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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian. He could have a sixty three split window Vett,

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Speaker 1: a sixty five gto and he drives a seventy three

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Speaker 1: Volkswagen thing pink. It's crazy, all right, It's just it's

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Speaker 1: the Barbie car.

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Speaker 2: Seats, losing street girls out of side, smell the money

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Speaker 2: on the Saturday, the.

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Now, when they ran the new brake lines

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Speaker 1: and they bled the wheels, do you know if they

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Speaker 1: did an abs bleed procedure? And I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: they couldn't have because it was unplugged. Ah right, Okay, No,

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Speaker 1: that was not that was not brought up.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Aanian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the

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Speaker 3: world overturned to for their definite of the opinion on

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Speaker 3: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 3: pick up the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your call at eight five five five sixty nine

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Speaker 3: Running.

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Speaker 1: You know there's a there's a non radio ron and

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Speaker 1: a radio ron. And I was just sitting here thinking,

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Speaker 1: oh good, it's the car Doctor. I wonder what he's

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Speaker 1: got to say today, and then I realized it's me,

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Speaker 1: so I better start talking. You know, it's just you

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Speaker 1: have those moments. I swear you have to live my life.

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Speaker 1: It just it just cracks me up, all the things

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Speaker 1: that go on around here. I got a letter today

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Speaker 1: from Jeremy. I want to start here, Hi, Ron, question

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Speaker 1: for you, as a do it yourself guy, I normally

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Speaker 1: get a major feeling of accomplishment after finishing a car repair.

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Speaker 1: It's a combination of thinking how much I may have

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Speaker 1: saved for whatever family members car I'm working on and

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Speaker 1: knowing the job was hopefully done right as a professional.

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Speaker 1: Do you still have to all these years get a

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Speaker 1: feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction after completing repairs? Thankful all

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Speaker 1: you do first, Jeremy or Maryland. You know, I'm very fortunate.

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Speaker 1: I really am. And everybody gets stoic and a little emotional,

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Speaker 1: but I've really been blessed. I found what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to do early. I had no clue what was going

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Speaker 1: to lead me here. I just knew I like fixing cars.

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Speaker 1: It was my way of communicating with the rest of

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Speaker 1: physical work. I've done mental work, but I don't feel

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Speaker 1: like I've worked.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Every day has been a challenge. Every day has been

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Speaker 1: an up and down, you know. And I asked Jeremy

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Speaker 1: for permission to answer this because you know, this is

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Speaker 1: kind of a one on one question. But do I

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Speaker 1: still feel, after these years a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 1: And by the same token, the days that I go

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Speaker 1: home and I haven't figured out that car, I haven't

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Speaker 1: finished everything I was supposed to finish that day, it's

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Speaker 1: not a good night. It just isn't, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think about it through supper. I think about it while

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Speaker 1: I'm watching TV, not supposed to think about the shop.

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Speaker 1: I think about it when I wander back into my

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Speaker 1: home office looking at the shop on camera, and I

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Speaker 1: the next day when I go in having slept on it,

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Speaker 1: and I fix it. You know, I think I wish

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Speaker 1: that for everybody. I really do. I really wish that

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Speaker 1: everybody you know had what I have in the ability

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Speaker 1: that you know, there's something they enjoyed doing. Because if

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Speaker 1: you if you enjoyed doing what you do. Is they

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, we're gonna you know, you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to slow down as you get older. Right well, I've

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Speaker 1: got a couple of things on the table. You're going

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Speaker 1: to see some changes to the YouTube channel. I've got

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Speaker 1: the social media guy working on it right now as

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Speaker 1: we speak. We're going to be putting titles and headers

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor YouTube channel. We've got a couple of TV

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Speaker 1: I just yeah, Jeremy, you know what, I do still

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Speaker 1: Do I do I do I, you know, punch the ticket,

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Speaker 1: I you know, five minutes, six minutes. Clock's running right.

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Speaker 1: I got to get my cars done. Didn't experience it.

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Speaker 1: maybe we should service the trans I said, I, you know,

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Speaker 1: inside of your eyelids, right. It was just smoked, beyond smoked.

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Speaker 1: And we changed it. We ended up changing it, you know.

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Speaker 1: I said, because if fluid doesn't fix it, and it

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Speaker 1: that vehicle is major heart surgery. You've got to drop

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Speaker 1: It's not You're not going to pull the trans out

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Speaker 1: to tear down to inspect and only repair whatever's causing

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Speaker 1: whatever could be wrong with this chatter, this noise, this sensation,

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Speaker 1: this bucking that. He was hard to describe that. I

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Speaker 1: I went home that night, Like I said to you,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't, because sometimes it's just a transmission problem.

