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Speaker 1: Ron and it takes more and it's longer to diagnose

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian, 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. The garage doors are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: here to take your falls at eight, five, five and

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Speaker 1: now running. It's been a temptuous couple of weeks at

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Speaker 1: the shop, it really has. We've we've been rolling along.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're putting out work and cars. I think

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Speaker 1: we're running somewhere. Some weeks we're running seventy from of

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Speaker 1: We just it's just crazy. Um. You know, you call

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Speaker 1: the shop during the week and you're gonna get this

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Speaker 1: I mean we're not answering the phone and it wouldn't matter.

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Speaker 1: I can hire five people, I'd have work for ten.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it has to do

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Speaker 1: Street Journal, among other papers and other sources, that said

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Speaker 1: the average price of a new vehicle loan in this

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Speaker 1: we're seeing people fixed cars that two years ago, three

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Speaker 1: years ago now. I'm not gonna put you know, that

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Speaker 1: whale changes fifteen years ago. It's crazy. It's just crazy,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it comes back to bite us a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We have an o seven Lincoln and that's the story

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Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you. You know, if, if, if

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Speaker 1: we ever get the chance to have dinner, just if

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Speaker 1: you don't if you want to hear everything that's in

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Speaker 1: my head. All you have to do is say how

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Speaker 1: is your day? My wife does that. She Um, he

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Speaker 1: say so, Ron, how is your day? And then I

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Speaker 1: take her for this twisting, turning ride about. You know,

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Speaker 1: this person didn't show up. Fourteen other people rolled in

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Speaker 1: it just like the manufacturer would. They programmed the module,

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Speaker 1: we're we're kind of looking for a needle in a haystack. If,

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Speaker 1: if this is normal altitude, you'll see those sensors read

426
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Speaker 1: fourteen point seven P s. i. normal. You know sea level.

427
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what we're Wisconsin is in the food chain,

428
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Speaker 1: where as it relates to barometric pressure. So you've got

429
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Speaker 1: to kind of look that up. All right, you want

430
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Speaker 1: to make sure all the pressure sensors are reading correct

431
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: for barometric pressure. Then, when you've got the scan toll

432
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Speaker 1: hooked up, go into see if you have the ability

433
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Speaker 1: to initialize them, ass airflow and reset the counters for

434
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Speaker 1: the diesel particulate filter and then try and do a region.

435
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Speaker 1: See if you can get the system to do a region. Okay,

436
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, said that again. Um, it was to reset

437
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Speaker 1: them to correct the what you're going to you want

438
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Speaker 1: to make sure that the pressure sensors are reading correct pressure,

439
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Speaker 1: matching current barametric pressure. Then you want to use if

440
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Speaker 1: the scan tool has the ability initialize the mass airflow sensor.

441
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: All right, okay, and then you want to reset the

442
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Speaker 1: counters for the diesel particulate filter and then do a

443
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Speaker 1: region to a system to an exhaust system region and

444
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Speaker 1: see what that does for you. But your focus has

445
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: to be on limp mode. Now, when you're seeing your

446
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Speaker 1: son has the scan tool, is it and o b

447
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Speaker 1: d two only tool, do you know? Or is it

448
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: a year, make, model, vehicle specific? I believe his is

449
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: just the Um the lesser price of the ones, but

450
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: I do, I do. Mechanical does have the bigger here. Here,

451
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: here's the other issue. All right, if your scan tool

452
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Speaker 1: isn't reading the Trans Module and there's a fault in

453
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Speaker 1: the Trans that could put this vehicle into limp in

454
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Speaker 1: and skew the way the engine runs. And if you

455
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Speaker 1: don't look at all the modules, here's a classic example

456
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Speaker 1: of why. If you don't look at all the modules,

457
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: you're looking at the front of the car and the

458
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: problem isn't a module in the back, so to speak,

459
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Speaker 1: figuratively speaking. So we want to do a complete we

460
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Speaker 1: want to do a complete system module scan, complete system

461
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Speaker 1: module scan. Okay, all right, Darling, do that and let's

462
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Speaker 1: say we'll talk. We'll talk again if need me. All right,

463
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: good luck, okay, okay, thank you so much. You're very welcome.

