1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Ron Andanian, Can I just ask you real quick, Alex, 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: how do you listen to the show three? We were 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: coming back from this morning and uh we we just 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, we were standing came across you and Tom 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: and it's a treat to listen to. I mean, it's 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: very hard to get an eighteen year old to listen 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: to a M radio. He was really interested in what 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: you were saying and sounds. The Car Doctor took the cable, 9 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: cleaned it. By the way, one of the best ways 10 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: for cleaning battery cables. I still say it still works. 11 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: You get you get boiling hot water. You know, forget 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: all these chemicals. I've come to the conclusion that sprang 13 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: all these chemicals on these batteries, if you're not gingerly 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: and careful, you're spraying all these corrosive cleaners that get 15 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: onto the wiring harness and everywhere else, and it makes 16 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: a mess. Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian 17 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: to Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the 18 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 20 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage doors are open, 21 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at eight 22 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: five five five six and now he running. Hey, it's 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: time to start your engines. 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Just 42 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: click on the podcast tab and there's also a live 43 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: stream there there's also a continuous loop at Spreaker that 44 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: kind of plays on all Ron all the time channel, 45 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: which the only person I look can listen to that 46 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: is my mom and a few others select people. Um. 47 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: But in an event, that's what this radio show is about. 48 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about. You know, 49 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again. 50 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: You've got to be out of your mind to fix cars, 51 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: because it's when you start to be, when you're emotional 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: and you start to think about it too much, that's 53 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: when the failures occur. And it's the simple things. It's 54 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: the little mistakes you make that take you down the 55 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: wrong path. Again, I've said this before and I'll say 56 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: it again. My favorite line in in the movies is 57 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: the one of the Replacements where where the coaches as 58 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: the football players you know about fears, and they start 59 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: talking about bugs and everything else on the field, and 60 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: then Keanu Reeves character the quarterback, says his greatest fear 61 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: as Quicksand because it's you make one wrong move and 62 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: then the next wrong move and things start piling in 63 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: on you. It's kind of like Friday afternoon at three o'clock. 64 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: It's a lot like life. You know, the pile gets bigger, 65 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: the load gets heavier, and no matter what you're doing, 66 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: you're struggling to breathe and survive. Nineteen eighty six, I'll 67 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: repeat that. Nineteen eighties six Ford station Wagon come into 68 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: the shop at our automotive June of last year. It 69 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: was Louse. Remember Lou. Louis my former office manager. He's 70 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: since retired and moved on. He's doing some other stuff 71 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: and we're, you know, as an amical breakup. It wasn't 72 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: like a bloody divorce. We just sort of said, yeah, 73 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: you know, Lou wanted to go try something different in life. 74 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: He had order repair for eighteen years, and let's go 75 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: try and do this instead. And yeah, I got it, 76 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: no problem. So it brought me the eight six Wally 77 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: World mobile, which is kind of what it looked like. 78 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: It you know, it's it's you put four headlights in 79 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: the front of it and a big, ugly griller could 80 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: pass from National Lampoon Family Vacation five. I guess if 81 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: they're gonna make one. And it didn't start, and I 82 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: kind of have listened to the check in. You know, 83 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: it's Lou, you know you make that emotional decision, and 84 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: lu knows what to tell me. He's gonna tell me 85 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: the right thing. And you know, all I got out 86 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: of him was it was dead all right, no crank, 87 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: no you know, turned the key, no dash lights. And 88 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: he said, I think which is my fault because I 89 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: let him get away with thinking. He said, I think 90 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: the animals got it. The wiring harness again. Okay, you know, 91 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: he said, no rush, I've got no place to put 92 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: it when you get to it. Let me tell you something. 93 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: The last thing you want to say to me is 94 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: no rush, because dude, I've got so many cars to 95 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: work on. No rush means we're not working on it 96 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: all right. It takes a while to get it back 97 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: in the lineup. And that's just you know, it's you 98 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: tell me no rush. No rush is no rush. It's 99 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: when you absolutely have nothing else to do. You know what, 100 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: in forty three years hasn't happened often. So yeah, four 101 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: months went by. I tried and I did some you 102 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: know quick. Yeah, the car was stone dead. Uh you know, 103 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: nothing out of it, I said, okay, wiring harness. I 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: looked around. I saw some signs of animal tracks and 105 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: things in the back here maybe it's an animal. We'll 106 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: get to it. You know. That was June of twenty seventeen. 