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

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Speaker 1: It's not really about me. I just sit here and

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Speaker 1: about boxer. Yes, sir, how can I help? Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Good listen. I have a Porsche box that's got eighty

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Speaker 1: been maintained meticulously all throughout. I had my last service

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Speaker 1: How can I help? I appreciate it. You're very welcome.

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Speaker 1: the neck to put back in. All right, and you've

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Speaker 1: got to be mindful that when you lift the plan

428
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Speaker 1: um off, you've now got an open area direct You know,

429
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Speaker 1: this is like let's go play with hand grenades over

430
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Speaker 1: a grate full of puppies. Okay, Um, you've got this

431
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Speaker 1: open planum that if one of those screws falls out,

432
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 1: guess where it goes? Right into the motor. See uh,

433
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: you know, then that's done. So what I'll do is

434
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 1: I'll bury gently lift it off. I take a piece

435
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Speaker 1: of duct tape right across the Planeum. Now, I'm not

436
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: worried if something, you know, falls drops, I've got some

437
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Speaker 1: security there. The gasket that separates the two is probably

438
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: good enough to reuse. Their usually rock hard and they

439
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: don't change shape. If you want to get one, get one.

440
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: They're not expensive. And um, you know plugged wires and

441
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: uh a coil pack. Make sure you use a good

442
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: quality O E level coil pack. Take a look at

443
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,719
Speaker 1: some of the plugs from Dense So there are there

444
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Speaker 1: are ridium T T s if they make it for

445
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Speaker 1: that car work really well. Um, I've used them on

446
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: some of the other volkswagons. Good part number. Um. Just

447
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: just things to be mindful of and and and that

448
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: will resolve the misfire, all right. So that's the misfire

449
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: side of this, this equation. The catalytic converter fault. Catalytic

450
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: converter faults happen because there's exhaust coming into the cat.

451
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: There's an oxygen sensor in the front of the cat.

452
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Speaker 1: There's an oxygen sensor in the back of the cat.

453
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Speaker 1: A catalytic converter, by definition of the law, has to

454
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Speaker 1: reduce submissions or better all right, So they're looking at

455
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: oxygen content going into the cat, oxygen content coming out

456
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Speaker 1: of the cat. The cat has to store oxygen if

457
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: the cat doesn't store oxygen, it can't create the proper

458
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: catalytic reaction and cause the and cause the emission levels

459
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Speaker 1: to be reduced. So that being said, something is fouling

460
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Speaker 1: out this cat. It could be the misfire, and it

461
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Speaker 1: could be once you resolve the misfire and then possibly

462
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Speaker 1: doing some sort of a fuel system cleaning may bring

463
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Speaker 1: that cat back to life. But the problem is the

464
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Speaker 1: cat's now working twice as hard with a miss that's

465
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Speaker 1: been developing over time. Chances are you may have to

466
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Speaker 1: put a catalytic converter in this car first. But let's

467
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Speaker 1: fix the misfire, uh first, all right, justin and then

468
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Speaker 1: we'll then we'll talk after that. If the light continues

469
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Speaker 1: to set, does that work? That works for me? But

470
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: you know to find me, um, you know what's going on.

471
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: That should give you enough to work on. All right,

472
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Speaker 1: Thank you are You're very welcome. I hope I didn't

473
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Speaker 1: I hope I didn't draw this out too long. It's

474
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Speaker 1: just it's a it's a it's a simple procedure that's

475
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,479
Speaker 1: just got a lot of detail to it. So I

476
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Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure you got it. If you

477
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Speaker 1: need me during the week run at Car Doctor show

478
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Speaker 1: dot com. I'll do what I can for you via email.

479
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Speaker 1: over to Jesse, our next caller in Chico, California, with

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Speaker 1: some questions about changing trans fluid on a two thousand

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Speaker 1: thirteen f one fifty Jesse, Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for Rohn. I really really enjoy your show. Thank you.

501
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm just confused on when to do that. I've gotten

502
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Speaker 1: three different recommendations from the Ford Dealer and then I

503
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: know my name, this guide says something totally different. So

504
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: I just wanted to find out what you would recommend

505
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: What do you think? What are some of the recommendations

506
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: you're hearing? Well, one, it's got thirty one thousand on

507
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: it now, so and I have it the oil change

508
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: Death and Dealer. So the service writer the last time

509
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: I was in a couple of weeks ago, said oh,

510
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Speaker 1: we should do the transmission next oil change. Then another

511
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: guy I talked to he said, oh, we should do

512
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: it about sixty THO. I know my book says something

513
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: about like a hundred and fifty thousand, and I used

514
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Speaker 1: to have before this when I had an O six fifty,

515
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Speaker 1: and the recommendation on that one on the transmission was

516
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Speaker 1: every Yeah. I'm just confused. Okay, let me see if

517
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: we can unconfuse you here. Um, first of all, this

518
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: is not normal transfer fluid. It is, but it isn't.

519
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: This is mercon LV. This is their extended life fluid.

520
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: It's not cheap, but it's not expensive when you compare

521
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Speaker 1: it to the price of a new vehicle or transmission.

