1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,840 Speaker 1: What was your first coup I said, that's seth. It 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: was a sixty seven Volkswagen book. And then he goes, 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: what's the book. I didn't know what the bug was. 4 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: And he goes, what the have under the hood? So 5 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: a tire They know how to make him, didn't they 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: the spear engine in the trunk in case the tire malfunction. 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: Ron and Nanian, the fact is we don't really talk 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: about for all the things. If we talk about changing 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: oil in this country, we don't talk about the difference 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: between convention and synthetic and where or when or why 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: you might not use it. Three years ago, I bought 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: a beetle, not even thinking. That's not the joke. Shut up, 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: the carr doctor. The steering lock mechanism, from what I recall, 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: is in the top part of the column. It's all 15 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: done up there. Now it's possible that something's not broken. 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: It's possible that this is usually solenoid driven in the 17 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: solenoid is just not being actuated. Welcome to the radio 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian the car Doctor. Since this 19 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: is where car owners the world overturned to for their 20 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you 21 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: a busy signal. Pick up the phone and call in. 22 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to 23 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: take your call at eight five five five six, And 24 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: now we away from Jim said here in this this 25 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: is the place he running. Hey, it's time to start 26 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: your engines. If you can ron the car doctor who 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: at the helm a five five five six zero nine 28 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: zero zero phone number. Come on in and let's let's 29 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: sit down and talk about your automobile. Yeah, the Volkswagon's gone, folks. Wow, 30 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: look at that. Huh how long did it take? Well 31 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: the Beetle, I should say, they've stopped production of the 32 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: Beatle and uh, I can tell you not gonna miss it. 33 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: It just you know back thirty years ago, forty years ago, 34 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: good solid car. In the last twenty years, the car 35 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: would just go downhill. After the six eight thousand mile mark. 36 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: You would have to throw parts at it so much 37 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: you needed you need to tract their trailer to keep 38 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: up with it. Yes, Tom Rae, I was gonna say, 39 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to find another car for you to hate, 40 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: because you know, well, you know there's still v ws 41 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: out there. But it's it's it's interesting to note that 42 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: they stopped making the bug because they thought it wasn't 43 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: worth while v W virtually worthless. I guess I was right. Um, 44 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: I just well, and I thought, you know, I could 45 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: have a lot of fun with this and I could 46 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: pick it on the company. And I get it. I 47 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: think the car has seen its day. I think it 48 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,399 Speaker 1: just outlived it's it's it's it's platform. But a lot 49 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: of the problems with the Volkswagen to me, really them 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: from simple things parts distribution, parts availability. I don't have 51 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: a decent Volkswagen dealer. I'm in North Jersey. I don't 52 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: have a decent Volkswagon dealer to purchase parts from. Either. 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: There are always in a state of flummix when I call, 54 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: and I don't call often because we don't see a 55 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: lot of e W is because the dealer has done 56 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: a real good job of keeping that car back at 57 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: the at at the at the dealer level, people tend 58 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: to flock to the dealer or a v W specialists. 59 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: I get that I'm not looking for any to work on. 60 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: Don't mis understand me, But it seems like even when 61 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: you call, even when you have one to work on, 62 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: and you call it's there's no clear cut listening. The 63 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: last time I had a conversation and my guys, try 64 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: the guys the dealer that I work with, but even 65 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: said we were looking up we were looking up cooling 66 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: system hoses for the back of I forget what it was. 67 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: I think it was a bug, and um he said, yeah, 68 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: he says, there's no real way to match it up. 69 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: We just take the hose, we order three or four 70 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: different part numbers, and we match it up to the 71 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: one that we think it is, and that's usually what 72 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: it turns out to be. But we have to order 73 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: three or four parts, send back the access or put 74 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: it on the shelf. And what kind of way is 75 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: this to run a company? You can't look up simple 76 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: things like hoses. You can't look up simple parts. So 77 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: parts distribution killed them. They also made it too much. 78 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: They were anti independent mechanic. They were were going to 79 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: keep all the information within ourselves, and I really believe 80 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: that they wanted to. Obviously a lot of car companies do. 81 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: They want to lock out the small shop. They want 82 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: to look out the independent shop, and they're not sharing information. 83 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: Look how well to the point, Look how well Toyota 84 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: is doing right. Look how well Ford's doing. Look how 85 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: well even GM starting to come around Chrysler. Chrysler's really struggling. 86 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: From what I can see. I look at the cross 87 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 1: population of the vehicles I see in the shop, and 88 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: what I see the most of. It's Toyota, it's Ford, 89 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: it's Honda, it's GM product Subaru is big, all right. 