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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian repairing cars. Defects in cars, fire issues in cars,

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Speaker 1: software problems in cars is a matter of corporate culture.

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Speaker 1: It comes from the top. The car Doctor. Though I

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Speaker 1: disconnecting the battery, let it sit for a couple hours,

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Speaker 1: Come back up five, started up, it ran fine, all

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Speaker 1: the warning life, during all the gags you're did and

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Speaker 1: what have you done to diagnose it so far? Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in the garage doors are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at eight five and now

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Speaker 1: he running, well, I guess it's my turn to start speaking.

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Speaker 1: We have we should, We should really get good old

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Speaker 1: Karen up here on the show. One day Tom and

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Speaker 1: talked to him about life. We haven't talked to him

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Speaker 1: doing such a great job introducing me every day. I'll

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Speaker 1: does voices? Oh? My gosh, you know, you know, full, full,

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Speaker 1: full disclosure for everybody. We worked with Karen mckugh at

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Speaker 1: holiday party, and you would hear, you would hear Karen

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Speaker 1: big names, right, the real names. He did a Bob

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Speaker 1: Bob Grant Show as Bob Grant, sitting in front of

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Speaker 1: Bob Grant and the callers didn't notice. And that was

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Speaker 1: Karen McKeough. That is Karen mckoy's. But yeah, we should

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Speaker 1: let's kick the phones wide open. Tom. We've got that,

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot going on this hour. We've got

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Speaker 1: an interview down the bottom the folks from may See Avalanche.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be stopping by with looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: And right now, let's get over to Jay in Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Oh one Toyota RAV four and some emissions problems. Jay,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help? Hey? Ron? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got the emissions Nightmare replaced the cat with the

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Speaker 1: the codes, but the cat will not ready. The only

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Speaker 1: anything to do with it? Not ready? And the cat

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Speaker 1: after miles of car cycles. Well yeah, but let's let's

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Speaker 1: let's let's back up a second. Ja, what what were

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Speaker 1: the original fault codes in the vehicle? The original fault code.

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Speaker 1: I can't give you the numbers, but it was really

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Speaker 1: it was a cat code. Okay, So it was a

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Speaker 1: Now did both both fault codes occurred at the same time? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I believe. So it's been it's been about in the

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Speaker 1: year now, I believe so. So don't you find it

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Speaker 1: kind of odd that you've got to too codes from

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I did the clothes. The codes were

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Speaker 1: so let's let's try it like this. Tell me how

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Speaker 1: put this car through? Uh? Thirty five? Five drove cycle?

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Speaker 1: Won't ready that chat? Okay? What kind of scan tool

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Speaker 1: you got? Jay? It's one of the I don't know

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Speaker 1: that's all right? Does it? Does it do? Or show

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Speaker 1: Those those car tests are performed in the Mode six

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Speaker 1: cat monitor to completion. But rather than do that, why

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Speaker 1: It's just easier, right, yeah. So so, well, so you're

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Speaker 1: looking for you're looking for it. You know what? I

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Speaker 1: could google it if you've got a subscription for service

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Speaker 1: information like all data excellent way to go get a

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Speaker 1: got an excellent section on mode six and what it means.

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Speaker 1: can get into Mode six data. Now, some scan tools

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Speaker 1: hexadecimal format, it's more complicated. You want to look for

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Speaker 1: six explanation and you can actually see where it will

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Speaker 1: what the failures are and what the passes are. You

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Speaker 1: and clearing the PCM. I had to retrain the car.

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Speaker 1: And I know you've gone further. You said you've been

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Speaker 1: So I just get it right. So you know, it's

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Speaker 1: you need more information. Listen. I give you a lot

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Speaker 1: just a broken car. You know what life's too short.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing here to get aggravated at. Take the challenge right,

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Speaker 1: It's it's just I want to flut all the troops

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Speaker 1: Nine saw me God bless you mean well? Jay? You

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Speaker 1: take good care down there Virginia Way. And uh, if

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Speaker 1: you need more, you let us know where to you,

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Speaker 1: let us you, let us know what it is, and

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Speaker 1: we'll do what I can to get it to you.

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Speaker 1: Um let's pull over, take a pause. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: right after this. He drives that way. But when it

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Speaker 1: comes to fixing cars, we're on has card advice done right?

