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Speaker 2: You know, I'm just thinking about the week in the shop.

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Speaker 2: I want to know who put the sixteen spark plugs

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Speaker 2: in the HEMI right to do sixteens plugs in a

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Speaker 2: V eight Ram. I'll do the passenger side all day long,

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Speaker 2: but the driver's side, because then the genius engineer that

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Speaker 2: decided to put sixteen spark plugs in a Hemi Ram

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Speaker 2: truck also decided to mount the brake booster right on

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Speaker 2: top of the last two on the driver's side, and

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Speaker 2: it just makes getting to it a game of contortionism.

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Speaker 2: So I see they're bringing back the Hemi, which is

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Speaker 2: what made me think of this. So I just hope

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Speaker 2: everybody's prepared for the expense of, you know, doing maintenance

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Speaker 2: on some of these vehicles. It comes at a hefty

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Speaker 2: price tag. Although, as I said to the owner of

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Speaker 2: the vehicle when he picked up, you start to look

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Speaker 2: at what's the replacement cost of a pickup truck? You know,

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Speaker 2: you can spend eighty grand on a pickup truck today.

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Speaker 2: It's not hard. As a matter of fact, it's very

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Speaker 2: easy to go out and buy an eighty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: pickup truck. What are the inexpensive transportation? And I think

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Speaker 2: it's one of the things that we're missing here, you know,

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Speaker 2: and it's affecting a lot of us. Someone that recently

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Speaker 2: Dodge wrote in and he said, hey, Ron, how about

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Speaker 2: his perspective on the economy from an autotech's point of view.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm qualified or it's really my

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Speaker 2: position to say, but I think people are tight for money,

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Speaker 2: if you really want to know the truth. And this

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Speaker 2: ram pick up is an example of what I'm about

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Speaker 2: to say. But when they come in, they just want

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Speaker 2: it fixed because they're not buying a new vehicle and

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Speaker 2: they're trying to hang on to the older one, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I'm seeing, you know, this year in the shop,

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Speaker 2: our vehicle count is down a little bits and I'm

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Speaker 2: seeing that. I'm hearing that story from a lot of

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Speaker 2: repair shops. But the gross dollars are up. There's less

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Speaker 2: people coming in, but the ones that are coming in

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Speaker 2: are spending more money, is what I'm trying to say,

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Speaker 2: so that things kind of balance out. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's a lot in part that people are putting off repairs.

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Speaker 2: I think they're just trying to catch up. And it's

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Speaker 2: why in my opening of the previous hour, I was

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Speaker 2: talking about is your vehicle ready for? You know, rough weather?

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Speaker 2: So you know the economy, I think it's I think

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Speaker 2: the overall economy is we'll see. I don't want to comment,

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Speaker 2: it's not my place, but I will tell you from

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Speaker 2: a text perspective, you guys are spending less and hanging

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Speaker 2: on to your vehicles longer that I can say definitively.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Larry in Tennessee, Oh for GMC Sierra

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Speaker 2: pick them up. I believe this is and some wiper problems. Well, Larry,

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Speaker 2: if you move to New Jersey and you get caught

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Speaker 2: in one of our downpours, you won't need wipers because

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Speaker 2: the water hits the windshields, hits the windshields so hard

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Speaker 2: it just bounces off. So you know, maybe that's the problem.

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Speaker 2: How can I help you, sir?

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, thank you for having my call first, but

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Speaker 3: I would be okay. The whippers still work on high.

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Speaker 3: I mean, boy, they do work good on high all right. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: what happened One evening I was in it. The whippers

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Speaker 3: were working great, the washer was working. The next morning

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Speaker 3: I went to get in to kind of wash the

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Speaker 3: pollen off, hit the washer button on the switch there,

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Speaker 3: nothing happened. Went through all the intermediate settings, nothing happened.

