1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: The city is headed for a disaster of biblical purportion. 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,319 Speaker 1: You mean what do he means? There's Old Testament? Yeah, 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: mayor real wrath of God type of stuff. Fire at Brimstone, 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: coming down to the sky, rivers and sea spoiling. I'm 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: gonna use the start for birth weeks run great human sacrifice, 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: dogs and cats living together, fasts, Harry something strange? Maybe 7 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: who are you gonna call? Ron and Adian? Every week 8 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: everybody says, what are you gonna talk about this week? 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: And then I don't know, because there's a lot I 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: can talk about. There's a lot I can tell you 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: about what goes on in the day to day, the 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: week to week of a repair shop. The car doctor. 13 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: Has anybody diagnosed this or attempted to diagnose? Plugged in 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: a code reader and it came up crane shaft position 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: center in camshaft cositions center on bank worn and I 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: replaced both Welcome to the radio home, Ron Andanian the 17 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: overturn to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If 19 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: you're a mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage doors are open, 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: but I am here to take your cost at eight 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: five five And now, yeah, what he running? You know? 23 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: I dedicate today's show to Dr Troy, who asked me 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: this morning, what are you gonna talk about today? And 25 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: then I also have to make a dual dedication to 26 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: my wife, who just asked me about three minutes ago, 27 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: what are you talking about today? And I said, I 28 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: don't know. So I really have nothing planned. I really 29 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: have nothing scheduled talking about today. I don't know. So 30 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: let's see how I do. All right, So this is 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: all off the top of my head. I have no 32 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: notes in front of me, as usual, but I really 33 00:01:58,560 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: have no notes in front of me because there was 34 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: so much to stimulate me this week. Just driving around, 35 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:08,079 Speaker 1: I see things that make me think different thoughts. I 36 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: want to know. I want to talk about the pain 37 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: point of gasoline. I want to know where your pain 38 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: point is, and I've got to think we're getting close 39 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: to it. If you're in California, you probably don't have 40 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: a pain point, because you're not. You've been there. You've 41 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 1: been subjected to five dollars a gallon gasoline for years 42 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: and years and years. It's no big deal seven fifty 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: five bucks. Whatever you're broke anyway, it doesn't really matter. 44 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: But for the rest of the country, where gasoline seems 45 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: to be in that two or was in that too 46 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: to fifty a gallon range. And now this morning here 47 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: in New Jersey, I saw a three seventy three a gallon. 48 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, where's the point where we say 49 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: that's it. I'm not driving or I'm changing my driving habits. 50 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: And I think that's part of what's on my mind. 51 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: Have you altered your driving habits yet? Now? Maybe you can't. 52 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: Maybe you just drive for a living and gasoline just 53 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: becomes another additional cost of doing business. And then I 54 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: said to myself, well, yeah, if you're running a business 55 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: based on gasoline, you know you're a landscape or your 56 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: delivery service, you've got gasoline as part of your cost 57 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: of doing business. I wonder how that's going to affect 58 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: us later on, because that means that you will write 59 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: that gasolene off as a deduction. Right, that's a deduction 60 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: on your tax return, which means that unless you raise 61 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: your prices, the government gets less taxes. As I understand 62 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: basic tax accounting, because you'll have more of a more 63 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: of a rite off against income, which means they won't 64 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: collect as much tax revenue, which means they'll have to 65 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: raise taxes. So I think we're an a vicious spiral. 66 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: I think that's what's going on, or maybe I'm wrong. 67 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: But where's your price point? Where have you thought about this? 68 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: The societal impact about the rise of gasoline, because it's 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: now over a bucket, a quarter, a gallon more in 70 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: the last ten months. You know, Take a guy like 71 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: Tom Ray. Take Tom Ray, please, And Tom drives a 72 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: lot for a living, and I have to say, I 73 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: wonder where's that point of pain? Because he drives all 74 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: over well, he drives all over the northeast from Maine 75 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: down to Virginia and a little bit west. Um, Tom, 76 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: where's that? Where's that point of pain for you? Is 77 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: there one? Have you thought about it? I haven't really 78 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,119 Speaker 1: thought about it because I kind of have no choice. 79 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: I've I've I've got to drive and get to these places. 80 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: But at some point I may start doing a surcharge 81 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: because it starts eating into the profits and and and 82 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: I also have another question. We're talking about gasoline, but 83 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: that dovetails into what's that going to do with heating 84 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: oil because I eat my house with oil. Well and yeah, 85 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: and that's gone up. But I kind of didn't want 86 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: to go there, but I can. I have no problem 87 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 1: with that. I just I'm trying to keep this car related. 