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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, I don't think you guys want to buy cars.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can find cars to buy, which

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Speaker 1: price for a new vehicle. The Car Doctor, I got Bronco.

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Speaker 1: The has been to play, but the there is a

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Speaker 1: want that little tick tick tick tick tick offecially when

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Speaker 1: you start a call of come on, that is a

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Speaker 1: character Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Nanian,

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick off

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in. The garage doors are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: five and now running Hello. Time to get the day

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Speaker 1: going right well by the way. In response, we had

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Speaker 1: We had an email a couple of weeks ago. I

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Speaker 1: forget what it was. A couple of weeks ago. Somebody

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Speaker 1: had written in they were asking about purchasing UM transmission

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Speaker 1: of the national company at ATRA A t r A

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Speaker 1: ATRA dot com. You can go out there, the Automatic

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Speaker 1: Transmission Rebuilders Association UM all kinds of information about available

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Speaker 1: warranties coast to coast coverage, that kind of thing, as

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Speaker 1: well as a lot of information about finding a good

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Speaker 1: your hometown. UM ATRA is UHUM a good sign. It's

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Speaker 1: Better Business Bureau of Automatic Transmission Shops. So it's a

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Speaker 1: good thing to have when you're looking for something as

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Speaker 1: a major expense. Is that? But it was um ATRA

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Speaker 1: been thinking about it for three weeks and I couldn't

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Speaker 1: It's funny the way these things come to me. I'm,

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Speaker 1: writing things on the wall going that was ATRA. That's

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Speaker 1: what it was. So anyway, Hello and welcome, let's get over,

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Speaker 1: let's do what. You're the one writing things on the

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Speaker 1: wall in the shower, Yeah, that's me. So you didn't

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Speaker 1: So how are you today? Tom? Good? Yeah? Just you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like a weird day here in New Jersey. It's

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be nice tomorrow. So we get a

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Speaker 1: Father's Day barbecue in for all our dads that are

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Speaker 1: grilling uh this weekend and uh you know, are being

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Speaker 1: grilled upon or grilled. Um, you know, I think I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get grilled. My kids called up and said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: where do you want to take us for Father's Day?

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Speaker 1: And I went, huh, I think that's I think we

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Speaker 1: burgers better than you. No, no, no, no, no, we

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go to Jeff in Louisiana and see what's

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Speaker 1: going on here. Jeff, Welcome to the Car doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? A couple of weeks ago, was

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Speaker 1: can't we standardize the electrical plugs? So no matter where

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Speaker 1: Would you ever own an electric Jeff? No, sir? What

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Speaker 1: like you? Yeah? Have you have you seen very high?

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Speaker 1: How much expense is that going to add to small

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Speaker 1: don't know, five, ten, fifteen, twenty electric vehicle batteries in it?

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Speaker 1: you have to pay for the charging, I'm sure you do. Guys,

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Speaker 1: what's the price of gas? Down Louisiana way h four

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Speaker 1: last seven eight days, it's been pretty fully dry coming up.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna probably just like everywhere else, is gonna

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Speaker 1: I are you in the next muffle? How long do

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Speaker 1: you fix it? How long are you fixing cars? Jeff?

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Speaker 1: All right, and we've chewed on this started in the

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Speaker 1: and stuff on the side and nologies time. Yeah, hey, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: very welcome, Thank you, sir. Eight five five five zero

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Speaker 1: Here's Ron. Hey, let's get over to Kennan Virginia some

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Speaker 1: questions with his oh six accurate Ken. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, Sir, how can I help? Are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man? What's going on? Yeah, I've got

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Speaker 1: this can't be good. This doesn't make any sense. Turn

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Speaker 1: things on and I eleven vaults, ten point eight, ten points.

425
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I've got a vehicle that's not charging

426
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: completely different than the fault code. You know. Perhaps, and

427
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: this is the theory I'm working on, perhaps the alternator

428
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: went into an over overcharged state of condition, burned itself out,

429
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: which it might have because the system got very hot.