107 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: June became October, October became November. I said, oh, let 108 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: me take a quick look at this. I want to 109 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: get it out of here before it snows. And I'm 110 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: pushing snow around it all winter long, and somehow that 111 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: day fell apart, and I spent the winter pushing snow 112 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: around loose station wagon. So April rolled around and Luke 113 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: came to me and he said, into April, and he said, 114 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: I really need the car. He goes, I gotta I 115 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: gotta move some things, and it's my move, being van 116 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: and you know it's really it's time. He says, I 117 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: got to decide what I'm gonna do. And I said, yeah, 118 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: I can dig it. I get it, no problem, Loo, 119 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: I'll put you at the top of the list. Within 120 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: three days, I got the loose car because I can 121 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: do that. You know, you tell me no rush, no rush. 122 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: You can tell me you really need it. I'll create it. 123 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: I'll make it happen. Car was dead. I said, well, 124 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: you know, no power. And in my mind, the last 125 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: thing I heard lou say, right was animals got to 126 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: the wiring harness. Stinky thinking. My mind is polluted. Now 127 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: now I'm going after animals and wiring harnesses. I'm not 128 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: doing the basics. The first thing to do in the 129 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: car is then, and you've got no electrical power, what's 130 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: the first thing you should check? How about the battery? Duh? 131 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: All right? I went over and tested the battery. I 132 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: don't know you think one point eight vaults is enough? 133 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: So I called Lou up and I said, look, I'm 134 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: missing part of the story. Here. Tell me what happened, 135 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: because okay, the battery could have gone stone dead from 136 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: sitting in the shop, but it was no different than 137 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: the day it got dropped off. Lou, tell me the 138 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: story here, what really happened? I said, did the car die? 139 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: You had come back from driving it? Oh? No, I 140 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: wasn't driving it. I was storing at it at my 141 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: mom's house. Okay. And this is the part that got 142 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: me you ready for the line. When I took the 143 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: cover off the car. There was a cover on the 144 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: car loo. Yeah. I didn't want it to get, you know, 145 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: covered with stuff while it was sitting there. The car 146 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: was sitting there, loo, Yeah, why was it sitting there? Well? 147 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: Because I really didn't have time to drive it, and 148 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: I didn't need it, and I wanted to just make 149 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: sure nothing happened to it. So I had it covered well, 150 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: like we're covering it every week. He said, no, I 151 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: was on there for a couple of months. I said, 152 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: what's a couple of months? He goes, I don't know, 153 00:07:54,440 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: two for ten? Oh boy, So try charging the battery 154 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: that got me nowhere. Look, I gotta put a battery 155 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: in the car. Put a battery in the car. Turn 156 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: the quy car wouldn't start. Actually, no, that isn't what happened. 157 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: I jumped started it with the old battery with a 158 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: jump pack after charging it to build up some base voltage. 159 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: Wouldn't start. Got out my bottle of propane, shove some 160 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: propane down the throat of the motor. Fired up cars running. Wow, 161 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: look at this took the propane away. It still ran. 162 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: It was leaking fuel from number numbers seven injector on 163 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: the four and two three four, number eight, number eight 164 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: injector all the way in the back. It just it 165 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: was just seeping fuel. All right, call him up, Loue, 166 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: you need a battery, And I've got to look at 167 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: this leaking injector. He said, yeah, sure, go ahead. So 168 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: I put a battery in it. Car starts every time now, 169 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: absolutely no no wiring harness damage. And I prepared to 170 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: do the injector. I let it sit for a couple 171 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: of three days because I had to get parts. Because 172 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: did I tell you it's an eighty six. Let's do 173 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: the math eight six nine, two thousand six, two thousand sixteen. 174 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: It's thirty three years old, give or take almost almost 175 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: thirty three, right, it was new one when Tom was married, 176 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: and he had hair and he was better looking. So, 177 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 1: although he's not bad now, but that's up to his wife. 178 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: So you know, thirty three years old. Takes a while 179 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: to find an injector. So the car sat for three 180 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: days when out there three days later, started up to 181 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: bring it in. I don't smell any fuel anymore. Do 182 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: you know? The O ring on the injector sealed itself. 