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Speaker 3: But when I got all the way to high on

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Speaker 3: constantly all they worked. Then I could actually toggle back

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Speaker 3: and forth from constant low speed to high and get

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Speaker 3: them to take a nice slow swiping. Then they go

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Speaker 3: back to the park position and I've done done some

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Speaker 3: repair here. I'm not a mechanic, right, what what parts

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Speaker 3: of your what?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 2: Which? Which part of the parts? Cannon? Have you fired?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Okay? I have replaced the pulse, the whipper motor, pulse

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Speaker 3: control board, and the multifunction switch on the steering column,

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Speaker 3: and I checked the relays out underneath the hood there

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Speaker 3: that I swapped it with a horn relay and uh uh,

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Speaker 3: no difference. And I've replaced every fuse that I can

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Speaker 3: find anywhere on that thing that has anything to do

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Speaker 3: with the washer winch. You'll washer or wiper lost the

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Speaker 3: I'm a lot of internet fixes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where'd you and where'd you get your parts from?

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Speaker 2: Just out of curiosity?

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Speaker 3: I got the parts from Rock Auto?

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Speaker 2: All right? What brand?

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Speaker 3: Right now? I can't remember what brand that they were?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: So do you still have the old switch?

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Speaker 3: I still do, all right?

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Speaker 2: So this works By the reason it works on high

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Speaker 2: is because the switch is the dropping resistor in the circuit.

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Speaker 2: If you were to look at a wiring diagram, you

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Speaker 2: would see that you've got four wires coming out of

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Speaker 2: the switch that have consequence. There's a gray, there's a

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Speaker 2: dark blue white, and there is a pink. And then

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Speaker 2: the last one is the ten which is ground all right,

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Speaker 2: That goes to ground over near the E pillar on

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Speaker 2: the left side. So that gray wire, that's the wiper

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Speaker 2: supply voltage signal that goes across a series of resistors

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Speaker 2: inside the switch and creates a dropping resistor effect to

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Speaker 2: feeds signal back to the wiper module via the pink wire.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're talking the switch on the steering car right.

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Speaker 2: The switch on the steering column, correct, the multifunction switch.

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Speaker 2: So in theory, we should be able to go across

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Speaker 2: the gray and the pink. Do you own an home meter, yes,

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Speaker 2: and we should be able to go across the gray

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Speaker 2: and the pink with that switch in different positions. And

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Speaker 2: see do we have a resistance value drop? You will

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Speaker 2: see a range of about three hundred homes up to

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Speaker 2: about forty five hundred homes, and it will increase incrementally

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Speaker 2: five hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred and so on, eventually

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Speaker 2: reaching forty five hundred homes.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: You can find specs in a service manual, but that's

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Speaker 2: generally the number you'll see. I believe six different ranges

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Speaker 2: depending upon how many speeds the wiper has low, and

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Speaker 2: then it has multiple delay, and then it has high,

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Speaker 2: but high see and high. They completely bypass the resistors

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Speaker 2: and you're just pulling the signal right to ground. And

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Speaker 2: you could basically take that gray wire if the diagram,

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Speaker 2: if I remember the diagram correctly, and I will tell

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Speaker 2: you to look at a diagram before we trust my

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Speaker 2: memory because it's been a while since I've done this,

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Speaker 2: but I believe you can take that gray wire, ground it,

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Speaker 2: and you would get the wipers to run on high

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Speaker 2: because it's the same effect, all right, So you know

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Speaker 2: that's basically how this works. I would want to test

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Speaker 2: the old switch, all right, because the fact that you

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Speaker 2: haven't changed anything in terms of what's still broken, the

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Speaker 2: new switch in the old switch should test the same,

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Speaker 2: correct they should now if the switch shows us open

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Speaker 2: circuit in one position, and you happen to be lucky

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Speaker 2: enough to get a new switch that shows US open

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Speaker 2: in one position right where, you know, it's remember what

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Speaker 2: news stands for never ever, never ever worked, right, So

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Speaker 2: we want to know that. Okay, Uh, the module is

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Speaker 2: a little tougher to check. There really is no way

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Speaker 2: to check that because obviously, because it's a it's a

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Speaker 2: printed circuit board. So this is going to become a

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Speaker 2: case of tell me what's good, I'll tell you what's bad.

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Speaker 2: The switches are common, all right, so you're not wrong.

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Speaker 2: I would tell you to carefully check that switch out

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Speaker 2: before we go too much further. And if you do

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Speaker 2: end up having to get another switch, bite the bullet

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Speaker 2: and get it from your local ATTA parts house, buy

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Speaker 2: a GM by it by a delco.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I would definitely encourage good quality electronics and electrical when

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Speaker 2: it comes to controls today. So it just becomes that important.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, you got your you got you got

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Speaker 2: your homework. That doesn't work. You know where to find me, sir.

