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Speaker 1: go to Melvine in Baltimore and see what's going on

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Speaker 1: here in Melvine? Oh three Honda Civic overheated? Was that

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Speaker 1: Marshall Highway, White marshamall it just check it? Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I having a having a problem. No, uh, my cooling

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Speaker 1: is going over to the deserve, but it's not coming back.

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Speaker 1: And observed is stilling not? But everything works, the heat work,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Adword, do the cooling fans

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Speaker 1: come on Melvine? Yeah? One time eighth when it comes on?

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Speaker 1: Um uh and when I guess you know saying when

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Speaker 1: So give me this scenario. Is it you still are

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Speaker 1: Do you physically see steam? Does the gauge pin? Give

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Speaker 1: you know it's overheating because attempting gays go up to

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Speaker 1: stop going up towards the um. Okay, so the temperature

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Speaker 1: But if you were have you have you felt the

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Speaker 1: upper and lower radiator hos? Is one hot? One cold? Uh?

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Speaker 1: How hot? Is hot? Uncomfortable to hold? Yeah? What's up? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I tried? I changed the thermostay, Yeah, that's about it.

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Speaker 1: Because uh, turn the car on and the idols like

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Speaker 1: I said, the coolness going into the reserve, but it's

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Speaker 1: go up and overheat sitting there? Uh? Probably about that?

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Speaker 1: All right, as long as you've got good circulation, we

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Speaker 1: fan operation. Let's go chase the cooling fan, unplug the

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Speaker 1: cooling temperature switch on the thermostat housing, put a jumper

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Speaker 1: So at that point, if you have no tools, maybe

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Speaker 1: the cheapest guests is attempt switch. Best guests, make sure

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Speaker 1: it from a reliable source. You've got an O'Reilly oto

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Speaker 1: But be careful how you think of this. Don't think well,

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Speaker 1: it's two hours in the cooling flows this way and

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Speaker 1: But uh, I want to get through the fans cycling first,

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Speaker 1: All right? How are you doing right? Alright? Sir? What's

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Speaker 1: let people know that's a really really really bad idea. Well,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's been on a lot of fronts, right, Steve.

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Speaker 1: If if it's an air bad car, you're gonna blow

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Speaker 1: say is is, as you mentioned, you know, when the

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Speaker 1: It was like a foot and a half off on

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Speaker 1: the rear ends. And you know, you get something like that,

426
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Speaker 1: you get in it to drive it into your bay

427
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Speaker 1: and it runs a run into the curb within five

428
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Speaker 1: ft and you get that thing done and drive straight

429
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Speaker 1: as an narrow I mean, there's no nothing more pleasurable

430
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Speaker 1: than that. Yeah. Oh well, listen, that's listen man, that's

431
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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the career of working on cars, right.

432
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Speaker 1: I was talking to Dominic yesterday. Dominic's a regular customer

433
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Speaker 1: at the shop and he owns an OH seven Subaru

434
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Speaker 1: and he purchased this car used Unfortunately, he's had a

435
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Speaker 1: bad run of luck. He had Subaru that was going

436
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Speaker 1: through a court of oil every five or six hundred miles.

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Speaker 1: He got rid of that. He purchased this OH seven

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Speaker 1: Subaru that now goes through a quart of oil every

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Speaker 1: four miles. Where he goes through three courts and three

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Speaker 1: thousand miles. Whichever way it comes out the big depends

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Speaker 1: on the day of the week, he said. And in

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Speaker 1: the conversation with Dominic, we were talking about working on

443
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Speaker 1: cars and I'm not sure what exactly. He doesn't think

444
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Speaker 1: he's a medical technician or a medical technician repair person,

445
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Speaker 1: something along those lines. And if you're listening, dom high um.

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Speaker 1: But he brought up a point. He says, it must

447
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Speaker 1: be so exciting to work with your hands every day.

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Speaker 1: And I said, you know, absolutely so. I said, there's

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Speaker 1: something really rewarding, even after forty something years, that you

450
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Speaker 1: get to work with your hands and fix something that

451
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Speaker 1: nobody else can fix, or nobody else wants to fix,

452
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Speaker 1: or just you get the opportunity to do it. Dominic

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Speaker 1: Suber Group had a hundred and forty thousand miles on

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Speaker 1: and it needed for an NT work. They sold it

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Speaker 1: to him as a used car and needed for an ntwork.

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Speaker 1: But to get everything apart, I had to carefully heat

457
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Speaker 1: everything so as not to ruin the cast and then

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Speaker 1: re threat and tap and you know, quite a little

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Speaker 1: bit of tedious work. And um, you know what, at

460
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, there's nothing like fixing a

461
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Speaker 1: car to make yourself feel good. And I would much

462
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: rather take that. And I just had this conversation with

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Speaker 1: my wife that I'd still I still like fixing cars

464
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't take sitting at a desk. Man. Um,

465
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Speaker 1: I'd just go out of my mind. I appreciate the

466
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Speaker 1: called Douglas and by all means, give it a shot.

