1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Ron Anian, I want to see the whole car. I 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: want the opportunity to work on the entire car, because 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: I find when I work on the entire car, it 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: cuts down the headaches, it cuts down the problems, it 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: cuts down the ever since syndromes. Down there, the car Doctor, 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get another quarter of a million miles all 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: right through the chain. I will you know, I wanted to. 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was a chain or whatever. 9 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: You know that that is a chain, and you won't 10 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: hear the slap. Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananian, 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor since nineteen ninety one. This is where 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: car owners the world overturn to for their definitive opinion 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage to 15 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: orders are open, but I am here to take their calls. 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: Five five, five, six hundred and now running. What a 17 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: difference of week, mikes, you know, last week or the 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: week before last, when we were last here together, you 19 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: and I, the week at the shop was okay, it 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: was you know, it was a little less than an 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: average week. It was a little quiet, It was spring break, 22 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: I guess around the country and you know, people just 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: weren't into cars. You could see it. And I think 24 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: we talked last week. I think I mentioned to you that, 25 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: you know, Danny was busy all week and I was busy, 26 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, a little in the shop, and you know 27 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: I did more probably maintenance stuff, household stuff as far 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 1: as the shop's concerned, updating a lot of computers, putting 29 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: an SSDSP, upgrading RAM, just getting computers cleaned up in 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: things that I've been putting off and trying to find 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: the time to do. So it was a good week 32 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: to catch up and we were good right, you know, 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: it was it paid to be open, but it wasn't 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: a crazy killer week. And then Monday came. This week, 35 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: Holly smokes, it was just nuts. It was off the 36 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: wall every day, non stop. I've never sold more tires 37 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: in a single week than I have in this week 38 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: that just went by, and it got to the point 39 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: where you thought the only brand in the marketplace was Michelin. 40 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 1: We just kept selling Michelin's. Everybody came in requesting Michelin's. 41 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: I kept looking as Michelin running a sale. Is there 42 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: something going on at the Michelin, plant are they And 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: the answer I got the most was because they've heard 44 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: good reviews number one, but number two, people are looking 45 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: to keep their cars going longer. And that seems to 46 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: be a dominant theme with all of you, that you're 47 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: looking to keep the car going longer. There's a huge concern, 48 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: and I realized it was there before, but now you're 49 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: being more vocal about it. You know, Ron, I can't 50 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: find a car. I can't replace the car for six 51 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I can't replace the car for three thousand dollars, 52 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: and just constant ongoing comments about how we're going to 53 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: replace the car. No, we can't. Let's fix it. Let's 54 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: do what we have to do. I thought somebody, Alex 55 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: a new customer, brand new customer this week. I thought 56 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: he said it best. He said, Ron, I've got a 57 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: credit card to me. Whatever we're going to repair, as 58 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: long as it's got your seal of approval and your blessing, 59 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: just do it, because it's just going on a credit card. 60 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: And it's just I've got to keep this card going. 61 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: I can't afford a new one and I can't even 62 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: find one. If I if I could, you know, I 63 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: thought I had heard that the ability to purchase cars 64 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: was getting better, But you know, from what you're telling me, 65 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: as I hear it at the counter, you're out there 66 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: looking and it's not you know, perceptions reality. That's what 67 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: you're that's what you're perceiving. And I kind of agree 68 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: with you. And I'm still hearing off the wall crazy numbers. 69 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: One of the most common things I also heard this 70 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: week was, you know, I've i've I've gone to go 71 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: look at a replacement vehicle and they still want three 72 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars over invoice, over a dealer, manufacturer or manufacturer sticker, 73 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: and I just don't want to I just don't want 74 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: to pay that ron. I can't, not in good conscious. 