90 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: I mean, these are all car companies that have become 91 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: outside the dealer friendly there or sharing information and making 92 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: their their diagnostic tools available at a reasonable cost. From 93 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: a business perspective, Volkswagen, um, you can't get part service 94 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: information is tough. It requires a very specific scan tool 95 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: vag comp which is affordable to a degree. But I've 96 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: never really gotten a straight answer is to whether that's 97 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: the factory tool or whether it's a bootleg copy, which 98 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: I think it is, and everybody's using it, even the 99 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: dealers using it because the factory tool, from what I've heard, 100 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: doesn't really work. I don't know how true that story is, 101 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: but you know, listen, goodbye be the Goodbye b W Beetle. 102 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: It's it's it's been fun and you know, we'll we'll 103 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: we'll have some memories. Do you remember the b W commercial. 104 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: My FAVORITEVW commercial v W is how they float? Remember 105 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: the ones they would float? They would put it in 106 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: the river. And I don't remember I remember that. I 107 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: think I remember that, unless I don't remember the seventies 108 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: very well, but I remember the seventies where that the 109 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: only thing it does. It was it was and it 110 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: floats too, or something like that. There was a picture 111 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: somewhere of beetles floating down, which I always thought was 112 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: a good idea. If you open the door saw to 113 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: have the problems, we could move the day along. Well. 114 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: You know what's funny is is uh most and most 115 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: people don't realize this. The generators we use in broadcast 116 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: facilities are big generators. They usually car engines, bigger ones, 117 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: or truck engines. I had a station once at the studio. 118 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: We had one with a v W engine on it, 119 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 1: if I remember right. It was some three cylinder thing. 120 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: It was air cooled, and we whenever it needed parts, 121 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: they had to come from Germany and it was a 122 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: two month wait, and half the time it was wrong. 123 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: And there you go. And if you can't get parts 124 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: for it, because listen, I don't care what it is, 125 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: I don't care who made it, designed it, engineered it, 126 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: and brought it here. It's gonna break and it's gonna 127 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: need service, and that's the key. And you know, I 128 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: think that was Volkswagen's undoing. I just think the platform 129 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: has worn out. And I was I was a little 130 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: confused by the fact that they're doing with the Beatle 131 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: because I thought Volkswagen was the biggest car company in 132 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: the world. There was that conversation too. Remember there was 133 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: a conversation a couple of months or it was two 134 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: years ago. The Volkswagen had the highest global sales of 135 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: all cars manufactured. I think, and I tom I I 136 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: could be wrong, not necessarily here in the States, but worldwide, 137 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: Volkswagen was, Um, I think they're number one. I think 138 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: they're number one. I'd have to check my sources and 139 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: you know, google it like everybody else would do. But 140 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: I believe Volkswagen had you know, I don't know, maybe 141 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: you know what, maybe they couldn't afford something engineering wise, 142 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: Maybe that maybe the diesel emission scandal rocked the company 143 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: to the point that it created such a financial drain 144 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: that it hurt them financially and they had to they 145 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: had to cut some losses somewhere else. You don't know. 146 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: It's it's a lot of people are upset. Didn't they 147 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: just have a commercial that was that was a blend 148 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: of them and I think it was Ford and they 149 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: used the Beetle in the commercial. Yeah, there was. We 150 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: talked about it like a year ago. Yes, there was 151 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: something there. So, you know what, we'll never really know. 152 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure it has something to do with emissions. It 153 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: may have something to do with the fact maybe they 154 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: want to convert that car line the assembly playing over 155 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: to something else. You know what, there's always a reason 156 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: why they do it. It's always very very well cawculated 157 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: and thought out. For all we know, they're getting rid 158 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: of the Beetle and they're gonna reproduce and and and 159 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: bring in a hybrid Beetle or a or an all 160 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: electric Beetle if they don't have one already. But you 161 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: know what, the end of the Beatle. Oh, well, see 162 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: you next, um, you know, and listen, I can talk 163 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: about other small cars that haven't done well either. You know, 164 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: let's let's real quick here. People say to me, you 165 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: know what, what else doesn't age well? And I was 166 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: thinking about this. I don't think beatles age well. I 167 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: don't think Chevy cruises age well. And I think I 168 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: heard somebody leave skid marks. They stopped so fast when 169 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: I said that. Yeah, I don't think the Chevy Cruise 170 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: age as well. After that car is five six years old. 171 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: I think all the plastic components and all the under 172 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: the hood engine componentry, I think parts are falling off 173 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: of that too fast, and they they're not as impressive. 