467
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Speaker 1: Try it that way, and uh, let us know how

468
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Speaker 1: you work out. And um, you know, we'll we'll. We're

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Speaker 1: glad to talk to you. And if there anything else

470
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Speaker 1: we can do for you in the future, you let

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Speaker 1: us know. Hey. This segment of The Car Doctor was

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Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor. We're back right after this. Welcome

492
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Speaker 1: back any of the car Doctor. Let's go over and

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Speaker 1: talk to Holly in Michigan. Holly, Welcome to the Car Doctor. Hi,

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Speaker 1: my name is Holly. I'm from shot, Michigan. I have

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Speaker 1: a two thousand eight Honda Accord. It's only got six

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Speaker 1: thousand miles on it. Um, it has an issue where

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00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 1: the oil smells like gas, and I have two questions,

498
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: One is there a fix for this? And then too,

499
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Speaker 1: could this ever cause an oil drain plug to fall out?

500
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Speaker 1: I can't cause an oil drain plug to fall out.

501
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: The only way an oil drain plug is going to

502
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: fall out as if it's not tightened properly. So has

503
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Speaker 1: the old drain plug fallen out? Is my question? Yes,

504
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Speaker 1: I was driving and I had gotten this car. I

505
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Speaker 1: never gotten an oil change done on it, so it

506
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Speaker 1: must have been done before I got it. I went

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Speaker 1: four thousand miles for the dream plug fell out? Okay,

508
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Speaker 1: So well I would have to look back at the

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Speaker 1: person that did the last oil change. That that's uh,

510
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Speaker 1: you know, for it to just loosen up like that. Um,

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Speaker 1: when did you what did you buy the car with

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Speaker 1: like what two thousand miles on it? Holly? Yeah all right,

513
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: and buy it from a dealership. Yeah, it was like

514
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Speaker 1: one of the lower cars. So I've got to think

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Speaker 1: I've got to go back to the guy that did

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Speaker 1: the oil change. I mean, if it's if it's torque

517
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Speaker 1: to spec, drain plugs just don't fall out liquid? Is

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Speaker 1: you know, think of think of it like this liquid

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Speaker 1: is liquid. Not that I would recommend anybody do this,

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00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 1: but if you fill the crank case with water, you know,

521
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: just because there's a different liquid in there, it's not

522
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: going to make the drain plug fall out. It's gonna

523
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: obviously cause engine damage, but it's not going to make

524
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: the drain plug fall out. So when the drain plug

525
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Speaker 1: fell out where they able to thread a new one in,

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Speaker 1: you know, as far as you know, the threads in

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Speaker 1: the oil pan weren't destroyed or hurt. It was just

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00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: something just unthreaded. Yeah, they were able to put it

529
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 1: back in and it was fine. So and obviously a

530
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Speaker 1: new drain plug because the old one got lost on

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Speaker 1: the highway somewhere. Yeah, that had to be quite a mess,

532
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Speaker 1: I'm sure, just out of curiosity. How did you know

533
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: the drain plug fell out when the red light came

534
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: on for the engine or did you notice notice the

535
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: road to stay on the road you were leaving behind.

536
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: I got an emergency warning that the oil pressure was low,

537
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: and so I just stopped the engine and then I

538
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: checked the oil. There was like no oil ouch. Okay,

539
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: well good, I'm glad you listened to the to the dashboard.

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Speaker 1: So back to the first question, gas in the oil.

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Speaker 1: What makes you think there's gas in the oil? Well,

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Speaker 1: when I put the dipstick in there and I take

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Speaker 1: it out, you know, it smells like gas. And even

544
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Speaker 1: just not even doing that, but just opening it up

545
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Speaker 1: the cap, it smells like gas. Doesn't smell just like oil.

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Speaker 1: How can I explain it? Um on a feedback engine?

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00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: All engines anything with an oxygen sensor. So engines over

548
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 1: the last thirty years they have the ability to control

549
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: you know, computers have the ability to control the air

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00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: fuel mixture, right, so they they use something called an

551
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Speaker 1: oxygen sensor, and in simpler terms, there's other terms for it,

552
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: but an oxygen sensor. It sniffs the content, the amount

553
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: of oxygen content and the exhaust and they had just

554
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: fuel trim accordingly. They just had to change the mixture accordingly.

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Speaker 1: Fuel in the crank case would skew that. Oh, two

556
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: censor reading it would change it, and it would change

557
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Speaker 1: it to the point that the computer could no longer

558
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: accurately and correctly control fuel trim. So if there truly

559
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: was excess fuel or fuel in the crank case period,

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Speaker 1: in theory on paper, you would get a check engine light.

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00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: You would see, you would see fault codes and you

562
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: would see so guards is of what it smells like.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you really believe there's fuel in the

564
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Speaker 1: crank case, and I'm not saying it's impossible, the only

565
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: way it could happen is poor combustion. I'm sorry. The

566
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Speaker 1: piston rings aren't ceiling properly in the engine and they're

567
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: allowing fuel charge to blow down and contaminate the oil.