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Speaker 3: I might be calling you back.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely we'll be glad to take the call. You have

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Speaker 2: a good rest of the day.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, You're very welcome.

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Speaker 2: Uh I can't you know, I think I think the

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Speaker 2: defective returns, you know, if you want to talk about

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Speaker 2: the state of the economy or the state of the shop,

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Speaker 2: I think the defective returns are starting to pile up

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Speaker 2: higher some days than the new parts coming in. And

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Speaker 2: it's not always that the part is defective, but I

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Speaker 2: will tell you this. We get a lot of pick

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Speaker 2: through parts that we return because we won't. We won't

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Speaker 2: put in parts that another shop has tried, and it

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Speaker 2: may not be electrical either. We recently got a set

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Speaker 2: of Moog ball joints from our supply house that the

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Speaker 2: one box contained a Moog ball joint, but the parts

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Speaker 2: bag had been picked through. It was missing the grease

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Speaker 2: fitting and the cotter pin. And I could have come

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Speaker 2: up with a grease fitting and a cotter pin, but

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Speaker 2: on principal I sent it back. But the other box

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Speaker 2: two ball joints. The other box had a car Quest

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Speaker 2: ball joint in it, and it's it's it's you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not. I don't anything against the car Quest ball

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Speaker 2: joint line. I think there's places where I would use it,

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Speaker 2: but I like a grease fitting. Certain jobs I want

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Speaker 2: to use a grease fitting, and I'm not putting in

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Speaker 2: a pick through part like that, so we sent them

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Speaker 2: both back. It's just amazing how these shops are guessing

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Speaker 2: what's going on out there. Anyway, let's pull over, take

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Speaker 2: a pause, and when we come back, we'll go right

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Speaker 2: to George with his Volvo question and a follow up.

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Speaker 2: I'm ronn Eeny and the car doctor. We'll return right

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Speaker 2: after this. By the way, just as a little bit

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Speaker 2: of automotive trivia and useless information. I was watching a

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Speaker 2: TV show the other day and they were talking about

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Speaker 2: the history of the GTO. They're talking about history of

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Speaker 2: muscle cars. Do you know the sixty four GTO is

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Speaker 2: actually used by the police in Japan as a pursuit vehicle.

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Speaker 2: Can imagine getting pulled over by that? You know, I

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Speaker 2: thought about that. That's got to be crazy. You know,

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Speaker 2: I wonder there's any Japanese GTOs left over there in

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Speaker 2: the impound yard or the up for auction. What could

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Speaker 2: they be worth? Right? I like, wow, I never would

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Speaker 2: have guessed that anyway. Like I said, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of useless information I keep in my head. George, Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: Let's see if I can apply some of this to you.

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Speaker 2: Ten VOLVOXC sixty. What's going on, George? How can I help?

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Speaker 5: Yes, you're opening monologue. How your week has been is

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Speaker 5: what prompting me to give you a follow up call

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Speaker 5: on this vehicle?

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Speaker 2: Perfect.

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Speaker 5: So I called you before and you were saying, you know,

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Speaker 5: to check the sunroof because this car had a massive

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't need a drain because you're not driving around.

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Speaker 2: Right, how do you drive around without a cigarette lighter

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Speaker 2: But it makes no sense. But I'm glad it was

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Speaker 5: And he said, it's been one of those weeks I needed.

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Speaker 2: I think I think a lot of mechanics say that,

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Speaker 2: It was like two grand. Wow, I have to spend

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Speaker 2: The car got repaired, and in exchange for the repair,

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thanks for taking my call. I have a

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. You too. Enjoy the rest of it.

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Speaker 2: What's left? Yeah, so yeah, I always I take over

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Speaker 2: You hold my life in your hands. And I looked

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Speaker 2: So we hold your life life in our hands. We

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Speaker 1: What and you look great in that Black Kate?

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Speaker 2: You like that? Huh? So here are we going to

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Speaker 2: I believe it's the third weekend in September. We'll get

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Speaker 2: It's a gorgeous facility, big open field, and we're going

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Speaker 6: Okay, Ron, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, sir.