464
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Speaker 1: You'll be well. Let's UH, let's real quick. Let's go

465
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Speaker 1: over to Brian and P A will start the conversation

466
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Speaker 1: and see how it goes. Maybe we'll come back to him. Brian,

467
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Speaker 1: you're out the car doctor, Babe. What's going on? Hey, Ron,

468
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Speaker 1: how are you? I have a quick question. I have

469
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Speaker 1: a chance to my wife. Had I have a car

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Speaker 1: for my wife. It's a two thousand eighteen chevy spark.

471
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Speaker 1: I bought a brand new for with thirty six thousand

472
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Speaker 1: miles and when I was thinking about doing was trading

473
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Speaker 1: it in for a two thousand nineteen mit to be

474
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Speaker 1: she outlander, with twelve thousand miles on it. Now I'm

475
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,679
Speaker 1: in the car business, but I wanted to see what

476
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Speaker 1: you thought longevity wise, which car would be the better car,

477
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Speaker 1: because I don't need the all wheel drive because I

478
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: already have two four wheel drives car sitting at home. Um, boy,

479
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: I tell you what, that's a good question, brother. You know,

480
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: I think. I think the first question I've got is

481
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: what does your wife want? Well, she likes the she

482
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: loves the A chevy spark because it was our first

483
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: new car she ever got and it's great on gas.

484
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: But she also saw the Mitsubishi and she likes that

485
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: and she tried telling me it's my decision. I said no,

486
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: it's her decision. Yeah, it's definitely her decision. Um. Let

487
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: me tell you ums, as a veteran of forty three

488
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: years of marriage, trust me it's her decision, Um, and

489
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 1: you don't want to go there. I think they both

490
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: have their pluses, they both have their minuses. The Chevy

491
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: Spark is, you know, we'll call it an economy car,

492
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: a good little set of wheels. You know, it's gonna

493
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: get some miles on it. If, if it ever gets

494
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: to the eighty two hundred thousand mile mark, it's probably

495
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: done at that point. I don't think they you know,

496
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a vehicle I would expect to

497
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: go two U D fifty thousand or three hundred thousand miles.

498
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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're they're in that caliber. The

499
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Speaker 1: Mitsubishi is probably easily a hundred thousand mile vehicle, but

500
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: I've seen some issues with parts and we're living in

501
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: a very part centric world right now. Yeah, that was mine.

502
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 1: That's when I my other thing was because I drive

503
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: to work every day, I go past two MIT Tubishi

504
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 1: dealerships and I passed fifteen GM dealerships, right right. So

505
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: when you say you're in the car business, what do

506
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: you do, Brian? I've been selling cars for the last

507
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: thirty years. So we can't find mama a Toyota. That's

508
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: what I would like to get and I want to

509
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: that's what I want. I would rather get her to

510
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: tell you the truth, that rap forward. That's all loaded

511
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: up as what I'd like to get right, but you

512
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: is what you know as well as I do. It's

513
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: tough to find a fine one of news right now,

514
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: isn't it amazing? How the car market just dried up?

515
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: It's it's horrible. I I look at it that you

516
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: I remember. I used to go to Manheim motowalkstion every Friday.

