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Speaker 1: to Curtis and Conroy Texas and problems with his two

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Speaker 1: specialty way. Yes, you could take a look at that,

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Speaker 1: um and consider that, because that does have differences and additives.

429
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Speaker 1: But I believe what I would probably do first is

430
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Speaker 1: start with five thirty all right, and I would just go,

431
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Speaker 1: you know, some five thirty pens oil. Just you know,

432
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Speaker 1: either they're conventional, and if you've been using conventional all along,

433
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Speaker 1: I'd stay with their five thirty conventional and then if

434
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Speaker 1: you want to switch and go to their higher mile

435
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Speaker 1: of oil, you can do that as well. Um, you know,

436
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Speaker 1: and try that a little bit of a science experiment

437
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Speaker 1: each time. We may end up getting nowhere, but you've

438
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Speaker 1: got to change the oil anyway, So what difference does

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Speaker 1: it make? And you know kind of take it from there. Um,

440
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Speaker 1: you did well, hundred forty three thousand miles. I'm just

441
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Speaker 1: curious you've done all the other maintenance, cooling service, spark plugs,

442
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Speaker 1: those types of things. Yeah, what I do, genuinely, this

443
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Speaker 1: is my third one. I've always keep them anywhere from

444
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Speaker 1: thirteen to eighteen years each, So this is my third

445
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Speaker 1: Ford pickup truck. Um, Yeah, what I do is that

446
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Speaker 1: a hundred thousand miles. I do many tune ups, and

447
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: I also have the transmission oil and filter change at

448
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Speaker 1: that time, and uh, they seem to last until I

449
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Speaker 1: trade them off. Right, you did well? You know what

450
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Speaker 1: to go ahead a thousand miles in the first trans

451
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Speaker 1: fluid change. Um, you did really well. I would, I would?

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Speaker 1: You must be I guess you. Well, yeah, you are

453
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of highway driving. You're in Texas, UM,

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Speaker 1: so I'm sure it's I'm sure it's a lot of

455
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Speaker 1: over the road stuff, Curtis. I appreciate the call. Take

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Speaker 1: a look at motor Oil Reimagined dot com for more

457
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Speaker 1: information about Penn's oil, oil and UM. There's also a

458
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Speaker 1: tech line number there you can call and talk to

459
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: them about what oils to use, but try to switch

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Speaker 1: to five thirty first and then we can we can

461
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Speaker 1: talk about it again if you need to. You can

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Speaker 1: get me a call back at five five zero nine

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Speaker 1: nine zero zero. I'm running any in the right doctor.

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Speaker 1: Let's pull over and take a pause. I'm back right

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Speaker 1: after this. M H. Welcome back, ran any in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. The phone numbers eight five five zero nine

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Speaker 1: nine zero zero, that is seven on all the time.

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Speaker 1: Call and leave a message fast. Harry, our executive producer,

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Speaker 1: will call you back and put you in queue for

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Speaker 1: the following week when this show's live Saturday afternoons to

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Speaker 1: the four pm Eastern time. Let's get over and talk

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Speaker 1: to Pam south Hadley. I guess that's main is that

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Speaker 1: main Pam? No, it's actually Western Massachusetts. Okay, are you

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Speaker 1: very welcome, dear? How can I help roll? And I've

475
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Speaker 1: got a two thousand four ZW tur eggs. I've been

476
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Speaker 1: through three batteries and more years. I was on vacation

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Speaker 1: in Maine and started getting odd messages from the electrical

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Speaker 1: warning system. So I took it into the W dealership

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Speaker 1: in Maine mentioned the battery issue as an assigne. When

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Speaker 1: I picked the car up, the service guy said, you

481
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Speaker 1: have a second separate alarm on the battery. It's on

482
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Speaker 1: all the time. That's what's draining the battery. We've never

483
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Speaker 1: seen anything like this, and we have no idea how

484
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Speaker 1: to disable it. Isn't that exciting? Okay? It is? And

485
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: and uh, talking a little more, he realized I had

486
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Speaker 1: bought the car in Queens, in New York City. He goes, well,

487
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: maybe in a high crime area that standard equipment. Um,

488
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Speaker 1: no reflection on Queens. Although, yeah, my, my, my engineer

489
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Speaker 1: Tony smiling, he gets it. He's from Brooklyn. Uh, let's

490
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Speaker 1: start the war from here. First of all, we've got

491
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Speaker 1: to determine is this an anti theft car or not

492
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: an anti theft car? And they can do that by

493
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Speaker 1: running down the serial number of the part number of

494
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Speaker 1: the PCN, M or H. If the dealer is saying

495
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Speaker 1: this is an aftermarket alarm, why can't we just disable it?

