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Speaker 1: Ron Anian. Someone always says to me, what are you

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Speaker 1: talking about this week? I don't know? What are you

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Speaker 1: talking about? The ship? I don't know. I can get

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Speaker 1: is still I don't know. And the reason is because

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Speaker 1: I don't know which one of the fifteen topics to

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Speaker 1: talk about that I want to talk about. Doctor Newton

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Speaker 1: got back the Car Doctor. First of all, this is

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Speaker 1: Toyota wus fluid. This is there never needs to be

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Speaker 1: the inside of a hatch right because things are breaking

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Speaker 1: down and you know it just gets worn out. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in their ros do orders are open, but I

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Speaker 1: am here to take their calls. At eight five five

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about this hour as I could go

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Speaker 1: up this week with the Car Doctor. And thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us here at zero zero Rondineining and at your service.

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Speaker 1: I do know what I'm gonna talk about, and it's

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Speaker 1: actually I want to stay with the original thought that

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Speaker 1: I had in my head leaving the gym this morning

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Speaker 1: not running around, you know, real crazy stuff. So it's

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Speaker 1: wrong with an old man trying to do push ups

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Speaker 1: pull ups. That's another story. I was leaving the gym

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Speaker 1: to is there are you know, there are younger people

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Speaker 1: they're all looking around for answers. And don't tell them

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Speaker 1: but she's she's become a podcaster, and her husband's become

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Speaker 1: had the question in the conversation about the buyer deal lease,

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Speaker 1: and that's really what this opened is about. You know,

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Speaker 1: Now you've had repair costs along the way. Hopefully they've

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Speaker 1: You know, there are things out there when you're leasing

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Speaker 1: Not because not every shop can work on everything anymore,

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Speaker 1: So a lot of good questions, a lot of good

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Speaker 1: prepared for it. There's always some extra surprise or some

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Speaker 1: you weren't counting on. So um cars are You're part

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Speaker 1: Just start asking questions, start thinking about it before you

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Speaker 1: Mr Ray. How are you today? Mr Ray? You look

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Speaker 1: you look well up there? Yes, so um house things

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Speaker 1: look well. I hear an echo. You fixed it and

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Speaker 1: and and in our case, vet school showed up well right,

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Speaker 1: and your case, vet school showed up right, and and

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Speaker 1: she went to VET school. Tom, can I ask is

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Speaker 1: it too personal? How much this VET school costs? Nowadays?

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Speaker 1: That was about three four years? Three thousand dollars over

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Speaker 1: the course of four years. Wow, so yeah, wow, not

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Speaker 1: not chill. But plus it's graduate school, so there's no dorm.

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Speaker 1: so it was it was four thousand dollars. Yeah, probably

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Speaker 1: close to that. Well, you're a high roller. I didn't

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Speaker 1: realize that. Hey, but then again, I had a daughter

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Speaker 1: that UM was originally at. Far for one of the

427
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 1: things originally at faults only because and understand, from my

428
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: seat here, I have to be critical of everybody. Okay,

429
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,919
Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm not picking on anybody intentionally, but

430
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: from my seat here, I've seen some of the solder

431
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: work that people do, and it looks like they're doing

432
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: it with three toes on their left left foot. So

433
00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: you're you're you're competent, You're you're confident that the soder

434
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: repair is competent. It was done nice heat shrink tubing.

435
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: Everything was overlaid, interlaid, interconnected, good connections and so on.

436
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 1: I have not, of course, they haven't taped up, and

437
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: I have not taken it apart. Go ahead, taken apart,

438
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: taken apart, Alex, It's it's already listen, is it already broken? Right?

439
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: So it's already broken. You can't break broken, right, It's

440
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: look a new ron a new ron ism that I've

441
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: actually said before, but not as often. But you can't

442
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: break broken, it's already broke. You know the other day,

443
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 1: Danny and I were working on I forget what we

444
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: were working on, and we were oh, we were working

445
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: on a sixteen Chevy truck. We had just put a

446
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: seatbelt tensioners in it and we had to configure the

447
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: airbag module. And be honest with you, I haven't done

448
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: this one yet. And we brought it up on the

449
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: screen of the scan tool and we weren't quite sure.

450
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: G Did we just push the buttons? Should we sit

451
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 1: down and read? It was late, the customer wanted the vehicle.

452
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 1: It was already broke, and it was an insurance job.

453
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: The insurance company gave us no information. It was a

454
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: job we inherited from two other shops. We had done

455
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: all our due diligence. I said, you know what, it's

456
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: quarter to five. Pushed the button. We pushed the button,

457
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 1: fixed the truck. He looked at me. I said, you

458
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: can't break broken, kid, it's already broke. I said, now

459
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 1: we fixed it, shipped the car um so you can't

460
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 1: break broke. You can't break broken, Alex, it's already fixed,

461
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: or it's already broke. So look at the solder. Also

462
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: there are critical grounds, particularly ground one oh three, which

463
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: I always talked about this. They are at the on

464
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 1: that particular truck. Ground one oh three is on the

465
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: right side cylinder head, at the back of the head.