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Speaker 1: What Ford's doing is they're modifying the shift point strategy

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Speaker 4: Give Ron a call eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 1: Now back to Ron. Hey, I'm back. And before we

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Speaker 6: Yes, I have that thirteen escape forwards, okay, and the

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Speaker 1: Back, all right? An any dashboard warning lights on Lewis? No, okay,

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Speaker 1: Right if you does it take a while to get

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Speaker 6: No, it won't do it at all. Straight bank if

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Speaker 1: Say that. Say that again. You can fill it with

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Speaker 6: No, you can't fit it with the pump. It'll spray

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Speaker 6: It just sit there in that funnel.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what so? Okay, So it sounds like, and

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Speaker 6: Is used?

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Speaker 1: All right? And has it done it since the day

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Speaker 6: It just not this a month or so ago. It

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Speaker 6: But it'll go like it was sucking it down and

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Speaker 1: All right, So this is probably a bad pill neck,

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Speaker 7: You know?

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Speaker 1: This is this is you ever try to pour a

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Speaker 1: Fun yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about it. I'm

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Speaker 1: Running the car Doctor. Okay, I gotta put the thing

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 5: Ron, Thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: What's cooking?

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Speaker 5: So? I have a twenty fifteen out back. It has

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Speaker 5: So in the time that I've owned the car I've

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Speaker 1: So let's let's have some definitions here. If you look

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Speaker 1: And you're but you're climbing the mountain, right. You climb

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Speaker 1: but if it is, maybe it's got a converter slip.

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00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: Does it happen, you know, at lower speeds it's that

433
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five mile per hour range, Alex, when

434
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 1: this happens.

435
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like I said, it's not one hundred percent

436
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 5: of the time, but yeah, Like when I notice it

437
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 5: the most is if I come off of the Interstate

438
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 5: after having been on there for about an hour and

439
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 5: I do a little bit of city driving to my destination,

440
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 5: you know, stopping at a traffic light light acceleration, I

441
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 5: feel a little little bit of a flutter. It feels

442
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 5: like like a little bit of of a mild vibration

443
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 5: in the in the sedia pants and it just lasts

444
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 5: for like a second.

445
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: At most, Right, Okay, So, if is the shop you're

446
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: going to have they experienced it, Do they feel that

447
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 1: that is transmission?

448
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 5: They haven't experienced it. He has looked at the fluid

449
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 5: and he has said it still looks good even though

450
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 5: it is original. Okay, And but as far as diagnosing

451
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 5: the issue, he hasn't all right.

452
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: If the if the fluid looks good, my opinion, I

453
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: change it. I wouldn't wait for it to t I

454
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: wouldn't wait for it to turn color. And I'll tell

455
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: you why.

456
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 8: All right.

457
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: You know when the fluid turns color and it's showing

458
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: signs of it's, it's it's it's been overheated, or it's

459
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: starting to break down. Transmission fluid in this modern age

460
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: has different characteristics and shift qualities between manufacturers. You know,

461
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: did you ever stop to think about transmissions of transmission?

462
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 6: Right?

463
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: It's a device to propel a vehicle forward, But every

464
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: manufacturer seems to call for a different fluid. Did you

465
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: ever think about that? Why that's like that? You know,

466
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't hydraulic fluid be hydraulic fluid? Isn't that?

467
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: But it's not because there's different Uh, rub rub your

468
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: hands together, right, there's a certain amount of friction there.

469
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: If you rub your hands together away, it's it's a

470
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: different type of friction sensation than if your hands were dry. Well,

471
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: different fluids react differently. Manufacturers make fluids with different anti

472
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: chatter agents, with different formulations, with different characteristics. I can't

473
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: tell you how many vehicle manufacturers I've seen where the

474
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: trans fluid itself, the additive package is actually worn out.

475
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: I've experienced it on some of the best brands of

476
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: transmissions and vehicles out there. Toyota comes to mind, all right,

477
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: it happened on a family vehicle twenty sixteen Toyota fort Runner.

478
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: One of the Indian kids had seventy five thousand miles

479
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: on it. She thought the trans was failing and it

480
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: was a matter of changing the fluid. So you know,

481
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: to me, all fluid wears out, all right, I question

482
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: the longevity the manufacturers are calling for. You know, they're

483
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: operating under near perfect conditions for the Ford Edge you

484
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: heard me talking about where they said one hundred and

485
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles. Well, yeah, under normal driving conditions. Define

486
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: normal driving conditions, you know, show me a vehicle that

487
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: operates in the Tri state area under normal driving conditions.

