1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: Truth is I have the problem. 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 2: I'm addicted to cars. 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Well, ron An aian, I'd go back and hook up 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: what you're hooking up by a clamp on ant meter. 5 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:16,119 Speaker 1: You got a clamp on ant meter. No, oh, I 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: don't think so, Tim the Car Doctor. 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 3: I put it up for sale and I didn't tell her, and. 8 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: She goes to me. 9 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 3: She's like, she thinks it's cute. 10 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: Well, you know, listen, happy wife, happy life. Brother. 11 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 3: Hey, well you know we ended up buying her Mercedes 12 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 3: three weeks ago. 13 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: Very happy wife's, very happy life. You see all the 14 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: problems the car doctor can solve. You've irritated the tool gods. 15 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: You must now be smeared with the holy grease of disdain. 16 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian the Car Doctor. 17 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the 18 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 3: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 19 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 3: the phone and call in. The garage doors. 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: Are open, but I'm here to take your calls at 22 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: eight five, five, five six, nine nine hundred and now you're. 23 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 3: Eight thirty nine, comedian, I thought so. 24 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: Running Hey, hey, he welcome running in me your car doctor, 25 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: and thanks for stopping by the garage today. And I 26 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: enjoy being here with you guys. You know, this really 27 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: is my favorite part of the week, right and talking 28 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: to you about your cars and their problems and whatever's 29 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: going on, whatever you've got to do. So I'm really 30 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: glad to be here with you today. Someone asked me 31 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: this week and it kind of got me thinking. You know, 32 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: they why is the radio show on so long? You know, 33 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: it's it's what do I think the durability is or 34 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: the reason for its longevity? You know, it makes you think, right, 35 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: because you don't want to stay on too long. I 36 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: know people say that you don't want to keep doing 37 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: something if you're not effective. I say that all the time. 38 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: You know, when do you retire in life? I think 39 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: you retire when you're no longer effective or a viable force. 40 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,919 Speaker 1: And you know, I think we're very viable force. Obviously 41 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,639 Speaker 1: we're still fixing cars, and you know, we're still answering 42 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: questions and judging by your feedback, I think we're we're 43 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: right most of the time. You know, uh, you know, 44 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: you just you just look at that. But but regardless, 45 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: it's the letters keep coming, and the concerns and the 46 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: and the the the the crist for help keep coming. 47 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: And this week was no different. You know, we we 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: heard from we heard from John again in Connecticut. John's 49 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: had his car. He's got a two thousand and eight 50 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: Subaru Wagon that's been held hostage. Oh I I've lost 51 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: count eight months, ten months, some ridiculous amount of time 52 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: by a mechanic who's you know, up there saying I 53 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: can fix this, I can fix anything, but he doesn't 54 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: seem to ever get to do it. And uh, it's 55 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: just a it's just a real tough situation. I've and 56 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: kind of guiding John. And I think that's John's an 57 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: example of why this radio show needs to exist. It's 58 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: it's it's this simple questions. It's the things that you 59 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: don't realize about, just procedure, you know. And I've I've 60 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: kind of coached John a little bit and explained to him, 61 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: you know, do you have does he have a signed 62 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: repair order? And have you signed and authorized and everything? 63 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: And what have you authorized? And and I think that's 64 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: part of the process you have to talk to people about, 65 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, when you go into a repair shop, you know, 66 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: and I'm talking about that new shop, the first time shop. 67 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: When you break down. You know, surely when you go 68 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: to a car dealership, they'll put you through the protocol 69 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: of signing an invoice and an authorization. And why do 70 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 1: they do that because they know that's that's the legally 71 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: correct thing to do in order to enter into a 72 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: business contract of repairing your automobile. And John is you know, 73 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: I've asked John about this a couple of times and 74 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: some of it he's authorized, some of it he hasn't. 75 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 1: He's kind of finding his way. But you know, that's 76 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: what keeps it real, the real people like that. And 77 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: then it's this gentleman Jim from New Hampshire who wrote 78 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: in and he wrote me a very nice, long email 79 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: and I say that very kindly that it was a 80 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: great email. It was very detailed problems he's having with 81 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: his Corolla, his twenty twenty three Corolla Cross Hybrid. And 82 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, he talks about how his Corol Across Hybrid 83 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: refused to start after sitting in a parking ride for 84 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: ten days. They returned from an all night flight with 85 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: eight bags. The car has a mile of sixteen eight 86 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: hundred miles full extended warranty, and then he talked about 87 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: the trials and tribulations about how a neighbor had to 88 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: come pick them up and drive thirty miles and you know, 89 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: the touch truck driver showed up and they were able 90 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: to start it back up, but then they couldn't and 91 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: you know the process of what it takes to fix 92 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: the car, and you know, it's it's I love the detail. 