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Speaker 6: I bought this car used in twenty March or twenty

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Speaker 2: No, surprise.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so I've heard I've heard bad things about them.

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Speaker 6: And I've got two different people tell me two different things,

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Speaker 6: Don't even check the fluid. Don't it's a field thing.

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Speaker 6: Don't check the transmission fluid. I got another person saying

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Speaker 6: to do. Right now, I'm kind of scared, like I

434
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,040
Speaker 6: wondn't even drive this car two hours from home just

435
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 6: for fear of something happening.

436
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,960
Speaker 2: Right right are you? Are you getting a fold code, David?

437
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,400
Speaker 2: Is it turn it on a check engine light?

438
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 6: No, nothing's happening now. I'm just I'm just scared from

439
00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,239
Speaker 6: back three years ago. I'm still a gun shy from that.

440
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 2: Oh gotcha?

441
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 6: Gotcha?

442
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,880
Speaker 2: So that the trans is operating.

443
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 6: Properly, yes, as far as I can tell you, all right.

444
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 2: And you're not having any fluid loss of you're not

445
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 2: losing any coolant, you don't have any leaks. Everything is

446
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 2: doing what it's supposed to do.

447
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 6: As far as I can say, I don't see stands

448
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 6: on the driveway.

449
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 2: Soo, and how many miles are on this car?

450
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,400
Speaker 6: I just hit everyone thirty one?

451
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 2: All right, So you're way past the moment of where

452
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,440
Speaker 2: we typically put trans is in those cars, all right.

453
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 2: You know I've I've seen them with as little as

454
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 2: forty thousand on them. I've seen them on average they're

455
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 2: in the sixty five to seventy thousand mile range when

456
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 2: they when they fail the trans So right now, what

457
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 2: would I tell you to do? You could service it,

458
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 2: change the fluid. You might get an indication of what

459
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 2: shape the trans is in based on what the fluid

460
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: looks like coming out. It's the price of a fluid change,

461
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 2: typically a couple of two three hundred bucks, or you're

462
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 2: going to drive it till it fails, or you're just

463
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: going to put a trans in it because you love

464
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 2: the car and you want to drive it in another five years.

465
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 4: So some person that.

466
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,199
Speaker 6: Told me do nothing said I might do damage if

467
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 6: I mess with it. Is that? Is there any logic

468
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 6: that I've no.

469
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 2: I listen, you know the whole the trans is going

470
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 2: to go bad if you mess with it. Concept comes

471
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 2: from the fact on traditional automatic transmissions that have got

472
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 2: miles on them. Let's talk about that. So traditional automatic transmissions,

473
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 2: the fluid, as a carbon based fluid, gets older and

474
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 2: beat up, it will tend to varnish up. I'm sure

475
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 2: you've heard that expression. The fluid is varnished. That that

476
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 2: varnish that that sediment material cakes up on the internal

477
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 2: side of the transmission case. It gets gummy and varnished. Well,

478
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 2: fresh trans fluid on a conventional transmission trans fluid is

479
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 2: very high and detergent. It's a it's a deterreent, scrubbing

480
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 2: kind of a fluid. It always has been, and it

481
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 2: has a great hydraulic action. So if you put fresh

482
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 2: fluid in, what does it do. It tends to scrub

483
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 2: away at the varnish and the particulate. And how does

484
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 2: an automatic transmission work? You put a bunch of fluid

485
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 2: through a very tiny hole under extreme pressure, hoping it

486
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 2: to you know, apply clutches and shift packs and solenoids

487
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 2: and so forth. So you know, could you cause the

488
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 2: trans to fail? You could? It can happen. I've seen

489
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,479
Speaker 2: it happen. But I'll tell you what the percentage is

490
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 2: greater of having success. I would say the failure rate

491
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 2: isn't higher than ten percent in my experience what I've seen,

492
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 2: I tend to see a greater success rate with changing fluid. Now,

493
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 2: you know, there's two ways to change fluid. We're talking

494
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 2: conventional here, all right. We haven't gotten the CVT yet.

495
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 2: With conventional, you know, there's two ways to do it.

