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Speaker 1: Ron and Anian. Now, welcome to the Car Doctor. Sir,

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Speaker 1: how can I help hi? Ron? You need to cry

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Speaker 1: in your show oulder if they're here. Five niets on

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Speaker 1: Central went to put the world stick back in the engine.

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Speaker 1: The top of the dip stick broke off. If you

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Speaker 1: got a problem, don't care out it is. You need

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Speaker 1: a hand. I'm not gonna show you hide what you'll

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Speaker 1: do the Car Doctor. Like I said, it's a two

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Speaker 1: man operation. You're gonna positive pressure the crank case, and

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Speaker 1: then somebody's got to catch the diptick tube when it

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Speaker 1: comes flying up, because it's never gonna completely come out.

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Speaker 1: And as soon as you little fear pressure to try

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Speaker 1: and grab the dipstick, it's gonna fall back in and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get frustrated. Ask me how enough. Welcome to

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: call in the garage to orders are open, but I

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Speaker 1: am here to take your calls. At eight five and

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Speaker 1: now running. We have an awful lot to talk about this.

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Speaker 1: How we're gonna talk about, Well, when you went to school,

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Speaker 1: did you pay attention in math class? Remember when you

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Speaker 1: x and y axis. What we're gonna talk about why

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Speaker 1: that's important. And we're gonna talk about a few other

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Speaker 1: things on what it takes to make a good technician

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Speaker 1: this hour, because I think it's important because the technology

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Speaker 1: struggle every day for all of us out here trying

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Speaker 1: you stand, Uh, the amount of knowledge you're going to

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Speaker 1: have to possess and the constant upgrading of skill levels

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Speaker 1: keep this country going. So we're gonna talk a little

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Speaker 1: let's go to Bill in Iowa, j Bill of thirty

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Speaker 1: eight Chevy Um and we want to put electronic ignition

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Speaker 1: in it. Tell me the story. We've got a fifty

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Speaker 1: so it's a push button starter and when I go

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Speaker 1: to start it every time, if it sits in the garage.

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Speaker 1: It's all ment condition. I have to give it a

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Speaker 1: smell of ether and then it'll start. It'll fire right up.

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Speaker 1: I think I've got a carburetor problem. But once it starts,

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Speaker 1: I can shut it off and I hit the chrome button.

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Speaker 1: That start activates the starter and it's running immediately and

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Speaker 1: it runs perfect. Will electronic ignition be worth the investment?

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a tooth. It's a two thirty

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean by vacuum advanced distributor. Yeah? Absolutely? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Now have you this is out of a fifty six

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Speaker 1: the motor has been Go ahead, you're gonna say the

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Speaker 1: motor's been the motors the motor has been overhauled. Yes,

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Speaker 1: all right. So the problem with it is that it's

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Speaker 1: all right. So before you go to crank it, have

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Speaker 1: you opened up the choke and hit the accelerator. Do

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Speaker 1: you do you see a shot of fuel? Yess, it

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Speaker 1: has a vacuum advanced choke on it that comes off

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a Rochester one barrel carburetor that was

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Speaker 1: break it down into simplicity. It's either spark, fuel or

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Speaker 1: mechanical alright, right, I don't I don't care. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: If it's sitting on the living room floor and you're

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Speaker 1: If we've got proper voltage to the coil, if we've

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Speaker 1: that tells me my spark is perfect, or it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: You know? Are are we experiencing weak ignition? All right? Uh?

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Speaker 1: since you're on a farm and you're gonna fix all

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Speaker 1: and uh I've had my car now, are you sitting down? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you to do a couple of things, all right. I

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Speaker 1: a good, solid, clean shot of fuel. All right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: the ignition is good. Let's do some basic testing, all right, sir?

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Speaker 1: And does the does the centrifical advance work properly? Is

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Speaker 1: so I know when it's when it's running, I can

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Speaker 1: manually advanced that distributor with it running. Okay, we should

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Speaker 1: advancing or retarding spark right, because that's what that automatic

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Speaker 1: it get hotter, well, not hotter, spark. It changes the moment.

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Speaker 1: of weeks or so. I'm called about two years ago

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Speaker 1: you sir. What are you farming this week? What do

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Speaker 1: to you. Let's get on over and talk to Todd

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin OH seven Nissan Maxima. Todd, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: car Doctor, sir. How can I help Well, I've got

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Speaker 1: an OH seven Maxima hundred forty seven thousand miles UM

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Speaker 1: of course I checked was recharging it, and that didn't

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Speaker 1: affect your hair conditioning, so I changed that. That changed

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Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Welcome back the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Let's go over and talk to Joe in California, two

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Speaker 1: thousand two, Chevy Silverado. Joe. Welcome to the car doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Yes, I talked to you last

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's still though what's called it?

