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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Weren't the Indian the car doctor cruising along this interview

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Speaker 2: free hour? Let's get along and out to Tom East

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Speaker 2: Icelip Long Island. Hi, Tom, how are you sir?

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Speaker 3: Hey Ron, good talking to you, Yes, sir, just wondering

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Speaker 3: what your opinion is for undercoding. The vehicle's not going

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Speaker 3: to be garaged. And on the other hand, it's not

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Speaker 3: going to be taken off road. It'll be mostly ninety

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Speaker 3: percent highway drive.

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Speaker 4: What kind of car is this?

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Speaker 3: Tom to eleven Honda Pilot.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't undercode it. I'm not a fan of undercoating.

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Speaker 2: I you know, let me tell you after so the

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Speaker 2: undercoat I had to scrape off the hot rod fifty

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Speaker 2: years later. You know, I would never undercode anything again

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Speaker 2: in my life. It's probably against my religion at this point,

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Speaker 2: but I just can't see undercoding a vehicle. A modern

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Speaker 2: vehicle today is built with such good anti corrosive material

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Speaker 2: it'll probably be ten years before the first signs of

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Speaker 2: rust even begin to show up. And then all on

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Speaker 2: Steve the lack of undercod he makes repairing the vehicle

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Speaker 2: easier and less costly to you, the consumer.

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Speaker 5: Gotcha? Follow up?

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Speaker 3: Question, if you don't mind, sure name vehicle remote start?

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Speaker 3: How involved is it for me to do?

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Speaker 4: What do you do for a living?

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Speaker 2: Tome?

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Speaker 3: I'm retired railroad work, but I've been backyard mechanic on

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Speaker 3: cause for since I'm a teenager.

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Speaker 4: You one, now you want me to make you laugh?

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Speaker 2: When I bought my oh Chevy Silverado, you know how

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Speaker 2: I put the remote start in No. Three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty bucks Zippos car Electric in New Jersey, said, Mike

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Speaker 2: put this in for me, would you please? Because the

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Speaker 2: amount of electronics and how it varies, all right, is phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: You have no idea.

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Speaker 2: I've seen so many cars ruined by somebody not knowing

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Speaker 2: what they're doing or assuming ge whiz.

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Speaker 4: I just got to connect these two wires. I always

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Speaker 4: think of that. I think it was the three stooges.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, knucklehead, we just put these two wires together

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Speaker 2: and see what happens.

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Speaker 4: And the half blows off the guy's head. You know

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Speaker 4: it doesn't work.

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Speaker 2: We had a customer with a Chrysler that went somewhere

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Speaker 2: to have a radio installed by a professional on a

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Speaker 2: newer Chrysler at the time.

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Speaker 4: This is about four years ago.

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Speaker 2: I never forgot this because we had to get involved

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Speaker 2: with the court case and the installation facility plugged in

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Speaker 2: the radio feed to a portion of the fuse box

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Speaker 2: where they it was right on the previous model year.

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Speaker 4: They went on the assumption that it was right on

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Speaker 4: the four, so it's got to be right on the five.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was wrong, and it cost the customer an

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Speaker 2: eleven hundred dollars fuse box and wiring harness.

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Speaker 3: I can understand how my daughter's got a twenty ten

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Speaker 3: Honda CRV which I called you up about two months ago,

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Speaker 3: on a Chevy Equinox. With that the oil filled the

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Speaker 3: cartridge as opposed to the spinoff filt that that's what

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Speaker 3: we wound up getting. Faja was the CIV right anyway?

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Speaker 3: I put in the fog lights faha, you know, walk

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Speaker 3: the nose off, came the cowl around the steering column

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Speaker 3: to change the directional arm into the fuse block, and

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Speaker 3: uh you know I did it, and no problem, even

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Speaker 3: on the instructions said to be done by a technician.

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Speaker 3: I was confident I could do it, and I did.

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Speaker 3: That's why I was asking you, you know how you

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Speaker 3: felt about me.

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe The safest answer would be it depends

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Speaker 2: on your confidence level, how much time you have, how

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Speaker 2: good are the instructions, and how you're prepared to take

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Speaker 2: the hits as the science experiment moves forward. Me myself

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Speaker 2: about a half hour from now, when I'm off air,

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Speaker 2: I'll sit there and go, Wow, I've got a whole

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Speaker 2: eighteen hours to go with nothing to do, and I

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Speaker 2: won't know what to do with myself for the first

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Speaker 2: time in a week, and then the clock starts again

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Speaker 2: come Monday.

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Speaker 3: Babysitting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's you know, for me, I have to

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Speaker 2: schedule sleep time in order to get through the week.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's easier for me to say to

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Speaker 2: somebody here, you get the experience, fix my truck.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go.

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Speaker 4: I need this remote start put in.