75 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: And a couple of people talk about the chip shortage 76 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: or you know why we're still having a chip shortage 77 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: and how there's certain things that they can't get in 78 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: the vehicle, and they say, what's the point. I'm going 79 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: to spend forty five thousand dollars for a vehicle and 80 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: they're going to be missing two of the key things 81 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: that I wanted, and I might as well keep the 82 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 1: old one I've gotten, keep it going. And I understand that. 83 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: Listen my twenty two Chevy pickup truck. I'm still waiting 84 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: for some kind of a module. The truck will be 85 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: a year old Memorial Day and you know there's still 86 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: something GM hasn't told me is available, and I don't care. 87 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: I can drive without it. To tell you through that 88 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: prefer it. You know, simpler is better in my mind, 89 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: but you know it's just crazy. So you're spending a 90 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: lot of money. Three new customers this week, spending a 91 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: lot of money. The first one was Paul. Paul came 92 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: in in a twenty ten LEXUS LS four sixty. He 93 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: was told by the dealer that he needed fifteen thousand 94 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: I'll say that again, fifteen thousand dollars worth of air 95 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: suspension repairs to this LS four sixty, or they could 96 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: swap out the air suspension components and put in regular 97 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: shocks and struts for about five thousand, and he decided 98 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: to get a second opinion. I became that second opinion 99 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: as I usually am, and I looked at it and 100 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: I you know, why are we trying to change all 101 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: these shocks and struts and the left front air strut, 102 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: I mean it had a stain of oil on it. It 103 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: It had like a shine to it. It wasn't even oil, 104 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: It wasn't even really wet. It was just a sheen 105 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: and you could see that, Yeah, is it getting older. Yeah, 106 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: it could have been listened. It could have been something 107 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: that's sprayed up on it from the road. It could 108 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: have been road debris. It could have been a grease 109 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: source from a variety of things. But for whatever the reason, 110 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: the dealers said, no, we want we want to change 111 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,679 Speaker 1: all the air suspension on this vehicle. And I shouldn't 112 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: say it. The dealer, like all dealers are bed. They're 113 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: not there's good in bed. They're just I think they 114 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 1: missed the mark on this one. You know, a dealership 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: is like any repair shop. It's just it's as good 116 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: as the people in it. So I would through the 117 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: car and I explained everything, and I'd said, you know, 118 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: my biggest concern with this vehicle is that look at 119 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: the front tires. The front tires are being killed on 120 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,559 Speaker 1: the inside edges. It's just wearing something phenomenally. And every 121 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: time I noticed, every time I drove the car, the 122 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: steering wheel pointed in a different direction. It was down 123 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: on the left, it was down on the right, I'm saying, boys, 124 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: something's really loose here. But I couldn't find anything loose, 125 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: anything of substance. It just didn't make any sense. And 126 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: then finally I caught it. The two lower control arms 127 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: were shifting the inner bushing. It was bad, and the 128 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: bar would the control arm would roll forward, it would 129 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: roll back depending upon load on the vehicle, and that 130 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: would affect camera. That would affect you know, handling, it 131 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: would affect steering wheel position. It was so we ended 132 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: up doing four tires, two lower control arms, and alignment 133 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: and oil change, and six thousand dollars later, he got 134 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: his car back. It was great and he's happy, you know, 135 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: he said. Listen, Ronnie says, I want to keep the car, 136 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: you know, and I let him drive it. I'm funny, 137 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: like this your first time in with me, you always 138 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: get to drive the car before you pay me. I 139 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: just I just kind of like to do it that 140 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: way because I want to see I want to see 141 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: the look on your face. I want to know if 142 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: we hit the mark. And he came back in, he says, 143 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: he gave me back my car. He said. The minute 144 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: I sat in it and drove it, he goes, it 145 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: felt like I was sitting back on my living room couch, 146 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: which is the way those cars were ride and handled right. 147 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: And ellis four sixty. Alexis just great cars, so he 148 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: was one. Alex came in twenty thirteen. Honda. Alex was 149 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: a little I don't want to say dangerous or different, 150 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: but it was. It was different. He I went around 151 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: the block on a road test. It was a basic checklist. 152 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: Look over my car, tell me what you think it needs. 153 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: I've got a laundry list. And he did. And tell 154 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: me what you think it needs? He says, I need 155 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: your blessing to know that I can continue to drive 156 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: this car. And I took it around the block. And 157 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: you know, when you make those right turns, because when 158 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: you come out of the shop you go to Smith, 159 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: to Bonner to you know, and so on. We make 160 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: the three rights. And every time I made the right turn, 161 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: the oil light came on. Oh, or as we'd like 162 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: to say, row and gee, there's a problem here, Houston. 