174 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: A lot of that car is plastic. I don't think 175 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: Let's see what else? What else do I see that 176 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to last. Super Brus are typically a buck 177 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: of buck twenty, and then they start to have their issues. 178 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: It's always a head gasket, it's always ah, it's always 179 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,959 Speaker 1: a transmission by one sixty, it seems. And super brus 180 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: tend to start to rust and they get to be 181 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: a little more difficult in terms of service and maintenance. 182 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: You know, it's a real surprising car that that does 183 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: really well. I think the Ford focus beginning with like 184 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: model year two thousand seven, two thousand eight. You do 185 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: some oil changes to those cars, you do some breaks 186 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: to those cars, and the rest of it seems to 187 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: hold up pretty well. It's it seems to be a 188 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: pretty solid car. And you know we've got we've got 189 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: more from my my experience, we've got more than a 190 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: few out there, hundred sixty hundred eighty two hundred thousand 191 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: miles on them, trucking along, and yeah, they do stupid stuff. 192 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: We had a customer with an OH five that the 193 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: rear coil spring perch rusted through the frame assembly. But 194 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, I blame that on environment to the cars 195 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: got a hund fifty thousand miles on it. It's fifteen 196 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: years old. You know that's some of that is clearly environment. 197 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: But the basic drive train, the engine is still there, 198 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: the trans is still going strong. So but ump end 199 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: of a nearer Volkswagen beetle down the tubes. But that's okay. 200 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: You would see me laughing about it too much. Five 201 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero running any of the Car Doctor. 202 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: We're back right after this. He drives that way. But 203 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: when it comes to fixing cars, Ron has card advice 204 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: done right. Eight five five five zero nine zero zero. 205 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Here's Ron, welcome back. Let's get over and talk to 206 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: Fred in North Carolina. Fred, welcome to the Car Doctor, sir, 207 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: How can I help? Thank you? Ron? My call I'm 208 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: calling because I'm in the situation of having lost my 209 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: mechanic of twenty five plus years. Uh, and I need 210 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: a new mechanic. And let me give you a little 211 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: background here. And my question really is about finding another 212 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: mechanic that's qualified. My mechanic only had to work on 213 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: a Dodge Caravan and then later a two thousand uh 214 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: Lincoln town Cars. So these are not These were not 215 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: new cars, and the technology isn't what it is today. 216 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 1: So UH we did pretty well. I I liked him, uh, 217 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: and then he retired and he sold his business. And 218 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: I didn't discover this until I actually had a problem. 219 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: I had a Lincoln had a intake manifold leak, um 220 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: coolant leak, and so I took it to the shop 221 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: and he said, oh, I bought this off of your mechanic, 222 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,839 Speaker 1: And so I was kind of in desperate, so I 223 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: let him work on and he fixed it. Uh. He 224 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 1: had to use an aftermarket part. But then I developed 225 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: later not related to this, I developed a little myths 226 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: and UM, I began to learn a little bit about 227 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: what causes that and how you might diagnose it. And 228 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: so I went back to him and said, you know, 229 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: could you tell me you know which cylinder is it 230 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: or is it uh more than one cylinder that's it's 231 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: missing on And he just kind of scratched his head 232 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: and I said, well, could you, you know, put a 233 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: scam tool on this thing and maybe you can tell 234 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: me the answer and maybe we can fix us. And 235 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: he himmed and hauled and said his scam tool wouldn't 236 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: work on it. Well, he I'm trying to make this 237 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: long story short, sorry about that. He never he never 238 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 1: could give me. He could never tell me if if 239 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: there was a silinar missing or which cylinder was missing. 240 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: He insisted it was probably a fuel pump. So I'll 241 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: let him put a fuel pump on. And but I said, well, 242 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: is it gonna work when you fix this? When you 243 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: do this, and he said yes, If you're not, you 244 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: don't have to pay me. And so that was the 245 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: condition in which he changed the fuel pump. Of course, 246 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: it didn't fix the problem, and he never gave me 247 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: the misfire code. So anyway, the point is I finally 248 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: went out and got myself a scanner of a sort. 249 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: He gave me livestream Day that gave me fault codes. 250 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: It gave me um uh mode six, and I said, oh, 251 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: it's cylinder four. So I've swapped the swapped the coils 252 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: on that, and sure enough the coil move the miss 253 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: Meyer moved to the distiller. I swapped the coil on 254 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: and I said, I know it's the coil. Look look 255 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: at cars. So so I replaced it with a motorcraft 256 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: coil and voila. The system goes away. My point being, 257 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: I don't think I can do this forever, and I 258 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: know there's things I can't diagnose. So I need a 259 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: good mechanic and I have. I don't know how to 260 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: find that person. I do know that there are such 261 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: things as the A s C Certified mechanics, and I 262 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: always my question you Ron, is would I be doing 263 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: myself a favor by limiting my search for a new 264 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: mechanic to an a s C certified mcanton knowing that 265 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: there's plenty of other mechanics after. They're probably just as good, 266 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: but I just don't know how to find them. You know. 267 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: Forty years ago, thirty five years ago, all right, when 268 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: I started taking a s C S, I used to 269 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: think that it was the be all an end all. 270 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I still have a lot 271 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: of respect for a SE shirts. I still think there's 272 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: some value there. I still have all my A s 273 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: C shirts. I'm technically I'm an I'm an a s 274 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: C Master. But I also see a lot of guys 275 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: taking tests that I don't know they passed the test, 276 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: and I wouldn't let him fix a bicycle. And then 277 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: I see a lot of guys that don't take the 278 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: text test that really impressed me, that are smarter than I, 279 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: that are better than I. That you know, they just 280 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: have more mechanical intuitiveness in their head. You can see it. 281 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: I don't think a s C IS is the final barometer. 282 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: It's a good starting point. I think trying to find 283 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: a mechanic as a perce rule one. I said this 284 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: to someone the other day. We were talking about, you know, 285 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: what do you look for in a mechanic and how 286 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: do you find a mechanic? And I said, I think 287 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: it's the simple things. You know, people call the shop, 288 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: true stories, people call the shop. I had a fellow 289 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: call within the last two weeks and he wants me 290 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: to work I've never seen this vehicle before. He wants 291 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: me to work on this nine year old Ford expedition 292 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: with a D eighty five thousand miles on it, that 293 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: he already pulled the codes, he already ordered the parts. 294 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: It's got cam timing, actuator faults, and it's burning oil 295 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: and he just wants me to install his parts. And 296 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: I said no, and he was like whine. I said, well, 297 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: because you know this is a bad first date. I said, 298 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: You're not gonna know how good I am based on 299 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: whether or not this this succeeds, because I don't know 300 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: what the history of this vehicle is. I don't know 301 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: who's done all the oil changes. I don't know what 302 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: sort of service it's had. It's it sounds like the 303 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: engines coming to the end of its life. You know 304 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: how much sludge is in the actuators, how many problems 305 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: elsewhere are are lying within this engine? That it's just 306 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: a ticking time bomb. I said, Because then the other 307 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: side of the conversation was you know how much will 308 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: this cost him? And you know, if if, how much 309 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: is it going to cost? Is the second or third 310 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: thing out of your in your thought process. Yeah, you're 311 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: looking at it wrong. It's got to be procedural. Now. 312 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: Now we had someone come in the other day. Now, 313 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: can I do an oil change? I did the oil change, 314 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: and it's procedure. We we follow the same procedure. It's 315 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: it's right. It up. Sign them up, have a seat, 316 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, Give them the newspaper. Take it 317 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: around the block, three rights, Put it up in the air. 318 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: Listen for noises, Look for noises, quick bulb check. Wiggle 319 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: the front end, drain the oil drain, the filter set 320 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: the tire, pressure sticker, under the hood, fluid top, anything 321 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: you can get your hands on, out the door, bill 322 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: him and go procedurally. We did it perfect. He said, Wow, 323 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: there's really impressive. He goes, He goes, I guess I 324 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: could trust you guys to do the hard stuff to 325 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: or the or the more involved stuff. And and he 326 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: and to me, that made sense. It was a procedural thing. 327 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: He saw the operation of the shomp. He's sure he 328 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: saw our effectiveness of what we do. And it sounds 329 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: like your experience with this guy. You know, he didn't 330 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: see it. He he either he didn't diagnose it or 331 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: he chose not to. And and and now you're looking 332 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: for because you haven't said to me about price. You're 333 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: looking for procedure and and and you know, for you 334 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: to find procedure, you gotta give him something simple. If 335 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: they can't get an oil change right, they're not going 336 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: to get the hard stuff right all right. To me, 337 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: the oil change is not about how cheap, it's about 338 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: how efficient. It's about how correct is it? Is it? 339 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard last week show Fred, 340 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: my daughter took her car. She's in Pittsburgh. She takes 341 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 1: her escape into the Ford dealer in Pittsburgh and the 342 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: woman's arguing with her about why she putting synthetic oil 343 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: in the car. I talked about this last week, and 344 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: I said, Rachel, just just tell her to put synthetic 345 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: oil in it and tell her to knock it off. 346 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: And the woman's arguing with her, it's too expect it's 347 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: not your money put the oil in the car. What 348 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: are we doing? You know? It makes me wonder cause 349 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: if I ever took the car and I told it 350 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:08,959 Speaker 1: take it and it needs breaks, what would it come 351 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: out like? I You know, Fred, stay