517
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: It will be ten cars there and you can now

518
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: you're paying as much money for a used car at

519
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: the auction block as you are for a brand you

520
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: could for a brand new car. I just read an

521
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: article the other day, I think actually this morning, that

522
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: Ford is having problems delivering certain models are you ready

523
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 1: for this? Because they can't get the Blue Oval Badge

524
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: for the grill made. I'm like, well, I heard, I'll

525
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: heard that, but I'll give you a crazy thing. I

526
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: was on an auction last week Ron and a guy

527
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: was selling at a truck auction. It was a two

528
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: thousand six six oh diesel F four fifty service truck

529
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: with three five thousand miles on it. It did eighteen

530
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: thou dos. Wow. Well, yeah, listen, we could go on

531
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Speaker 1: all day. I know it's crazy. It's I don't know

532
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: where they're taking the economy. I don't know where the

533
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: industry is going. Um, but it sure seems like all

534
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: of a sudden they're just Darn't enough cars to go

535
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: around and I think it's going to get worse as

536
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: time goes on. Um, I wouldn't jump. If it were me,

537
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: I'd probably keep the chevy spark. You know what you got,

538
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: and I'd start looking for that Toyota and I'm sure

539
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: in time that will come up. And I think you're

540
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: better off with the Chevy in terms of parts availability

541
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: and the network of parts sources that you can get,

542
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: whereas that Mitsubishi can be tough at times as it

543
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: ages and I think the burden hand is much better

544
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: than the than the one in the bush. So just

545
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: my two cents. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Alright,

546
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: good luck to you. Be well. Say you're welcome you too. Bye. Bye,

547
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: brother Ron and any of the card docorated by five zero.

548
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Don't go away, dot welcome back. Why?

549
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: Any of the car doctor, by the way, more information

550
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: about this radio show and helpful videos. We're starting to

551
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: put the video library up and expanding on it over

552
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: at the car doctor show dot com. We're also working

553
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: on a text function. Don't tell Tom I haven't told

554
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: him about this yet, but we're gonna have a text

555
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: function during the show at some point. That's gonna allow

556
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: you to talk right in here to me. So we're

557
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: doing that. That should be up in the next couple

558
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: of weeks. Tom By the way, that I tell about

559
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: the changes I'm making. Let's know. I you know, I

560
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: heard something about that, but I like the texting because

561
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: that way people don't have to talk to you right.

562
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: They get that. They get the just tap, TAP, tappen

563
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Speaker 1: away we go. Let's go over Shawn in New Jersey

564
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: speaking ago and claim show and welcome to the car doctor, sir.

565
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey, Ron. Yeah, this is my

566
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: mom's car. It's the ninety one to claim and it's got,

567
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: like it's the less than fifty miles it. Recently we're

568
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: noticing that if the car is off for more than

569
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: about a day we have to jump it and then

570
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: let it run twenty minutes or my mom can't take

571
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: it out later in the day. So something's drawing the

572
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: current on the battery when the car is off. We

573
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: haven't measured the current. I haven't measured the current yet,

574
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: but we've ruled out lights. We took the bulb out

575
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: of the interior ceiling length. There is no trunk light

576
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: and it seems like the light in the glove boxes

577
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: going off with the plunger. So I'm kind of curious

578
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: where else, but looking, does it have lights in the visors?

579
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: I don't believe so, okay, just double check that. That

580
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: would be a common fault. Um. If if we're gonna

581
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: try and do this, it's a matter of yeah, let's

582
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: disconnect the negative battery cable. You've got a digital volt

583
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: domemeter with it with a current draw measurement on it

584
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: and we want to measure milliums, all right, and that's

585
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: that's really the only way we're gonna do it. Now,

586
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: keep in mind when you open up the driver's door,

587
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: you're going to activate the circuit for the overhead Dome Light.

588
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: So you've got to keep that plunger depressed. All Right, UM,

589
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: there should be a there should be a door. Well,

590
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: just just just in case, you know, it's it's always

591
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: a good habit. Because, you know what, here, if we're

592
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: gonna work on cars, Sean, let's work on it so

593
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: that we we always do the same thing. All right,

594
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: because if I had five cars with current draw on

595
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: the shop and two of them had the bulb activated

596
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: circuit and that was it, and the other three I

597
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: took the ball about, but I still had computer modules

598
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: that were activated because I opened the door jam switch

599
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: right and I don't know it, I could chase my

600
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: tail for a half hour. So let's my point. My

601
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: point becomes, if we're gonna diagnose something, let's diagnose the

602
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: same way every time. So you know, I put the

603
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: ball back in, all right, because why do I want

604
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: to change the change the environment, and I'd figure out

605
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: a way to de press that switch either a small

606
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: block of wood with a C clamp holding the switch down,

607
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna pull the switch out and disconnect it.