163 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: We have a problem. You know. Seeing the oil at 164 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: come on on turns on road tests can only mean 165 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: one thing. We're running out of oil. And I brought 166 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: it back to the shop and I checked it and yeah, 167 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: there's nothing on the dipstick. And you know, I told him, 168 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: I said, Alex, I said, you know, I can fix this. 169 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: I just don't know how much I have to fix. 170 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is you know, catastrophic engine 171 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: failure that's pending, or what are we doing. I took 172 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: a twelve ounce as a second time in two weeks. 173 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: I think this has happened. But I took about twelve 174 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: ounces of oil out of the engine. You know, that 175 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: was it. It didn't it didn't have much in it. 176 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: It wasn't a half a quart, I can tell you that. 177 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: And we changed that and uh, you know, we did 178 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: an oil change, and we did some brake work and 179 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: we did a bunch of other things to it. And 180 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: about two grand. Alex is out the door and he's happy. 181 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: And I explained to myself, I want to see the 182 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: next oil change in two thousand miles. I said, I'm 183 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: gonna really go below the minimum here because I want 184 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: to see, you know, what the reaction of the vehicle 185 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: isn't Unfortunately, we had to spend too grand to find 186 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: out if it's worth fixing. We won't know if what 187 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: we did was worthwhile because there was so many things 188 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: wrong with this car. He'd been going to a family 189 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: mechanic that just oh, it's a long story. Missing clips, 190 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: missing holders, missing all sorts of things on this car, 191 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: just no personal pride and workmanship. The third one was 192 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: a twenty twelve dodged Durrango that would stall on left 193 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: turns intermittently at random skies blue clouds in the sky, 194 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: which weighs the wind blowing, that kind of thing. And 195 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: I couldn't duplicate it. I couldn't replicate it, but I 196 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: did find a recall that was active on the vehicle 197 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: using NHTSA dot gov and the then and finding there's 198 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: an open recall on the vehicle for the fuel pump relay. 199 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: A lot of this generation Chrysler, you know, ten eleven, twelve, thirteen, 200 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen, with the tip of them, the totally integrated 201 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: power module under the hood, have issues where the tip 202 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: of module goes bad. Uh, you know, internal cracks and 203 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: circuitry and so forth. And Chrysler has recalled a lot 204 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: of these vehicles for fuel pump issues. What they're doing 205 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: is they're taking the fuel pump relay out of the 206 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: tip of them, out of that underhood module and they're 207 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: wiring it in separately under you know, a separate wiring 208 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: harness repair. And you know, I said to I said 209 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: to John, I said, you know, or Vue. I'm sorry, 210 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: this was one, I said Vaughan, I said, you know, 211 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: this is this is where I would start. I you know, 212 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: you can't reproduce it. I can't make it happen. It 213 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: had no fault codes in it of any kind, in 214 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: any substance, not even communication failures. I said, this is 215 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: where you got to go. I said, you've got to 216 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: start here. You've got to baseline the vehicle. And his 217 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 1: bill was about a thousand bucks. And I guess the 218 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: point of all this is that, you know, all to repair, 219 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: it's like chasing snowflakes, no tour alike, and every car 220 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: that comes in is different, and there is a uniqueness 221 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: to how the repair has to go. There's standards that 222 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: should be followed, there's procedures that should be followed, there's 223 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: diagnostic steps that should be followed. But it doesn't mean 224 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: doing the same thing every time will require or create 225 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: the same repair. It will fix the vehicle, which is 226 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: obviously the goal, and that's why it's so important that 227 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: when you or your mechanic go through the vehicle they 228 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: follow basic logical, common sense approach. None of this will 229 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: The last three red cars had a bed gazinta. Let's 230 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: put a gazinta in it and see what that does. 231 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: You know, it's not about it can't It can't be 232 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: about how cheap. It has to be about how right, 233 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: because ultimately, if you're looking to do it cheap, you're 234 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: not going to be successful at some point where it's 235 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: going to come up and bite you and prevent you 236 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: from actually fixing that vehicle. You know, I had a 237 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: short I had a short conversation with another new customer, Laura, 238 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,719 Speaker 1: very sweet. She's in from California. She's driving a ten 239 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: year old Bends and we had a conversation about, you know, 240 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: repairing and maintaining that vehicle and what to look for 241 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: in a repair shop. And you know, it was kind 242 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: of a lot of fun to talk to her because 243 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: she got it. She's a lawyer, she understands billing, she 244 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: understands how things cost. And it was a refreshing attitude 245 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: as well as the other three new customers they came 246 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: in before her. Everybody had the attitude everybody had been 247 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: and it made me think that, you know, I back 248 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: to my old thought. Process of auto repair is like dating. 