466
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: And it's if if you put your head into the

467
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: most painful position, like where it's starting to hurt because

468
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: you're stuffed all the way back against the firewall, looking

469
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: straight down at these two wires coming down to ground

470
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: islets at the back of the head. Make sure they're good, clean, tight.

471
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: Make sure there's six fires in that strand make sure

472
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: there's sixteen good, good strands. I've seen them where they

473
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: break down to the last two strands. And every once

474
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: in a while it sets off the apple cart and

475
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: sets off a string of codes, particularly what you're talking about.

476
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: It will set off E C M failures, it will

477
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: set off throttle body failures, limp mode, everything under the sun.

478
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: Because it's a poor ground. Poor grounds caused all kinds

479
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: of havoc. So let's check the grounds at the right

480
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: cylinder head, just for giggles, because it's a farm truck.

481
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: Let's look at the grounds on the left cylinder head.

482
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: There's one on the left, two on the right and

483
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: there's two. There's there's actually three main chassis grounds underneath

484
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: the driver's seat on the left frame rail where the

485
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,239
Speaker 1: brace comes down off the body. Makes Let's just make

486
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: sure those are all good, clean and tight. Let's stop

487
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: focusing on what's bad. Let's look for the obvious of

488
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: what's good and make sure maybe we'll fix this thing

489
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: along the way the other the other. The other problem

490
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: I want to mention is depending upon where he got

491
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: that throttle body from. I've had limited success with after

492
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: market throw auto bodies, and I only use GM as

493
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: a as a as a point of repair because they'll

494
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: do what you're describing thefter market stuff. And here, okay,

495
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: then I'm okay with that. The first one he put

496
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: on was an aftermarket and then when we were having trouble,

497
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: he said, here, I've got the A C Delco one.

498
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: It's more money, but there's it's more money, but there's

499
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: a reason it's more money, better componentry. So um, those

500
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: problems with those particular faults and the rest of the

501
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: throttle body codes are caused by throttle body and or connector.

502
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: That's why I say go back and look at that

503
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: solder repair. You know, for somebody that may have missed

504
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: repairing that properly. We could have a poor solder job,

505
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: and just redoing the connection and the solder may solve

506
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: the problem. To do that, look at the grounds and

507
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: then call me back. I'll give you more, alright, kiddo. Okay.

508
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: And on the mill light, I mean, do you think

509
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: it's in the PCM or do you think it still

510
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: could be a ground issue because when the reduced engine

511
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: power light comes on, the check engine light will glow

512
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: just very dimly. I don't even see it during the day,

513
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: but at nighttime. You ever have dim headlights on a tractor?

514
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: And can you find a bad ground? Yeah? Yeah, right,

515
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: let's let's let's stay the course, all right. Remember you

516
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: can't you can't break, you can't break broke and keep going,

517
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: all right? Sounds good? All right, brother, thank you, You're

518
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: very welcome. All right, good luck that lithium. Yeah I will.

519
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: Good luck to you, Alex. We'll talk again. Eight zero

520
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: zero farmers are the best. They really are. God, I'm

521
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: telling you, it's just they're just hilarious. Sometimes they face

522
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: such odds. God bless him. Zero run in any of

523
00:28:50,360 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: the car. Doctor coming back right after this welcome back,

524
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: run in the car docker. By the way, before we

525
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: go over to Bob in New Jersey, did you notice

526
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: that the Chevy Bolt catching fire story just kind of

527
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: died in the news too. That's sort of went up

528
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: in smoke. No pun intended, um Afghanistan, lithium may on.

529
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: No more Chevy Bolt stories. Yeah, the media tells us

530
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: the truth every time. Bob and Phillisberg Welcome aboard, sir. Yeah,

531
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: it's the nineteen sixty five Volkswagen Beetle come back. A

532
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: nice story, but the list the last good car ever made,

533
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: right exactly, and then sits out yere in front of

534
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: the house, and I have people knocking on the door

535
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: to see if it's for sale. Well yeah, it's the

536
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,719
Speaker 1: only all the Beetles sitting on the streets. So you know,

537
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: you come down the street, you'll see it right away,

538
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: you know. What's anyway? You know, Bob, don't you like

539
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: watching old TV shows? You know, I actually started, I've

540
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: actually just started to watch n Y p D. Blue,

541
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: which is from which I think about is almost thirty

542
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: years ago. Right. The cars, the cars on the street,

543
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: Holy cow, there's Volkswagen Beetles everywhere. It's it's how how

544
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: how things have changed in thirty short years. All the

545
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: cars you don't see anymore, and and the car brands.