608
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: However I'm gonna do it. But let's let's get that

609
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: switch bypassed so that we don't have to worry about

610
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: any circuits being energized. And then with the amp meter,

611
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: with the meter set to Milliams, connected to the negative

612
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: side of the battery. All Right, put it in series,

613
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: meaning disconnect the cable. One lead goes to the negative post,

614
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: one lead goes to the cable. What's what's the Milliam draw?

615
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: The magic number is fifty. All right, we want to

616
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: see less than fifty milliams. Fifty widgets. All right, milliams

617
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: seems to scare people. Um, let's we want to see

618
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: less than fifty widgets. Anything more than fifty widgets, okay, Um, then.

619
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: Then then it's suspect. And then, one at a time,

620
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: gonna go. I don't care if there's more than one

621
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: fuse box and ninety one. There's probably only one fuse

622
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: box under the Dash. We're gonna start popping fuses out

623
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Speaker 1: one at a time. Now, take it out, look at

624
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: the meter, put it back in. One time. I explained

625
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: this to somebody. They called me up and they said, Hey,

626
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: I got all fourteen fuses out. Now what do I

627
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 1: do when I want to? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, you know,

628
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: one at a time, something's going to cause it to change,

629
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Speaker 1: all right, and you may have to wait a little

630
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: bit and let it stabilize in between. All right, it's

631
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: not how quick can you go through it? We're not.

632
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: We're not trying to. You know, it's not a raffle.

633
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: We're not trying to pull numbers. All right, and if

634
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: you go through the circuit and you find that they're

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Speaker 1: all all taken care of, and I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: show and sit tight. Let me pull over, take a pause.

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Speaker 1: When I come back, we'll finish this conversation. I'm run

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Speaker 1: an Indian. Welcome back, Sean. You're still there, sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me be quick because we're gonna run out of time, Babe.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna go through a Milliam draw test. Alright,

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Speaker 1: one at the time, put it back, one at the time,

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Speaker 1: put it back. We're looking for the magic number. We're

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Speaker 1: looking to get under fifty. I'm thinking the game probably,

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Speaker 1: if it's healthy, you won't see much more than a

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Speaker 1: Milliam draw so that being said, okay, when you go

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Speaker 1: through all the fuses, if there's one on the if

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Speaker 1: there's one in the engine compartment, you gotta go through

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Speaker 1: that one as well. All right, when you go through

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Speaker 1: all the fuses and it still has a draw, where

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Speaker 1: are you going next? Right, that's the next question everybody

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Speaker 1: always asks me. All right, unplugged the alternator. All right,

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Speaker 1: an alternator is the one nobody really stopped to think about.

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Speaker 1: It's not necessarily fused, but it can create a draw

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Speaker 1: if it's got an internal problem. I'm not saying it is.

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Speaker 1: It's just one of the things I check, you know,

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Speaker 1: after I go through fuses and I have nothing else,

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Speaker 1: I'll go through and unplug the alternator, see what that

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Speaker 1: does and then I'll start looking around. Are there any

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Speaker 1: accessories in the vehicle that don't necessarily work properly? You know,

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Speaker 1: things like is there an alarm that goes off because

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Speaker 1: it's thing? have an underhood switch for an alarm that's

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Speaker 1: being activated that you don't know about? You know, are

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Speaker 1: there things that we can bypass? This is an intermittent fault.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind that you could put that millionimeter on

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Speaker 1: Min Max hold and have it record over time to

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Speaker 1: see if it goes above the Max and what it

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Speaker 1: goes to. Things to look for. I'm morning in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor, reminding each and every one of you, until

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Speaker 1: the next time, good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See

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Speaker 1: You