249 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: You got to kind of let everybody go everywhere else 250 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 1: and they decide who do they want to date and 251 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: who do they want to talk to, because it just 252 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: makes it that much easier. It's about the relationship, ultimately, 253 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: that's what auto repair is. It's about the relationship. To 254 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: be successful, you've got to have a good one and 255 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: you've got to know who you're talking to. And that's 256 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: what's so important. And that's your takeaway as we kick 257 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: off this hour of the Car Doctor. Here at eight 258 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: five five six nine nine zero zero, the phone's are 259 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: lit up. I'm gonna stop talking and pull over to 260 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: the side. Let Tom do his thing. I'm Ron and Ainian. 261 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Don't go away. Theos 262 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: need advice on how I'm maintaining that classic gto Ron 263 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: is the guy eight five five five six zero nine 264 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Here's Ron. Hey, let's get over and 265 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: talk to John up State, New York. John, welcome to 266 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. How are things up there? That way? Good? 267 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: It just started? The snow? Oh cool? So what can 268 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 1: I do? For you today, John. So, I've been listening 269 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: to the show for quite a while and um, you 270 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: know he bring up fuel trim issues and uh so 271 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw this out there. You talked 272 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: about using propane for finding vacuum leaks. Sure, I have 273 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: a smoke machine I've had for about fifteen years snap on, 274 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: and I've had incredible luck finding vacuum leaks using that. 275 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: And that didn't take manifold of that plastic leaking around 276 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: inject or O rings. Recently, a lady brought a Cobalt 277 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: in with a turbo boost code and a pretty new car, 278 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: and I was surprised to find out the rubber hose 279 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: had a small hole in it and it was in 280 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: a pretty tough spot, and I never would have found 281 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: it without the smoke machine. So I actually almost go 282 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: to that first to rule that out before I continue 283 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: with the rest of the diagnosis. And it just really 284 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: works good for me. Well, it's great, And you know, 285 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: smoke machines can do so much, but they can also 286 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: and I'm not telling you anything you don't know, John, 287 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: they can also only do so much. Right, have you 288 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: seen the machines from Redline Red Line Diagnostics with their 289 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: ability to go into you know, turbo boost machines, turbo 290 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: boost cars and some of the things they do. Their 291 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: machine will actually build different levels of pressure, um and 292 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: make diagnosing turbo and take ducks a lot easier. So 293 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: you may want to look at that too. You can 294 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: find their stuff at Redline Diagnostics dot com. Um. You 295 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: know we've had Chucking Kid on the show a couple 296 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: of times now talking about it, and UM, with all 297 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: the advent of turbo charger stuff, you know you're going 298 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: to find that the smoke machine personified. The way they've 299 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: done it, you know, makes it such a better product. Um, 300 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: and it will do more faster for you. So, UM, 301 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: do you do you use propane at all in the shop? Uh? No, 302 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: it's actually it's a bottle of a nert gas Okay, 303 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: So well, I mean, have you used propane at all 304 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: trying to find leaks looking for changes in fuel enrichment? 305 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: Actually I did back when cars had carburetors on them. 306 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: That was probably the last time I did that. Yeah, 307 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: so probably the same tool. Um, it's got the it's 308 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: got the little black knob on the side with it. 309 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: Originally came with a yellow hose and then the hose 310 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: wears out and you put a clear hose on it. 311 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: Did it look something like that, John Um? Actually, what 312 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: we did was I took a bottle of propane that 313 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: you would use for soldering. I just put a rubber 314 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: hose on it compete long and just passed the holes 315 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: around underneath the carburetor and back then there was of 316 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: course there was a lot more vacuum lines everywhere and 317 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: isolated that way, waiting for the RPM to rub up. Yeah, 318 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: there's a there's a tool out there from MotC. I 319 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: can't remember the exact part number. Maybe it's seventy nine, 320 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: twenty nine, but if you go if you go Google 321 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: search OTC Enrichmond tool or propane Enrichmond tool. It was 322 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: actually used on Chrysler Lean burn cars back in the 323 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: seventies and the eighties. That's where it actually came from. 324 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: And what I've done is I'll take a piece of 325 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: steel brake line, pieces of three sixteen steel brake line, 326 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: put it in the end of the rubber hose, and 327 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: I pinch the end down so it's a real small flow. 328 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: Because you want you want to be precise, obviously, you 329 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: want to be real accurate with where you're putting the propane. 