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Speaker 2: I'm still cautious and I'm still cautiously optimistic about whether

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Speaker 2: or not it pays. I read a recent article this

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Speaker 2: week on one of the websites, maybe it was MSN

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Speaker 2: about you know, the top ten things that professionals should

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Speaker 2: do in place of the di wire and remote cars

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Speaker 2: and stereos and things like that.

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Speaker 4: Was on there.

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Speaker 2: Because of the electronics on vehicles today, you just can't

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Speaker 2: take it for granted that if you can read hold

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Speaker 2: a screwdriver, you can do it. I'm not knocking you

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Speaker 2: or anybody else, Tom, It's just that you've got to

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Speaker 2: be aware that the electronics you're fooling around with are.

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Speaker 4: A lot deeper and more involved than we all give

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Speaker 4: it credit for. It's just not that simple.

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Speaker 2: But I appreciate the calls are good luck to you, Ira,

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Speaker 2: How can I help you?

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Speaker 4: Eighty two GT Mustang.

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Speaker 6: How are you run? I enjoy your show. I'm concerning

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Speaker 6: getting another set of the original TRX michel entire. Good luck,

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Speaker 6: I'm having trouble. Yeah, company that has them, they went

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Speaker 6: about three hundred and plus dollars per.

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Speaker 2: Tire, right, The TRX Michelin is going is very expensive

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Speaker 2: because it was a limited production run initially.

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Speaker 4: It is a metric sized tire, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you're just you know, it's sort of like,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's the Golden Rule era. The one with

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Speaker 2: the gold makes all the rules. The guy who's got

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Speaker 2: him can charge what he wants for him because that's

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Speaker 2: the only place you can get them if you can't

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Speaker 2: find them online.

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Speaker 4: And there are.

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Speaker 2: Several websites online with tied different tire manufacturers, different tire.

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Speaker 4: Websites that you could go take a look at.

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Speaker 2: If you can't find them online, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: take them from wherever you get. I don't believe they

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Speaker 2: are even in production anymore, or if they are, I

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Speaker 2: don't believe they're manufactured by the same You know they're

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Speaker 2: made by Michelin, but they're not manufactured at the same plant,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. So the demand for these, I

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Speaker 2: don't believe is obviously there like it once was.

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Speaker 4: To my knowledge, after nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Ninety four, we weren't even able to get these at

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Speaker 2: the shop, at the repair shop level. So here we

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Speaker 2: are sixteen years later, or so were sixteen ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're sixteen years later. Finding them is going to be a.

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Speaker 5: Black I would like to know.

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Speaker 6: I was able to locate a set of Ford Focused

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Speaker 6: four lug mag wheels. The same dimensions are on it,

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Speaker 6: but he wasn't sure if the hub would fit when

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Speaker 6: he put it on the cars.

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Speaker 4: The possible that could fit, it's very possible.

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Speaker 2: The only way you're going to know is to trial

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Speaker 2: and error, and don't be ashamed to try that, because

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Speaker 2: it's very simple to go back. You're going back to

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Speaker 2: an eighty two automobile against a focus which was made

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Speaker 2: starting in two thousand up through now twenty ten.

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Speaker 4: A lot of things have changed, a lot of things

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Speaker 4: remain the same. The only way you're going to know is.

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Speaker 2: To maybe get one, try it, put it on. If

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Speaker 2: it works and everything else looks the same, the auset.

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Speaker 2: If it clears the brakes, if it clears the rest

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Speaker 2: of the suspension, then go for it, because that would

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Speaker 2: be a better way to go. And I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 2: thinking about it, you can't be the and I know

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Speaker 2: you're not the only guy in America to have this problem.

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Speaker 2: I would get out to the Mustang forms and see

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Speaker 2: what everybody else is doing, because somewhere in the forums

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Speaker 2: on the web, somebody's gonna say, hey, I've got this

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Speaker 2: eighty two to eighty three whatever, Gt. Mustang, I want

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Speaker 2: to get away from the t RX metric sized wheels.

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Speaker 2: What's everybody using for replacement? And therein will lie your answer.

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Speaker 4: All right, sir, you're very welcome. Take good care.

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Speaker 2: Card Doctor's coming back, don't go away.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, welcome back Ron. The name of the card doctor.

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Speaker 4: Cruising through the Hour, John East Windsor, New Jersey. How

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Speaker 4: can I help you?

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Speaker 2: Sir?

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, good afternoon, Ron. Thanks you for taking my

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Speaker 5: call off.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome.

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Speaker 5: I got a ninety three for tars. What about one

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Speaker 5: hundred thousand miles on it? Okay, my airbag light flashes

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Speaker 5: a fifty.

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Speaker 4: One code internal short Go ahead, right.