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five zero nine zero zero. Here's rod.

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Speaker 1: Let's get over to William, Virginia six five hundreds and

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Speaker 1: multiple electrical problems. Hey, Willy, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? I think my father beat you up?

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Speaker 1: Will you there? Will you there? I don't think Willy's there?

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Speaker 1: Will Are you there? Yeah? Yeah, you're on air? Brother?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah? I would call about the four

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Speaker 1: trying to get some idea what's going on? So all

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Speaker 1: cluster right, and it's a used clusters, used cluster to

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Speaker 1: my knowledge, that cluster has to be programmed to the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Is it the right cluster for the vehicle? Doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be programmed? Is it a good cluster? Used doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean good, New doesn't mean good, but used doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: good either. So do you still have the old cluster? No? No,

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Speaker 1: great Okay, so, uh, you know, has he you know?

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Speaker 1: Where do you begin with this? You know, Willie, this

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Speaker 1: is an electrical nightmare, right, you know? Because now now

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Speaker 1: you've just got so much unknown? So why don't we

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Speaker 1: why don't we do this by the numbers? Is he

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Speaker 1: the kind of mechanic, the kind of repair shop if

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Speaker 1: you go back and talk to him, does he have

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Speaker 1: the ability to verify if it's the right part number,

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Speaker 1: the right assembly for the vehicle. Let's start with the

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Speaker 1: it simple. Because it worked before, it doesn't work now

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Speaker 1: is your position? Listen, I've seen this. About a year ago,

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Speaker 1: I had had another shop, Uh, some of the one

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Speaker 1: us a Ford van. They had put cluster in it

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Speaker 1: that pinhole and it and it goes through the whole

426
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: and it reaches the atmosphere on the outside it skins

427
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: over and it kind of forms a band date And

428
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: that stuff works really well in addition to the oil

429
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: that keeps the compressor working and lubricated and working properly

430
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Speaker 1: so that you've got cold air. Is there a reason,

431
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Speaker 1: you know, let's talk about some of the stop leaks,

432
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Speaker 1: uh fixes. You know, somebody's got an older car. You know.

433
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Speaker 1: The reason I used a c avalanche on Chuck sixty

434
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Speaker 1: six and his his his other Chevy was because they

435
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Speaker 1: were converted systems. And you know, sometimes the converted systems

436
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: are just porous. Um. Was I wrong? A c evalanchill

437
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: fix that won't it? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean there's there's

438
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Speaker 1: cars if you if you recallum, you know, anybody that's

439
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: old enough to remember that in the early nineties the

440
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: refrigerant that was used was our twelve that shifted to

441
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 1: our one thirty four A, and in doing that, the ports,

442
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 1: the low pressure port that you would connect the coupler

443
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: to from the hose kit onto the system was different.

444
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: It's like, uh, you know, trying to put diesel gasoline

445
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: into a you know, a regular gasoline car. You know,

446
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 1: it just it's kind of poke yoke, so it won't

447
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: allow you to do that. So but we we have

448
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,439
Speaker 1: what we have as an adapter. So if if you

449
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Speaker 1: have an older car and it's been converted from the

450
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Speaker 1: R twelve to one thirty four A, we have an

451
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Speaker 1: adapter that allows the new coupler to fit over the

452
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: old coupler. It adapts, it puts it on there and

453
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Speaker 1: allows you to fill this thing with one thirty four

454
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Speaker 1: A and use the stop leaking the other products that

455
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Speaker 1: we have for sale. If somebody's got an older car

456
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: and it's it's leaking, you know, the system leaks every

457
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: season are not necessarily just an older car is a

458
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: c avalanche. The fix for that as well, Yeah, it

459
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: sure is. You know, Uh, like I talked about the

460
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 1: stop leak and the triple seal if you have you know,

461
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Speaker 1: if you've determined that the system has leaked out some

462
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: of the of the gas and it's not working properly,

463
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: that means there's a whole somewhere, or there's there's a

464
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: void somewhere, and so you could top it off with

465
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: just a can of straight gas, which is just the

466
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: gas without any additives in it, and it may work

467
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Speaker 1: for for a period of time, but if you really

468
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: want to fix that, fix that for for for the

469
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: long term duration of the vehicle's life, you want to

470
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: use something like, uh, like the stop leak product or

471
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: the triple seal, and that will seal that thing up

472
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: and keep that thing balling cold there for for years

473
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Speaker 1: to come. Cool Beans, ted real good info. Is there

474
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: a spot where the listeners can go for more information? Yes, yes,

475
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: they can go to ww dot ac avalanche dot com,

476
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: or they can follow us on Facebook or Instagram and

477
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: learn all kinds of good things about the product and

478
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: and what what's what's out there and what's offered cool beans.