right where you are. 352 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: I want to hold you over. I want to finish 353 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: this conversation. I'm run on any of the car doctor 354 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero. I'll be back right after this, 355 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 1: don't go away shout out putt talking. That would be 356 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: me welcome back. We're on naming the car doctor on 357 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: the phone with Fred North Carolina. Fred's trying to find 358 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: a new mechanic. Fred, you're still there, sir, So you 359 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: know all that being said, it's procedure, all right, and 360 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: I always think of what to repair is It's it's 361 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: like dating, right, remember dating. We'd go out on a 362 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: date and you know, you you, you know, you'd work 363 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: your way past coffee and up to the movies and 364 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: then dinner and so on, and then you finally met 365 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: the relatives. So you know the dates you went out 366 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: on where the girl took you home to meeter parents 367 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: right away. That was probably a bad first date, right, 368 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: It just it just kind of didn't work out right. 369 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: You know, you're staring at the father looking down at 370 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: your going So you know it's it's you gotta have 371 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: good first dates with mechanics. You gotta start with oil changes. 372 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: You've got to start with procedure. Uh yeah, it's easy. 373 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: Walk in, look at the shop, you know, how neater 374 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: clean is it? How much information do they have on hand? 375 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: And don't feel bad about telling them what you're trying 376 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: to do. Listen, interview them. People interview me all the time. 377 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: It's really a riot. People come in. Are you only 378 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: go to fixing cars? Well, you know, we have fun. 379 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: First question. One of my first questions would be, or 380 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,719 Speaker 1: better yet, tell me about your scan tools. You know, 381 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: I want to go to the guy that's got more 382 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: than one. And you know, if the guy says, well, 383 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: I've I've only got one of it's a brand X 384 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: asked him, does he really think he can fig every 385 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: car with one scan tool? Because I'm gonna here, I'm 386 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: here right now to tell you know that you can't. 387 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: You know, it's it's and that's what you're looking for. 388 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: And and your issue is going to be you've got 389 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: older cars. You've got what a two thousand Lincoln and 390 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: in a two thousand you say, a two thousand nine 391 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: Dodge or Dodge two thousand nine Dodge Caravan only right, 392 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: but your newest car is still ten years old. So right, 393 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: he's got to be equipped work on older technology and 394 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: does he have that ability? And it's you know, it's 395 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: not always an assumption. Now if if if he's the 396 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: neighborhood kid that just got out of Lincoln Tech and 397 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: he's just starting up. Maybe his business model is seven 398 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: years and newer. And there are guys out there that 399 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: are doing that, that are just working on new cars. 400 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 1: There are guys out there that are working on ten 401 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: years and older. So you know, it's the day and 402 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,959 Speaker 1: age of interviewing mechanics and asking him what will they 403 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: work on or what are they comfortable with? And what 404 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: have they got experienced with? All very valid points, all 405 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: very valid questions. And if anybody takes offense next you know, uh, 406 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's don't be bashful. It's there. There's 407 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: there's no reason because you know, that's the kind of 408 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: guy when somebody comes in and asks me those questions. 409 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: That's the kind of guy I know that's not looking. 410 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: You know, he's not so worried about price. I mean, 411 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: price comes into this somewhere in the relationship. Right. The 412 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,439 Speaker 1: date can't be astronomical every time you come in, otherwise 413 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: we can't afford the date anymore. But but somewhere, yeah, 414 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: I mean somewhere along the way. It's you're looking for 415 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: the guy that you know when he walks out and 416 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: he and he you know, he sees the TPM s 417 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: lid on and you know that he hears the tire 418 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: going flat, but you're really in there for an oil change. 419 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: You know, you're in there because the brake light bulb 420 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: is out. He kind of puts two and two together 421 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 1: and says, let's fix this too. You know, Um, you're 422 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: kind of looking for the guy that when the car 423 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: goes in. Oh, I'm trying to think of an example. Here, 424 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: the car goes in for a sixty mile service and 425 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: maybe it's all the fluids, all the filters except for 426 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: an oil change, and he still checks the oil level 427 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: even if it's not his oil change, because he knows 428 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: that servicing the car means looking at all the fluids, 429 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: even the ones he's not changing. That's the guy that 430 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: gets it. He's thinking he's got something between his ears 431 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: besides the place to put his hat. Makes sense. Yeah, 432 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: I mean that's listen, and you know you'll know, you'll 433 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: know listen. I used to you know, I used to 434 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: go into the deal about you. When you walk in 435 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: the shop, you want to make sure your feet don't 436 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: stick to the floor. And the guy's gotta have enough 437 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: equipment to track man space flight like NASA. I mean, 438 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: that's a that's a given now, I mean we need that, 439 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: all right. And you know, ask the guy what he 440 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: doesn't work on. If you find a general independent mechanic 441 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: that's working with one scan tool and he says he 442 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,120 Speaker 1: can work on every car including BMW's Mercedes out he's 443 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: in volkswagons. I want to meet him. I think he's 444 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: nuts because the amount of specialty tooling involved to work 445 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: on those four car lines will bankrupt the average shop. 446 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's it's where's the bread and 447 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 1: butter sliced? And that's what we're looking for, all right, 448 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: So fire away, let me know what you find, all right, 449 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: all right, you take good care for it, yes, sir um, yeah, 450 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: hard question right. It's it's it's like dating, man, it 451 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: really is, you know what. And it's becoming a game 452 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: and a case of not everybody is meant to work 453 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: on every car. It just can't be. The technology is 454 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: not there, and it's it's it just it just takes 455 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: a very careful thought process today to fix cars and 456 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: it's getting you know, the new side in the shop. 457 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: Everything will take longer than you think, and I have 458 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: no answer as to why. And that's really the truth. 459 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: It's just and you know, like you've got a couple 460 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: of weeks ago we had this conversation. You've been very 461 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: busy lately. You've been slammed, so I don't want to 462 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: bother you. There's a brand new place that changes oils 463 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: and specializes tires in in my town. I brought the 464 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: car there and I said, let me see what the 465 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: guy's gonna do. Never asked price. He immediately came out. 466 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 1: He's you've got to see this because Ron and Ninian 467 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: puts our TV around the oil change plug and he goes, 468 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: it's probably stripped, and I went, no, it's not. So 469 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: my mechanic does that leaks. So he took it out 470 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: and he took a leak and he went, oh, he's 471 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 1: I neverous. This is a good idea. So we started 472 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 1: talking and next thing you know, I started to ask 473 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: as the cars needs tires, and you know, he gave 474 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: me a price, and you and I talked and you've 475 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: been slammed. And of course this morning I go to 476 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 1: come out and the behind the scene drama, folks is 477 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: um I had a bolt through my tire to a 478 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: show today? Well we would have done a show. He 479 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: just wasn't sure what part of the New York through 480 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 1: the way we're gonna be on. When we did, like 481 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: I called Ron, it was like, uh, my way to 482 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: get picked me up or I don't know what. Let 483 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: me see if I can get this tire off the car. Anyway, 484 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 1: I just ordered the tires. Guy's gonna have him monday, man, 485 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: I'm giving him the business. It's you know, it's it's 486 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 1: it's not a hard thing to do. It's it's a 487 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: very traumatic thing finding a mechanic today. I get that, 488 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: but there's ways to go about it. By the way, 489 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: the RTV thing, if anybody's wondering, it's it's not that 490 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: we doubt our ability or the vehicle's ability. Put a 491 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: little schmir of our TV. You don't have the tighten 492 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: the drain plug as much, and you're you're it's easier 493 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: on the threads. You don't have to crank on it, 494 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: because a lot of the threads today are steel drain 495 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 1: plugs with aluminum pans, and it beats the heck out 496 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: of the aluminum beats the heck out of the aluminum pans. 497 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: Let's pull over and take a pause for the cause. 498 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: When we come back we'll go right to Michael in Illinois, chevying. 499 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: They're very patiently hanging there. Michael will be right back 500 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: to you. I'm running Eating the Car Doctor. We'll be 501 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: back right after this Running in the Car Doctor here 502 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: nine zero zero. By the way, if you're looking for 503 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: more information about this radio show, I don't know why 504 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 1: you would, but okay, I get it. Car Doctor show 505 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: dot com. You can get out there. That's some of 506 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: the basics, and we do try to interact with you 507 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: as much as I have time for during the course 508 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: of the week out on the Facebook page run a 509 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: Nating in the Car Doctor. But uh, we're all over 510 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: the place. I have to question everybody to you know, 511 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: you can ask some questions on the Facebook page, but 512 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: a lot of times I'll suggest and I'd like, you know, 513 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: can we do this up here on air? And I 514 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: posted that a couple of times this week because I 515 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: want everybody to get the benefit of the answer to 516 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: the question. And I think doing it on air is 517 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: obviously the bigger platform than all of them, and uh, 518 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: you know, everybody benefits from it because the idea here 519 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: is I'm just trying to give you what's in my 520 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: head to uh you know, educate everybody and listen. I 521 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,719 Speaker 1: learned from you too, so it's a good exchange all 522 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: the time. Let's get over to Michael in Illinois. Nine 523 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: Chevy K and a crank, No start, Michael, Welcome back 524 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: to the car doctor, sir. What's going on? Yeah? Yeah, 525 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: thank you? I. UM, I called the week before last. UM, 526 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: you told me to check the spark that just like 527 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: you said, it wasn't getting I spark. So I went 528 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: through back at it running. It's running now, UM, but 529 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: the camera chart is reading at fourteen degrees positives. UM. 530 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: So I sent it back to the top head center. 