430
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: It's a two thousand mile vehicle, it's a little bit

431
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: of an older vehicle. Uh, the positive post on the

432
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 1: battery started to melt, all right. The lead post had

433
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: a mushroom look to it. You could see it was

434
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: kind of you know, crowned over a little bit. Uh.

435
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: You know. And after some diagnosis at the alternator ad

436
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: alternator and it's an internal failure, which I wasn't surprised

437
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: they do. They do fail. It's it's an internally regulated alternator,

438
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 1: uh for computer command and so forth. Put an alternator

439
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: in it and charging is altage is fine, dashboard is fine. Uh.

440
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: You know, everything looks normal. And I guess the point

441
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: of it all is, you know, sometimes you've got to

442
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: look at what's bad, look at what's failing, look at

443
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: what failed, and then make some sort of diagnostic conclusion

444
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: from there. Of course, you know you need good information. Uh.

445
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: Kudos to Stevie over at Opus I vs. Opus I vs.

446
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: Dot Com if you want more information, if you're looking

447
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: for that. If you're a shop, definitely a tool worth

448
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: looking at. Um fast becoming to go to, and a

449
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: lot of shops that you know, to have the ability

450
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: to talk to a manufacturer's tech somebody with direct experience

451
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: on that car line. If you're working on something simpler complicated,

452
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: that's the way to go. But um yeah, it it

453
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: solved the problem. So you know, we went from an

454
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: overcharging condition to a no charging condition to put an

455
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: alternator in the car. And and I can only imagine

456
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: the hits that that instrument cluster was taking, you know,

457
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: running it more than sixteen vaults. And I wonder for

458
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: how long because the customers said that have been going

459
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: on for a while. So you know, I guess because

460
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: the car wouldn't die, right, it had more than enough electricity.

461
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 1: The battery was always charged, sometimes a little to charge, right,

462
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: it was to the point of melting. Uh. You just

463
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: you say to yourself, you know, maybe that's the strategy.

464
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: That's why Honda did what they did. You know, my

465
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: theory is that they turned on all the lights. They

466
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: actually started to knock off the dashboard to protect the

467
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: electrical circuits of the dashboard because obviously it's all computerized

468
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: and chipping clusters, and you know, to get your attention.

469
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of manufacturers as an asside a

470
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 1: lot of manufacturers, you'll get a fault code to check

471
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: engine lights on and the A B S LAD will

472
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: come on in the traction control lad will come on,

473
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: and the airbag lad will come on, and all these

474
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: other flights will come on, and you're thinking you've got

475
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: a multiple massive system failure. You don't. Chances are you've

476
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: got a fault in the e c M which is

477
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: emissions related, and they're trying to get you to bring

478
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: it into a shop to help prevent damage to the

479
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: environment into the vehicle, so they start flashing and doing

480
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 1: other things. In this case, Honda must have said, hey,

481
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: if the charging system voltage goes high, we're gonna shut

482
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: the cluster down. That's sure he gets somebody's attention. It did.

483
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: He still drove it for three weeks, but it finally

484
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: got his attention to the point where he brought it in. Anyway,

485
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: another one fixed down the road, so it's just, uh,

486
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a different story. A too

487
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: high of a charging condition could create a problem, and

488
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: it actually fried the alternator, requiring replacement because it finally

489
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: burnt itself out. Eight zero nine zero zero. The car

490
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: doctors coming back right after this, don't go away, Welcome

491
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: back running in the car doctor at zero nine zero zero.

492
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: Got a question, got a thought, gotta comment, give us

493
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 1: a call reading an article about, um, well, it's interesting

494
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: right by Jennifer sent Siba, who was saying that right

495
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: from Clean Energy. She's talking about the the current issue

496
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: with buying an automobile, and she talks about how she

497
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: was going by a four dealership the other night walking

498
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: a dog and there was where there was its dozens

499
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: and dozens of vehicles for sale. Now it's a scene

500
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm reading out of the article. It looks like a

501
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: post apocalyptic movie. A few cars in the front, half

502
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: of which you're used, and nothing but empty space behind.

