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Speaker 1: help you solve your car's problems. Had a two thousand

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Speaker 1: do an ignission key code erasure. So you go in

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Speaker 1: at card doctor show dot com. Okay, trust me, I

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Speaker 1: know this guy, he's pretty sharp. He'll he'll find information

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Speaker 1: for you. Just send me an email, Brent, give me

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Speaker 1: the VIN, give me the seventeen digit VIN and reference

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Speaker 1: I bought the car two years ago, so it was

427
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't like where this is done. Okay, so it's

428
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: been too So it's been two years since you change

429
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: the oil? And how many miles is that? Um? Probably

430
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: about I don't really drive it that much, so hopefully

431
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: there was oil in it. I'll tell you what, brother,

432
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: I would definitely get that car into a mechanic I

433
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: would have him checked mechanical oil pressure. I would have

434
00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 1: him do an oil analysis. I'd probably be changing that oil.

435
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: Only get in a thousand miles and stay on top

436
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: of it. Because the way you're going you don't have

437
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: to worry about the oil light. I'm not being a

438
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: wise guy. You're gonna be putting an engine in that

439
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: car um the fourth seven those that year generation jeep

440
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: doesn't hold up well to abusive oil changes, and that's

441
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: what you're doing to it. Gotta change the oil on

442
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,919
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Do that. If you have any questions,

443
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: call me back. Let's get over to Robin tennessee not

444
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 1: need not explore a P zero four forty three. Robert,

445
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: where do we stand with this car? You've done any

446
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: more diagnosis to it? Yeah? I did what you recommended.

447
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,919
Speaker 1: The check the red wire with a key on engine

448
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: off is like eleven point six, it's got yeah, yeah,

449
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 1: I'll still check the battery eleven point six. Uh. And

450
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 1: then the green wire with a black price uh. Unflooded

451
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: the PCM and check the continuity from ten sitty six

452
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: back to the plug and it looks good. And checked

453
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,239
Speaker 1: it with a home meter right and then and then

454
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: before go ahead ahead, I was gonna say, and then

455
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: and then, but then you went after the canister purge.

456
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: Did you try grounding that light green black at the

457
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: PCM and and doesn't click, doesn't make any noise that

458
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: you look at amperage draw No. Before I spoke with you,

459
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: I had unplugged the lion at the vapor management valve

460
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: and hooked the vote meter to it and started the

461
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: vehicle and it was had like six volts and it

462
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: would cycle up to thirteen and then it would step

463
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: back down to six, back to thirteen. So it sure

464
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: sounds like it's trying to apply it, and it sure

465
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: sounds like it's applying. What it's doing is the PCM

466
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: is looking at voltage and amperage drop or draw on

467
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,439
Speaker 1: that line to decide if if if you know, it

468
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: tells the canister purge to purge, and it it decides

469
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: by looking at voltage readings whether or not it's actually happening.

470
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: So the question here is the question here is is

471
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: it the PCM or is at the purge valve canister

472
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 1: purge is under the battery tray. Happen to look at that,

473
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: but I had before I spoke with you. I removed

474
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: the old one and applied TOIL votes to it, and

475
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: I thought I should be able to hear the sole

476
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: annoyed clicking in it, but it was completely silent. So

477
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: I replaced it with a new one before I spoke

478
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: with you, so it has a has a new one

479
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: on it. Also during this time when that code said,

480
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if it has anything to do with

481
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 1: this or not. The I'm only able to fill the

482
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: gas tank like three fourth. Now, of course it could

483
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: be the gas gage, but it seemed like when this

484
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: code said that was only it would only show three

485
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: fourth fool when I feeled the gas tank. Yeah, I don't.

486
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: I don't see a connection between filling the tank and

487
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: this fault, because this fault has to do with the

488
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: PCM deciding whether there's an electrical control fault of the

489
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: canister purge solenoid, so you know, and I don't. I

490
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: don't see it opening up purge in order to fill

491
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: the tank. It it might open up the vents so

492
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 1: it releases pressure. Um, you know you something I was

493
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 1: gonna say. You may want to pull the vent line

494
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: off at the rear and go fill it up and

495
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 1: see if that helps. Does that allow you to fill

496
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: it up? Which? Or do we have an obstruction in

497
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: the fill neck or do we have an obstruction in

498
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: the tank? Uh? Could the could the vapor canister be

499
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: bad or something causing this code? It's it's like it's

500
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: no flow into this. Uh, well it shouldn't. It shouldn't

501
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: see it on A four forty three. What it's doing

502
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: is um it's looking at fuel tank pressure sensor to

503
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: decide if the systems going into a vacuum or pressure state.