496
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Speaker 1: Why can't we just disconnected? Have you asked that question? Uh? Yeah,

497
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Speaker 1: I did, And a friend of mine who's actually an

498
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Speaker 1: aircraft mechanics that there's got to be a fused or

499
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Speaker 1: something you can you can cut. It has to be,

500
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: has to be now. Now you know, I've unwired a

501
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: few car alarms at the shop. Not to make it

502
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Speaker 1: sound like we're doing it on a daily basis, but

503
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Speaker 1: it does happen. We probably unwire three or four car

504
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Speaker 1: alarms a year, and it's just a process. It's a

505
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Speaker 1: process of time, patients and your checkbook, um to put

506
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: it bluntly, because they've got to go in. Depending upon

507
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Speaker 1: how this aftermarket alarm was attached and disconnected from the harness,

508
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: figure out where you know, here's the factory harness, here's

509
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Speaker 1: the aftermarket harness. We cut it here, spliced this in

510
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: between and enabled it that way so it can be reversed.

511
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Speaker 1: It depends a lot on how it was put together,

512
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Speaker 1: and if it's too badly hacked up, just soldering things

513
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Speaker 1: back together and putting it back to original. Um, if

514
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: you look at your key ring, maybe this is the answer.

515
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Speaker 1: If you look at your keys on your key ring,

516
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Speaker 1: is there a remote of some type that's that's doesn't

517
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Speaker 1: look like it came from Volkswagen. No, okay, it's just

518
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Speaker 1: I've just got two identical Volkswagon. Do you turn the

519
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Speaker 1: alarm on and offer? Does it automatically arm whenever you

520
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: lock the car? I turn it on and off. How

521
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 1: do you turn it on and off? I have old

522
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Speaker 1: fashioned and actually put the key in the lock and

523
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Speaker 1: turn it. Okay, that that arms the alarm. Yeah, it's

524
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Speaker 1: the alarm for the car. But the the v W

525
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Speaker 1: service guy told me that the battery alarm, the separate

526
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: second one, is just always on. And you know, the

527
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: battery for this car is under the driver's seat and

528
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: so it's fairly inaccessible, and it's always on. The alarm

529
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: for the battery, yes, is always on. Because that's the

530
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: idea behind this system that if somebody breaks into the car,

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Speaker 1: you know, and let's say I'm an idiot and I've

532
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: forgotten to put the car alarm in the car, he

533
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Speaker 1: goes to steal the battery. Of course, that the battery

534
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Speaker 1: alarm has to be on. So we we actually thought

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Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere in Queen's is a dealership saying that somebody

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Speaker 1: might break into a two thousand four Volkswagen and steal

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Speaker 1: the battery out of it. Well, I got the car

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Speaker 1: in two thousand Well right, I get that. But still, um,

539
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Speaker 1: I think we've taken things to an extreme level here. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had no I had no idea. There is this

541
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Speaker 1: second alarm if if there, if somebody put it on,

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00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: there's a way to take it off, all right. If

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Speaker 1: somebody wanted to do a parasitic draw test, there's got

544
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Speaker 1: to be a fuse here that's activated. Now, what I'd

545
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: like you to do is go back to your friend

546
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: the aircraft mc annek and ask him about doing a

547
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Speaker 1: Millie voult voltage drop test. All right. The problem is

548
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: that to do a parasitic draw test on newer cars

549
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: it takes a lot because of the computer involvement, and

550
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Speaker 1: in some cases, in the case of most Volkswagons, for example,

551
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: your thirty to forty five minutes of letting the vehicle

552
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: sit idle, key out of it, doors closed, hood down

553
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: to let all the modules go to sleep, and then

554
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: by the time you go up to do any kind

555
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: of amperage draw testing, the minute you wake something up,

556
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: you have to start all over again. So conventional thinking

557
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: is now working towards the idea of doing a millie vault.

558
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Speaker 1: You take a digital voltometer, set it on millie volts,

559
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: which is a very small scale, and you're looking for

560
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: millie voltage on any one particular fuse. The idea being

561
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Speaker 1: is that if there is a presence of voltage on

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Speaker 1: that fuse, then that circuit is showing voltage there for

563
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: its showing amperage flow, and that circuit is still alive,

564
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: and there's your drain at least, then you might be

565
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: able to know that, Okay, this this aftermarket alarm that's

566
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: been put on that has no fuse, has a fuse,

567
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: so there has to be a few somewhere. There's got

568
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: to be something that powers that alarm. It just can't.

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Speaker 1: We don't have the technology to do this wirelessly yet,

570
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: and a millie vault voltage drop test will help you

571
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: to find that. But I'll have that I have to.