503
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: So she talks about the car shorters that's going on,

504
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: which there is, there's a there's definitely a car shorters

505
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: right now. And um she talks about the fact that

506
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: direct sales seem to be growing and thriving. You know,

507
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: where you're buying direct from the manufacturer, you're bypassing the dealer,

508
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: and I wonder how that's going to work out. I

509
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: also wonder, you know, will it ever be like it was?

510
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: Will whatever be to the point where, uh, you know,

511
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: you would go in and you know you kind of

512
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: enjoyed it a little bit. I know, I did you

513
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: go in, you look at the new cars. It was

514
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: that new car smell. The dealership experience, looking at all

515
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: those new cars and you get to haggle a little

516
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: bit about price, and you know you sort of felt

517
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: good if you came out yeah I got a good deal,

518
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: or you know, it always amazed me people didn't think

519
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: they got a good deal, but they still bought the

520
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: car anyway. So I wonder how that works out. But um,

521
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: you know, Jennifer here is talking about that. You know,

522
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: it may never go back to being the days of

523
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: of buying a new car from a dealer, which you know,

524
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: are we seeing the end of an era? I couldn't

525
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: help but read this article and think to myself, you know,

526
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: is there is there something else going on here? Uh?

527
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: You know, are we seeing a change in the way

528
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: we buy cars as a society? And I'll miss it?

529
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: And you know what I think the dealer experience. I

530
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: think you need car dealers. I think to a large degree,

531
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: you need somebody to stand behind the product, the person,

532
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: negotiate the the paperwork and the transfer of ownership. And

533
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: I've got a problem, and this piece of molding isn't

534
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: sitting exactly right. And you know, there's a hundred little

535
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: things that go on when you're when you're you know,

536
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: purchasing a new vehicle. And I don't know that doing

537
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: things by mail order like that will will really allow

538
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: that to work like that. I don't know that that's

539
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: going to transpire and be to our benefits. So I

540
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: hope things come back to where they were. Let's hear

541
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: it for dealers. Right, Let's go over to Paul in Virginia,

542
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: Susan who wants to talk a little bit about battery voltage. Yes, Paul,

543
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: you're wrong with the car doctor to help, Yes, sir, okay, sorry,

544
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: I didn't know you're ready for me. Um. Yeah, I

545
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: have a ninety SUSU NTR cald Forward UH commercial truck,

546
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: and um, the transmission is not It stays in limp mode.

547
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: And I happened to see something, uh, and this is

548
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: something I've been messing with for a while. It would

549
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: do this kind of intermittently for over a year. Sometimes

550
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: it would shrift beautifully, sometimes it would go into limp mode.

551
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: And it has an economy light slash that lets you

552
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: know the codes and so forth. Um too, when you

553
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: first turned the key on, and its lashes a couple

554
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: of times and let you know it's in the right

555
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: sequence or whatever. But that light has not been coming

556
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: on and somebody said something about it your battery voltage,

557
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: and it has two really large batteries that power struck.

558
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: If that wasn't up to standard, that it could be

559
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: affecting the transmission ship, it could affect a lot of

560
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: things with the electronics. Well what do you think about that? Well,

561
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: I think I think battery voltage is critical on a

562
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: lot of things. But I think we have to define

563
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: where the information came from and what's their idea of

564
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: low battery voltage. And more importantly, I would want to

565
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: know what the manufacturer thought, you know, sometimes to diagnose something.

566
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: If I'm in a situation like this and I'm trying

567
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: to decide could the component I'm thinking about be a

568
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: cause and effect type of a scenario, I'll go and

569
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: I'll read flow chart codes. I'll go and read is

570
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: there is there a code from the manufacturer for that vehicle,

571
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: for example, that it'll set a low battery voltage or

572
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: a low electrical system voltage fault. And if I read

573
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: through that chart and it says, you know, voltage gets

574
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: below a living point five volts, it's gonna set a

575
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: code and some of the consequences could be and if

576
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: it says could put the transmission in limp mode. Hey,

577
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: you know what the strategy is there, that the the

578
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: the the possibility is there. Now I'm gonna go and

579
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: look and say, okay, why is battery voltage going low?