88 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: You know, this is a very fine tight rope. I 89 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: try to walk each week, and some weeks I achieve it. 90 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: Some weeks I think I don't because it's you know, 91 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: the name of the show is The Car Doctor. It's 92 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: about fixing cars. I try not to get into the 93 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: politics of what's going on, although the politics of what's 94 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: going on is very much affecting the automobile industry. I 95 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: think there's an awful lot of it. And I'm just 96 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: looking now at gasoline. Gasoline is on my mind in 97 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: terms of where's the point where you say I can't 98 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: afford the drive anymore? And then I'm saying to myself, well, 99 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: they've got to keep driving, right because everybody needs a car. 100 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: Everybody's got to get somewhere. Are they doing everything they 101 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: can for maximum fuel mileage? And I thought about that, 102 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:27,840 Speaker 1: and I think I think I have to cover that 103 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: this week. Now. The basics are there, but I, you know, 104 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: I make the fatal error. If I make one fatal 105 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: mistake every week, it's probably that I assume dangerous word. 106 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: We've said it for years here on radio. That you know, 107 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: assumption is wrong. I assume you know the basics. But 108 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: if you're interested in just good fuel economy and good reliability, 109 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: and you need to get good reliability from your car, 110 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: because it's getting worse and worse and worse in terms 111 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: of trying to find a replacement, you know, are you 112 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: doing your maintenance, are you doing your scheduled oil changes, 113 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: are you doing air filter, cabin filter? And not of 114 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: the cabin filters gonna affect fuel economy. But it's just 115 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: basic maintenance. You know, when was the last time you 116 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: looked at spark plugs? I think spark plugs have become 117 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: the Rodney danger field of the automotive repair world, in 118 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: that we we tend to forget about them. I'm guilty 119 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: of it. Danny and I'll get a car and we'll 120 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: look at it and go, you know, yeah, it's a 121 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: hundred thirty thousand miles. Will go through a checklist and 122 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: what needs to be done, and all of a sudden, 123 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: we can't find spark plugs in the service history, and 124 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: it's a regular customer. It just somehow gets overlooked. They 125 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: get pushed to the back of the bus and it 126 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: becomes a case that the customer always wants to do 127 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: the breaks, the tires, the safety stuff. I don't really 128 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: need spark plugs ron it still runs, and you try 129 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: to have that conversation about you know, how spark plugs 130 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: can damage ignition coils and hurt the vehicle and uh, 131 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: some of the other things that go on. So spark plugs, 132 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: when was the last time you did plugs? If your 133 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: car has a hundred thousand miles on it, I you know, 134 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: I've changed my way of thinking. I used to think, well, 135 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: some plugs were at one twenty, some plugs were at nineties, 136 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: some plugs are at one fifty. You know what, if 137 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: you've got a hundred thousand miles on your plugs, it's 138 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: probably time to change for a variety of reasons. You know. 139 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: One of the things that spark plug replacement takes into 140 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: does not take into consideration, I believe, is the different 141 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: formulations of gasoline that you might encounter during your driving around, 142 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 1: the different issues you might have with plugs getting stuck 143 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: in cylinder heads, the possibility of carbon deposits in the 144 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: cylinder changing and affecting how well the plug can maintain 145 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: its spark front. And you know, it just becomes if 146 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna do it at one twenty, do it at 147 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: a hundred and get it over with it. You're gonna 148 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: keep the vehicle. It's just good normal maintenance. When was 149 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: the last time you did a fuel system cleaning? All right, 150 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: when was the last time you went through and had 151 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: your mechanic to a throttle body cleaning? Add some put 152 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: some additive in the tank and do some form of 153 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: a throttle body I'm sorry, some form of a fuel 154 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: injection cleaning service. Hook up to the rail, or in 155 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: a lot of cases, we don't need to hook up 156 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: to rails as much anymore because a lot of manufacturers 157 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: within the last five or six years have switched to 158 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: self cleaning injectors. If we want to believe that, and 159 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have that argument here, but at least 160 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: get some sort of cleaning agent through the air and 161 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: take duck to clean that out and clean carbon deposits 162 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: back of intake valves if it's not a g d 163 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: I engine, or get it to UM get it to 164 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: the point where it's on top of pistons. Actually, g 165 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: D I would clean the top of valves. You went 166 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: through the air intake duct but fuel fuel system maintenance. 167 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: When's the last time you did that tire pressure? All right? 