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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, I have a mechanic you can trust. But

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

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you this story. I um, we

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Speaker 1: it was brakes. He wasn't quite sure. When he stepped

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Speaker 1: We always try and make a spot for breaks. It's

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Speaker 1: before we start, do you trust your mechanic? Do you

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Speaker 1: get it. So how can I help you today? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm putting back online a six commercial. It's Generac. It's

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's worth the investment. First of all,

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Speaker 1: other question to myself is why spend it? Right? So

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Speaker 1: I think pulse Star plugs are, I just don't see

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Speaker 1: not I want to comment, Yeah, the color before you

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Speaker 1: never a complaint, right anyway, that's I appreciate the thought, Alan,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the thought. Sir. Listen, you take good care.

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Speaker 1: to Stand in Minnesota. Tractor Oki Dokay, we'll take a shot. Stand.

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Speaker 1: Short trip to work? I worked every day, you know,

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Speaker 1: gets restricted and it gets sludged up, particularly on the

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00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: vehicles that don't go a lot of miles, and it's

428
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: it's you know, what I'm gonna say, is a low

429
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: frequency of oil changes, then you're gonna have this scenario happen.

430
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 1: And it could be that it's just too much sludge

431
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: in the engine. So the first thing the mechanic really

432
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: needs to do is check oil pressure at idle with

433
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: a mechanical gay just to make sure. Yeah, now that's

434
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: where you want to go. And you want to see

435
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: where mechanical pressure is, not compression, mechanical oil pressure, and

436
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: you want to see what oil pressure is it idle

437
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: and match it up against specification. If it's low, if

438
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 1: it's truly low, then the next thing I would do

439
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: is either pop a valve cover off or look inside.

440
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: Take the oil filled cap off and look inside. How

441
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 1: clean or dirty is the engine if it's sludged up.

442
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: If it's sledged up on the top of the motor,

443
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: then it's probably sledged up on the bottom of the motor.

444
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: And then you've got two decisions. Do you try to

445
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: run some sort of chemical or engine cleaner through it

446
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,360
Speaker 1: and do a couple of hot oil changes and try

447
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: to unsludge it, or do you pull the oil pan

448
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: down and try to clean it out from underneath. And

449
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: that's that's the mechanics decision on the scene, and that's

450
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: based on you know, how bad everything looks or doesn't

451
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: look once you start looking around. Um, that's that's that's

452
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: solution number one. Solution number two, it's a little it's

453
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: a little radical, all right, and I caution you on

454
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 1: using this, and I leave this up to the mechanic

455
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 1: to decide, because this can cause engine damage and problems,

456
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 1: all right. Solution number two is to put a pint

457
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: of break fluid in the engine. Yep, you heard me

458
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 1: say that, right, all right, put a pint of break

459
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: fluid in the engine crank case. Don't drive the car

460
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 1: let it idle at the shop for a couple of

461
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: three hours and as long as the cooling system holds up.

462
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 1: Break fluid is the most caustic material I can think of.

463
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,359
Speaker 1: To put it in an engine, and what we'll do

464
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: is we'll let it run, We'll let it circulate, do

465
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: a hot oil change, run fresh oil through it, do

466
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: it again, do another hot oil change, and that usually

467
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: cleans everything out. The caution here is this is the

468
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: fail safe. If you do this, you do stand the

469
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: chance of ruining the engine. But and here's the butt.

470
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: If the engine is already ruined from sludge and you

471
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: have to take it apart, you haven't lost anything, and

472
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases you have a lot to gain.

473
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 1: So that's the you know, you've got to take that

474
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,479
Speaker 1: gamble in your head and decide which way to go.

475
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: Have the mechanic look at it, make a sludge determination.

476
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: If it is sludge. Now, if oil pressure isn't low,

477
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 1: if oil pressure is good, then you've got to diagnose

478
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 1: an electrical problem. Perhaps there's an issue with the sender

479
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: or the light on the dash itself for the wiring harness,

480
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: and the problem is not mechanical in the engine the

481
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: problem is electrical. So um, those are the two ways

482
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: you've got to go in the future, Gene, I'm gonna

483
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 1: tell you to change the oil at least twice a year.

484
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: And I would be using a synthetic based oil in

485
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 1: this car because it will help resist moisture and corrosion.

486
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: I would tell you to get out to UM. I

487
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: would tell you get out the Pen's Oil dot Com

488
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: and take a look at their line of synthetics and

489
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: you can read about synthetic oil and the benefit from that,

490
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: and UM, you know, hopefully avoid this situation again. Call

491
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: me back, let me know what happens. I'm kind of

492
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: concerned for you. I'm not any in the car doctor.

493
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Every have let me slip

494
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: away and well, bad car doctor, rolling along to Saturday

495
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: five zero nine nine zero zero. There you go, ton

496
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: Hey like that. I did zero again. Huh see. I

497
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: can do that. I've got the mental preparedness to do that.