546
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: And uh, I was watching an old episode of Kojack

547
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: a couple of months back, made in the seventies, and

548
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: you know the Chevy, Monty Carlos and the Pontiac Grand

549
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: Prix and the personal luxury. Well whatever, I'm I'm I'm

550
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: off subject. So what's going on with v W bub Well? Anyway,

551
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: we I did some detective work on the fuel holds

552
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: that all was talking to you about, and I found

553
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: out where it came from. Friend of mine has a

554
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: preparent drop and on this wall there's a five ft

555
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: hose of this stuff and then plus all the band

556
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: ballots and the sun beats on it. And found out

557
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: this hose is over thirty years old. And I got

558
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: thrown out. And that's where the hosel is getting came from. Right,

559
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: So I guess if you gotta you know fuel hose

560
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: brand knows sitting in the sun for thirty years, I

561
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: guess a little. Sure, Yeah, sure, absolutely listen, store Storing

562
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: car parts before they become part of the car is

563
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: just as important as storing the car. Everything's got to

564
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: be in a controlled environment. It's you know, um, I

565
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: keep a lot of the parts that we saved for

566
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: the hot rod, for the Monte Carlo and even for

567
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: the suburban. Everything's everything is stored in the back room

568
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: of the shop, up high, out of the way. Uh,

569
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: you know, good ventilation, wrapped up, sealed badge. You know.

570
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: It's it's just it's just the way you want to

571
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: keep it. Yeah, it really is environment all right. My

572
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: second questions, I'm looking to buy another car nine two

573
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: thousand and well at Eque, okay, with the three point

574
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: to be six in it? Not to lead or have

575
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,479
Speaker 1: you had or heard of any issues they've been okay,

576
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, listen, it's an Audi. It's gonna be you know,

577
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: there's gonna be things that go wrong with the electronics. Um,

578
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: like a Volkswagon, but you're used to that. There's specialty

579
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: tools to work on it. You know, it's gonna develop,

580
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: oil leaks back. You know it's gonna be. It's gonna

581
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: be valve covers and rocker seals and things like that.

582
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: But it's nothing you can't fix. It's it's nothing you're

583
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: not prepared for because you want Volkswagons for thirty years

584
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: or forty years? Alright, how long you've had yoxwagons for? Okay? Right?

585
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: So have you had any issues with the carbon with

586
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: direct injected engines? Yes, but that's on everything, anything, anything

587
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna buy. And I'll tell you what sit tight

588
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: when I come back. We'll talk about that and i'll

589
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: tell you the procedure for taking care of that, especially

590
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: on g d I engines. It's a good topic. Zero

591
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: running any of the car Doctor will be back right

592
00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: after this, welcome back, or on any of the car

593
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: dr Bob, you're still there, sir. We've got just a minute,

594
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: so let me let me say my spiel if you will. Um.

595
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: First of all, carbon deposits are a problem in everything

596
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: everybody drives, regardless of what it is, all right, it's

597
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: just it's just the nature of the beasts. Gasoline direct

598
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: injection g d I is unique in that it no

599
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: longer positions the injector behind the intake valve, which is

600
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: important because it helps wash the valve and keep it clean.

601
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: And the issue becomes not so much of gasoline deposits.

602
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: But now we've got oil deposits through positive crank case

603
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: ventilation PCV. Coding the intake valve and nothing there to

604
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: keep it clean. The injector is under the valve, spraying

605
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: directly at the top of the piston. That being said,

606
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: I think running a g d I engine requires the

607
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: use of a fuel system cleaner. And fuel system cleaners

608
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: are always changing. They're always the technology is always evolving.

609
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,959
Speaker 1: I think some of the best stuff right now is

610
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: coming out of liquimally, Liquimali dot com, uh liquid dash,

611
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: Molly dot com. Actually, and there Jectron fuel system cleaner.

612
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Okay, use it as the directions on the can.

613
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: Now there are more elaborate ways and more elaborate things

614
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: you can do. Berryman makes an excellent fuel system cleaning kit.

615
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: Their their four stage kit which includes their Berryman Hest

616
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: fuel System product, And that's another way to go as

617
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: far as a regular diet. At the bottom line is

618
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: carbon is a problem and it's got to be dealt with,

619
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: regardless of whether it's an audie or anything else. All

620
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: of this can be found that O'Riley ooto parts get

621
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: out to a rileyoto dot com. I appreciate the call, Bob.

622
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: Until the next time I'm runing ating in the car

623
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: docoryminding each and every one of you. The mechanics aren't expensive,

624
00:34:54,120 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you. She's stars, super