168 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: When was the last time you just put it out, 169 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: had the mechanic put it up in the air and 170 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,959 Speaker 1: paid him to do a look over. You know, everything's 171 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: got to be quick today, right, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. Um. 172 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: I had a conversation with somebody this week, and I'm 173 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: not gonna pick on Jiffy lubes or quicklubes. I'll use 174 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: the non generic or the generic term. They explained to 175 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: me that they wanted just break pads because the quick 176 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: glue guys said the rotors were good. He just needed breakpads. 177 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: And I think we talked about this last week, this 178 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: might have been two weeks ago, and I explained to 179 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: him quick glue guys are not qualified certified mechanics. They're 180 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: roil changers. If they were qualified mechanics, certified mechanics, and 181 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be gentle here, they wear a patch 182 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: on their shoulder and they'd work on a repair shop 183 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: and actually fixed cars, not just service them. There's a 184 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: big difference. So when was the last time the vehicle 185 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: is looked over by a certified mechanic? And that's you know, 186 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: all these things will add up to better fuel economy 187 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: and at the very least, more longevity out of the vehicle. 188 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: So where's your point where's your point of pain? Is 189 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: it four bucks a gallon? Five bucks a gallon? I 190 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: thought about it. Is there a moment where you're gonna 191 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: sit there and say that's it, I can't do it. 192 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: And then if you can't drive that gas car anymore? 193 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: Are you going to make the jump to electric? You 194 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: knew I was gonna bring it up. Are you gonna 195 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: make that jump to electric? And swallow the pill and say, Okay, 196 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: they've got to have an electric car future plans and 197 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: thought out. I don't think they do, but you're gonna 198 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 1: believe it because gas is now almost four bucks a 199 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: gallon everywhere. What's on your mind? I want to talk 200 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: to you about it. You can be a qualit eight 201 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: zero zero or send me an email Ron at car 202 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: doctor oh dot com before warrant. I'm probably gonna read 203 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: it up here on air next week and the weeks after, 204 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: and we'll be here to talk to you about it. 205 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: By the way, time before I pull over and take 206 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: the pause, don't we have a tape to air show 207 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: coming up? Um, we want to make that announcement. When 208 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: is that? When are we gonna do that? Well, that's 209 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: a good question. We were thinking about doing it this afternoon, 210 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: but I don't know if I'm gonna have the call volume. Okay, 211 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: So what we're trying to do is November that weekend 212 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: Ron won't be here, so we're gonna have Ron here. 213 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna We're gonna tape and put together a fresh show. 214 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: We're lining up some interviews, We're lining up some calls. 215 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: Ron's got some father duty to do, uh to walk 216 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: his boater down the aisle. So I kind of think 217 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: that's an important thing. And um, do I have to 218 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: get that time. I can't go in uniform, right, I 219 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: have to. I can't wear my work clothes, so I 220 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: can maybe do a few things out. You know, I 221 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: don't know if anybody will recognize you if you put 222 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: on a suit. Way, do you see the suit I got, tom? 223 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's it doesn't have that super Ron logo 224 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 1: on it, does it? No? But it doesn't have a cape. No, 225 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll tell you. I'll tell you a 226 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: real quick story, all right, real quick, and then we'll 227 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: go to can I tell you the quick story about 228 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: my suit, which has nothing to do with cars. So 229 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: I went to I went to buy a suit, all right, now, 230 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: you know me? All right, it's here's my credit card. 231 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: This is what I want. Sign me up, get me out. 232 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: I gotta go. I'm in a hurry. Right. We went 233 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: to Men's warehouse, the local men's warehouse here in Paramus, 234 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: New Jersey. J Okay walked in. They you know, g 235 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: we can see the suit for this. We can make 236 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: you suit for that. You know what, I've never had 237 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: a custom suit. Never in my life. I barely have 238 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: ever had a suit. I want a custom suit. It's 239 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: not two bad's five bucks. You know what. I'll spend 240 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: five hundred bucks on my daughter's wedding. Why not, right, 241 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: let's go what we're spending on the wedding. So July thirty. 242 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: If they measure me up, the suit will be here 243 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: September one. Mr and Nanny and I said, great, okay, 244 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: I'll see you September one. September one comes, I show 245 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: up the suits there. It's all wrong. They measured me wrong, 246 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't fit, wouldn't even come close to fitting. It wasn't 247 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: like I ate too much on vacation or it was 248 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: lounging around in the summer. Just the suit was completely wrong. 249 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: All right, it wouldn't it wouldn't fit. Anybody have my size. 250 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: We're sorry out that Mr in the Indian. Let me 251 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: get the manager over here. The manager comes over, They 252 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: measure me up again. The suit will be here October one. 253 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: October one comes no suit. I call. October five, comes 254 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: no suit. October tenth, comes no suit. October eleventh, Hey 255 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: where's my suit? Oh? You know what, we forgot to 256 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: order it. Wow. So let's see, I've got less than 257 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: six weeks to go to a wedding and I've got 258 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: no suit. Hey, I'm the father of the bride. I 259 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: probably have to show up. I actually thought about wearing 260 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: my my work clothes. Tom. I figured my sc patch. 