93 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: I love the conversation. And Jim and Jim went back 94 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: and forth a couple of times. I actually called Jim. 95 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: I wanted to put him up on air to talk 96 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: about this, but I kept missing him somehow. In the end, 97 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: the car was fixed because the dealership kept the car 98 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: through the auspices of the head mechanic, as Jim says, 99 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: and they found a bad sell in one of the 100 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: batteries and you know, it took some persistence, but they 101 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: were able to fix it. And it keeps him. You know, 102 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: he's comfortable again, He's but that's real, that's a real 103 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: repair we had. Frank, he dropped off his twenty thirteen 104 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: what was it this week? A twenty thirteen Ford Explorer 105 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: that was a complaint about tight steering, and for a 106 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: while now his wife has been complaining about every once 107 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: in a while the steering would start to lock up, 108 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: and she said, I have no power steering. Now in 109 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, the Ford Explorer has electric power steering. And 110 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: the electric power steering racks are a common failures, especially 111 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: on something that's eleven years old. And actually what goes 112 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: bad on a lot of cases is there's a belt 113 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 1: internally in the electric power steering rack and the belt 114 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: fails and it can't be replaced on its own, and 115 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: a lot of applications, some it can, but most it can't, 116 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: and you end up replacing the rack. And the rack 117 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 1: is I've seen anywhere from eight hundred to fifteen hundred 118 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: dollars just for the part, So you know, you want 119 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: to kind of be sure what are we dealing with, 120 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: and you know before we just jump the gun and say, 121 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 1: oh it needs a power steering rack, et cetera. So 122 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: I you know, I brought it in. It was my 123 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: ticket in my rack, And yeah, I always do my 124 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: due diligence in terms of I'm always going to scan 125 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: for codes, and I'm always going to do it for 126 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: this because I'm looking for communication faults. Do I have problems. 127 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: Are there moments where the vehicle is losing power steering 128 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: actually losing power steering and I don't know that, but 129 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: I'm looking for calm errors. I'm looking for any sort 130 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: of an error in the electronic power steering, and there 131 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: wasn't one. It Actually, here's a thirteen explorer with one 132 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: hundred and ten thousand miles on it, I think it was, 133 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: and the power steering was clean as a whistle electronically. 134 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: Couldn't see or find a blessed thing wrong with it. 135 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: But it's real, right, I mean, this is really what happens. 136 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: And you know how many of you were in this 137 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: position on a week to be on a week to 138 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: week basis, and you know, this is what I think 139 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: keeps the show going. It's that, it's that realism, and 140 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: that's what gives it its longevity. So we kind of 141 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: went to step two, and step two was, gee, I 142 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: know it binds and it feels like it's got no 143 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: power steering going down the road at thirty miles an hour, 144 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: What does it feel like up in the air? You know, 145 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: what if I take the load off the front suspenshion 146 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: and you know, just just just what does it do? 147 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: The exact same thing. You know, roughly every every ninety 148 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: degrees of turn, you could feel notch notch notch tight, tight, tight, 149 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: and it made it very difficult to drive. So it 150 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: wasn't that she had no power steering. It's she had 151 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: no steering, she had high steering effort, and she had 152 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: no wheel returnability. The wheel. Actually we'd have to drag 153 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: the wheel to get it to come back to So 154 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: it was kind of dangerous, you know, because obviously you 155 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: want to have good wheel return in the corners, so 156 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: that if you're traveling down the road and you have 157 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: to swerve to avoid something and you want to stay 158 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: in your lane but get back going straight, you could 159 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: overcompensate and you could very easily end up in the 160 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: other lane. And you know, it's a safety thing. I 161 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: remember Billy. Billy always said to me, and this goes 162 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: back how many years ago, right my first boss, He said, listen, 163 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: no matter how complicated cars get, he said, I'm going 164 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: to tell you right now, and he said I'll be gone, 165 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: and he is gone. And he was right about this. 166 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: He said, cars have to have good breaks, good tires, 167 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: good suspension, steering. He said, the rest of it is 168 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: fluff and nonsense. And he said it just it has 169 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: to be able to start. It's got to always have 170 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: a good battery in it. And you're done. He goes, 171 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: you know, air conditioning, power controls and all the rest 172 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: of it is nonsense. You don't need that to drive 173 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: a car. Billy was right then, And I've always looked 174 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: at cars like that. And when I saw this car, 175 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: when I saw Frank come in with his thirteen Explorer, 176 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: and it had that Nachi steering and it you know, 177 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: it's unsafe. The vehicle has to feel safe because there's 178 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: nothing well, you get the point. I finally narrowed it 179 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: down to where, okay, what's what's making this do this? 180 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: And we disconnected outer tire rod and it still did it. 181 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: It still had that notch to it. And that's when 182 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: I knew it's either the steering rack or the intermediate shaft, 183 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: all right, And at first I didn't think it was 184 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: going to be the intermediate until I actually looked at 185 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: it and found it because I had envisioned that Ford 186 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: would you know, connect the steering rack to the intermediate 187 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: shaft insconced in a plastic housing. No, they don't do that. 188 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: It was wide out out in the open, and sure 189 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: enough it was rusty looking. You know what I did next. 190 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about it, right, We've actually turned 191 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: a few of them into stories. But the truth is 192 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: we got out our candop B blaster and soak that 193 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: joint and soaked that joint and sprayed and worked and 194 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: soaked that joint, and within about seven minutes that joint 195 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: came back to life and we were able to turn 196 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: the wheel smoothly. Connected the tyrods back up, connected and 197 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: we were able to turn the wheel smoothly. It was 198 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: in the steering intermediate joint, which looks just like a 199 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: drive shaft. You joint right, and you know, put the 200 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: cart down on the ground, took it around the block, 201 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: steered absolutely fine. We will in all likelihood, because we 202 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: wanted to put an intermediate shaft on it. Once we 203 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: knew what was wrong with it, we will order an 204 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: intermediate shaft. Of course, Fords out of stock on them, 205 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: which we should have known that in the first place. Right, 206 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: it's always the part you can't get. But within the 207 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: next week or two, I think the part's going to 208 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: They're going to release some and uh, you know, do 209 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: it that way but that's what keeps the shop real, 210 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: That's what keeps the show real. I mean, you know, 211 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: it's you're hearing things that you're hearing things that other 212 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: people are going through, like Jim and John. You're hearing 213 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: things that I see in the shop. And I think 214 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: that's really a big part of this. I think that's 215 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to, you know, 216 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: talk realism, and you know, it's just it's just huge. 217 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: I can't I can't emphasize that enough. So you know 218 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: that's to me. So my answer to the question about 219 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: longevity was because it's real, and I think it is. 220 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: I you know, what what you see is what you get, 221 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: as we used to say, and you know that's that's 222 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: very much what goes on here. So anyway, I'm running 223 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: any in the car doctor. I want to talk to Tom, 224 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: but I remember about what so Lety pull over and 225 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: take this pause. When we come back, we'll we'll continue on, 226 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: continue to continue. I'm running any in the card doctor. 227 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. 228 00:10:49,280 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere, whether it's a little red Corvette or 229 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 4: you go, you've come to the right place to get 230 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 4: that car fixed. Ron An ay in the Car Doctor 231 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 4: eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. 232 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: Now back to Ron. Welcome back to listeners, Ron, any 233 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor. You know it's fun right some 234 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: of the letters that I get. Hey, Ron, just finished 235 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: listening today's show. I listened to a podcast where you 236 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: mentioned you now have a two thousand and two T Bird. 237 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: I had a ninety sixte Bird that my mom gave 238 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: me when you could no longer drive. I love driving 239 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: that car with his V eight engine when I worked 240 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: late and was driving home from florm Park in New 241 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: Jersey to river Ridge on Rude eighty. There were times 242 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: that I went slightly over the speed limit. I eventually 243 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: handed it down to my son. It was his first car. 244 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: We no longer have it, and he still misses it. 245 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: Phil from I guess New Jersey, that is you know what, Yeah, 246 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: it's fun right. T Birds are just great cars. I mean, 247 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: I've had a few, and this is the first newer 248 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: Bird that I've had and got to drive on a 249 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 1: regular basis. But I understand, Phil, and every once in 250 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: a while you do kind of go slightly over the 251 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: speed limit. So much appreciate the letter. So let's let's 252 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: get over to the phones. Let's go over and talk 253 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: to Bailey about his three hondo cord. Bailly, what's going 254 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: on here? Welcome to the car doctor, sir. 255 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 2: I've been having problems with my brakes. The fluid has 256 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: been disappearing out and it won't let me pump the 257 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 2: brakes anywhere. I won't get tied rae anymore. 