183 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: I swear to God, I let that car run half 184 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: a day on Tuesday, didn't leak, shut it off, came 185 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: back Wednesday morning, started it up, didn't leak, shut it off. 186 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: Started at the end of the day, didn't leak. Started 187 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: it one more time Thursday morning, Louke, come get your car. 188 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: It's done. And the point of this is my fault. 189 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: I did a bad job of diagnosing. Not that I 190 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,719 Speaker 1: did a bad job of diagnosing, but I didn't follow procedure. 191 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: And that's why you've got to be out of your mind. 192 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: You call me with a problem, or you bring your 193 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: car to the shop, or you take your car into 194 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: the mechanic. The first job of a mechanic, the absolute 195 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:22,599 Speaker 1: first job of a mechanic, is to gather information, not assumptions. Not. 196 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: I think not, it feels like not. Maybe tell me 197 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: what the car did and then tell me the test results. 198 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: You've got to fix the car. How did you fix 199 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: the car? How did you come to that conclusion? And 200 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: that's what it takes to repair. And that's why you 201 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 1: can't be you can't be in your mind. You've got 202 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 1: to be out of your mind. You've got to be unemotional. 203 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: You've got to be a little bit of a robot 204 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: and a computer to fix the car, because if you're otherwise, 205 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: it might sit in the yard for ten months, eleven 206 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: months and not get fixed, and somebody has to push 207 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: snow around it for for the better part of four 208 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: months in a very long winter. So true story. I 209 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: did fix loose Car. For those of you that have 210 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: been visiting the shop going wow, can I buy that car? No, 211 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: it's not for sale. That car is gone. Um now 212 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 1: we're gonna work on carpenter Bob's truck, which is a 213 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: whole another story. By the way, I just posted a 214 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: sales flyer for Lose Car up on the for the Uh, yeah, 215 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: I know which one you post, so you know what 216 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: we have to put. You know what I want to 217 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: put up there, by the way, real quick before we 218 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: got a break a lot of listeners. Remember last week 219 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: when I talked, we had that call from Texas and 220 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: I made the comment about how God gave me the 221 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: radio show, which is a true story, God's honest, true story. 222 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: And I've had I've had more than a few people right, 223 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: and they say they want to hear the story of 224 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: how I got the radio show rather than do it 225 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: here and take up this form, this form and make 226 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: this for that. Remember when I did the Boomer Rocks 227 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: interview with the Gentleman with the radio show out in 228 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: Michigan last year, Well, why can't we link are on 229 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: our Why can't we put a link up on our 230 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: on our web page to that podcast stream on his 231 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: and they can listen to that segment therapy, because that 232 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: that tells the story of how, um, how the radio 233 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: show came to Bay a million years ago. Well I 234 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: could do that, but how much is it worth for you? Well? Listen, 235 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 1: how'd you get here today? Did you drive? Yes? A 236 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: matter of fact, sooner or later, I'm like that white 237 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: alice cigar. Sooner or later, you're gonna need me, because 238 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you five zero zero roundinating the car 239 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: doctor and Tom coming back right after this. Don't you 240 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: hate when you need some expensive partner service and sure 241 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: makes maintaining your car frustrating task. Thankfully, pep Boys has 242 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: over a million parts in stock like batteries, filters, break 243 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: pads and more, and if you need a little extra help, 244 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: the pep Boys will install the part for you. Since 245 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: manny Mo and Jack's legacy has been to provide quality parts, 246 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: service and tires to people everywhere. So the next time 247 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: you need car advice or simply want to service done, 248 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: head to the pros, visit your local pep boys or 249 00:12:53,280 --> 00:13:07,839 Speaker 1: shop online at pep boys dot com. Do you need 250 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: advice on how they're maintaining that classic g t O. 251 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: Ron is the guy eight five five five zero nine 252 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: zero zero. Here's Ron? Is it my turn? Now? No? 253 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: I thought i'd seen for a while, so I saw 254 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: that started. You kind of leaned forward with the finger 255 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: and you went and I went because I wasn't It 256 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: wasn't that. You want to try that again? Okay? Hey, Ron, 257 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: and any of the card like Claire, we still got 258 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: you know this this is the act made for radio. 259 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: Let's um gee, what do you want to do now? 260 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: Tom Um? By the way, you know, I wanted to 261 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 1: ask you real quick before we go to the phones. 