498
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: We're talking about the phone number of different conversation if

499
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: you're late getting to the game today, folks. But that's okay.

500
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: Let's go re Line one Jesse, Eureka, California. I think

501
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: I gotta move to California. Let's be able to say

502
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: what you love. Ureka, Eureka, I've got it, Jesse, Welcome

503
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: to the car doctor. How can I help? Yes, sir, Yes,

504
00:26:54,680 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: I have a Toyota Tacoma two on it, and I

505
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: put a fuel line on her a couple of years back,

506
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: just broken in ahead, yeah, right, and one year after

507
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: the fuel pump was put in. When the two point

508
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: seven leader four cylinder, excuse me, and when you set

509
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: it off, so you're getting groceries and you get back

510
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 1: in the vehicle when it's warm, she cranks a few

511
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: extra times. The other days. He's been cranking quite a

512
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: few more times than it normally takes to fire that

513
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: motor on a cold day. She's fine all day, but

514
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: he started off when it's warm, and she's got issues

515
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: on it. Any any sort of a fuel smell, big

516
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: time coming in the calp Yeah, I forgot to mention.

517
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: Uh it sult like guess, big time inside the vehicle. Huge.

518
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: She's fully insured, but I'm kind of scared there a bit. Well, yeah,

519
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: i'd be scared because you're not insured. I mean you

520
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: might be insured, but well, we don't want you to

521
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: collect it or anybody else. Um, we kind of want

522
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: you to be around. Um, you know, I mean, is

523
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: the smell from the area of where the line is

524
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: that you replaced up front in the back? Yeah, what

525
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: happened was when I lowered the fuel pump. There's not

526
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: a lot of room to work in there. Next time,

527
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: I'll take the bed off of any other bricks I do.

528
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: But there's like a water heater type of the line

529
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: that doesn't like to be lowered too far. When I

530
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: lowered it too far to to work in there, it

531
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: kinked it. So I replaced it with a couple of

532
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: feet of the high dollar rubber hose from the park's house,

533
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: a high pressure rated for a fuel injection, you know,

534
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: and threw a few extra clamps on there when I

535
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: put the new pump back in because I didn't want

536
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: to rEFInd that that hard line. And uh, but the

537
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: fuel smell didn't happen until a year or later. Well yeah,

538
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: I mean listen and not knocking it. But it doesn't

539
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: matter if it happened a year later or two years later,

540
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: you still got it. Is the smell from the area

541
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: of the tank in the back, or is the smell

542
00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: from the area up front? Well, you know, I can't smell.

543
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: I can't tell because we're in the vehicle, cranking it over,

544
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: trying to trying to get the hell out of there.

545
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: So well, what if you got out, you know what,

546
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: what if you started it and got out and just

547
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: let it run. Smell is smell. It's got to be somewhere. Um,

548
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just using your nose. I mean, listen,

549
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: if we were at the shop, what I do is

550
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: I'd have somebody started up, and I'd be outside the

551
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: vehicle with a five gas probe. If I couldn't tell

552
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: direction with my nose, and I would just take the

553
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: five gas probe and I would just probe around the

554
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: truck looking to see where it picks up the strongest

555
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: readings of hydrocarbons hydrocarbons being real fuel. At least it

556
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: gives me a direction to go. Um, you know, I

557
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: mean that would be the easiest. Obviously, I'm not saying

558
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: everybody's got a five gas in their backyard. Um, you know,

559
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: but uh, actually I do. But that's another story. Um. Uh,

560
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, I get it. I mean, you know, listen,

561
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to have to drop the gas tank

562
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: again unless I really had to. But you know, there's

563
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: there's no other way you're going to approach this. Uh,

564
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: just be careful, don't uh don't be near anybody with

565
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: a lip match or a cigarette because, um, you know,

566
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: obviously somebody might cash it on the life insurance and

567
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: I want to see that happen to any of my

568
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: listeners or anybody else for that matter. So let's get

569
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: on to uh, let's get on to the line to

570
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: Milton in New Orleans and see what's going on. Two

571
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: thousand seven, hun day, Milton, Welcome to the car doctor.

572
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: How can I help? How are you doing good? What's

573
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: going on? It's uh just it's been a process of elimination. Uh.

574
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: It only overheats when they see us on and it

575
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: only does it when you stop for five or ten minutes.

576
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: Uh and uh just recently I got out when it's happened,

577
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: and I looked at the uh, the fans, and I

578
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: could see them turning very slowly after watching from another

579
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: half a minute that he stopped. So naturally I got

580
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: back in and check the car off. Uh and uh

581
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: then when I started again, I just drove a couple

582
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: of blocks and then it was fine. So obviously something's wrong.

583
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: It's causing the fans to sometimes work and sometimes not work. Okay,

584
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Do you have a check

585
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: Do you have a check engine light on? Milton? Check

586
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: engine light? Owned? It comes on when the A C

587
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: is on? Uh? And it's hot, okay, if it's cool,

588
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: whether it doesn't come on? All right? Did you check

589
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: for a fault code? Uh? Yes they did, and it

590
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: indicated something with the A C. But it wasn't really clear.