261 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 1: I could just take it off and put a tie 262 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,719 Speaker 1: around my work shirt and you know how good i'd look, 263 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: you know. Or either that or you could just spray 264 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: paint yourself and go that way. Well, yeah, that's you know. 265 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 1: We don't want people getting sick during the reception. So 266 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: you know, I ended up going to in Midland Park, 267 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: New Jersey. I don't know these existed anymore. All right, 268 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: my wife, God bless her, found this little store called 269 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: Loretta's Men's Store. All right, like a real old school. 270 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: Have a DASHERI okay, you walk in, uh salesman, he 271 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:55,839 Speaker 1: helps you know. They fitch it that the book, and 272 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: then the tailor comes out the tail around premise. You 273 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: ever noticed tailors are always little old men. I wonder 274 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: why that works out like that. I've never understood that 275 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: They've always got that square piece of chalk in their 276 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: hand which I can never find their marking chalking. They 277 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: marked me all up, and I'll go and pick it 278 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: up Tuesday and I'll have a suit. But and then 279 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: and then I'll just tell you this quick story. And 280 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: then Men's Wearers Haus. And we're way off the subject 281 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: the cars today. But that's okay, it's entertaining, right. Men's 282 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: Warehouse actually had the nerve to send me a survey. 283 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:21,719 Speaker 1: They want to know what did I think about my 284 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: customer experience? All right? And do their internet connection catch 285 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: on fire when you did that? Well, let's let's just 286 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,719 Speaker 1: say they got old zeros, and then they wanted to 287 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: know if I would recommend them, and if not, why not. 288 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 1: In the bottom line, I won't borry with the two 289 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: paragraphs I wrote explaining the whole situation, but my last 290 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: comment was, if Men's Warehouse was running to the Department 291 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: of Defence, we'd all be speaking German and Japanese right 292 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: about now. And that's no lie. I'm running any in 293 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: the car doctor here at five zero zero, will be 294 00:13:49,800 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away number God time, 295 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: right it on the wall so you don't forget to 296 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: call for a car advice done right? Eight five five 297 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: five zero nine zero zero. Now back to Ron. Hey, 298 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: let's get over to Stephen and Delaware. Stephen, welcome aboard 299 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: you and your How can I help? Hey? How are 300 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: you doing to found your show by accident? And while 301 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: am I impressed? Thank you? Fine job? I love it 302 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: so so technically this is my neighbor's cars, ulderly man 303 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: that I'm helping out. Um and it's ninety four awesome 304 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: shape five leater engine and uh, the spiedometer and the 305 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: odometer are blank. It's it's a needle, uh spiedometer, but 306 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: it's blank. Everything else works. UM. Little research that I've 307 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: done on it basically says, oh, look for UM fuse 308 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: eight and eighteen in which are I go to the 309 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: instrument panel and they're, uh, they're good in there. I 310 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: actually haven't pulled them unfortunately, haven't. Yeah, but everything else 311 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: And let me just stop you there first quick se 312 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: can pull them, look at them and even if they're good, 313 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: look at the contacts of the blades. Do the blades 314 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: have any burn marks in them? Fords have a habit, 315 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: and especially the ones mid to early nineties, they would 316 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: have burned contact points where the fit where the fuse 317 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: blade touched the contact point of the fuse box. And 318 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: you know, it's almost like you wouldn't you wouldn't even 319 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: like acknowledge it. It's just like this black mark on 320 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: the fuse and you don't even think about it. But 321 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: it's resistance and it can affect circuit operations. So you know, 322 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: looking at cleanliness of the fuse blade is important. And also, 323 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: let me just jump in, don't forget a few seventeen. 324 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: I believe you seventeen has something to do with the 325 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: spodometero dometer on that truck as well. Go ahead, continue 326 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: you thought, so well, you know, the other other things 327 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: that I've looked at and are seen is that it's uh, 328 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: the answerment cluster is a module set up where each 329 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: each individual pieces, you know, you can I can actually 330 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: pull the phenomena out, and some of them have an issue. 