330 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: And what I'll do is I'll watch on a scanner, 331 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 1: I'll look at fuel trim. I'll just bring up fuel 332 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: trim by itself so I get a real quick response 333 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: out of the SCANTL. And it can be anybody's scantol, 334 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, and I'll just I'll just you know, 335 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,239 Speaker 1: move the propane along until I Yeah, if you if 336 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: it's quiet enough in the shop, you'll hear the engine 337 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: pick up or change it's RPM. But you'll also see 338 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: it looking at fuel trim. Uh you know, by g 339 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: did it react to it? And maybe I'll put a 340 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: No two censor up there too, depending upon the car. 341 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: I don't trust air fuels, but I'll listen to an 342 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: O two you know, all day long. So and you 343 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: may want to try that. That may that may help 344 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,479 Speaker 1: you in the process as well. But you know, just 345 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: I'm glad you're using smoke man. I appreciate you sharing, 346 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: I really do, and uh you know, I wish you 347 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: all the best in the future. So um you'd be 348 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: well keep listening, John, I appreciate you very much and 349 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: we look forward to hearing from you again. Eight five 350 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Any of 351 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: the car Doctor. We're coming back right after this. Don't 352 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: go away every haway, let me slip away every haway. 353 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: You see that day is come on and welcome back 354 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: Ronnie the Car Doctor here at eight five five five 355 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero. Let's get over to 356 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: brother Tim in Virginia. How are you today, Tim? I'm 357 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: doing fine, ron Thank you for being on the air. 358 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,959 Speaker 1: Longtime listener, first time caller from w NIS in Virginia. 359 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: How are you well? Very good sir? Yes, or I'm great? 360 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: Thank you. How can I help? I need I need 361 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: your help. I'm running food pantry and in twenty nineteen 362 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: we were able to get a twenty eighteen four transit 363 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: connect with only fourteen miles on it. Okay, they've been 364 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: sitting on the lot for a year, yes, yeah, right 365 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: the little guy. Ye, now, for a year. It's been 366 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: shimmying in the transmission. So I took it to our guy. 367 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: He said, I feel it, but you're not throwing any codes. 368 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: You need to take it to the dealer because they 369 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: got a better code reader. The only code I'm getting 370 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: right now it is a communication code. And there was 371 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: no light, so I took it to the dealer, sat 372 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: for four hours, and they came out and said, there's 373 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. Come back in a couple of weeks. 374 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: Maybe by then you'll get a light. So the scheduled 375 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: appointment came back five weeks later. They had it for 376 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: the whole day. When I came back, they said, there's 377 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. We didn't have any problems. It's 378 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: not throwing any lights. So I threw attitude. I say, 379 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: get in the car and I'll drive and you'll feel it. 380 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: And the manager got in. We drove it. He said, well, 381 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: now I feel it. But our people don't drive as 382 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: slow as you do. So it's happening between twenty five 383 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: and thirty five. And he says, but there are no codes. 384 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: There's nothing we can do for you at this time. Boy, 385 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: there's so much. Well I'm driving, there's so much wrong 386 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: with this conversation. How can they not drive twenty five 387 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: thirty five miles an hour? Let's just talk about that. 388 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,959 Speaker 1: What's the speed limit around the dealership? Fifty? What are 389 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: they on the highway? Well, and no, they said, with 390 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: the roads I took, warding the back roads that they 391 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: say they take, I mean, and what we can't do 392 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: diagnostics anymore with out a computer. Coade being from right exactly, 393 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: that's exactly right, and I guess not. So let's let's 394 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: finish your story. I don't want to interrupt you again. 395 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: Finish your story. Well, it's and then I took it back, 396 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: and then I said, can I drive it to a 397 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: long distance state trip? They said that I'll be fine, 398 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: and it did. But now it's shimmying almost all the time. 399 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: And when I call, you said, there's nothing wrong with it, 400 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: you're under warranty. Wait until you get a COAD. I 401 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: don't want to wait until I break down. My people 402 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: need food when I'm open. Right, So here, let's let's 403 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: let's look at this logically, all right, which so far 404 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: has escaped this repair. When you describe you're describing a 405 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: shimmy to me, all right? Is it in the steering wheel, 406 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,719 Speaker 1: the seat of your pants, the entire car? When you 407 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: say shimmy, what are you referencing? Like a skip's it's 408 00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: like a flips between gear and it is noticeable to 409 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: a passenger when you point them out feel that they're 410 