591
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: I mean we when the guy checked, uh, he wasn't sure.

592
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: Let's get some clarity. Here's why. All right, if you

593
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: come back and tell me this is a P zero

594
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: eight that's a code for the fan circuit, the cooling

595
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: fan controller UM, the v PC. He isn't Peter zero

596
00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: eight zero for eight zero? Yes, yes, sir, m P

597
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: zero four eight. If it's got a P zero four eighty,

598
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: that's a fault in the fan circuit and that is

599
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: probably leading us towards a bad cooling fan control module assembly.

600
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: No guarantee, but it's the general neighborhood, all right. That

601
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: that being said, if the check engine line has nothing

602
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: to do with the overheat, and I was treating this

603
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: as just a straight mechanical g the car is overheating. Um.

604
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: If this is an older vehicle, this say is you

605
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: know this is an O seven, it's eight years old.

606
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: It's probably got a couple of miles on it. I

607
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: always tell everybody. A lot of people start to think radiator,

608
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: they want proof. I tell them, take a look at

609
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: the front of the radiator. All right, how clean is it?

610
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: How clean is the A C condenser? All right? You've

611
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: got to realize that there's not a lot of swept

612
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: area up front for airflow to go through. If that

613
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: radiator has started to blister the paint. And I've seen

614
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: this on dozens, if not more, of what I'll call

615
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: foreign cars, toy otis Honda's hun Day's key is they

616
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: all do the same thing. The paint blisters, lifts off

617
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: the fin all right. If it's a if it's a

618
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: painted radiator, and it will it will restrict air flow.

619
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: If it restricts airflow, three spread over the face of

620
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: the radiator, multiply it out. All of a sudden, you're

621
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: cutting heat dissipation off. That car will overheat. Every time

622
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: everybody looks inside the radiator and says, hey, the radiators clean,

623
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: You know what, how's the outside of the radiator? Um,

624
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I'm not saying that's it. I'm

625
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: just trying to get your brain going in a different direction.

626
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: So here's the remedy. You gotta get the mechanic to

627
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: scan it for codes. We've got to understand why the

628
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: check engine lights coming on. If it's not a four

629
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: eight fault code, let's diagnose that as well. If it's

630
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: a straight mechanical overheat having nothing to do with the

631
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: fan controller, then we've got to diagnose that. But take

632
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: a look at the outside of the radiator as well

633
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: as the inside. Call me back next week. You know

634
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: where to find me. That numbers eight five, nine, nine

635
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: zero zero. I'm running any of the car doctor and

636
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: I'll be right back a thousand dollar car. Heyy, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We're on any of the car Doctors. So we've been

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Speaker 1: talking off and on you and I about connected vehicles, right,

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Speaker 1: connected technology, the how the car is going to be

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Speaker 1: tied to the cloud, and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 1: Interesting article and Motor magazine a couple of months back. Now.

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Speaker 1: I was reading it because I'm just getting around to

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Speaker 1: my mail from three months ago because there's a few

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Speaker 1: things going on in some cases intelligent connected technologies coming

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Speaker 1: to select twenty seventeen Cadillacts Cattle. I will begin offering advanced,

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Speaker 1: intelligent and connected vehicle technologies on certain twenty seven model

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Speaker 1: model year vehicles, was announced by GM CEO Mary Barratt

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Speaker 1: at the recent I T S World Congress in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: In about two years and all neween Cadillac will offer

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Speaker 1: customers and advanced driver assist technology at the moment called

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Speaker 1: super Cruise, And in the same time frame, the Cadillac

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Speaker 1: cts will be equipped vehicle to vehicle communication technology. What

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Speaker 1: does this mean to you and I, Well, in this

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Speaker 1: case super Cruise automated driving technology, we're talking. We're always

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Speaker 1: talking and having this argument here on the car doctor

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Speaker 1: about you know, hands off driving. Super Cruise automated driving

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Speaker 1: technology will offer customers a new type of experience that

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Speaker 1: includes hands off lane following, breaking speed control in certain

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Speaker 1: highway driving conditions. The system is designed to increase the

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Speaker 1: comfort of attentive drivers on freeways, both in bumper to

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Speaker 1: bumper traffic and on long trips. Vehicle to vehicle communication

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Speaker 1: technology will mitigate many traffic collisions and improve traffic congestion

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Speaker 1: by sending and receiving basic safety information. It's coming, folks.

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Speaker 1: I know we keep having this argument that it's not.

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Speaker 1: But trust me, it's coming and we've all got to

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Speaker 1: be ready for it. Me on my side of the

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Speaker 1: counter at the toolbox and you on the steering wheel side. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this hour is kind of coming. Gone as fast, Harry

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Speaker 1: would say, Where does the time go until the next one.

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Speaker 1: The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you