331 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: I've seen that there are some uh there's a diode, 332 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: some capacitors in there, and there's a uh oh it's 333 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: a little round thing. It actually it smooths out. The 334 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: signal comes from the battery and all that stuff that 335 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: people have been replacing to repair these things. Um, it's 336 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: it looks like you know, I'm thinking, okay, because I 337 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: went back to the differential where it has the speed 338 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: sensor um and um, and you know, I checked the 339 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: home reading on it. I don't have it off hand. Unfortunately, 340 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: it should be it should be as a rough number. Okay, 341 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: all right, I honestly don't remember I did check it, 342 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: and I'm like, I didn't. I didn't have to go 343 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: do it again to make sure that it's okay first 344 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: before anything else. So other than that, that's you know, 345 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 1: it's I've gone I haven't gone into this, but yet 346 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: I haven't taken to the part all let me ask you. 347 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this question, Stephen. You've 348 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: driven this truck? Yea transmission shift? Normal? Yes, it's manual, okay, okay, 349 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: doesn't have cruise control. That's the that's the kicker. That's no. Okay, okay, 350 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: so you can't you can't check cruise. So other than that, 351 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: everything else functions and works on this truck. Yeah, all right? 352 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: What makes you think it's just not a bad spinometer? 353 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: A doometer? Set up? Now, before you pull that, before 354 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: you pull that, you know what. Let me let me 355 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: pull over and take a pause. Don't go anywhere, Steven. 356 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: When I come back, We've got about two minutes for 357 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: you and then I've got to get onto the rest 358 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: of them. But you stay put. I want to finish 359 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: this conversation. I'm running any in the car doctor here 360 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: at eight zero, here to answer your questions. Don't go away. 361 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: I'm back right after this cold on me. Must we 362 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: say goodbye each time we pad My wants to doe 363 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: the incomparable Jay Black, Thank you j Frole that you 364 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: gave us and all the great memories rest in peace. 365 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: Back to Stephen Delaware. Stephen, you're there, sir, so you 366 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: know it sounds like you've got a bad before you 367 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: go ahead? Go ahead? Um will you asked me about this? 368 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: Um the cruise I took the time during a break 369 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 1: to run over and sure enough it does have cruise. Okay, 370 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: So what I want you to do is just take 371 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: the truck for a ride and turn the cruise on. 372 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: Does the cruise work. If the cruise works, we know 373 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: all the signals are getting to the s piarometer, the 374 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: cluster and doing what they're supposed to do. If it doesn't, 375 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: there's a possibility there's a problem in the cruise. I 376 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: don't want to make that the final note in the diagnosis, 377 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 1: but it just gives us more confidence in that we're 378 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: receiving and doing the right thing. You can then pull 379 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 1: the cluster and do you have the ability to generate 380 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: you have a meter that will generator record an a 381 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: C signal? If you what did you use to measure 382 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: the rear sensor and all meter? So if if you've 383 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: got a digital I, yeah, I have a fluke. I 384 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: have a fluke okay, so that'll that that'll record. When 385 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: I say, you know an alternating current signal? You can 386 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: generate you can measure a signal with that, you could 387 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: trace out and get a pin out of the wires 388 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: coming into the back of the cluster. Put the meter 389 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: where the where it feeds to the circuit board of 390 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: the s piometer. You should generate a signal if you 391 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: want to know what you should see, measure it at 392 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: the back of the truck. Measure it at the front 393 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: of the truck. If you've got the same signal and 394 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: it's seeing what it's supposed to see, you've got a 395 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: bad of cluster the cluster board itself. Now, before you 396 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: go into this and try repairing it, and let me 397 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: ask this question, are you electronics repairman? I mean, what 398 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: do you do for a living? Yeah, I was a 399 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: I was a manufacturing engineer for forty two years. I'm 400 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: not electronics. I I can do it. I have fixed 401 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: some clusters by resoldering a cold joint and things like that. 402 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: And you know, so it's a possibility. Or I can 403 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: send it off. I found a couple of places and 404 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: send the cluster off and that's what repair it and 405 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 1: send it back to me. And that's what I'm gonna 406 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: tell you. Yeah, that's and that's what I'm gonna tell 407 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: you to do. Just because for the couple of you know, 408 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess and say it's two fifty bucks to 409 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: probably fix the cluster. At least you get something back 410 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: that's reconditioned and certified at that point. That's correct, that's correct, 411 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: That's what I've seen. But I don't just want to 412 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: go and throw things at it. You know. One of 413 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: the things that I did get from you is just 414 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: don't throw a part this stuff. And I know that 415 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: just because an oxygen sensor says it's bad doesn't mean 416 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: the oxygen censer is bad. Well, you know, if if 417 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: you look at the if you look at the flow 418 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: chart for any code that's generated nowhere in any flow 419 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: chart that I've ever seen, well, I take that back. 420 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: If it sets. If it sets, I think it's a 421 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: P zero six. On certain gms, the e c M 422 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 1: memory has been corrupted, and they tell you to throw 423 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: the PCM out. But the flow charts, you know, if 424 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 1: it comes up with a P zero one thirty five, 425 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't say first step replace oxygen sensor. Okay, it 426 