568
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: But you know, does the new oil still smell like

569
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Speaker 1: fuel or was that the old oil? Or you don't

570
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: smell anymore? You still do? I still do you smell

571
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: the gas? Okay? Cars under warranty is all right? Here's

572
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: what here's here's what I want you to tell the

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Speaker 1: service right on Monday, all right, I want you to

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Speaker 1: take it in. And you know is this this is

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Speaker 1: a Honda dealer you bought the car from, right, Okay,

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00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: So you know you're gonna take it in and you're

577
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: gonna tell him listen, remember me, I'm the oil drain

578
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: plug lady. The drain plug fell out. And he'll go, yep,

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Speaker 1: I remember in You'll have a good laugh about it

580
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: and say, listen, I'm being a little sensitive to this,

581
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: and I just need you to look at this. You know,

582
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: I check the oil and the oil smells like gas,

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00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: and I'd like somebody to check it all right now,

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00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: whether they send a mechanic out. And you kind of

585
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: wanted in writing all right, you don't want this to

586
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: be done off the cuff, all right, you you you

587
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: want to ask them to, you know, do a work

588
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: order so that they physically check it. Um what you

589
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: want to tell HIMSI your fuel your fuel mileages down,

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00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: all right, and you're smelling fuel in the oil when

591
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: you check the oil level, all right, that's your generator

592
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,959
Speaker 1: repair order. Let them do a repair order. Let them

593
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: check it. They're probably gonna come back and say there's

594
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the car. That's fine. But you know

595
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: what we just did. We documented it, and now it's

596
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: on file because if for some reason, this is in

597
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: the early stages of fuel contaminating the oil and five

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00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: thousand miles from now the engine fails, it's still under warranty.

599
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: But if if anything else happens on down the road,

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00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: you've you've notified Honda. Honda has been you know, here's

601
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: what it is. You've got it. In writing don't lose

602
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: that piece of paper, all right, But because there's not

603
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: a lot of ways for that to get fuel foul

604
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: or oil contaminated, you know, gasoline contaminated oil. There's not

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00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: a lot of ways for that to happen, um short

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00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: of cataclysmic or pending cataclysmic engine damage. All right, do that,

607
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: and I think that I'll get you what you need,

608
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: all right, kiddoh, okay, thank you so much. You're very welcome,

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00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: holly good to have you today. I'm any in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. We're back right after this ronan car doctor,

611
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: back at your service, real quick story before we go

612
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: this hour, you know, the the insanity of utter repair, right,

613
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: I just I just question what it's about sometimes. How

614
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: a Toyota Prius come into the shop this week. Check

615
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: engine light was on, check engine lights but on for

616
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: a while. And I always find it interesting when a Prius,

617
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: right the planet saving car, the you know, it doesn't

618
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: run as much on gasoline as it could are, has

619
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: a check engine light on that's been on for a while,

620
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: because you know, let's face it, it's it's a typical

621
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: Prius owner is somebody that's into saving the environment. And

622
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: I get that, and I respect that. And listen, I'm

623
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: into the environment too. I'm not saying i'm not, but

624
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: to me, you know, driving a Prius kind of puts

625
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: the bull's eye on your back. You're saying, hey, um

626
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: into saving the planet, um into saving gas and my

627
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: carbon footprint and so on. And they've got bumper stickers

628
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: on the back of the car. You know, um uh,

629
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Speaker 1: you know the environment matters. Women's rights matter, you know,

630
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: black lives matter, blue lives matter, everybody's lives matter. And

631
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Speaker 1: I agree with all that. You know, a real spiritual,

632
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: good karma kind of bumper sticker, okay. And you look

633
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: at a car like that and you say, wow, here's

634
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: somebody that you know they do recycling and it's clean

635
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: air and windmills and all the other possible choices. Check

636
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Speaker 1: engine lights on. And I get in the car, check

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Speaker 1: engine lights on, and there's a piece of black electrical

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Speaker 1: tape over the light next to it, which is for

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Speaker 1: the tire pressure system. I'm scratching my head and well,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to fix that. That's too expensive, okay.

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Speaker 1: And the right we retired, by the way, because they

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Speaker 1: think the t PMS system is broken, by the way,

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Speaker 1: the right retire has sixteen pounds of air in it.

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Speaker 1: So they've been driving around for for he said, three

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Speaker 1: four months with losing air slowly, they just got tired.

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Speaker 1: They put a piece of tape over So I diagnosed

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Speaker 1: the check engine light. God's honest truth. I come back

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Speaker 1: to me. I say, look, it needs X, Y and Z.

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Speaker 1: It's twelve to fift. What do you want to do? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to spend that kind of money on

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Speaker 1: the car. He says, you can just put another piece

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Speaker 1: of tape over a light. And you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: get it. Are we what's the point in trying to

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Speaker 1: save the planet if we're not doing it on seven basis?

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Speaker 1: And and that's the point of this, all right, Listen,

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Speaker 1: it's a mindset. Check engine lights on. I don't care

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Speaker 1: what you're driving, Get it fixed, don't put tape over it.

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Speaker 1: It's not legal, it's not right, it's not moral, and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't do the planet a whole lot of good.

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Speaker 1: I'm not on any in the car. Doctor. Mechanics aren't expensive.

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Speaker 1: Their priceless. Everyone she goes to