quarter

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Speaker 2: every thousand miles. What I'd like to know is that normal?

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Speaker 2: Is there something I can do to help slow down

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Speaker 2: the burn of the oil or you know, is there

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Speaker 2: something I can put in there to help my engine?

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Speaker 1: Is it is? Are you still using ten thirty? Curtis?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Now in two thousand do they recommend ten thirty? Are

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Speaker 1: they calling for five thirty?

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Speaker 2: Ten thirty for the temperatures that we are? Well?

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Speaker 1: Okay, right, because you've got a temperature issue sometimes ten

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Speaker 1: thirty or the higher viscosity, you know, don't just look

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Speaker 1: are you looking on the oil? Phil caperin are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you in the owner's manual?

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Speaker 2: Owner's manual?

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Speaker 1: All right? How close to that spec are you? You know?

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Speaker 1: Can you could you fudge five thirty to try it

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Speaker 1: for one oil change?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there wouldn't be a problem inside high thirty two

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Speaker 2: on the tipture wise it runs into the tw thirty.

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Speaker 2: It's just when you start getting about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: ten degrees here they recommend the ten thirty.

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Speaker 1: Well, I could solve that problem one hundred and ten degrees.

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Speaker 1: Just stay home and the air conditioning. That won't be

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Speaker 1: a problem. Trust me, brother. You know the reason I

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Speaker 1: say tried dropping the viscosity down is because there's been

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Speaker 1: a recent school of thought in the last twelve to

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Speaker 1: not get stuck and create consumption issues on engines that

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Speaker 1: have wear on them. And listen, it could make the

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Speaker 1: problem worse, it could keep the problem the same, but

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Speaker 1: at least we'll know. So trying a five thirty is

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Speaker 1: where I would recommend you go next. Now you know,

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Speaker 1: a half court every thousand miles. You know it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make me happy, but A it's not a court, and

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Speaker 1: B it's still cheaper to put in a half court

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Speaker 1: than it is to replace the engine or the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: At this point, it's sixteen years old. What you've got

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Speaker 1: to be concerned about is if the oil consumption gets

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Speaker 1: we're going to start to see possible issues with and

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Speaker 1: I realize saying any possible issues on a sixteen year

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Speaker 1: it seems silly, but you know that oil can and

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Speaker 1: will start to coat the catalytic converters over time, and

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Speaker 2: Do you recommend using that what they call that high

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Speaker 1: Well, high mile of oil is also formulated in a

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Speaker 1: specialty way. Yes, you could take a look at that

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Speaker 1: But I believe what I would probably do first is

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Speaker 1: you know, some five thirty pens oil just you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd stay with their five thirty conventional. And then if

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Speaker 1: Each time. We may end up getting nowhere, but you've

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Speaker 1: You did well one hundred and forty three thousand miles.

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious you've done all the other maintenance, cool service,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what I do generally, this is my third one.

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Speaker 2: I've always keep them anywhere from thirteen to eighteen years,

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Speaker 2: so this is my third forward pickup truck. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: what I do is at one hundred thousand miles, I

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Speaker 2: do many tune ups, and I also have the transmission

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Speaker 2: oil and filter changed at that time, right, and they

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Speaker 1: Right, you did well? You know what to go one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles in the first trans fluid change. You

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Speaker 1: I guess you. Well, Yeah, you are doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of highway driving. You're in Texas, so I'm sure it's

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a lot of over the road stuff, Curtis.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Take a look at motor Oil

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Speaker 1: Reimagined dot com for more information about Pennzoil oil and

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Speaker 1: there's also a tech line number there you can call

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Speaker 1: and talk to them about what oils to use, but

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Speaker 1: try the switch to five thirty first and then we

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Speaker 1: can we can talk about it again if you need to.

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Speaker 1: ronin Inny and the car Doctor. The phone numbers eight

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Speaker 1: Pam south Hadley. I guess that's Maine. Is that Maine? Pam, No, it's.

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Speaker 3: Actually western Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay call Oh are you're very welcome here? How

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Speaker 1: can I help Ron?

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Speaker 3: I've got a two thousand and four VW two egg

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Speaker 3: ninety thousand miles. I've been through three batteries in four years.

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Speaker 3: I was on vacation in Maine and started getting odd

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Speaker 3: as an aside. When I picked the car up, the

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Speaker 3: service guy said, you have a second separate alarm on

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Speaker 3: the battery. It's on all the time. That's what's drinking

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Speaker 3: the battery. We've never seen anything like this, and we

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Speaker 3: have no idea how to disable it.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that exciting? Okays? It is?