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: kind of walks you through six or seven. Hey, check this, 427 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: check that. Look at you know a couple of the 428 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 1: from things and consider it so you're on the right track, Stephen, 429 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: all right, check the cruise control, see if the cruise works, 430 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: See if you can do a pin out at the 431 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: back of the cluster, and then send it out. Because 432 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: keep in mind that vehicles see four thousand fourteen, that 433 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: vehicles almost thirty years old. There, there probably isn't there 434 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: probably isn't a replacement cluster available new from Ford, and 435 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: it'd probably be difficult to find even Remans. So you 436 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: want to take good care of that cluster and make 437 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: sure it doesn't disappear. All right, yep, thank you sir, 438 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: you're very well appreciate it. You're welcome, very good, have 439 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: a great day you too, Bye bye, Um, just another 440 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: satisfied customer. Tom, Look at that. Let's go over to 441 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: Mark in Louisiana. Oh, seven Honda Pilot. See what's going 442 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: on here? Mark? Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How 443 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: can I help? Yes, I have a two thousand and 444 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,959 Speaker 1: seven Honda Pilot with two hundred and thirty thousand miles 445 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: and it had some kicking going on. I had had 446 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: a took it down to auto zone at them do 447 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: the UM reading on it, and it had come up 448 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,239 Speaker 1: as needing a mission coils, and I didn't know if 449 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: I needed one or six. I didn't have that done. Um, 450 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: the kicking got louder, and I used some sea foam 451 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: high knowledge treatment and some dir lube engine treatment and 452 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: still didn't solve the ticking. Okay, well, hang on a 453 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,360 Speaker 1: second here, Mark Wemmitt, are you saying also the check 454 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: engine light was on? Yes, the check engine light was on. Yeah, yes, 455 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: it's still on. It flashing, it's not flashing. I later 456 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 1: took the car in to have the timing belt replaced, 457 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: as well as the serpentine belt for good measure, and 458 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: the water pop and the estimate for all of that 459 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: was about a thousand bucks. When I went to pick 460 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: it up, they had not done any of the work. 461 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: What they were suggesting it needed was a complete valve 462 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: trans work at a cost of about four thousand dollars. Uh. 463 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: They were also suggesting that, based on you know, the 464 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: age and mileage of the vehicle, that the four thousand 465 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: dollars probably wasn't worth it. And so I'm right now 466 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm stuck with a car. I was able to drive 467 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: it home, it is since um won't won't start or turnover, 468 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: and prior to that, it was very slow to turn 469 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: the steering wheel. So I'm kind of had at odds 470 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: as to what to do with the vehicle. Do I 471 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: try to sell it for whatever and get for it 472 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: to take it in for another opinion or what. So 473 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,239 Speaker 1: let's let's let's ask the critical questions. Check engine light 474 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,959 Speaker 1: came on? Right? How long was the check engine light 475 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: on before you took it in to have somebody scan 476 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: for codes? A week, a month, a year? Uh? It 477 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: occasionally would go off and I would say that as 478 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: an eco mode, so it never stayed on. Okay? How 479 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: long was the check engine light on for? Was it 480 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: the month of July and we're now in October almost November? 481 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: Was it last year? Was it two years? How long 482 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: has the check engine light been doing this flashing on 483 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: and off, turning on and off a year? Okay? So, 484 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: and then when they scanned it for codes, what fault code? 485 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: Did it have a misfire? I don't remember the code number, 486 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: but it was it was a reported mission coils. Well, well, 487 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: there's no code that I know of on a Honda 488 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: that says it needs an ignition coil. It was probably 489 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: a misfire fault. Did they say misfire here they have 490 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: so and we've got to be clear about this because 491 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: too many people are falling into the trap of P 492 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: zero three oh six misfire on cylinder six. Oh you 493 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 1: need spark plugs, you know, plugs and coil plugs and prey. 494 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: And it doesn't work like that. An engine misfires for 495 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: one of three reasons, mechanical, ignition or fuel. It's likely coils. 496 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: Coils are very common on a Honda. But if we're 497 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: gonna start throwing parts at it, want me just you know, 498 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 1: load up the parts cannon, shoot it at the truck 499 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 1: and let's see what fixes it. Doesn't matter why diagnose 500 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: that being said, all right, my concerns are that it's 501 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: been driving a long time with a check engine light on. 502 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: What other damage might have occurred? Point being all right, 503 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: if it has a misfire and it's been driven for 504 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: a year, how many miles do you think you went 505 00:26:50,320 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: in that year? Mark? Mark? Oh, maybe more a closer five. Okay, 506 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: So you know what, I don't want to rush this. 507 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: This is a great call, and I want to show 508 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: you why maintenance is so important. Stay put, let me 509 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,719 Speaker 1: pull over and take a pause, and when I come back, 510 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: we'll finish up. I'm runing any of the car doctor 511 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: here at five zero nine zero here to solve your 512 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: problem as well. Just pick up the phone. We're back 513 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. We're on any of the 514 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: car Doctor here at the helm as always. Let's go 515 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: back to Mark and Louisiana. Mark, you're still there, sir. 516 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: So you've been driving this truck. Let me let me 517 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: recap for everybody that maybe new tuning in. You've been 518 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: driving this oh seven Honda Pilot for about a year. 519 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: Check engine light has been coming on and off for 520 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: about a year. You had it scanned at a local 521 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: Lotal parts store. They said it was a we're gonna 522 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: assume it was a misfire fault. They don't know which cylinder. 