262 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 1: Can I do that Father's days around the corner? Do 263 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: you have any Father's Day stories? What did that teach 264 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: you about cars? Do you want to think about that? 265 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: And I'll come back to you. Actually, my my dad 266 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: and I actually redid um not Redid, but uh fancied 267 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: up if you will. The engine on a I think 268 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: it was sixty five Ford um Ford Falcon convertible. It 269 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: was always Ford's yeah well well yeah, yeah he he 270 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: he was a Ford guy. And I mean we pulled 271 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: the you know, we pulled the head, the the cylinder 272 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: covers off and then clean them out and painted them 273 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: and uh and and customize some of the under dash 274 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: and stuff and uh uh you know he taught me 275 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: how to swear it cars. Really is that why we 276 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: did all that? There we go, that's some of your 277 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: best memories, right yeah, yeah, I mean that that's that 278 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: that that was the fun stuff, you know. We The 279 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: sad part is, you know, my dad always tried. He 280 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: tried to do He tried to fix the plumbing, he 281 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: tried around the house, he tried to do electrical, he 282 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: tried to do work on the car, and it always 283 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: came out to be a disaster. But it was always funny, 284 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: I remember. And the reason I'm asking is because the 285 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: folks at Bosch want to hear from the listeners with 286 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: regards to their father's you know, advice that dad gave you, 287 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: the s O S stories, how dad bailed you out, 288 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: or that father figured you know, father's is around the corner. 289 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: And we've been talking about this for a while, and 290 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: they they want to hear. They want to they may 291 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: use part of it in something and and it's just, um, 292 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's just some of the neat 293 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: stories that are coming in and how people relate to 294 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: cars and their dads and um, you know growing up 295 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: what it meant to them. And I always believed, and 296 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: I still believe and will believe that cars are just 297 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: that emotional connection for a lot of us. They really are. 298 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: You look at a car and you think back, God, 299 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: I had that in high school, I had that in college, 300 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: or I remember my dad working on that with me. 301 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: For me, it's it's I learned my fractions from my father. 302 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: Really well, yeah, I was. I was seven years old, 303 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: all right, and I was the middle kid. And you 304 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: know the middle kid, that middle kid syndrome thing. You know, 305 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: they always they always seem to spend more time with 306 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: the first one and the younger one, the one in 307 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: the middle, you know what's so special about him? So 308 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: you know, I used to sit on the fender of 309 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: the car and my father would fix it. And it 310 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: was always as I would all the morning of the 311 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: vacation we're leaving on vacation of my father's sides, that's 312 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: the time to tune the car up. And I sat 313 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: there and I would sit on the fender because I 314 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: wanted to be right up close and see what dad 315 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: was doing. And I need a seven sixteenth French, and 316 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: I'd be like, what's that? And then you know, you 317 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: go to the toolbox, open the drawer, find the one 318 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: that has a seven slash sixteen on. So I found seven, 319 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: and now I need a half inch, Now I need 320 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: a three eighths, Now I need an eleven sixteenth Now 321 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: I and I'd be like, you know, I get the 322 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: numbering system, but why is this one bigger than this 323 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: one in the opening? And he explained it all to 324 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: me that it's a measurement. You know. He got out 325 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: the tape measure and he said, this is this long, 326 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: and this is this long, and went seven sixteenth is 327 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: this wide? And you know what, I was six seven 328 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: years old. I knew my fractions all right, and I 329 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: was one of the few kids that, you know, I 330 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: could chew gum, walk, talk and do math at the 331 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: same time. It was kind of an amazing thing in 332 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: my neighborhood. But I remember that very vividly, my father 333 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: teaching me fractions like that. My my bailout story with 334 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: my son was the day of his first date. He 335 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: came home from school with the car and oh my god, 336 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: that the fan doesn't blow. You know, we'll only we'll 337 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: only run at high speed, and I can't hear myself things. 338 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: So I remember picking up the phone and calling you, 339 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: and you saying, well, it's either in the switch, shirt's 340 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: in the motor, or it's in the resistor in there. 341 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: And of course I'm I do electronics. So he and 342 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: I crawled into the dashboard and I taught him how 343 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: to troubleshoot electronic circuits. I remember, you know my SOS 344 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: story with my kids if they asked, if you asked 345 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: my kids, it would probably be they were all excited 346 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: that they each and every one of them got their license. 