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Speaker 5: I took it to my mechanic and plus I took

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Speaker 5: it to Ford Dealer Service confront a diagnose. Thats an

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Speaker 5: air bag controlled module. Internal fuse is blog correct on

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Speaker 5: the ground.

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Speaker 4: Right, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Now, Ford tells me they can't get the part. They

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Speaker 5: don't make it anymore, and.

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Speaker 4: That's very possible.

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Speaker 2: You got to remember, now, the car is what ninety

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Speaker 2: three cars, seventeen going on eighteen years old. Now, well,

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Speaker 2: let me let me start the conversation here, John. The

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Speaker 2: part is probably out there in an obsolete Ford parts depot.

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Speaker 2: There are two, I'm aware of, one more than the other.

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Speaker 2: There is a place on the web green Ford Parts Sales,

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Speaker 2: or if you google search obsolete Ford Parts, Green Sales,

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Speaker 2: something along those lines, their name will come up. They're

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Speaker 2: a huge obsolete depot in the Midwest, and they generally

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Speaker 2: have most everything everybody's looking for I've had I've had

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Speaker 2: very good comments and feedback about them. There's also another

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Speaker 2: depot in Kansas City, I believe it is that has

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Speaker 2: as of late been producing obsolete stuff too. And when

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Speaker 2: I say it's a depot, it's not owned by Ford.

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Speaker 2: It's a private enterprise. But they'll do is they'll go

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Speaker 2: around to dealers and buy up new old stock as

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Speaker 2: a dealer either goes out of business or wants to

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Speaker 2: get rid of their old inventory. They'll pay pennies on

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Speaker 2: the dollar for it. And then once they have it,

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Speaker 2: if you want it, you're obviously gonna.

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Speaker 4: Pay for it.

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Speaker 2: That being said, Okay, a code fifty one would occur

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Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, because there was a short to

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Speaker 2: ground in the module, which in some cases was caused

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Speaker 2: by a short in the airbag circuit itself. So I

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Speaker 2: don't want you to just run out, get an air

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Speaker 2: bag module, find to plug it in and crush your

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Speaker 2: fingers and hope that there's nothing else shorted. Because the

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Speaker 2: way the routine ran, if I remember correctly, it would

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Speaker 2: either set A thirteen, a code thirteen or a code fourteen,

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Speaker 2: which would have to do with clock spring and steering

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Speaker 2: column area or primary crash sensor located up in the

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Speaker 2: front bumper, the latter being the fourteen, the former being

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Speaker 2: the thirteen. If the short wasn't present at that moment,

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Speaker 2: then the fifty one would occur, telling you that, hey,

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Speaker 2: we blew the fuse, the thermal fuse in the module itself.

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Speaker 2: But there's the potential for an intermittent God is that

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Speaker 2: an ugly word, an intermittent short somewhere else in this vehicle,

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Speaker 2: and in this case it's this eighteen year old vehicle.

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Speaker 5: That could get very complex. Then if that's the case.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, it's very possible.

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Speaker 5: So I still drive the car with the with the

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Speaker 5: airbig I assume is disabled.

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Speaker 4: Now, correct?

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Speaker 5: Could I still drive the car around?

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Speaker 2: Sure? You're just not gonna have the airbag, God forbidding

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Speaker 5: Into an accident. That's a problem. Right now, we'll a

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you how bad the inspection program's gotten

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Speaker 2: in New Jersey. John, we had a car in the

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Speaker 1: Was it us?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It was us.

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Speaker 2: Cracked windshield, no brake lights, four ball tires, loud exhaust

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Speaker 2: and it passed emissions. I called the state, told the

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Speaker 2: crack in the windshield, put the sticker on the car,

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Speaker 2: and send it out the door. You know what, They

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Speaker 2: of New jerseysion is interested in emissions only.

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Speaker 5: So I gather from what you're saying that the easiest

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Speaker 5: try to find an airbad control module from someplace and

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Speaker 4: Well, it depends on what it's going to cost.

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Speaker 2: If you can find an airbad control module, it's a

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Speaker 2: might take some hours. But if you know number one,

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Speaker 2: you may put that airbad control module in. It may

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Speaker 2: that doesn't come around for two weeks to two months

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Speaker 4: Diagnosis kind of looks pretty good, doesn't it.

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Speaker 5: I saw one on eBay somebody who's selling you for

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Speaker 5: thirty dollars a used one. But then you take a chance, right.

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Speaker 4: Does it work right? Right? And that's and you know what,

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Speaker 2: And listen, you can go down this road. You know what,

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Speaker 2: Cars are a lot like guns. You've got to decide

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Speaker 2: Or do you want to use a bullet and diagnose

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Speaker 2: it with one hit? And that's sometimes how you got

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Speaker 2: to look at repairing cars. And it's really up to

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Speaker 2: Or do you want to hit it with everything you've gotten?