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: like yes, and then they can feel it every time 411 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: it happened. So it's it's like a shift flare. It 412 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: goes from first to second. The RPM will climb excessively 413 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: and then catch in the next gear. Yes, okay, I 414 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: just started noticing that on the RPMs. It goes up 415 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: a little in the RPMs and then settles back down. 416 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: All right. If if you drive at a steady state 417 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: thirty five miles an hour, and you know you're not 418 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: experiencing any any shifting, does the trans operating Does the 419 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: trans operate normally? Yes? All right, so it's a shift 420 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: flare condition, let's call it. Let's give it a better term, 421 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: all right, because shimmy connotates things in my head, and 422 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about how you're talking to the service 423 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: writer and does that you know, because the service writer 424 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: has to convey the information to the technician and then 425 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: he's getting in the car going it does have a 426 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: chemmy and he may not be sensitive enough to notice 427 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: a shift flare. How many miles are on this tim 428 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 1: right now? Forty four? Okay, so it's not a lot 429 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 1: of miles, all right. No, my first question would be, okay, 430 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: I've got no fault codes. I don't know too many bullets. 431 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: I can't recall any bulletins for a shift flare condition, 432 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean there aren't. I'd have to research that. 433 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: And then does it have any software updates? Is there 434 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: a software update for the trans? Bottom line, it sounds 435 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: like you're headed for a trans failure. But can they 436 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 1: also look at this and say, hey, what's good? The 437 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: first place I would go in a case like this 438 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: is I would dive into mode six. You've heard me 439 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: talk about Mode six, all right. Mode six is the 440 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: behind the scenes language that the computer uses internally to 441 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: decide how the systems are running. I would just want 442 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: to make sure I would look at some of the 443 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: critical things. Does it show any misfires? I don't think 444 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 1: this is a misfirefall, but I'm trying to eliminate things. 445 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: Tell me what's good. I'll tell you what's bad, right, 446 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: so you know, and they can go they can go 447 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: look at mode six and see what's dealing with here? 448 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: Does this? Does this have any faults in mode six? 449 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: To all the tests in mode six? Pass um, you 450 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: got up this morning, you felt okay, right, yeah, all right? 451 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 1: Have you gotten up any mornings and you kind of 452 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 1: have a headache and your throat's a little sore and 453 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: you're just not quite sure if you're gonna catch if 454 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: you're catching cold, right, Well, that's your Mode six barometer. 455 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: That's that's your body doing Mode six. That's your body saying, hey, 456 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: you know, maybe you better take it easy today and 457 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: load up on some mechinetia or something because you're you're 458 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 1: you're kind of like borderline rundown and you're you might 459 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: be catching cold. Well, a car computer does the same thing, 460 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: but it does it dynamically with individual tests and circuit 461 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,719 Speaker 1: uh testing. Right, it's going through its electronics. So you 462 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: can look at mode six anytime on any repair. It's 463 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: it's it's there, it's it's behind the scenes functionality. You know. 464 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: If we have to depend on a vehicle to set 465 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: a fault code, geez, we're dead. You know, what's the 466 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: point logic? Right? I would agree with that if you 467 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: can show when you say this is a shift flare 468 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: two seconds, three seconds, four seconds, put a time span 469 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: on it. Okay, it's about two seconds, two seconds isn't 470 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: a lot I'd have to experience it. Is it a 471 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: hard shift? Does it? Does it hitch in the seat 472 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: of your pants when it finally shifts? Yeah? I mean, 473 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: I feel it, and so does the passenger. Okay, so 474 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: it's got a hard shift, fair statement, or it's got 475 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: a harder than normal shift, harder than what it's started 476 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: out with. It feels like you're going and then you 477 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: stop and then you pick back up again. Okay. Have 478 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: they checked fluid level, fluid condition, fluid from a allec 479 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: in it? Do you know? They said they've done all that, 480 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: and I've had friends to that as well. Okay, then 481 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: now I've been up to date on every single oil change, 482 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: and I switched over to synthetic. Well, you should have 483 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: been using synthetic in that all along, to tell you 484 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: the truth. Well, and that's maybe what they had. Whatever 485 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: first oil change we did, I made sure it was synthetic. Okay. 486 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: The reason I say that is, you know, just because 487 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: it's the dealer, and I'm not picking on dealers, is 488 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: just you know, I've had personal experience with some dealers. 