572
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, Pam, I've never seen

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00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: an alarm specifically for just a battery. It's just insane. Yeah,

574
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: that's just crazy. So so the current battery is dead, dead, dead,

575
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: and it was fully charged a month ago when I

576
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: went in for an oil change and all the other stuff. Um,

577
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: and I didn't drive it at all. Last week I

578
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: went to it and started it, put it on a

579
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: tenant charger for three hours, absolutely nothing. So I've got

580
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: a spring for a new battery, which is a darn

581
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: shame because I'm trading in the car this summer. So

582
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: any expense I have to go to is just or

583
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: is I'm just wondering if it, if it's worth it.

584
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: Well I've got you know, if I've got someone, we'll

585
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: do it for free. It's it's it's worth it. If

586
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: you need to have the car and drive it around

587
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: for a month, you know you're you're you're paying for

588
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: the price of a battery versus renting a car. Is

589
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: the dealership that sold you the car still in business?

590
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: H I have no idea I could call and see,

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00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, a fairly large one in Queen's right. I

592
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: would wonder if you called them and um, you know,

593
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: maybe they can go back in their files. Maybe you're

594
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: still maybe that vehicle still exists in their files. And

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00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: they could tell you, yeah, we installed these alarms. Here

596
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: was the company, or could you at least take a

597
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: look at the alarm or something. There's got to be

598
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: a module in the car or wiring at the battery,

599
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: anything with any identifying tag and google it from there.

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00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: And you know, the Internet is a great source of information.

601
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: You just have to weed through it and maybe you

602
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: can find out more about this alarm, this add on

603
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: from that point too. Okay, I'll try that. I'll start

604
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: by calling the original dealer film. All right, if you

605
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: if you can get a picture of this alarm add

606
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: on or anything you get, send me a picture, email

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00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: it to me Ron at Car Doctor show dot com.

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: I'll see what I can come up with. All Right,

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00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: you're welcome. I'm good luck to you, dear zero. The

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor is back. Right after this welcome back. We're

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Speaker 1: on the of the Car Doctor winding things down this hour.

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Speaker 1: Let's go for an out of the states called Paul, Ontario, Canada. Paul.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help hi, sir?

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00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: Question for you? Yes, I have a two thousand and

615
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: six masses speed six UM and I put an engine

616
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: in it because I had a thrower rod at like

617
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: uh two d and twenty thousand miles. So put a

618
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: new engine in. I put new engine. I told the

619
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: guy whould put an engine, and I said, can you

620
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: get the injectors cleaned? And recently I had a misfire

621
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: and I tracked it down. It's like, it's not not

622
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: ignition because I swapped the plugs and the coil packs

623
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, if those injectors, I know we

624
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: never claimed them. So I pull all the intake off

625
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: and what I was off. I looked down the intake

626
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: tracks at the back of the vowel and because it's

627
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: direct injection, the amount to crap on the back of

628
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: the vowel's just astound after twelve miles, and I'm like,

629
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: you read up on it, and guys are using well

630
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: nut media blaster to clean it off, and I'm like,

631
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: there's got to be a better way. An injector cleaner

632
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: doesn't obviously do it because it doesn't go that way. Well,

633
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: the problem with you know the problem with the injector cleaners, Paul,

634
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: is getting it into the system. And you know there

635
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: are but you can't. It's it doesn't go through the

636
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: intake right, you can't, So it's it becomes an issue. UM.

637
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: You know my experience with direct injection, the best way

638
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: to do it is too Now, there are some cleaners

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Speaker 1: that you can spray around the intakes that you know

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Speaker 1: you're not going through the injectors. There are various cleaners

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Speaker 1: out there from different manufacturers that you can try and

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Speaker 1: going through that process. Um CRC makes one uh G

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Speaker 1: d I gasoline direct injection cleaner and we've had some

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Speaker 1: good results with that and UM we followed those recommendations also.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you're not in this category. You know,

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Speaker 1: what's your length of time between oil changes. They're finding

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Speaker 1: that the cars that are dragging out the oil changes

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Speaker 1: are the ones that are more likely to have problems

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Speaker 1: with carbon build up on direct injection cars. Mini Coopers

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Speaker 1: come to mind. They're a nightmare for that. UM. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's cleaners outside, such as the sprays and UM

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Speaker 1: doing that and then additives into the gas tank because

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Speaker 1: um although actually editives in the gas tank won't help

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Speaker 1: the intake valves, they will help with piston rings, carbon deposits,

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Speaker 1: better combustion, and maintaining compression on the cylinders. So there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of ways to attack it, and there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of things you can try. All right, sir, Hey listen,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. I'm on any of the car

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Speaker 1: Doctor mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you