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's still not First well, I

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Speaker 1: Is it on a consistent basis? Now backfiring and not

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Speaker 1: of all, we gotta get on a better phone connection, Tom,

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Speaker 1: We gotta get him on a better phone connection, because

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Speaker 1: I can't really hear him. But let me answer, Let

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Speaker 1: I think this is the vehicle you purchased and the

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Speaker 1: definitely help. Let's do a quickie email. Hey, ron, I

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Speaker 1: be scanned reset the haunted dealers city. Never heard of

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Speaker 1: these newer cars kind of a convoluted twisted around email Maury, Um, Maury.

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Speaker 1: So take a look at that, um. There is a

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Speaker 1: Morio zero run any of the car Doctor will be

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Speaker 1: back right after this. Flucome back on any of the

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Speaker 1: car Doctor. Let's go over and talk to Mark in Virginia,

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Speaker 1: How you doing? I really appreciate your show man. The

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Speaker 1: turn it on on tumblers inside. That's oh yeah, that's thinking.

426
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: So eventually end up buying a new cylinder. So it

427
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: worked okay, But then about two weeks later the same

428
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: problem came back. So I said, okay, let's try the switch.

429
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 1: So went to the other side and got one from

430
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: an auto store, and I found out and I looked

431
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: inside the the actuator had eaten the way from the

432
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: plastic park Okay, put that, put that on. About two

433
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: weeks later, we're back at square one. So I replaced

434
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: j case fuse and I flipped the what was called

435
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: the relays from the horn to the start and vice versa.

436
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: No problem, new amp, new tenants FU. So I'm just

437
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: thinking ahead, I need is there something underneath that steering

438
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: component that I need to replace? Should I go to

439
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: the Junkyard to buy one new before the next two weeks?

440
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: And I'm stranded where Well let's let me let me

441
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: back up a second. When when when you purchased the

442
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: original lock cylinder, Well, well, what was the original complaint?

443
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: Was the original complaint that it wouldn't start, or the

444
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: original complaint was that the lock cylinder got jammed? Yeah,

445
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: it would. You would turn it on. You have to

446
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: turn the switch off the lock cylinder, then you turn

447
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: to turn it all the way to the kind of

448
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 1: like you have to push it in and then turn it.

449
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: So the lock cylinder. I guess maybe that was the issue.

450
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm kind of like back at

451
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: square one. Okay, So so right now, what happens. Is

452
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: it that the locks cylinders mechanically jamming still, or is

453
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: it that it doesn't start. It doesn't start. Occasionally it

454
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: still won't start. After jiggle it and then push it,

455
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: you know, then push it in and then turn the

456
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: key on all the way again. Okay, does the does

457
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: the lock cylinder have good smooth movement? Sometimes it's a

458
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 1: little rough? I would say, okay, if you disconnect, if

459
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: you take the ignition switch out and just put the

460
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: lock cylinder in the column by itself. Let's let's break

461
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: the components down alone, right, and just just just lock

462
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: cylinder and that and that top housing that it sits in.

463
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: Does it jam? Does it stick? Sometimes it sticks? Sometimes

464
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: it does? All right? So then I've got to say

465
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: you've still got a problem in that housing. Let me

466
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: ask you that. Let me let me ask you this question.

467
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: Where'd you get the lock cylinder from? I bought it

468
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: online from J. C. Whitney. Right, let's go to Chrysler

469
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: and get one. Trust me on this. Trust me on this, alright, um,

470
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: trust me on this. And here's the reason why the

471
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: gypsy stuff if I can call it that. I don't

472
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: know if that's politically correct, but you know what, in

473
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: my world, we don't worry about political correctness. We just

474
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: want to fix cars, and if if if the Gypsy

475
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: or the cheaper stuff, if I can say it like

476
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: that doesn't fit or it's sloppy in the way the

477
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: die cast is put together. Now you now you put

478
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: it into a slightly worn housing that's twenty years old,

479
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: that's a little beat up. Now you've got a loose,

480
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: sloppy part with a loose Warren sloppy part, which makes

481
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: a very sloppy part all right now now now, now

482
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't you know, mess correctly. So if you get

483
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: a new piece from a good vendor, it doesn't have

484
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: to be Chrysler. But in this case, I go to

485
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: Chrysler would just be easier. Um from the keys are

486
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: just a pain in the butt. There's just no other

487
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: way to say it. And you're gonna get a good

488
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: quality part from Chrysler whoever. But Chryst is the only

489
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: one that's going to really make it at this point.

490
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: If if they still make it, you've eliminated half the steps.

491
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: You know, you you you know you've eliminated. You know,

492
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: a good quality part always takes a diagnostic solution on

493
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: a repeat back to the middle, because you know this

494
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: much is right. And then you've got an additional problem

495
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: further on. You gotta look at it. But every time

496
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: I had this problem back in the day when there

497
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: were more two thousand Chrysler's running around, and you know

498
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, I think everybody's got too much money

499
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: because those cars were all gone now u um uh.

500
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: And you know there it was just put a lock

501
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: cylinder from Chrysler. We were done, close the hood and

502
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: down the road. But you know, like I said, look

503
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: at it. You know, take take the electrical portion of

504
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: the switch disconnected. Just try turning the key. If that

505
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: key feels nachi and it it feels like you're struggling

506
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: to turn it, yeah, yeah, then you've still got a problem,

507
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: either in the locks cylinder or the housing. We remember

508
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: what new stands for? Mark all right, and then I'll

509
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: let you go. Do you know what news stands for?