347 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: Oh I got my license. This is great, I can 348 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: go drive. And I looked at each and every one 349 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: of them. I said, how you going to do that 350 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: with a flat tire? And they said what flat tire? 351 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: I said, well, because I just come in from outside, 352 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: I said, I think your car has a flat tire. 353 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: I'd be sitting down with the owner's manual to read 354 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,719 Speaker 1: about how to change that, and let's go out and 355 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: do that together. And every every one of my kids, 356 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: they may not admit it or remember, I think they'd 357 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: remember it. I don't know if they'd admit it, but 358 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: every one of my kids can change a flat tire 359 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: because we we sat down and you know, and you 360 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: know what, and I think that's a positive. I think 361 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: one of their jobs as a parent and teaching kids 362 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: had to drive and something I don't see a lot 363 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: of parents doing anymore. And maybe it's a judgment, so 364 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: be it. I'm allowed to him at that age, but 365 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: you've got to empower the kids. Kids are afraid of cars, 366 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: which boggles my mind. And and you know, the kid 367 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: has to be able to walk up to the car. 368 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: I've got a flat How do I think my way 369 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: out of this problem. Let's look in the trunk, Let's 370 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: look at the owner's manual, Let's let's you know, let's 371 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: do what we have to do. Those are life skills. Uh, 372 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, kids need to have life skills. They need 373 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: to have wins. One of the things that I'm way 374 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: off the subject here, and I guess we're gonna flow 375 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: at this segment. We'll come back to the phone calls 376 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: next segment. And I'm sorry, but one of the things 377 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: that we need to teach in high school, absolutely positively, 378 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: and I don't think we do, is teach kids had 379 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: to balance a checkbook. I think you're right, because they could. 380 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: They graduate as seniors. They go off to college and 381 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: they gotta write checks in the commissary. They don't have 382 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: a clue. The zero I have a clue. I'm n 383 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: a any of the Car Doctor. I'll be back right 384 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back rann An the Car doctorated by 385 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: five five zero zero. By the way, if you do 386 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: have a good s OS father's day story that rescuing 387 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: you and that kind of thing with cars and what 388 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: you learned from that, send him to me Ron at 389 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: Car Doctor show dot com, Ron at Car Doctor show 390 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: dot com, or just put him up on the Car 391 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: Doctor Facebook page and we'll copy him off of there 392 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: and we thank you for participating. Let's get over and 393 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: talk to Tim and Chico, California, some comments about restoration shops. Tim, 394 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor and I appreciate your patient sir, 395 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: thanks for waiting so so so long there on that 396 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: hold hither Um. Yeah, I had an old MASDA and 397 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: we're kind of geographically isolated, no Mosa dealer, and I 398 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: discovered a shop that you might be interested in California, 399 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: Push Pull Incorporated and they are cable specialists and they 400 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: manufactured a poe E UM quality new cable to release 401 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: the trunk you know that you have on Japanese cars. 402 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: You however, yeah, what is it r X seven or 403 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: something else to the protege. Yeah, And so they can 404 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: make any cable UM for anything, automotive industrial or automotive 405 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: UM to your specifications. You send in what you've got 406 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: or some of them. I think they have plans for 407 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: and really really good quality. And another shop that I 408 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: I recommend is UM. It would warm your heart to 409 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: know that they just started an internship this summer for 410 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 1: teenagers to have their first UM summer job. And they 411 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: manufacture automotive well mostly truck fuel tanks, and they're having 412 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: trouble attracting young people that have the requisites in UM 413 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: working with a liminum and metal in their fabrication business. 414 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,360 Speaker 1: They it's called transfer flow and they make field tanks. 415 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: Uh some of them even bolt into the original places 416 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: and have you know, more capacity. And so that's a 417 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: pretty uh, pretty interesting scenario. I thought you'd enjoy hearing about. 418 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: And and it kind of makes me think, you know, 419 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: I wonder it's been a long time since I stepped 420 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: into a high school, but you know, do they still 421 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: teach you know, is there still metal shop in high 422 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: school anymore? Is there's still some kind of fabricating class? 423 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: Do they still? Do? You know? I wonder what high 424 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 1: school autoshop programs look like these days, and it's it's 425 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 1: a mechanics. Now in the Central Valley of California, it's 426 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,479 Speaker 1: all ag mechanics, you know, because there's jobs waiting. We 427 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: have a welding program at the junior college that has 428 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: one placement rate that there are people hounding them, could come, come, come, 429 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: well for us, So it's yeah, five and well in 430 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: the in the farming areas. Can you repeat that again 431 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: to him? What kind of mechanics? Is it a mechanics? 