523 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: You don't know which cylinder. You went and you wanted 524 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: to get a timing belt replaced. They turned it down 525 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: and said, no, it needs a valve job. You know, 526 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: it's pulling the cylinder heads off and reconditioning the top 527 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: half of the motor. It's got a what's it got 528 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 1: two and twenty five thousand miles on you at seeing 529 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: My wife says, I don't listen. I pay attention to 530 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: everything so you know, what do you do with this truck? 531 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: My concern is you've been driving it a year and 532 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: the check engine light has been going on and off. 533 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 1: All right. Have you ever been sick and you ignore 534 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,239 Speaker 1: it and eventually they currey of whatever it was at 535 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: el jab But because you ignored it so long, something 536 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,719 Speaker 1: else was damaged as a result. Cars are cars are 537 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: cars are kind of the same way. So if you've 538 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: been driving this car and it's really had a misfire 539 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: for the past year, chances are by now you've got 540 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: a good chance that you may have damaged the catalytic converters. 541 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: You may have created them and forced them to work 542 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: harder than they needed to, especially at this age of mileage. 543 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: All right, it's no spring chicken. So you've got to 544 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: sort of in the back of your head, is it 545 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: worth it if you had to put cants in this thing? 546 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: What I would try to do, all right is take 547 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: it to a shop, get a full system, full vehicle 548 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: code skin. This way you can go through system by 549 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: system which systems are breaking down. Who's got what immediate problem? 550 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: All right? If it's a if it's a reported misfire 551 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: on one particular cylinder, easy diagnosis. Let's say it's got 552 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: a reported misfire on cylinder three. Okay, what they can 553 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: do is take the coil out of a different cylinder 554 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: and swap with number three. Take the plug out of 555 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: number three and swap that with a different cylinder than 556 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: the one you change the coil with. In other words, 557 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna move things around, all right. If 558 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: the misfire comes back and reads reported on cylinder three, 559 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: you know it's either mechanical or injected. Right, It's something 560 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: to do with fuel delivery, makes sense if the coil. 561 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: If the misfire comes back and it's now on the 562 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: cylinder where you have the bad coil, or where you 563 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: move the coil to, then it's a bad coil. If 564 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: the misfire comes back and is real being reported on 565 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: the cylinder where the plug went, you know it's a 566 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: plug issue, all right, So you can you can diagnose 567 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: it like that. I'm not saying it doesn't need a 568 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: valve jomp. I'm not saying it doesn't need a timing 569 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: belt and a slew of other things. At least then 570 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: with a minimum investment, you you know where you're going, 571 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: You know what you have to do. They could probably 572 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: diagnose this in under two hours, probably less than that. 573 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: And then you've got to play pay for some parts. 574 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: And if it turns out that it needs a coil, 575 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: let's say it's got one bad coil, Put one coil 576 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: in it. Spend the money, put a good quality coil 577 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: in it. All right, drive the truck, get the light 578 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: turned off, get all the monitors, all the self test. 579 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: You know what do you know what monitors are? Mark? Okay, 580 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: so a car computer runs monitors. When you get up 581 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: in the morning, do you have a particular routine, right, 582 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: You brush your teeth, you shave, you go to the 583 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: bathroom and take a shower of the whole nine yards, right, 584 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: a car does. A car does the same thing every 585 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: time you started. It runs its own series of cell 586 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: tests or morning routine. We call them monitors. As those 587 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: it is unfold during the course of the day and 588 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: they're knocked off. They're completed. Inside the computer, there's a 589 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: little guy that comes out with a checkered flat and 590 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: goes you're done next, all right. In the case of 591 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,959 Speaker 1: your car, because it's had misfires, the monitors are completed, 592 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: but they're setting up there, setting up a warning sign. Hey, misfire, misfire, 593 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: that's why the check engine light came on. If the 594 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: check engine light is fixed