510
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: Give it to me? Never ever worked, So I don't think,

511
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: just don't think just because it's a new part, it's

512
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a good part. Do you know what

513
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: plymouth standing? By the way, do you know what? Do

514
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: you know what plymouth stands for? I know it forward

515
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: stands for, But tell me what plymouth stands for? Please

516
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: leave your money out under the hood. I gotta go.

517
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: You'd be well, my friend. All right, you take good care.

518
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It's the days of fixing cars. So

519
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: zero zero running in the car doctor were coming back

520
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: right after this, the car doctor, Bruce Long Island, your service, sir,

521
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: How can I help you in your Maxima? What's going on? Okay?

522
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: We have a two thousand and seven Nissan Maxima and

523
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago we started losing the the

524
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: charge in the a C. And I got us through

525
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: two summers with it until about a year and a

526
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: half ago the compressor finally went. And this is all

527
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: occurring around other major incidences that were affecting us, and

528
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: UH finally took it in at a pretty price, had

529
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: the compressive replaced. They supposedly put in a new compressor,

530
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: and then uh, six months after the compressor was put in,

531
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: it started getting warm and it seems we lost the

532
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: charge again. Uh, So they told us that we'd uh,

533
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: they'd have to check it for additional leaks. And I

534
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: managed once again with one four a refrigerant with the

535
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: seilant in it to keep it running. I thought maybe

536
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: you had something that might have worked a little bit

537
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: more effectively and longer lasting. Here's here's why I don't

538
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: like sealants and a C systems. Okay, um, the real

539
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: question is how much do you like your mechanic and

540
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: uhcane mechanics. I don't have any good qualified mechanics that

541
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: aren't stick to hand in boat pockets. Okay. So, so

542
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: here's why I don't like ceiling to in A C machines.

543
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't do any A C work on

544
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: any on any vehicles at the shop unless I test

545
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: the system first, and it's usually from an established customer

546
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: that I know. When a strange A C car comes

547
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: in and they say, hey, whan s youl to charge

548
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: the A C and work on it. If I'm suspicious,

549
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: I start an inquisition. And here's why. If somebody has

550
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: put sealing in the a C system to prevent the

551
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: leak or to try and repair a leak, where does

552
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: that ceiling go? Once I recover whatever refrigerant is there,

553
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: goes into my machine, my seven thousand dollar air conditioning machine,

554
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: which is very good, which is very delicate. And if

555
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: it ends up hurting my seven thousand dollar air conditioning machine,

556
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: oh boy, Ron's not happy. So you know, in all

557
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: fairness to everybody, I'm just not a fan of a

558
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: C system sealing repair. Um it used to be Okay,

559
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: it's become very widespread used. I used to have other

560
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: thoughts on it. I've changed my opinion over time. Ask

561
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: me why. So you know it's got to be diagnosed.

562
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, the condenser failure really has nothing to do

563
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,959
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The compressor failure really has nothing to do

564
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: with the leak. It just happened to be a system

565
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: that had two problems. My My one concern at this

566
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: stage is what kind of shape is the rest of

567
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: the vehicle and how many miles are on this Bruce? Okay,

568
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: so you know it's it's if Bruce had to replace

569
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: this car tomorrow, could he do that? Can you afford

570
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: to do that? It would be difficult, But I'm thinking

571
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: more money into then what the book value was worth

572
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: on it? Now? Well, and and chew on this right.

573
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: A car is only worth what it's going to cost

574
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: you to replace, all right. There's an awful lot of

575
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: really good three and four thousand dollar cars out there

576
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: that maybe three thousand dollars worth of work, and people

577
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: will say just that, Hey, you know it's it's costing

578
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: me more money than the value of the car. Yeah,

579
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's twenty five to thirty thousand to

580
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: replace it. And you know that's a whole another conversation.

581
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: Your biggest issue. You need a mechanic, You need somebody

582
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: that's gonna give it a little TLC. Go over at

583
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: front to back. Think about oil consumption because of the age.

584
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: Think about the condition of the exhaust system because of

585
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: the age. Catalytic converters are not uncommon failures on those cars.

586
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: Radiators are not uncommon failures on those cars. But to

587
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: look at the whole car, the whole car, look at

588
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: everything top, the bottom, left, the right, and then come

589
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: back and say here's what it needs. Now, here's what

590
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna need in six months to a year. And

591
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: then Bruce can decide, Hey, do I want to keep

592
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: down this road or do I want to replace it

593
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: with something else. Um, it's got to be a dollars

594
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: and cents to sit Jan Bruce, dollars and cents, s

595
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: E N S A. I think it over called me back.

596
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: I'll be glad to do what I can to help you.

597
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I'm on an any in the car doctor, reminding you

598
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: this time, each time, every time, for the best time.

599
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you