488
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: I don't think it can be done. All right. Now,

489
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: Let's say you changed this trans fluid and A it

490
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: doesn't solve your problem, or B it solves your problem,

491
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: but B two weeks from now the trans fails. Wouldn't

492
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: you rather know now and be prepared than get stuck

493
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: on ice seventy eight coming up out of the fog

494
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: one day. Right. So, so the homework you've got is,

495
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:04,719
Speaker 1: you know, are you committed to this car? And if

496
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: you're committed to this car, then let's change the trans fluid.

497
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: If the trans fluid change works, great, you spend three

498
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,199
Speaker 1: hundred dollars and the fluid's changed or whatever the number is.

499
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: If the three hundred dollars doesn't and the trans should fail,

500
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: it's only accelerated. What I have to tell you is

501
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: probably coming somewhere down the line anyway, because it's got

502
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty thousand miles on it. This isn't

503
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,479
Speaker 1: a spring chicken, right, So before you change this fluid

504
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: and put yourself into that spot, you know, here's the

505
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: roll of the dice. Get a quote on a trans replacement.

506
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now that trans is

507
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: probably between six and seven grand. But by the same token,

508
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: can you buy a car for seven grand? No?

509
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 5: No?

510
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 1: Right? So you know, I remember nineteen seventy three, I

511
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: did my first water pump and I watched Billy right

512
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: the billing It was one hundred and eighty two dollars,

513
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: and I was like Billy, that's insane. One hundred and

514
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: eighty two dollars for and forty eight cents for a

515
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: water pump. He goes, yeah, but it got two gallons

516
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: of anti freeze small block Chevy, right. And I said but,

517
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: and he said, Ron, you can't go out and buy

518
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: a car for one hundred and forty eight one hundred

519
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: and eighty two dollars. You know, everything's relative. Back then

520
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: a new car was was was thirty five hundred dollars.

521
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: It was a lot of money, you know. Now it's

522
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: seven grand for a trans. But what's a new Subaru

523
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: forty forty five at least?

524
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 5: Right?

525
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: So I like the idea of changing it. I would.

526
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: If the fluid color is good, then theoretically changing it

527
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: with fresh can only make things better, right, I say,

528
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: take the gamble, but know what the risks are before

529
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: you go into it. And I would talk to your

530
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: to your shop because he's the attending physician, so to speak,

531
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: and ask him if it needs a trans what's it

532
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: going to cost, and explain the problem you're chasing as

533
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: far as what you're what the sensation is. All right, Okay,

534
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: So that's what I got for you, kiddy.

535
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 5: You let me know as far as transmission fluids, is

536
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 5: there a do you recommend Subaru fluid or is there

537
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 5: an aftermarket brand that meets suber respect.

538
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: Anything anything made by Idu Metsu. All right, if you

539
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: pop into your local AutoZone, they'll have it Metsu trans

540
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: fluid meeting Subaru spec they manufacture. I believe right now

541
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the Japanese vehicle trans fluid out there

542
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: that's calling for it. You'll you'll actually go into certain

543
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: dealers and you'll see they've got a dou Metsu branded

544
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: transfluid on the shelf. Subaru, Toyota, Honda, you know. And

545
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: then now and especially since the pandemic with parts shortages,

546
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: I'm seeing more direct labeling of Idumetsu transfluent on the

547
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: Japanese car manufacturers dealer shelves. And they're just bypassing making

548
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: another bottle, you know, Toyota, Honda, four GM, Chrysler. None

549
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: of these people make their own trans fluid. They also

550
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: they just sub out the different blenders in different manufacturers,

551
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: all right. I du Metsu is one of the premier

552
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: trans fluid manufacturers in the world right now.

553
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 5: Great, all right, well, thank you for your help. Ron

554
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.

555
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Alex. You let me know if you

556
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: need anything else. I'm Ronning any in the car doctor.

557
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

558
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Don't go away.

559
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 9: I can have a first resisting out the five and

560
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 9: then it's in the fingus. What's the summer of sixteen?

561
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back Ronning the car doctor. Let's let's go

562
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: over and talk to Cliff in Virginia. Cliff, how can

563
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: I help you in your row two f one fifty sir?

564
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 7: Hey, ron how are you today?

565
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: Good sir? What's going on?

566
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 7: I've got UH one one fifty two thousand and two

567
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 7: Ford Delariat truck with the five point four Leader Triton v.