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Speaker 3: And we've talking a little more. He realized I had

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Speaker 3: bought the car in Queens in New York City. He goes, well,

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Speaker 3: maybe in a high crime area that standard equipment m.

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Speaker 1: No reflection on Queens. Although, yeah, my engineer, Tony smiling,

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Speaker 1: he gets it. He's from Brooklyn. Let's start the war

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Speaker 1: from here. First of all, we've got to determine is

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Speaker 1: this an anti theft car or not an anti theft car?

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Speaker 1: And they can do that by running down the serial

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Speaker 1: the deer is saying, this is an after market alarm,

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Speaker 1: why can't we just disable it? Why can't we just

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Speaker 1: disconnect it? Have you asked that question?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. And a friend of mine who's actually

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Speaker 3: an aircraft mechanic says, there's got to be a fused

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Speaker 1: It has to be. It has to be now. Now

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Speaker 1: you know, I've unwired a few car alarms at the shop.

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Speaker 1: a daily basis, but it does happen. We probably unwire

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Speaker 1: three or four car alarms a year, and it's just

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Speaker 1: to put it bluntly, because they've got to go in.

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Speaker 1: Depending upon how this after market alarm was attached and

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Speaker 1: the factory harness, here's the after market harness. We cut

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Speaker 1: it came from Volkswagen.

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Speaker 3: No, okay, it's just I've just got two identical Volkswagen keys.

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Speaker 1: Do you turn the alarm on and off? Or does

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Speaker 1: it automatically arm whenever you lock the car?

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Speaker 3: I turn it on and off.

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Speaker 3: I have old fashioned and actually put the key in

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Speaker 1: Okay, and that that arms the alarm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the alarm for the car, right, But the

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Speaker 3: VW service guy told me that the battery alarm, the

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Speaker 3: separate second one, is just always on. And you know,

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Speaker 3: the battery for this car is under the driver's seat

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Speaker 3: and so it's fairly inaccessible and it's always on.

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Speaker 1: The alarm for the battery.

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Speaker 3: Yes, is always on. Because that's the idea behind this system,

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Speaker 3: that if somebody breaks into the car, you know, and

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Speaker 3: to steal the battery, of course, that the battery alarm

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Speaker 1: So we we actually thought somewhere somewhere in Queens is

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Speaker 1: a dealership saying that somebody might break into a two

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Speaker 3: Well, I got the car in two thousand.

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Speaker 1: Well, right, I get that, But still I think we've

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had no, I had no idea. There is

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Speaker 3: this second alarm.

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Speaker 1: If if there, if somebody put it on, there's a

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Speaker 1: way to take it off, all right. If somebody wanted

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Speaker 1: to do a parasitic draw test, there's got to be

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Speaker 1: a fuse here that's activated. Now, what I'd like you

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Speaker 1: and ask him about doing a milli vault voltage drop test.

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Speaker 1: All right. The problem is that to do a parasitic

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Speaker 1: draw test on newer cars it takes a lot because

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll help with that, I have to.

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Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, Pam, I've never seen

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Speaker 3: So the current battery is dead, dead, dead, right. It

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Speaker 1: Right, it's it's it's worth it. If you need to

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Internet's a great source of information.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you can get a picture of this

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Speaker 1: email it to me Ron at cardoctorshow dot com. We'll

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 1: Right, You're welcome, Pam. Good luck to you, dear hey

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Speaker 1: for an out of the states. Call Paul, Ontario, Canada. Paul,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the card Doctor. Sir. How can I help hi?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I have a two thousand and six miles of

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Speaker 4: I swapped the plugs and the coil PACs and I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: it's those injectors. I know we never cleaned them. So

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Speaker 4: I pull all the intake off and while it was off,

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Speaker 2: Go that way.

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Speaker 1: Well, the problem with you know, the problem with the

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Speaker 1: injector cleaner's paul is getting it into the system, and

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Speaker 4: It's not yeah, it doesn't go through the intake, right,

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Speaker 1: So it's it becomes an issue. You know, my experience

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Speaker 1: to Now there are some cleaners that you can spray

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Speaker 1: CRC makes one uh GDI gasoline direct injection cleaner and

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Speaker 1: You know, what's your length of time between oil changes.

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Speaker 1: They're finding that the cars that are dragging out the

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Speaker 1: Mini Coopers come to mind. They're a nightmare for that.

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Speaker 1: So it's cleaners outside, such as the sprays and doing that,

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Speaker 1: they will help with piston rings, carbon deposits, better combustion,

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See y