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Speaker 2: Tropes of trying to resolve it. Gary pumped and plains,

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Speaker 2: New Jersey ninety four jeep Jerokee, How can I help you? Sir?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a Jeep Cherokee Country Model and all

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Speaker 7: my dashlights are out including the console. And I had

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Speaker 7: it to a retired jeep mechanic who was still doing sidework,

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Speaker 7: you know, side work, sure, and he's got all the

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Speaker 7: couldn't find anything.

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Speaker 3: And he said the.

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Speaker 7: Last resort now was to rip the dashboard out. And

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Speaker 7: I'm just wondering if maybe you have any knowledge about

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Speaker 7: any place check the fuses under the hood and under

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Speaker 7: the dash and I just can't. I can't find anything.

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Speaker 7: I can't. It's hard to drive in.

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Speaker 2: The dark with no right well, and I could understand that,

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Speaker 2: but I'd be more curious, you know, before we rip

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Speaker 2: out the dashboard. I love, I love to rip out

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Speaker 2: the dashboard coming as people make you know it's it's

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Speaker 2: power's got to come out of a fuse to feed

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Speaker 2: the lights. I don't want to just know as the

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Speaker 2: the fuse box?

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Speaker 4: Here comes the wiring harness.

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Speaker 2: The wiring harness comes up, and here when it comes

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Speaker 2: to this junction block, let's find a fairly common, fairly

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Speaker 4: I have power there?

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Speaker 2: If I've got power there, but it's not making it

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Speaker 2: to the instrument panel connector where.

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Speaker 4: It plugs in. Then where's the break in my wire?

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Speaker 2: You know when he says rip out the whole dashboard,

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Speaker 2: in my mind, I think he's describing that he wants

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Speaker 2: to take it out to the firewall and there's nothing

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Speaker 2: at A and trace it out to Z.

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Speaker 7: Can you give me a possible starting point.

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Speaker 2: I would start at the fuse box if that's where

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Speaker 2: we're going, follow the power, power and ground fuse ground.

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Speaker 4: There's got to be a reastat involved.

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Speaker 2: At the headlight switch there could be, And for that matter,

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Speaker 2: this could be a bad headlight switch. This could be

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Speaker 7: Not necessarily this problem, but my problems, any problems with

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Speaker 7: of the on the end of the actuator.

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Speaker 4: For the right Your question, wife, your question.

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Speaker 7: Is could Could the other thing in the dashboard have

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Speaker 2: Well, only if it's part of the wiring schematic. The

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Speaker 2: cruise stock doesn't have anything to do with it. I

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't just rip the dashboard out when you get older.

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Speaker 4: They're too hard to put back.

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Speaker 2: In, and you got to remember all those screws go.

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Speaker 2: It's a whole lot easier to diagnose. It's step by

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Speaker 4: Lighting around coming up next. I'm running anting in the

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Speaker 4: card doctor. Don't go away.

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Speaker 2: Underbird like just.

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Speaker 1: Top yeah, hey, hey, hey, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Run on ating in the card doctor. Let's get through everybody.

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Speaker 2: For ernesto out in Queens with an O two Hundai.

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Speaker 2: When he pumps gass, the automatic guest cutoff immediately starts

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Speaker 4: It's hard to fill the tank. It takes forever.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps there's a restriction in the tank nozzle. Perhaps there's

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Speaker 2: a spider web or a cobweb down along the vent

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Speaker 2: coroda got to look at all of it, but spiderwebs

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Speaker 2: are not totally uncommon on those particular vehicles. For David Meriton, Connecticut,

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Speaker 2: it gets lots of sputtering and stalling at one hundred

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Speaker 4: What could the problem be?

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Speaker 2: David got to start with the basics, man, what sort

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Speaker 2: of shapes the ignition system in plugs, wires and where's

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Speaker 2: fuel pressure when this particular problem happens. After you get

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Speaker 2: past that hook up a scan tool or by some means,

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Speaker 2: start looking at coolant temperature and intake air temp sensor

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Speaker 2: and throttle position sensor settings.

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Speaker 4: Make sure they're all within range.

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Speaker 2: For nol and Brooklyn, New York, OH one Nissan Sentra

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Speaker 2: ninety thousand miles cuts out when driving no codes. Well,

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Speaker 2: perhaps we've got some bad crank censors very common. Actually

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Speaker 2: a recall from Nissan on the majority of them may

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Speaker 2: bad crank sensor from Nissan. I believe most of those

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Speaker 2: are under recall. There's also some ECM problems with them

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Speaker 2: as well. For Jim and Queen's OH seven Chrysler Town

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Speaker 2: and Country with a four to four to one code,

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Speaker 2: the purge valve is working as it getting the code.

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Speaker 2: Possibly it's got a bad NBLD pump.

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Speaker 4: I'm running name in the car doctor