258 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: Okay, So what is it? You were low on fluid, 259 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: You added fluid, but now you don't have a brake pedal? Yes, okay? 260 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: How many miles are on this car? Not that it 261 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: matters a whole lot, it's breaks, but you know, just 262 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: out of curateous a. 263 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 2: Little over two hundred thousand, all right. 264 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: So two hundred thousand miles by chance? How do the 265 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: brakes feel? Do they still feel like they have power? Assist? 266 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 2: They do have power, but I have to push in 267 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: the pedal a little flunder than you normally would. 268 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: All right. Did you you know when it ran low 269 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: on break fluid? Were you able to get it up 270 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: in the air or take it to your mechanic and 271 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: have them get it up in the air. Do you 272 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: see loss of fluid anywhere? Do you see wetness? 273 00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 2: Somebody have I have looked for break fluid on the 274 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 2: ground and I couldn't find any. 275 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: Okay, So if if there's nothing leaking at any of 276 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: the breaks themselves, this should be an O three accord 277 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: drum break in the back or disc break in the back. 278 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: Do you know that? 279 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 2: Don't know because their front row draws. 280 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: Right, I think this is going to be a drum 281 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: brake car in the rear and oh three. But regardless, 282 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: if it's dry at all, four corners meaning calipers or 283 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: calipers and wheel cylinders are not leaking, and you've lost 284 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: a substantial amount of brake fluid. The master cylinder ran dry, 285 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: you said, Bailly, Yes, okay, I'm gonna tell you it's 286 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: most likely that the master cylinder itself is leaking and 287 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: putting brake fluid into the brake booster. Right when you 288 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: look at the Master, right, the Master is bolted to 289 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,319 Speaker 1: a big It used to be gold plated, but now 290 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: it's probably a dull silver you know, probably eight nine 291 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: inches in diameter, right coming off the firewall. If you 292 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: go out to that, take your hand and feel underneath 293 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: the booster, so you know, follow the bottom of the 294 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: Master to where it bolts to the break booster. And 295 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: feel underneath it with your hand. Does your hand come 296 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: up wet? If your hand comes up wet, that's the 297 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: brake fluid seeping through the booster. And you know that's 298 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: where it went. The breakebooster is now filled with fluid 299 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: or partially filled with fluid, depending upon how bad it's leaking. 300 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: Here's here's the problem. Well, first of all, it's a 301 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand mile car, all right, so you've got 302 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: to be you know, we've got to be accurate number one. 303 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: But you know, the problem becomes that brake fluid on 304 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: the rubber diaphragm of the booster is over time going 305 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: to rot the booster and effect its longevity and lifespan. 306 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: Of course, it's twenty one years old. Now, you know, 307 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, you kind of got your 308 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: money's worth out of it. But I guess my point 309 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: becomes that if the bottom of the booster is wet, 310 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: I don't want you to just put a master on it. 311 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: I want you to consider replacing the break booster itself 312 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: because that's damaged both from age and the brake fluid 313 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: on the rubber component, because break fluid will eat up rubber. 314 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: Makes sense, Yes, okay, and then you know, are you 315 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: are you going to attempt this repair yourself or you're 316 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: going to take it to a shop. Take it to 317 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: a shop, all right, and then the other thing they're 318 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: going to talk about is, you know, can they get 319 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: the wheel cylinders or break calipers open to bleed them? 320 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: So you know this, but the reason you can't, going 321 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: back to your original comment, the reason you can't get 322 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: a brake pedal out of it is because the master 323 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: ran dry. You added fluid, and now it's air bound. 324 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: So so you know, if you bleed the brakes, you 325 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: can probably get a pedal out of it. But that's 326 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: just the short term solution, you know. The long term 327 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: solution becomes, you know, how do you make it so 328 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: it doesn't happen again? You know, and hopefully the shop 329 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: you go to, you know, is it a mechanic belly 330 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: or is this going to be somebody new you're going 331 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: to I have. 332 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 2: Took my cars there for the battery, the battery fuse, 333 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 2: and I bought the car for the first time. Okay, 334 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: I didn't drive it for the first month because there 335 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: was a battery problem. Didn't we could figure it out, 336 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 2: so we replaced the battery and alternator. Right, we still 337 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 2: had the problem. So we took it to the mechanic 338 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: and he said it was the battery refuse. 339 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: Okay, So we took. 340 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 2: And we have took other cars there to the same 341 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 2: mechanic and it came out pretty good. 342 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: Right. Okay, So you've been you've been to this guy. 343 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: You're sort of building a relationship, it sounds like, and 344 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of working. Okay, So go in, you know, 345 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand mile car. I think the fair statement 346 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: has to be, Hey, you know, I lost my brakes. 