496
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 2: You're either going to do a drain and fill whatever

497
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: you can get out of the pan. Maybe you're going

498
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 2: to open up a cooler line get a little bit more,

499
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 2: or you're going to hook up a machine and do

500
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 2: a complete fluid exchange. If you're talking conventional trans fluid,

501
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 2: you're going to go to BEG. You find a shop

502
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 2: dot com. The BG trans exchange machine works really well.

503
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 2: It's a complete unit. I know the unit. Intimately, I

504
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 2: have one in the shop and it will do a

505
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 2: great job. That's conventional. If you want to service your

506
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 2: CVT cbt's work different their their belts and pulleys. It's

507
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 2: it's not as hydraulic per se it is and it

508
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 2: isn't as a conventional trans The fluid tends to get

509
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 2: beat up. Nissans have a track record of trans failure.

510
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 2: I mean they just do it's it's it's been a

511
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 2: very failure prone transmission. Where do you want to where

512
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 2: do you want to push this to? Before you do anything,

513
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 2: You've got to think long term? What's your long term

514
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 2: goal with this car? And that's my first question to you.

515
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 6: I want to keep it. I'm hooking three years.

516
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to go another you want to go

517
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 2: another three years with this? If the trans were to

518
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: fail and it's five grand to replace it, would you

519
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 2: put the trans in it?

520
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 6: Probably not?

521
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 2: Okay, then drive it till it breaks.

522
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 6: So do nothing with it right now?

523
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: Do nothing with it because you know in your case,

524
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: you know in your case, in my mind, if if

525
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: it's doing nothing, I don't want to I don't want

526
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 2: to give you that possible chance that changing the flu

527
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 2: will upset the apple cart. If you said to me,

528
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 2: hey Ron, I'd put a trans in it tomorrow. If

529
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 2: it failed, I'd tell you change the fluid and and

530
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: and and get it to go. Maybe we'll get it

531
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 2: to go longer, all right. But if it's hey Ron,

532
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 2: I'm going to drive it until it drops, well, then

533
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 2: you've given me the answer. All right. If the trans

534
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 2: drops tomorrow, you're done. You're walking away.

535
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 6: And likewise, if I decide, you know what, I probably

536
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 6: wouldn't mind putting transmission. And then I go back to

537
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 6: the other player.

538
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 2: Right, I can help you decide whether or not you

539
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,959
Speaker 2: want to put a trans in the car. Is there

540
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: anything else mechanically wrong with it? Does it burn oil?

541
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 6: Not that I could tell of anything. I'm not gonna

542
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 6: wo here.

543
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 2: Still still still rides well, still operates well, minimal amount

544
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 2: of you know, wear and tear on the body. The

545
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: interior looks right, Yeah, okay, it's a nice car, all right.

546
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: So then you know what, Go out and price a

547
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: replacement vehicle. Seriously, okay, go go place, Go price a

548
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 2: replacement vehicle that gives you the same features, the same quality,

549
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 2: the same luxury, the same level of what that car

550
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 2: is right, And if that replacement vehicle is thirty grand.

551
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, that fix transmissions.

552
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 2: The trans is getting more popular, isn't it.

553
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 4: Yeah?

554
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 2: All right, And here's the last piece of the puzzle.

555
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: Who's working on this car? Do you have a relationship

556
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: with a repair shop? I don't care if it's a dealer.

557
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: There's a lot of great dealers out there, all right.

558
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 2: If you have confidence in your repair shop, dealer, independent,

559
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,719
Speaker 2: tire store, whatever, and they put the trans in it,

560
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 2: and you have confidence that they're going to do the

561
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 2: job right, that heck, brother, you got the best of

562
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 2: all worlds. You've got a competent shop. You got a

563
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 2: car you like. You know what your fixed expense is,

564
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 2: Go put it, Go put a transient. If it fails,

565
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: in that case, change the fluid. See what happens. Maybe

566
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: you'll get longer. Maybe changing the fluid, you're gonna find Hey,

567
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: the fluid came out and it's really ugly, and they're

568
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: gonna turn around and say, David, put a transient it now,

569
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 2: don't even bother service in it. And then you dodge,

570
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: and then you dodge the bullet and you don't have

571
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: to have the adventure of oh I'm stuck. Now what

572
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 2: do I do it?