504
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: But there are other codes for that. So so you know,

505
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: let's let's try attacking this from what do we know?

506
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: That's good? Why can't we fill the gas tank? If

507
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: you take the vent off at the tank and you

508
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 1: still can't fill the tank, then either the vent at

509
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: the tank is clogged, right, or we've got some sort

510
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: of an obstruction in the fill neck. Uh does that

511
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: vent valves on the tank? It's electrically operated, isn't it?

512
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: Or does it just have an event? It's it's it's not.

513
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: It's electrically operating. They have to electrically. They have to

514
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: electronically control it because they've got to be able to

515
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: close the event at proper times. Okay, so let's see

516
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: what removing the vent thoes for us, and then call

517
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: me back next week. Okay, all right, sir, thank you,

518
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: you're very welcome. Stay in touch five zero nine zero zero.

519
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: The car doctor is coming back right after this. Animals

520
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: need advice on how to maintain that classic g t

521
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: O ron is the guy eight five, five, five, six

522
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero. Here's Ron John Maryland fifteen

523
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: toyot at the comma. How can I help, sir hey

524
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: Roan talk so comma And I just noticed recently a

525
00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: sound on It's only above six where if I take

526
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: my foot completely off the gas, there's this little almost

527
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: sound like rubbing sound for one or two seconds, and

528
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: then when I reapply the gas it's the same sound

529
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: again or second and the rest of the time it's fun. Right.

530
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: If I am accelerating and hit it a little harder,

531
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: no sound, or if I decelerate, no sound. It's only

532
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: coming totally on or totally off from the front of

533
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: the vehicle rear of the vehicle. It sounds to be

534
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: from the front from the front. So why can't this

535
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: just be normal underhood engine noise if you change the

536
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: air and take system at all. I haven't the truck.

537
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: The truck is dude is turned. I've had it for

538
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,959
Speaker 1: less than a year and I never noticed the sound before.

539
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: And that's kind of one of the reasons I would

540
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: I call it too, to see if perhaps it is

541
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: just a normal sound. You know, it might be. There's

542
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: a lot of resonance under the hood of these vehicles

543
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: today sometimes and I'm not saying yours does or doesn't,

544
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: but you know, you start to look at some of

545
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: these cars, I'll have plastic under the hood, bonnets that

546
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: sit over the top of the engines, and certain ducting

547
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: and all that stuff is there for a reason. I

548
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: would just tell you to look at yours if does

549
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: anything look like it's missing, Does anything look like it's

550
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: out of place? Chances are it's not, but you know,

551
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: just something to be aware of. Second question, any dashboard

552
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: warning lights on, so you know if if if there's

553
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: one thing that's real critical to a modern engine, it's airflow.

554
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: And trust me, if there was a fault, a vacuum leak,

555
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: something coming in from the wrong angle, they'd have a

556
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: check engine light on three days ago to to warn you,

557
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, to make you a where um you know, so, yeah,

558
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: it's it's it's I'm gonna say it's it's likely a

559
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: normal sound. Have you had it serviced recently where somebody

560
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: might have had the air filter or the air and

561
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: take box off apart was three or four months ago,

562
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: And I'm taking it in this week for oil change

563
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: in just general because maybe something's just not sitting right,

564
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: and that could be it as well, right right, right,

565
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: all right, awesome, appreciate You're very welcome, sir. Have a

566
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: good rest of the day. Let's go over to Phil

567
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: in Vermont, Phil Leving GMC. What's going on here? Long

568
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: time listener than you. Hey, um, this is a two

569
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: thousand uh eleven GMC. So we got thirty three thou

570
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: miles on it, and today I had to go to

571
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: the building Spoly place and I hupped in it and

572
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: I took it out of parks and they the little

573
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 1: needles thing didn't tell me what gios in. So it

574
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: doesn't show reverse neutral. It just doesn't show you drive. No,

575
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It doesn't move out of the park. Okay,

576
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: So you know, do we have a mechanical failure or

577
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: an electronic failure of the cluster and I'm I'm being

578
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: hypothetical here, or do we have something else deeper going on?

579
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: The first thing I would do is I would plug

580
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: in a scan tool eight Do I have any fault codes?