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Speaker 1: The hundred and fifty thousand mile change your transmission fluid

523
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: concept is ridiculous to me. I don't understand that for

524
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: a variety of reasons. Jesse. Let's be practical. If this

525
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: truck has fifteen thousand miles on it, it's got to

526
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: be ten, twelve years old. Would you would would you

527
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: would it would? Let's see, if you're doing how many

528
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: miles a year? Do you go ten thousand, fifteen thousand? Okay,

529
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Speaker 1: so in ten years you're gonna have a hundred and

530
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles on it in ten years. Would you

531
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Speaker 1: spend three four grand in today's money to put a

532
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: transmission in that truck? Or would you go buy a

533
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: new truck truck? Right? So, there, goo, we now know

534
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: why the marketing department decided on a hundred fifty thousand

535
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: miles change your transfluid. We're gonna sell a lot of

536
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: cars in ten years, um. And I still believe that

537
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: with all my heart. I just don't buy that fluids

538
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: last that way. And I've had conversations with transmission builders,

539
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: and they tell me point blank they're still faced with

540
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: the same problems. It's about heat, it's about contaminant, it's

541
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: about moisture, it's about all the things that they're all

542
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: trying to correct with special fluids that don't seem to

543
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: get corrected to the level that they want. In a

544
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: perfect world, an engineer can design a fluid that will work.

545
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, all the roads are far from perfect than

546
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: anyone that's driven on them, and sat in traffic are

547
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: been doing ninety on the freeway trying to avoid getting

548
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: hit by a truck can relate to that. So the

549
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand that's out the door, first trans

550
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: fluid change, first fluid change of any kind. I like

551
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: the thirty thousand mile rule. And I'll tell you why,

552
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: point blank. Okay, is the truck. Is the truck still

553
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: under warranty? Al right? How long is the warranty? Well? Uh,

554
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,719
Speaker 1: it was an ironic used with and it's a factory

555
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:04,719
Speaker 1: certified so the the drive train. So if there's a

556
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: problem with this, I'd rather catch it early, all right.

557
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: So if there was something done wrong in the way

558
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: of assembly, if there's a metal shard in there if

559
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: there's something coming apart early in the life of the vehicle.

560
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: Because new doesn't mean good, new means never ever worked.

561
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: I just like to know early, all right. I vote

562
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: for changing. I vote for changing the trans fluid a

563
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: thirty alright or thirty five, whatever your next schedule changes.

564
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: I also vote for changing the transfer case and the

565
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: differential fluids for the same exact reason, all right. Differential

566
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: and drive line fluids other than transmission are kind of

567
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: like the Rodney danger Field of the automotive world. They

568
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: just don't get any respect. And it's a case that

569
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: those fluids still do an awful critical job in maintaining

570
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: that truck and keeping it on the road in a

571
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: straight and narrow You know, what breaks down seals is contaminant.

572
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: What creates contaminant is lack of change moisture. The fluid

573
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: changes it's it's chemical makeup and starts to create failures.

574
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: So in a nutshell, the vehicle it's maintained is the

575
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: vehicle that doesn't have the problem versus the one that is. Jesse,

576
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: I gotta pull over and take a pause, sit tight,

577
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll finish this up. I'm

578
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: RONDI in the car doctor. We are back right after

579
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: this a thousand dollars Carden, Hey, welcome back right in

580
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: the car doctor. We've got Jesse on the line from Chico, California.

581
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna finish our conversation here. Jesse, are you still there?

582
00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: You so you're welcome. You know, I would do the

583
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: first fluid drive line, fluid change trans transfer case, both differentials.

584
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: Thirty thousand miles. It's a good number. It gives you

585
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: a baseline to work from. All right. The other rationale

586
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: is in your case. Okay, the warranty goes up to

587
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand miles. But in a lot of cases,

588
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: a lot of vehicles have powertrain warranty five years, sixty

589
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: thousand miles. You know, if you waited until the sixty

590
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: thousand mile mark and you got in at sixty two thousand.

591
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: Because we're all so busy these days, we kind of

592
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: stretched things to the maxim in a lot of cases.

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00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: You know, g G, Jesse, We're sorry, but you know

594
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: we pulled the pan down at sixty two thousand. It

595
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: could be sixty thousand three miles and guess what, oops, geez,

596
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: is this big metal thing which isn't supposed to be there. Gee,

597
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: it's too bad you're out a warranty. If you had

598
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: gotten into fifty nine thousand miles, we could have fixed

599
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: this for you. And how many times does that conversation happen,

600
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: you know? And it's so ounce of prevention pound to cure.

601
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: Do it. It'll do them all at thirty. Al Right,

602
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: use the proper fluid. And trust me, I'm not sure

603
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this trying to sell a trans service.

604
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: I've done this transmission. This is the six R eight.

605
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: You know where the dip stick is for this transmission?

606
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: Because I can't think right. The geniuses put it down

607
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: next to the exhaust pipe on the right side, just

608
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: before the catalytic converter. So you need to get into

609
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: like a thermal body suit so you don't get fourth

610
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: degree burns. Uh, you know when you're trying to check

611
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: the fluid level with the engine hot. It's just absolutely ridiculous.

612
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,439
Speaker 1: And the whole rationale of dip stickless transmissions and hard

613
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: to get through. That's a conversation for another day. Um

614
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: let's just suffice it to say, change the trans fluid. Now,

615
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: keep an eye on it. I would tell you at

616
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: your fifty thousand mile oil change, have them pull that dipstick,

617
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: what color is the fluid, and if the fluid is

618
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: still pink and rosy, roll the dice. My vote is

619
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: to change the fluid every thirty to every thirty thirty

620
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: five thousand miles, and chances are you won't have to

621
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: put a transmission in it and you'll enjoy it for

622
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: the life of the vehicle. Jesse, I appreciate the call.

623
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: I'm running any of the car, Doctor, I gotta go.

624
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're placeless sea