573
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 6: What's funny is the transition guy is when it told me, man,

574
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 6: just leave it alone. But because I kept kind of pressing,

575
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 6: he was like, well bring it in. I'll I'll pull

576
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 6: it and check check your fluid. But he was actually

577
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 6: one who said do nothing with it right.

578
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 2: Well, because he's seen the failures. But you know, you

579
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: got to look at the whole picture, which is why

580
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: I took you there, David. I got to run all right, sir,

581
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 2: You're very You're very welcome. You enjoy the rest of

582
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 2: the day. A five five, five six o nine nine

583
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 2: zero zero running any of the car doctor. I am

584
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: back right after this. I see Maryland is coming in

585
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 2: loud and clear. Let's go over. Talked to Eddie seventeen

586
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,239
Speaker 2: Ford Expedition Eddie. Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How

587
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 2: can I help.

588
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 4: Well, sir, I've bought this vehicle back in November. I've

589
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 4: only put about four thousand miles on it. It's just

590
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 4: turned one hundred thousand miles.

591
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: Just broken it.

592
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the next one vehicle, one of the nicest

593
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 4: ones I've ever had. It's a Platinum series. It's got

594
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 4: all the bells and whistles. We had taken a ride

595
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 4: out to the mountains about two hundred and fifty miles ago,

596
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 4: and on the way home, coming up those mountains, I

597
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 4: had it in cruise control. She started missing a little bit,

598
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 4: got worse as we got going, but then she kind

599
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 4: of smoothed out as the ride got flattered. I noticed

600
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 4: the next day when I started the car sounded like

601
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 4: a bag of marbles underneath the hood. There about three seconds,

602
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 4: they're telling me that it's probably a cam phaser problem

603
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 4: to go along with probably a CORPEC problem with the

604
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 4: with the ignition. They said two cylinders were misfiring, and

605
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 4: that rattle under there is indicative of the cam phasers,

606
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 4: and there's probably going to be Apparently Ford Ford had

607
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 4: put out something on these things and extended to warranty. Unfortunately,

608
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 4: the warranty is the last ones that were warranted, was

609
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three. So I'm basically on my own

610
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 4: with this thing, and they're telling me that it was

611
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 4: like a two thousand dollars fixed from Ford at the time.

612
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 4: They're telling me now to do it right, not just

613
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 4: change the phasers, but to do to change the tensioners,

614
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 4: the guides, everything is including the water pump, oil pump.

615
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 4: They said, while you got it all, part do it all.

616
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 4: You're looking at about five thousand dollars.

617
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 2: That's my number. Okay, they're not wrong. Now let me

618
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 2: let's let's let's have a little bit of a conversation here,

619
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 2: all right, and let's understand why they're doing what they're doing.

620
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: This is a real a good example of proximity of repair.

621
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: All right, So let's let's let's let's back into the

622
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: conversation like this. That vehicle new, This is how I

623
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 2: convince everybody to fix a car or replace it. It's

624
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: one of the other. That vehicle new. You have any

625
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: idea what that vehicle new is? Oh yeah, yeah, one

626
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 2: hundred and ten. Yeah yeah. It's a lot of dough, brother,

627
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 2: all right, yeah, it's a lot of dough.

628
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 4: So I got her on the road for twenty thousand, right,

629
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 4: I got it.

630
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 2: So you got ninety grand to go. You know, you've

631
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: got another ninety that you can still spend and and

632
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 2: and get to the same spot. So who's doing the

633
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 2: work the dealership?

634
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 4: It's not a dealership. It's a guy that worked for

635
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 4: Forward for twenty twenty five years.

636
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 2: Perfect and that's and that's just as good, right, you know,

637
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 2: you get one of these guys that's that's that, that's

638
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: a Ford Master and he's done it. And I'm not surprised.

639
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 2: It sounded like we're going to tell me it was

640
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 2: a Ford Tech. And I like the way he's thinking.

641
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: Once he opens the engine up will be the telltale.

642
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 2: What does it look like in there? Because you don't

643
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: know what oil change history is, and that's that's going

644
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 2: to be critical. How cleaner dirty is the inside of

645
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: the engine.