580
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: I think before you get to that point, though, Um,

581
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: I realize you won't have the tool because I know

582
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: what this. This is the medium sized commercial vehicle. You

583
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: need to find a shop that can scan this to

584
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: see does it does it come up with a clean skin.

585
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to count on the light to tell

586
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: me that there's a fault, because now I'm counting on

587
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,959
Speaker 1: the thing that's broken to tell me it's broken. If

588
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, and see now, Um,

589
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: the light doesn't even come on to even give those flashes,

590
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: and it's the economy label. When I turned the key on,

591
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: that light on the dash doesn't even come on. So

592
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,479
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have to admit my batteries were

593
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: pretty bad. I was really old and so I didn't

594
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: know if that could problem. I'm just kind of doing

595
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: a shade treat mechanics. I understand that, you know, listen, Paul,

596
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: if I can. You know, part of the thing what

597
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: you can look at is if if it's a case

598
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: of if the batteries test bad and they are bad,

599
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: change them all right. Don't lament about it, whether it

600
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: fixes your problem or not. A bad battery is a

601
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: bad battery. You don't want to be trying to, you know,

602
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: use something that's marginal at best. So, UM, start there,

603
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: think about getting it scan, see what sort of information

604
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: they come up with. We can talk again next week.

605
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: Zero The car doctor returns right after this. Hey, let's

606
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: get over to Terry in Nebraska. Terry, welcome, Ring the

607
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: car doctor. How can I help? Thank you? Don. I

608
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: just purchased two thou Toyota Tundra and it has about

609
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: two les and I have yet to get at home yet.

610
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: I was just kind of wondering what you recommend for maintenance. Um,

611
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: if it's wet, change it. So if it's a fluid,

612
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: change it just you know, don't care what the last

613
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,239
Speaker 1: owner said. I want to know that I'm starting off fresh. Uh,

614
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, if it's an automatic trends, I want to

615
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: take a hard look at the fluid. How dirty is it?

616
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: You know? I want to make a decision do I

617
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: want to change the fluid now and at least know

618
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: what I have, you know, going forward. Obviously with this

619
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: kind of mileage changing fluid, if it's never been done,

620
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,239
Speaker 1: I could be rock on the boat. But know it's

621
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: a matter of when do you want to find out

622
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: if if the trans is this old and this you know,

623
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: it's twenty years old, has got this many miles on it.

624
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: If the trans is going to be an issue, let's

625
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: deal with it and get it fixed, because you didn't

626
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: buy this truck to get rid of it, you know.

627
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: So as far as the rest of the fluids transfer

628
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: case differentials, let's do them all. Let's do break fluid.

629
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: Let's look at rubber components. Make sure the frame is solid.

630
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you've already done that. There's no rust anywhere,

631
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: there's no holes, there's no and there's no uh you know,

632
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: no issues. They're gonna cause structural problems down the road. Uh.

633
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: You know this should be V six or four cylinder

634
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: V six. I would imagine that's okay, V eight okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so this has got the timing belt under the covers.

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Speaker 1: Uh involved timing belt to do? But I would get

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Speaker 1: the time belt done if you have no record of

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Speaker 1: it being done, timing belt, water pump, all the usual

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Speaker 1: good stuff. Hey, Terry, listen, the clock is gonna take us.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. Tom says that you like

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Speaker 1: grumpy old men and you kind of got his vote,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna sending out the Carlson swag bag to you.

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Speaker 1: It's got a Carlson T shirt, first aid, kits shop lighting,

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00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of other really cool little things to commend

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Speaker 1: rate the launch of the break job completion kid from

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Speaker 1: the folks over at Carls from stand by. Let Tom

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Speaker 1: get your information, and for the rest of you until

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Speaker 1: the next time I'm runing any of the car doctor

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Speaker 1: reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you