531 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: UM read installed the distributor. Everything still the same result. Um. 532 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: And then I tried to jump the distributor ahead of 533 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: to to kind of balance that out. UM, but it 534 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: won't seat down all the way to camp. Move the 535 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: distributor anymore because it's hitting up on the on the intaker. 536 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: So tell me what initially and you're on the right 537 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: track because CAM retard. I don't know what GM was thinking. 538 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: Nine seven. I think this is like we want to 539 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: make it well, we're not gonna do ignition timing on 540 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: any cars anymore. We're gonna make up CAM retard, which 541 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: is the amount of off set the distributor possesses in 542 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: relation to the where the rotor contacts the firing point. 543 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: I I'm not sure why they did that years ago. 544 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: It's just somebody had an idea that didn't seem to work. 545 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: What what what eventually or what initially caused this? This 546 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: is this became a crank no start. It died one day. Yeah, um, 547 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: I believe what the what the issue was. The distributor 548 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: went bad, and then I bought a new all in one. 549 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 1: I had the capain rotor on it. I put that in. 550 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: It started once and then wouldn't start back. Uh um. 551 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 1: So I ended up putting the cap and rotor from 552 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: my old one back on it. Because I had only 553 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: been on there a couple of months. I hadn't put 554 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: very many mouths on and it crank right up. So 555 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 1: I think the new distributor that I bought just had 556 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: a defective cap or rotor. Because it's it's running fine now. Um, well, 557 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: it's it's running fine now, but you can't you can't 558 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: get CAM retarded because CAM retards zero plus plus or 559 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: minus two. And you're right, you're following procedure. You're disconnecting 560 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: and going through the process. Right, okay, So when it 561 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: went into the crank, no, start initially before you put 562 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: the distributor in it. Um. I'm trying to think of 563 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: how to ask this question. It started on Monday. You 564 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: went out Tuesday morning, turned the key it wooden fire. Yes, okay. 565 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: And and you know it had a bad distributor. Now 566 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: you're you're using and you're using a replacement distributor. You're 567 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: rebuilt the one you had. I used replacement, okay. It 568 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: the rotor on. You realize that the rotor can go 569 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: on one of two ways on that distributor, right, Yes, 570 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: I put it on wrong initially, and I had some 571 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: more research and figured out the right way. Did you 572 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: so we were past that? I mean, the only experience 573 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: I've seen where cam retard won't come in it's indexing 574 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: inside the distributor. It's something about the way the distributors assembled. 575 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: Do you still have the old one or did you 576 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: turn it in? No? I still have it. Um. Can 577 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: we look at the old one and compare that? What 578 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: makes what? What? What stopped working on the old one? 579 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: It just it just stopped making spark, I believe. So 580 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: it's the Um, I don't know what it's called. I 581 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna call it contact. I don't know what 582 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: to call it. On the very top, the metal piece, um, 583 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,239 Speaker 1: was all kinds of corroded um. For then the new 584 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: one that I had was bright and shiny, and I 585 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: was just kind of replacing everything that had anything to 586 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: do with spark and that was that was next on 587 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: the are are are you referencing the center tab of 588 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: the rotor was corroded. No, on the h well that too, 589 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: But on the distributor itself, the little the metal piece 590 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: that comes up straight in the middle of it. The yeah, 591 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sure what you're referencing either. Usually 592 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: when those get corrosion inside the distributor cap like that 593 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: was the cap all corroded too. When when when they 594 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: get corroded. Look at the bottom of the distributor, Do 595 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: you see that little screen. There's a little events screen 596 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: down there. But if you look, if you look at 597 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: the bottom of the distributor, there's a little screen and 598 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 1: that's usually clogged. And sometimes it's as simple as a 599 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: spider web and it just won't let it won't let 600 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: fresh air in and out with without fresh air moisture 601 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: builds up and then we get a Oh, it's like 602 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: there's like some arc welding going on inside there. They 603 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: call it a Corona effect. If I remember right, and 604 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: I'm talking about old technology here, that it and if 605 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: you clean that screen and just clean up the components, 606 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: you can reuse that. Because the other side of this 607 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: is can you get the distributor index down? You know, 608 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: you might be fighting the oil pump shaft in the 609 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: bottom of the block in relation to where the shaft 610 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: has to sit for the distributor gear to drop down 611 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: in and be in line for cam retard. Does