646
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 4: So that's what caused those camphases to fail was.

647
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: Dirty oil, dirty oil and lack of changes. Another another

648
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: marvelous result of an intelligent marketing department that says, change

649
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Speaker 2: the oil every ten thousand miles? What could go wrong?

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Speaker 4: And that's what they did. And here the car, it

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Speaker 4: was a one under car and it had it in

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Speaker 4: every ten thousand, right.

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Speaker 2: And here you are. Here's the argument for five thousand

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Speaker 2: mile oil change intervals or shorter you know, time and

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Speaker 2: time and mileage counts, Eddie, It really does, all right,

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Speaker 2: So I say go ahead and do it. I say,

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Speaker 2: you know, as long as we're sure that the misfire

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Speaker 2: wasn't something else mechanical like a head gasket, and I

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Speaker 2: don't think it is. It's it sounds like the diagnosis

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Speaker 2: is correct. I just want to throw that out there

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Speaker 2: as a possible ability.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: The other the other thing I would suggest is at

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand miles and eight years old, do you

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Speaker 2: want to put a radiator in it? Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a part a fresh radiator on an eight year

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Speaker 2: old vehicle. Those things run hot. I think it'll help

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Speaker 2: extend the life of the engine, you know, if we

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Speaker 2: want to go there. But you know, if you put

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Speaker 2: eight grand in this truck, eight grand is not one

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Speaker 2: hundred and ten. Yeah, and you're coming out ahead. It

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Speaker 2: sounds like you've got the right guy working on it,

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Speaker 2: you know, a former four tech now doing as an independent.

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Speaker 2: I say fix it and let him do the whole

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Speaker 2: shooting match, and obviously make sure he's using good quality

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Speaker 2: OE parts, you know, or at least something equivalent. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure he is. I kind of know the type that's

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Speaker 2: working on this truck. Eddie, good luck to you. If

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Speaker 2: you need anything else, you give us a shout. I'm

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Speaker 2: running any and the car doctor I'm back right after this,

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Speaker 2: and we are back a couple of closing thoughts today.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I just want to reply Dodge just

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Speaker 2: sent me Dodge from I think he's from Maryland or Virginia,

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Speaker 2: forget that must be Virginia. Send me a picture of

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Speaker 2: the new Virginia State Police pursuit mustangs. Pursuit mustangs almost

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Speaker 2: makes you want to get pulled over just to see

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Speaker 2: one of them up close. Great picture, thanks Dodger. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate it. Just how fast those things are woof, which

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Speaker 2: tells me they've got a speeding problem in Virginia. But

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Speaker 2: I know they're working on it, so be careful going

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Speaker 2: through Virginia, and they're very tough on speeders down there.

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Speaker 2: I just want to go back to Eddie from Maryland

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Speaker 2: and comment one last thing. You know, I suggested replacing

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Speaker 2: the radiator. Why what is a radiator? What does it do?

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Speaker 2: In essence, a radiator is a heat exchanger. That's really

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Speaker 2: its purpose. And I've always thought of it that way,

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Speaker 2: and you think about it's now it's a seventeen expedition.

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Speaker 2: It is eight going on, yeah, nine years old. It's

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Speaker 2: getting up there. It's a plastic tank radiator. It's an

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Speaker 2: aluminum center by now this vehicle is due for a

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Speaker 2: coolant service. I doubt the person did proper coolant service

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Speaker 2: if they were doing ten thousand mile oil changes. Eddie,

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Speaker 2: if you're still listening, good chance to get started with

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Speaker 2: Peak coolant. Good stuff right mixed right, get the pre mix.

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Speaker 2: This way we know the water is correct. I'm big

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Speaker 2: on looking at water that's in coolant now. So but

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Speaker 2: Peak will have correct coolant for that vehicle. But that radiator,

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Speaker 2: it's older, and you know what you're gonna find. The

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Speaker 2: engine's gonna run at proper temperature. It may even run

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Speaker 2: a little cooler. The air conditioning will likely work better

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Speaker 2: because engine temperature is more in line. So when you're

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Speaker 2: looking at a repair of that size, look at it

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Speaker 2: all proximity of repair till the next time I'm running

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Speaker 2: any in the car. Doctor, good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 2: See you