by replacing the coil or 595 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: the plug or whatever you determine as a result of 596 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: moving things around with the course of a diagnosis. If 597 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: you don't see the misfire code, come back, but you see, 598 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: for example, a P zero four twenty catalytic converter fault, 599 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: come back, Now you're in it deep because now on 600 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: top of the valve job at the shops recommending now 601 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: you probably maybe need a catalytic converters. Some of the 602 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: testing has to be done there. I wouldn't condemn this 603 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: car just yet, but you've got to be willing to 604 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: spend up to five bucks. Five bucks, you should be 605 00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: able to get a diagnosis. It tells you more of 606 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: what's going on at the shop and knows what they're doing. Fair, Okay, 607 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: do that. You call me back you need more. I'm 608 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: here for your buddy. All right, you'd be very you'd 609 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: be well. Take kid care. Mark. I hope you got that. 610 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: I hope I wasn't too far over anybody's head there. 611 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: But let's let's do some basic diagnosis. Let's stop throwing 612 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 1: parts at cars. You know, there's an old sing in 613 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: this business. It can't be plug and prey, alright, it's 614 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: got to be diagnosis. Let's pull over and take a pause. 615 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: I'm Ron and Naming of the Car Doctor. I'll be 616 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: back right after this. Flucome back. We're on Name of 617 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: the Car Doctors. Just let's do some quick housekeeping here. Um, 618 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: just to make everybody aware once again, we are going 619 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: to be doing a taping to air live show. Deal. 620 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: We're either one night during the week we'll sit in 621 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: the studio or one day after the show. We're not 622 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: sure where when for our number fourteenth show. That's what 623 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: we're gonna call that the wedding show from here on in. 624 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: When Ron won't be here, he'll be here virtually, I guess, 625 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 1: in a sense. So if you got calls, if you've 626 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: got questions, by all means, call into the eight five 627 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: five zero number, leave a message, tell Tom you want 628 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: to play, and we'll hook you up and do that. 629 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: As a live broadcast, we actually have some flexibility there. 630 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: We can do that. I don't want to say according 631 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: to your schedule, but if somebody's really got a question 632 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: and we want to get it up. We can try 633 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: and catch them, maybe open up the studio at different times, 634 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: so we'll see if that actually works out. We've got 635 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: some issues doing that, but we're glad to try and 636 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: make that work, So keep that in the back of 637 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: your head. I want to point out just how important 638 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: A dots is getting all data has now stepped up 639 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,959 Speaker 1: their game. A DOS Quick References now included in all 640 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: data repair and all data collision, and um just I've 641 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: tried it. I've actually been using it now and I 642 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: was actually it was a kind of neat You click 643 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: on the vehicle, you enter your vehicle, what it is, 644 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: you click on the A dots button. It brings you 645 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: right up to everything that applies to that vehicle. Depending 646 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: upon what system or component you're repairing, their A dots 647 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: Quick Reference system will show you what needs to be 648 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 1: done with special tools. You might need, calibration and so forth. 649 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: So more information at the old data dot Com. Thanks 650 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: to the folks out there and ald Growth doing a 651 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: great job. I us want to point out that even 652 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: though we're not going to be there, we wanted to 653 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: give a shout out and say thank you for continuing 654 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 1: to do this. The Virginia Beach Convention Center on November 655 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: twelve through the fourteenth, will be the host of the 656 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,439 Speaker 1: Coastal Auto Virginia Show Coastal Virginia Auto Show. I'm sorry, 657 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: the Coastal Virginia Auto Show, the sixth annual show, and 658 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: it's put on, of course, with sponsors from Sinclair Communications 659 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 1: point seven X, us ON one or six point one 660 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: and all the rest of the great radio stations there 661 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: w n I S which I believe we're on down 662 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: there in Virginia, UM courtesy of Sinclair Communications. So we're 663 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: sorry we won't be there, but obviously we've got somewhere 664 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: else to be, and I thought this would be timely 665 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,720 Speaker 1: as a thing to close out the show with. Today, 666 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: Michael writes in Ron, I've got a fifteen Chevrolet Silverado 667 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and says service the billy track. What's the problem, Michael. 668 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: You need to scan it. You need to take it 669 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: in somewhere, do a complete system scan, look at every 670 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: module on the vehicle, let them report codes, let them 671 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: come back to you with information, and then we can 672 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: have a conversation. Because right now I'm gonna tell you 673 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: the problem is it's broken, So I need more info 674 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 1: than that, that's how not to write an email, but 675 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: I appreciate the thought. I'm not on any of the 676 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: car doctor saying thanks for this hour. There's more to 677 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: come until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. 678 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: See you