568
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 5: V eight and.

569
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 7: I was driving down the road in a place where

570
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 7: I couldn't pull off and couldn't just stop the vehicle,

571
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 7: and it it overheated.

572
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Overheated, boiled, overheated, boiled, cooling out of the overflow. The

573
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: gauge went high. How do you know what overheated?

574
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 7: Well, the gauge went high, and I had to keep driving.

575
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 7: I had to keep moving, and it got to the

576
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 7: point where I went into that shut where that emergency

577
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 7: faky mode where it starts running on alternate cylinders.

578
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: I guess okay.

579
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 7: Anyway, I'm afraid I've killed my truck. Now the battery is.

580
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 7: The battery is down. Now. I tried to charge it

581
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 7: the other and started and it wouldn't start. And I

582
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 7: was going to ask you for advice on my next steps.

583
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: Here does it does it? Does it crank Overcliff.

584
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 7: No, well, it's not doing it's not cranking now because

585
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 7: the battery is.

586
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: You know, I've got to be honest with you. I'm

587
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: not aware of a overheat shutdown strategy on that your vehicle.

588
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, there was something in the owner's manual. Let me see,

589
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 7: I'm right here that that said that if it gets overheated,

590
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 7: if it overheats too much, right, it'll it'll it'll go

591
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 7: into like a word, some of the cylinders don't.

592
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: Right, because what they'll do is right, they'll start, they'll start,

593
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: They'll shut down injectors so that they start running air

594
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: through the cylinders, and it theoretically it cools the cylinders

595
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: next to it. But that's not a Once the temperature

596
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: comes back to normal, it will start. In theory, it's

597
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: not that it's.

598
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 7: And it did one go ahead. It did one time

599
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 7: the next day, but now it's now it won't.

600
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: Okay. When it did start the next day, did it

601
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: sound normal or did it make noise?

602
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 7: It sounded normal?

603
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: All right?

604
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 5: Have you.

605
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: Have you looked at fluids?

606
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 5: You know?

607
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: Is it low on coolant?

608
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 7: Right now?

609
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: Say again?

610
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 7: I had to add two quarts of oil.

611
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: Okay, and I'll tell you what. Cliffs, stay right where

612
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: you are at don't Cliff, stay right where you are.

613
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Take this Pauson. We'll come back. I'm

614
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: running ending in the car. Doctor. We'll be back right

615
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: after this.

616
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 8: Don't go away.

617
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Ron, Andy and Cliff. You're still there, sir, Yes, sir,

618
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: Let me let me check because we got about two

619
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: minutes and then I gotta go. I don't think this

620
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: is your problem, but I want to make sure I

621
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,959
Speaker 1: mention it. I want to make sure this vehicle is

622
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: not in anti theft mode when you turn the key on,

623
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: and hopefully you've got enough battery power that will power

624
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: up the dashboard. The odometer doesn't show dotted lines.

625
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 4: Correct, well, the odometer is showing nothing all right?

626
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: Now? Is so? So first things first, we we can't

627
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: diagnose something with a bad battery or a low battery, right, yes,

628
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: if the battery is low on charge or low on state.

629
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: Did this just happen just now, Cliff.

630
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 7: No, this this happened three weeks ago.

631
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's let's let's either let's either charge the

632
00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: battery or get a battery in it, all right, and

633
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: get you know, we got to stabilize heart rate and

634
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: blood pressure before we do any kind of analysis. Then

635
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: the next question is it was down two quarts of oil?

636
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: The good news is that means there was at least

637
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: three or four in it, right, as long as it

638
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: wasn't empty? Okay? Is it low on coolant?

639
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 7: It was low on coolant? And I added a gallon

640
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 7: of the girl last. Okay, uh, you know if you

641
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 7: mix it fifty to fifty.

642
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, that's but it was low on coolant. So

643
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: now we've got to where'd the coolant go? Where'd the

644
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: oil go? But if we put a battery in this,

645
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: it should crank right in theory, all right, yep. And

646
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: then and then from there, let's do a basic diagnosis

647
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 1: spark fuel. Does the engine sound normal when it's cranking?

648
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: Does it have that same repetition. Did it suffer mechanical failure?

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Speaker 1: Are there any fault codes in it? We've got to

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Speaker 1: do some very basic, simple diagnosis before we start. You know,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't get too nervous. I'd be concerned. You know,

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Speaker 1: it didn't suffer engine failure. But we've got to do

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Speaker 1: some basic stuff before we condemned the whole thing. You

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Speaker 1: let me know. I'm running Eney in the car. Doctor.

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