489 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: We're all send one of the daughters into a dealership 490 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: for an oil change because they're in another part of 491 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: the country. And the conversation I get is, you know, 492 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: they did conventional oil. And I call up the dealer 493 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: and say why, and they say, because it's a synthetic oil. 494 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: Change is expensive. Ya. I didn't ask. I didn't ask 495 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: if it was a cheaper expensive. I wanted it right right, 496 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: you know, So you gotta you gotta really get you 497 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: synthetic in that car, um, you know. Let me let 498 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: me pull over and take a pause, Tim, I don't 499 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: want to rush this. I gotta take a break, and 500 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,920 Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll finish up. I'm running Indian 501 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: the car doctor. We'll be back right after this. Don't 502 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: go away, Hey, we're back running in the car doctorate 503 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: your service? Who with a brother? Tim? Down in Norfolk 504 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: or Norfolk area in Virginia? U. Tim, So, let's let's 505 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: let's summarize this, and I have I have a couple 506 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,239 Speaker 1: of ideas I was thinking about during the pause. They 507 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: can go back. They could look at Mode six. Let's 508 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: verify there's no misfires. I don't think there is. Let's 509 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: let's verify that it's passing all of its Mode six tests, 510 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: because that will also tell them, you know, if they 511 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 1: go in and they look at it, and if they 512 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: were to show you this in playing English, you know, 513 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 1: a Mode six data shot would show you, you know, 514 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: it would give you a hexadecimal umber. It's a little confusing, 515 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: you have to you have to translate it, but to 516 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: give you a hexadecimal number to ide the test test 517 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: fifty fifty two, sixty eight whatever, and it would show 518 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: you min max and current. It would show you the 519 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: maximum allowed, the minimum allowed, and with the current test 520 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: status of that particular component. So we can get through 521 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: mode six. Does the dealership agree that, yes, there's there 522 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: seems to be a problem but they can't find it. 523 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: Is that they're common to you, And that was finally 524 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: what he agreed with. Yeah, I feel it, but without 525 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: a code, there's nothing we could do. And that really, 526 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I like going to a doctor saying, yeah, 527 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: you're sick, but until I get a computer hooked up 528 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: to you, you can't well, until I get or until 529 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: you dropped that, I can't tell you what was wrong 530 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: with you. So they can go in and do a 531 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: trans adaptive reset. Remember learning to remember learning to ride 532 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: a bicycle and you kind of got good at it 533 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: over time. You had a learning curve, right, It's it's 534 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: just part of the condition. Well, vehicles, Vehicles have adaptive learns, Okay, 535 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: they learn their performance curve for the engine, they learn, 536 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: you know, transmission adaptive, you know shift point because maybe 537 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: you drive it different than the next person, than the 538 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: next person than the next person, and they try to 539 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: give it the ability to you know, id operating characteristics 540 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: and you know, who's harder on the pedal, who's harder 541 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: on the break, that type of thing. So a lot 542 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: of cars today have a unique personality that's being programmed 543 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: while you're driving. They could clear transadaptives at first of all, 544 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: take note of where they are. And when I tell 545 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: you what a transadaptive, imagine a timeline. Zero is the 546 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: middle right, that's base. Negative means the numbers are going 547 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: this way. Positive means the numbers are going that way. 548 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: It's kind of like that geometry we learned in high 549 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: school that we said what good is this going to be? 550 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: And that algebra and that trigonometry and all that math stuff. Right, 551 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: So you know, they could clear trans adaptives, but take 552 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: note of where they are. See where they are, you know, 553 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: is it at twenty? What's the number? They should know 554 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: what good trans adaptives look like. You know, what's a 555 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: healthy car look like? You six twelve, fourteen, eighteen, what's 556 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: your car look like? Fifteen ninety three eighty five. G 557 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: You're adaptives are out of whack, right, there's something there 558 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: that hasn't set a fault code. But let's look at 559 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: trans adaptives and then let's clear them. Let's put the 560 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: trans through a relearn process. Can the trans relearn? Does 561 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: it make it worse? If the trans can't respond to 562 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: a relearn process after an adaptive clear, it's a clear 563 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: sign that there's something going on. Then let's go and 564 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: do some line pressure testing. Right, without getting into it 565 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: real hot and heavy, we all understand that automatic transmissions 566 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: work on hydraulic pressure. Correct. Yeah, okay, so you know, 567 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: are the line pressures within range? They can still test 568 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: that on a vehicle today. And if they're in change 569 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: and it passes a trans adaptive and all of a 570 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: sudden it starts shifting better. Maybe it just lost its memory, 571 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: Maybe it just lost itself, but maybe not. At least 572 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: it gives them a place to go in something they 573 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: can't back down from. Trust me, Ford's got a scenario 574 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: in place on how to diagnosis. They just don't want 575 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: to follow it yet. Okay, so communications updates right, Mod 576 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: six trans ADAPTI, then line pressure and just for giggles, 577 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: if you manually shift this trans, does it operate normally? 