432 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: Agricultural mechanics? Okay, yeah, ok, yeah, that's that's where that's 433 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: where all the emphasis is that. Um yeah, any idea 434 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: what those what those welders are getting paid a starting 435 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: salary of Oh, I think there's um, I think there's 436 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: jobs out there waiting in the range. There's a um, 437 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: a kid out of high school. Well, if you've got 438 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: those scales. Yeah, there's a construction trade show with the 439 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: kind of you know, similar trade they're doing a trade 440 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: show in Sacramento this weekend and they expect to have 441 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: seven thousand jobs in the area of Sacramento per year 442 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: that they're having trouble filling and and they're they're offering 443 00:22:53,320 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: forty hour um for um qualified people and construct and 444 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: so that that shows you. Yeah, that's that's wait a minute, now, 445 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: forty an hour at forty hour a week, that's six 446 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: a week. Yeah for a high school kid eighteen years old. Yeah, 447 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: if you got the wealthing skills and are the construction skills. Uh, 448 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: there there's yeah, there's jobs waiting and everybody's going to college. 449 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: Y to be myself to be broke. Uh, you know 450 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: what do you do for a living too? I'm just curious. 451 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: I'm an automotive window tenter. Okay, all right, I bet 452 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: you've seen some changes over the years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 453 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: and uh there's a spectularly selective films that um that 454 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: are very light in color and they stop all almost 455 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: all of the infrared heat from coming in, which you 456 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: feel more on your arm and as a driver, So 457 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: you have pretty pretty advanced technology. Can I ask you 458 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: if I understood you correctly? You restored a mas the protege. Yeah, 459 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: there's my father's car where I got my mechanical jeans. Yeah. See, yeah, 460 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: you see it always comes back to there's always that 461 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: emotional attachment. Isn't that interesting? Right? Yeah? You know, because 462 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: you've got another subject. You've commented about your dislike of 463 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: some automotive headlights systems, and I have a really valuable 464 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: resource I wanted to share with your listeners on that 465 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: to you just to kind of understand where we're coming 466 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: from and where we're unfortunately going with some of these lights. 467 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: Um Um, can I give out that? Absolutely? Okay? So 468 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: it's called Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy, and he is some 469 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: kind of lighting or electrical engineer and he has a 470 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: very informative web page and talk about the U s 471 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: Anders you know for lighting and MYSTA. You know, he 472 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: doesn't recommend that people the in retro fit bulbs that 473 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: you know, try to drive in each I d or 474 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: led bulb in the original enclosure. He can talk to you, 475 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: you know, he talks about that and very interesting lighting site. 476 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: Um you know, you're probably probably thinking what can you 477 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: do the headlights on your sending to Monty Carlo and 478 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: that would be a good place to um um to look. Daniels, 479 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: what is it again? Give us a Daniel Stern dot com. Yeah, 480 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: Daniel Sterns Lighting consultancy, Daniel Stern Actually, and he can 481 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: actually sell you, um bulbs and relays and stuff to 482 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: improve the performance of O E M equipment. How are 483 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: you been? How are you been working on cars? Toim 484 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: since Santien seventies happen? You have a real passion for it, 485 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: don't you. I do. I have a college degree, but 486 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: I've never used it. Uh, formally, you don't. Really You 487 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: don't really work for a living, do you. You just 488 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: get to go work on cars. That's what my wife said. 489 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: I seemed to enjoy myself too much at the end 490 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: of the day. I'm too happy. What are you What 491 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: are you driving besides the Masa anything else? Uh? We've 492 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: got two Honas and a Nissan truck. What'd you drive 493 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 1: in high school? Oh? In high school? My first car 494 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 1: was you want to believe this a Simca? Yeah? I 495 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: kind of remember those, Yeah, that kind of remember those. Yeah, 496 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: you probably remember saying the bad words that cousining at 497 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: the starters on on on French cars. They are made 498 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: by a company called terras Roan. Yeah, oh my god. 499 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: I didn't get any parts for you know, how you 500 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: know it was French. It was usually the thing you 501 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: saw on the side of the road. Um, you know, 502 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: but those were the days it was. It was very 503 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: very different. Um. I was watching a TV show the 504 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 1: other day. What the heck was I watching? Um, chips, 505 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 1: I'm at the chips now. I don't know why I've 506 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,959 Speaker 1: discovered chips on Amazon and um uh just the cars 507 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: that are there. The cars are the stars, as they say, uh, 508 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: you know, and you look at what's there and and 509 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: very different world, very very different world, uh than what 510 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: we have today. Alright, sir, listen, I um ahead real quick. 