that 612 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: make any sense for you, Michael, Yeah, like I think so. 613 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: So you're saying the reason it won't see properly if 614 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: I try to jump in into is because it won't 615 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: mess with it. Right. Are you following? Are you following 616 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: a procedure? You know, the one where they talk about 617 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: lining up the white dot on the base of the 618 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: distributor shaft. Yeah? I lined yeah, I lined everything up, um, 619 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: like I found in the manual. Alright, because there's two 620 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: separate procedures. There's one if the distributor has been removed, 621 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: and there's one if the distributor has not been removed. Okay, 622 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: I followed the one where I had already removed it 623 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: because I didn't, I should have looked at it. Yeah, 624 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: it's okay, listen, that's this, this is this is how 625 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: we learned. Brother. Um. I would I would very carefully 626 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: take the two distributors and lay mb side by side. 627 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: You're missing something, there's something index, there's something different. If 628 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: this is an aftermarket distributor from any one of the 629 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: rebuilders out there, I wouldn't. I wouldn't trust it, to 630 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: save my life. I would want to verify everything and 631 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,239 Speaker 1: match it up to the old one, all right. And 632 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: like I said, you know, there's not much that goes 633 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: wrong with those the older distributors. Once in a while, 634 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: you'd get a bad pickup coil, all right, once in 635 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: a while. Usually usually it was ignition module, ignition modules 636 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: still inside that distributor, and the rest of that was 637 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: or was the ignition module mounted out by the coil 638 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: in nineties. It's it's separate. It's separate. Yeah, okay, so 639 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: there's nothing else. There's nothing else inside that distributor. The 640 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: pickup coils inside that distributor, right, yes, yeah, okay, So 641 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: you know what you can do an A C voltage 642 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: output test on that pickup coil. Just spin it. What 643 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: sort of a C voltage signal do you generate off 644 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: of it? Just took up an A C voltmeter to 645 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: the two leads, and whatever you see on the new one, 646 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: you should see at least that on the old one. 647 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: I forget the exact spec. I'd have to go back 648 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: and look. I'm thinking two volts a C, four volts 649 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: a C. It's not a lot. On a spin test. 650 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: You could hook up a drill to it and spend 651 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: the distributor and see if the pickup coil puts out. Heck, 652 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: for that matter, I'd feel more comfortable putting trying to 653 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: find an original Delco or GM pickup coil for that 654 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: putting that in that old distributor, making sure everything's index properly. 655 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: Just watch when you take it out. And I think 656 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: it can only go in one way, the roll pin 657 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: where it lines up to the shaft at the base. 658 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 1: But I would feel more comfortable doing that than using 659 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: something in the aftermarket, because you know, trying to line 660 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: that up I've I've seen all kinds of different combinations 661 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: and making yourself crazy but step one, two distributors, bring them, 662 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: bring the engine around the top dead on number one, 663 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: so at least you have some kind of reference. If 664 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 1: you have any doubt, you want to base line it. 665 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 1: Pulled the valve cover on the driver's side, because that'll 666 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: be cylinder one. There's a five seven R motor if 667 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 1: I remember right, Yeah, Um, pull the valve cover and 668 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: make sure you know, watch watch it come around and 669 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: take compression power, exhaust and you'll see that. You'll see 670 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: the uh. Um, you'll see the two valves closed. And 671 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: then from their matches, two distributors up side by side, 672 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: index them and then call me back next week. Eight 673 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:29,319 Speaker 1: zero zero The car doctors coming right back. Welcome back. 674 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: Weren't Nat of the car doctor you know? Uh, Tom Ray, 675 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm happy to report I just came out of surgery 676 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: and Um, your tire will survive. It has enough air 677 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: pressure in it, and I thought it very appropriate. We're 678 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,799 Speaker 1: running out there brakes trying to fix tires in the 679 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,359 Speaker 1: studio garage and just to make sure that you can 680 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: make it home after today's show. Oh boy, oh boy, 681 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: but I will tell you this, you do need a tire. Brother. Um, 682 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: Tom's got a big giant pull sticking at the shame 683 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: on you. Look at look what you do to keep 684 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: America's Car Show rolling. It is kind of a apropos. 685 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: I guess is that the word? You know? Hey, where'd 686 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: you go? I was on my way to the Car 687 00:34:58,560 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: doctor man. We had to get the show on the air, 688 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: and look exactly what happened, like, holy cow? Can you imagine? 689 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for calling. I appreciate it. This hour and 690 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: the more Car Doctor want to come, come back, come 691 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: back the next hour and find out will Tom's tire 692 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 1: and make it? Will Tom make it home? Will I 693 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: make it? Will I get through the next hour? But 694 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,320 Speaker 1: Lucy the Wonder Dog ever finally say anything here in studio, 695 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 1: I'm rounding any in the Car Doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, 696 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 1: They're priceless.