578 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: I'd be curious, you know, if you sit there and 579 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: start out in one and a light foot and just one, two, three, four, 580 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: whatever it is, can you manually shift this trans and 581 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: make it shift normally? All right? My suspicion, My suspicion 582 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: is the fluid's partially worn out, and you may have 583 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: a problem with the solenoid what used to be the 584 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: valid body area, but it has not been taken over 585 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: by electronic solenoids. And I'm I'm just trying to get 586 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: you there faster because the faster I get them to 587 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: fix it, the more likely you're going to have less 588 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: damage to the trans long term, if that makes sense. 589 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: Question if if it sat for a lot a year 590 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: on the lot, which it did, could that have done 591 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: something through the trans fluid? M you know, it could 592 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: have fallen for three yeah, you know, and listen, maybe 593 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: changing the fluid might be the way to go to 594 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: if you know there could be moisture contamination in there. 595 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: I'd really love to see a sample of fluid and 596 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: make sure obviously when they change it, they want to 597 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: use the right stuff. That should be an LVATF car 598 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: but you know, obviously fluid is first and foremost on 599 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: my mind. If the fluid is discolored at forty something 600 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: thousand miles, that's a sign, that's that's another sign of 601 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: something that is about to fail. So all right, you've 602 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: got some things today. I appreciate it. You're welcome, brother, 603 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: and let me know if you need anything else, you 604 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: know where to find me. Be well, So take good 605 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: care of ronin ay the car docure at eight five 606 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. We're back 607 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away second year, Hay, welcome back. 608 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: We're on any of the car doctor. You know, poor 609 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: brother Tim, Right, it's just a matter of diagnostics. Listen, 610 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: I don't think there's a car out there that's not repaarable. 611 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: I think everything can be fixed, I really do. I 612 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: just think it's it's a matter of is it Does 613 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: it make economic sense? Can we find parts? Is it worthwhile? 614 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: Are we trying to repair something on a car that 615 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: you know is so badly rusted you need to tech 616 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: in a shot to look at it. Or is it 617 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: really a practical approach? You know it does you have 618 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: to do balance? You know, time and dollars I get that, 619 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: but in a case of a twenty eighteen transit that 620 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: shifts hard that the dealer's admitting there's a fault, you 621 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,719 Speaker 1: can't tell me there's not a way to diagnose that. 622 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: I think that's a lot of nonsense, just like this email. 623 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: I got an email from Vince down in Northport, Alabama. 624 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: Ron I recently purchased four new BF Goodrich All Terrain 625 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: TA tires from my twenty twenty four wheel drive F 626 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: one fifty. I've purchased the tires from a local Ford dealer. 627 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,839 Speaker 1: They installed balance and performs an alignment. My truck has 628 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,959 Speaker 1: no modifications and the new tires are the same size 629 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: as the originals. There's twenty two thousand miles on the truck. 630 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: Above fifty five miles an hour, there's now a noticeable 631 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: steering wheel shaken pulsation. I took it back to the 632 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: dealer and they rebalanced the tires twice, so now we're 633 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: on the third try. I drove the truck home and 634 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: the pulsation is still there. It's maybe a little better 635 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 1: and smooths out above sixty five, but it's very noticeable. 636 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Is it possible to 637 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: get tires that can't be perfectly balanced, so I have 638 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,760 Speaker 1: to go back for balanced Number four. Should I contact 639 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 1: BF Goodrich? The tires are three hundred fifty dollars a piece. 640 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: I'm not really willing to live with this and you 641 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: shouldn't vince it. And my advice to you and everybody 642 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: else in this situation, it's simple. It's so simple. If 643 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: the shake wasn't there before and now it's there with 644 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: the tires, take the tires off the rims. Have the 645 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: dealer or the shop balance the wheels. Make sure the 646 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: wheels isn't a problem, and if they are, then you know, 647 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: if the wheels balance out right, the problems in the tires, 648 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: I'm ninian the car doctor. Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.