511 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: Did you recently say that there is a scan tool 512 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: that can recover information about recently deleted codes? No? No, 513 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: I heard that on the air somewhere that that there 514 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,239 Speaker 1: was that that capability exists now to recover like like, 515 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: let's say someone reset a check engine light prior to 516 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: selling a car, and then it comes back on and 517 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: you can't pass your emissions test, and that would be 518 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,719 Speaker 1: a useful feature to have to see if it had 519 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: been tampered. Well, maybe what you're thinking about is you 520 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 1: might have heard me say that once you clear codes, 521 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: you will reset monitors, you will reset the self tests. 522 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: So when you're buying a used car and you want 523 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: to take a scan tool with you have the check 524 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: engine lights not on, go look at the monitors. The 525 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: only valid way to the only well, the best way, 526 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: the best way to gauge a used cars check engine 527 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: light history and condition is if you don't have anything 528 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: in writing, is scan it. If the monitors off all 529 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: the self tests. A monitor is a self test, alright. 530 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: We're talking about high school a lot today. It seems 531 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: did you take did you take math in high school? 532 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 1: Tim did you take every test? Did you pass every test? Okay? 533 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: So a monitor is a test, all right. The computer 534 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: runs that monitor each and every time you start and 535 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: run the vehicle, the test runs to completion. So completed 536 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: isn't the key operative. What we're looking for is that 537 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: it passed the completed test, all right. So if you 538 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: go to buy a used car and there's nine monitors, 539 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: nine self tests, and all of them show incomplete, then 540 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: that means that the check engine light likely was either cleared, 541 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: that the code was clear just recently within the last 542 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: twenty four or thirty six hours, in the vehicle wasn't driven, 543 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: or the vehicle had a dead battery or the battery 544 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: was disconnected, so so that will tell you check engine light, 545 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: mental state, health, etcetera, etcetera. But something to recover deleted codes. 546 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: Now that that doesn't exist, and um, I don't know 547 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: that we if it did, we'd see it anytime soon. Um. 548 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: The only other thing that's in there that we don't 549 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: really understand that nobody talks a lot about, or the 550 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: black boxes that are in cars today for the vehicles 551 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: that get into accidents and they want to do crashed 552 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: at a retrieval. That's a whole another subject. Alright, alright, sir, listen, 553 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the call, and I'm glad to know 554 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: that you're out there listening, and I appreciate your comments. 555 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: You you give us a call back anytime, Okay, take 556 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: good care to him. I'm running any of the car 557 00:29:48,040 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: doctor zero. We're coming back right after this little red 558 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: corvette or you go. You've come to the right place 559 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: to get that car fixed. Ron Andandy in the car 560 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: doctor five zero zero zero. Now back to Ron. Is 561 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: it my turn now? Okay? Just checking. Tom's got a 562 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: lot going on in there today. That's okay, we're professionals. Anyway, 563 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: let's go and talk to Rick in Turfol's mass. I 564 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: think that is mass Ormain Mass. Okay, Rick, finally we 565 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: get to talk. How can I help you, sir? Uh? Yeah, 566 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: N I got a problem with my radio. What I 567 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: changed my battery a while going stept the anti SEP device. 568 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: Oh sure, anti fet built into the radio. Okay, yeah, 569 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: and uh, of course the radio went off and I 570 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: had to I had to typen uh the code. Do 571 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: you have the code? I have the code, but I 572 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: typed in the wrong code. It happens. Now when I 573 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 1: pushed the power, it's locked. How many how many positions 574 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: do you have on the key? You know when you 575 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: turn the key is at one two and then run 576 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: uh one school unlike on the key right on the 577 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: on the ignition switch on. Yeah, yeah, it's too okay. 578 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: So what you've got to do is you've got to 579 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: do You've got to do a radio reset. Okay. Um. 580 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: Now most of the cars work off of first position, 581 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: not second position, meaning that turn the ignition key to 582 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: position one, nothing else on in the car. Let the 583 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: car sit within two to three hours. This takes time, 584 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: all right, within two to three hours. It should come 585 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: up with it. It changes the word on the on 586 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: the face of the radio. It changed from locked. I 587 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: believe code comes up and then you can enter the 588 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: correct code. Really yeah, alright, well it might depends on 589 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: the state of charge of the battery, so you want 590 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: to have a battery charger nearby just in case. All right. 