479
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,679
Speaker 1: I guess that's a little bit of a pun, right

480
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Speaker 1: air conditioning. Uh, it was. It was great having you

481
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Speaker 1: and thanks for taking the time. And I know I

482
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: can tell you from Chuck because he called me two

483
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: weeks after I did as a C said, you know what,

484
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: the a C has never worked any better, and um,

485
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: I know it's going to continue to work this year,

486
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: next year and beyond because he's been struggling with it

487
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 1: because it's an older system and it's just poor. So Ted,

488
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: I gotta run. But UM, thank you very much for

489
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: the time, sir. You'd be well and we'll talk to

490
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Speaker 1: Google one day. Yes, sir, take you stay cool. I'm

491
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Speaker 1: running Any of the Car Doctor. We are back right

492
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Speaker 1: after this. Don't go away back, I'm back Any of

493
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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. That's a good segue. Tom fifty seven

494
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Speaker 1: Chevy and we're just talking about my friend Chuck fifty

495
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Speaker 1: six Chevy. So that, uh, I like the way you

496
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: did that. You know, you're you're pretty good at this.

497
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: This could be your day job. I just want you

498
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Speaker 1: to know, Um, one of these days I'll think about

499
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: getting into radio. Yeah, it's you know, it's like one

500
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Speaker 1: of these days. Somebody asked me, they said, what do

501
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: you do for a living? I said, I don't know.

502
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: I just I play around fixing cars. I haven't decided

503
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Speaker 1: this is what I want to do for the rest

504
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Speaker 1: of my life. So we'll say, let's go over to

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Speaker 1: Ronald's great name by the way in Vermont, Oh. Four

506
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Speaker 1: hummer H two Ronald. Welcome to the car doctor, sir.

507
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: How can I help? Yes, sir, I have an old

508
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: four h two engine. Light kept coming on. I kept

509
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: going to the dealership. They couldn't find anything. They changed

510
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: my clothes. My wives McCool and I also had to

511
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: go back and rechange them out because the light to

512
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: step kept coming on. And then the plate run around

513
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: the side, the plate that holds the coals down around

514
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: some of those little schools was loose. And when you

515
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: get up to the eighties five miles hour, the check

516
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: engine light comes on and started blinking, and I went

517
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: a tighten those down. Then it went away. Then they

518
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: started coming back on again, and then it showed up

519
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: the p O three hundreds and it's three sensors. I'm

520
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: not sure which sensor it is. They said, I have

521
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: to change out all three of them. Well, time car

522
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: doctor calls time on the field. So P zero three

523
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:59,239
Speaker 1: zero three hundred is random misfire. Okay, it's it's not

524
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: sighting s it's random misfire. Can you walk well, yes, sir? Okay?

525
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: You ever you ever notice when you're walking down and

526
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: you're tired and you kind of start dragging one of

527
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: your feet and you sort of stumble a little bit

528
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: and you sort of get a misfire. Now is it?

529
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: Do your are your knees tired? Do your shoes hurt?

530
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: Should you have worn thicker socks that day? There's a

531
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 1: bunch of reasons, right, same thing, same thing with a car.

532
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: So you know you've got a P zero three random misfire. Now,

533
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: it's not saying it's ignition, it's it's just saying misfire.

534
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a misstep, all right. Do you ever

535
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: think about how you ever think about real quick, how

536
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: an engine knows it's misfiring? Uh, the fuel going in

537
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: and close the bad which I put the high performance plow. Well,

538
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: no you're thinking think of it. Think of it like this.