581
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: And not for any other reason, just to say that

582
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: I did it. But you know, inside a scan tool,

583
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna look go by year, make model. If I

584
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:05,479
Speaker 1: go under transmission. It's going to show me an electronic prindle, park, reverse, drive, neutral,

585
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: et cetera. Um, you know, if the trans shows if

586
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: the trans is in park and the scan tool shows park,

587
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: and then I put it in reverse and the and

588
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: the scan tool shows reverse, that tells me that the

589
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: signal from the trans to shift is correct. All right,

590
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: That tells me that my fault is likely somewhere else.

591
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: Then I would look to see do I have a

592
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: BCM or an i PC module, instrument panel, cluster or

593
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: body computer and again same thing if they give me

594
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: those pits. But we're trying to do is we're trying

595
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: to use the scantel to decide is the signal coming

596
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: out of the switch correct such that it's feeding the

597
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: scan tool, or is the fault somewhere else such that

598
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: it's not the switch, it's the where it's going, it's

599
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: the cluster and the other go ahead. The other weird

600
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: thing was when I went to buckle my seat bell,

601
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: the light on the dashting go out when I buckled up. Okay,

602
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: then then let's do let's do this all right, take

603
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: it to your mechanic, ask for a complete system or

604
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: module skin. Let's look at all the modules. There's a

605
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: lot of people on the on the data line on

606
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: this bus. All right, Do we have any fault codes?

607
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: Do we have any communication issues? All right? And if

608
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: we do, if we don't, then let's do what I said.

609
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: Let's go through scan tool and are are the modules

610
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: signaling correctly to the cluster to go from park, reverse, neutral, drive,

611
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: et cetera. And then if that checks out, yeah, okay,

612
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: it's it's it's getting proper signal. Then let's go through powers,

613
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,239
Speaker 1: grounds and fuse circuits for the instrument cluster. Did we

614
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: somehow blow a fuse for some reason? And then we

615
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: can It seems like when I hopped out of it

616
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: when I first got here because I'm working on a

617
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: department house and I let I get out, and I

618
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: thought I'd smelled something hot. But well, so yeah, let's

619
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: let's let's be sure. So let's go and see if

620
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: if a fuse is possibly blown, and if so, as

621
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: it related to the smell, is something shorted somewhere? But

622
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: those three steps would be logical to me as the

623
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: first steps to take. Thanks for the call, five zero zero.

624
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: The car doctor is coming back right after this. Hey,

625
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: warning the car doctor here let's uh do a quick

626
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: piece of well, I want to do this. Okay, we're

627
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: gonna do a segwe here. Watch this. This is radio

628
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: high Ron an Indian, So hitting a pothole with your

629
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: car can do a real number on tires, wheel steering,

630
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: and suspension, according to the Car Care Council, and they

631
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: urge motorists to watch for the three warning signs loss

632
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: of control swaying when making turns, pulling in one direction

633
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: instead of maintaining a straight path, uneven tire wear, and

634
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: low tire pressure. Bulges or blisters on the sidewalls. If

635
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: you hit a pothole, it can be difficult to know

636
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: if into what extent your car has been damaged, said

637
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: Rich White, executive director of the Car Care Council. More

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Speaker 1: carcare dot org. And you know what riches absolutely right

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Speaker 1: from Janice. Janice writes in Hey Ron, I've got a jeep.

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Speaker 1: It's slightly jacked up and had the death wobble that

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Speaker 1: was taken care of. I had hit some hootholes, Rich White,

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Speaker 1: he was right, there we go right now. It feels

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Speaker 1: like it's pulling on the road. I want to know

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Speaker 1: if changing the tires and rooms is something smaller would

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Speaker 1: help make it more friendly. Your thoughts, I'll tell you what, Jannis,

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Speaker 1: what you've got to do. Listen, the car care counsel's

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Speaker 1: aren't percent right. Potholes can wreak havoc on suspension and tires,

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Speaker 1: and it's a lot of unknown. You don't know what's

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Speaker 1: laying beneath the surface, so to speak. So obviously, a

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Speaker 1: good look at suspension, a good look at steering. Everything's tight,

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Speaker 1: Everything is the way it's supposed to be. No broken

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Speaker 1: springs front or back. A vehicle that pulls can have

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Speaker 1: a problem in the rear axle, creating that poll, creating

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Speaker 1: that problem. All right, so let's do that. What if

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Speaker 1: we rotate the tires. What if we take the left front,

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Speaker 1: move it to the right front, swap him side to side.

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Speaker 1: Does that change the direction of the pull or the wander?

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Speaker 1: And then yes, perhaps changing the smaller tires will give

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Speaker 1: you a better ride. And don't forget to check the alignment.

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Speaker 1: I'm rondingating in the car doctor, reminding you good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. She's to sp