591 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: I didn't say this was I didn't say this was 592 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: a full proof idea. Um. You know, this is the 593 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: way Volvo made it because the thinking was that nobody 594 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: could sit there with your key on for three hours 595 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: unless they if they if they were stealing the radio. 596 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I you know why you know, might listen. 597 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: My whole feeling is, you know, when the car was new, 598 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: even when the car was new, who was going to 599 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: steal the radio out of a ninety nine Volvo? I know, right, 600 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: what are you? What are you gonna do with the 601 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: you know, the radio? The radio fits the dashboards so 602 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: specifically now that I don't get why we have anti 603 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: theft codes in any radios. I know, I don't understand 604 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: that myself. And and the next biggest pain in the 605 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: butt is wheelocks. They put wheelocks on cars and the 606 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: car is now more than four years old. The wheels 607 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: looked like they were trashed by Mel Gibson in the 608 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: Road Warrior. And you know, you know now I asked people, Hey, 609 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: where's your wheelock key so I can rotate the tires? 610 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: My what you know? It's lost that the dog ate it. 611 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: It fell out the window. The last five repair shops, 612 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: you know broke it. It's amazing. But try that. Sit 613 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: there with the key on. You'll see a change to code. 614 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: When it goes to code, enter the code and you 615 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: should be okay, all right, sir, all right, let me 616 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: know what happens. Ricky five five zero nine nine zero zero, 617 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: run nading the car doctor. We're back right after this. 618 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back, run the end of the car doctor. Right, 619 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: five five zero nine nine zero zero. Let's go and 620 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: talk to Vans, Springfield, Illinois, thirteen bubic Encore. Yes, fans, 621 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: how can I help? Well? I appreciate taking my call. 622 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: Uh got a problem with the battery being run down 623 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: after you set the car off. Sometimes the radiator fan 624 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: will stay on and looking about fifteen minutes the battery said, 625 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: and you need to jump had it into the dealer. 626 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: They had it two days, they said, they tested over, 627 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: they tested all the systems. They couldn't find anything wrong 628 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,560 Speaker 1: with it. I am actually taking it back in Monday 629 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 1: morning to them. But in the time, just I've talked 630 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 1: to some friends and they've given these ideas that I 631 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: listened to your show and I just wanted to see 632 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 1: if you had any ideas because my wife accuses to 633 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: drive her and it's her car until she's sure it's 634 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: it's correct. Let me let me ask you this question. 635 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: It's a third team buick. Is that the original battery? Uh? No, 636 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: We replaced the battery uh in August the sixteen. I 637 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 1: took it back to the battery's a local dealer Stop Batteries, 638 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: and they've got a good reputation. They tested it. They 639 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 1: said the battery was worn down, but it wasn't a 640 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: bad sell. That confirmed also by the dealer. Okay, yeah, 641 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: and I just you know, let me just let's let's 642 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,439 Speaker 1: let's do the simple stuff first. So battery is good 643 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,399 Speaker 1: at this point. What you're telling me is then it's 644 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 1: an intermittent failure, right, This doesn't happen all the time? Correct? 645 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: All right? So you know these fans are controlled by 646 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,359 Speaker 1: relays which are controlled by the main engine computer. All Right. 647 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: The simple question is there's three fans involved in this 648 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,240 Speaker 1: in the underhood fuse block. And you know you wonder 649 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: is one or two or a combination of relay sticking? 650 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: Do I have a relay issue? How hard would it 651 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: be to number the three fans, number the three relays? 652 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: And if you have something else common in the vehicle, 653 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: you know, if if if the relay next to it 654 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: runs fog lights and it's the same relay as the fan, 655 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: swap it out, does the problem go away? All right? Um? 656 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: You know, just just substitution. The problem is you can't 657 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 1: duplicate the issue, right. It happens intermittently, so you really 658 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: have to catch it in the act. And until that happens, 659 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: no mechanic, no Mr Goodwrench in the world, you know, 660 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 1: they gotta take calculated guesses and and sort of follow 661 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 1: it along that way. So the only other thing I 662 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: would suggest is obviously scan it for codes and then 663 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: last ask them to ask them to just see if 664 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: there are any flash updates to it. As far as 665 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: software is concerned for this condition, I've seen that on 666 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: General Motors products as well. Give me a call back 667 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,919 Speaker 1: next week, let me know what happens. Vance. I'm roning 668 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 1: aading the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're placeless.