539
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: The crankshaft is spinning around, right, and every time, every

540
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: time the piston comes up the top dead center on

541
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: compression plug fires right. The computer knows what cylinder is

542
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: at top. If it's one, all right, and then if

543
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: the next cylinder in the firing event is eight. It

544
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: knows it measures the time it takes the piston or

545
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: the crankshafter rotape from one to eight because it's looking

546
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: at the crank sensor and it's looking at the rate

547
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: of acceleration and the accelerations. It knows time and it

548
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: sees that it sees that time rate, and it's looking

549
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: for consistent time rates between cylinders too. If they're you know,

550
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: in the if they're in the blink of an eye

551
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: a tenth of a millisecond, they all got to be

552
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: a tenth of a millisecond, all right, So random misfire

553
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: means you're sort of stumbling down the street, but it

554
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: can't tell what it is. It can't tell which cylinder

555
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: it's random. Now down a scan tool, my friend does

556
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: I got the snap on one shows a diagnostics through everything. Good,

557
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: So go into snap on see if they show misfires.

558
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: All right, okay? And it and it did. It showed

559
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: the one net for what a sensor and it went

560
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: to P three day goes down to the Catholic coverter

561
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: three of them and I'm not sure which one or

562
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: the three it is, right, Well, hang on a second,

563
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: does it show individual cylinder misfire rate. No, it doesn't.

564
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: You're sure we didn't look at it. It didn't show

565
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: that we had the diagnostics we said showed a malfunction,

566
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: and it showed the P three hundred. Forget forget looking

567
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: up the golden bullet. Go into data stream, all right, Okay,

568
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: go into data stream. Look at the individual headings. I

569
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: believe they will list the misfire section where they will

570
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: show you cylinder misfires by cylinder. All right, And I'm

571
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: guessing based on what I've seen, this is just a

572
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: six liter GM motor. Is nothing fancy here that maybe

573
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: you're going to see one bank of the motor two

574
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: four six eight, likely misfiring more than the other side.

575
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: Does the engine feel like it has a loss of power? Yes,

576
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: of course it does, right, No, it doesn't when I'm

577
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: sitting at the light. Not when you're sitting at the light.

578
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: When you're misfiring going down the road, Is there a

579
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: loss of power? Oh no, it picked up like a beef.

580
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: But it just but it misfires it. Okay, you got

581
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: you got the retired military too. I worked on them

582
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: in the military. So so so so do this, Ronald,

583
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: because the clock is gonna grab me see if that

584
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: scan tool has got misfired PIDs in it. If it does,

585
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: going to look individual cylinders, which ones are misfiring, and

586
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, call me back next week and I'll

587
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: have more information for you. That's your homework this week.

588
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: And thank you for your service. Zero the car doctors

589
00:32:51,240 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: back right after this welcome back run on any of

590
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: the car doctor you know, electric cars are the future.

591
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm reading an article from CNBC dot com and it

592
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: talks about a road test in a poll Star and

593
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: some of the issues they had. The title of the article, uh,

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00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: according to and this came to us via research Kathy,

595
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: who's still doing her job very well. CNBC road test

596
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: the US electric vehicle charging network isn't ready. Isn't ready

597
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: for your family road trip, let alone the expected wave

598
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: of new cars. It's an interesting story. It talks about

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00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: the the he took a short road trip up and

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00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: down California and the problems he had getting it charged,

601
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: how it took forty six minutes standing in the hot

602
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: sun waiting for the batteries to charge up, and he

603
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: developed The author talks about how he developed charging anxiety. Look,

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00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: we have new terms in the language. It would be

605
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: like Seinfeldt with YadA YadA YadA. Right, I got charging anxiety.

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00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: Why my car took too long to charge um and

607
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: he had to stand outside the convenience store and wait

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00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: for the vehicle to charge up, while the Testla owners

609
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: are using a fast charger so they charged in half

610
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: the time. And so now we're gonna have rivalries. This

611
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: will be like you know, whose car has got the

612
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: fastest charger and all this other nonsense. But the bottom

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00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: line out of this artup, which I think makes a

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00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: whole lot of sense, is we're just not ready for

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00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: it because we don't have the network and the infrastructure.

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00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know. My job is just here

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00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: to report the news, folks. I don't make it up. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm on an any in the car, doctor real quick.

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Speaker 1: Keep a stiff upper lip, keep a good chin. Remember

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Speaker 1: a rising tide lits all boats. We need that right

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Speaker 1: now in this country. And God bless our troops and

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00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,479
Speaker 1: thank you for your service and to our heroes until

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

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Speaker 1: bless see you