347 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: Explain it to him the way you explained it to me. 348 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: I lost my brakes, I added, fluid, I don't have 349 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: a pedal right now. I don't see anything wet on 350 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: the ground. And if he puts it up in the 351 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: lift on a lift and verifies that that you really 352 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: don't have, you know, anything leaking, you know, describe what 353 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: I said to you say, Hey, listen, I was talking 354 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: to another mechanic friend of mine, and he described, you know, 355 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: could the break booster itself be wet now? Because could 356 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: the master be filling? You know, comes out the back 357 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: of the Master and fills the booster and that's where 358 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: the brake fluid is. But get a general oversight of 359 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: the brake system two hundred thousand miles. You don't want 360 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: to start piecemealing this thing. You want everything to work 361 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: and make sure the bleeder's open and the calibers work 362 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. All right, all right, okay, 363 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 1: anything else, everything else? All right? 364 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 2: I wasn't ask you are the parts again? 365 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: What do you mean the parts again? 366 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 2: The part that was that's uh, could be. 367 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: Oh, the break booster. The break booster is. Yeah, the 368 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: break booster is the vacuum diaphragm. It's where the power 369 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: assist comes from for the brake system. So if you 370 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: you know just you know where you poured the fluid in. Yeah, 371 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: that's the master cylinder. That's the hydraulic portion. That's the 372 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: master cylinder. The piece that that's bolted to is called 373 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: the break booster. You'll find a big fat black vacuum 374 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: host going to it that provides the boost assist. But 375 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: there's a diaphragm in there, and now that's filled partially 376 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 1: with break fluid. Like I said, put your hand down 377 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: along the bottom, and I think you're going to find 378 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: that the booster has fluid in it, and that's going 379 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: to be the problem. I gotta go. The clock's going 380 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: to take me. Billy, give me a call back if 381 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 1: you need more, and I appreciate the call. I'm ruinating 382 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: in the card doctor. We're back right after this. Welcome 383 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: back listeners, lining and the card doctor. Let's let's go 384 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: over to the phone. Let's go to Pete. Pete from 385 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: Wisconsin has some questions about motor oil. Pete, welcome to 386 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: the car Doctor, sir. 387 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,479 Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you, long time listener. 388 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. 389 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 5: Appreciate everything you do there. 390 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: Thank you. 391 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 5: Question regarding these high mileage motor oils, I guess number one, 392 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 5: are they you know, they do what they do has advertised? 393 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 5: Are they worth it? 394 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 2: You know? 395 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 5: The other thing is I primarily have a small fleet 396 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 5: of GM vehicles, and you know, I never see a 397 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 5: high mileage oil that has a deck Celis approval rating. 398 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 5: And I just wonder, you know, how those different ratings 399 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 5: play into this. But again, just you know, seventy five 400 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 5: thousand seems to be the magic mileage number to start 401 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 5: converting over to that, right, just wondering is it worth 402 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 5: the effort? 403 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: You know, Pete, I'm going to answer it as if 404 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: I was standing in the shop. All right. High mileage 405 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: oil has been around the better part of twenty years 406 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: to my recall, and it's it's specific place in the 407 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: marketplace is for high mileage vehicles where they you know, 408 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: seventy five thousand miles or more and in certain operating 409 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: environments and conditions. I think it was first brought to 410 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: market with the idea that everybody would automatically switch it 411 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: seventy five thousand miles, and it really didn't have. You know, 412 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: you've got to remember there's a couple of things going 413 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: on out there, and this is where the hate mail 414 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 1: starts to come in to me. But you know, from 415 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: my seat, from the way I see it is they're 416 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: trying to really extend that oil drain interval, less oil drained, 417 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,239 Speaker 1: less oil back in the environment, less oil to deal with, 418 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: less oil consumed that of natural resources. You know, so 419 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: anything they can do to extend the life of oil now, 420 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 1: you know, hence high mileage oil oil with a different 421 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: additive package. You know, where did oil come from? You know, 422 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: how do they make oil? All oils come from similar 423 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: based stock. Your mom made chicken soup, My mom made 424 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 1: chicken soup. You know, your wife's mom made chicken soup. 425 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: Everybody's mom started with bays stock chicken soup. And then 426 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: whatever they put in it, carrols, carrots, potatoes, herbs, secret sauce, 427 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: whatever made it that mom's chicken noodle soup. Same thing 428 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 1: with oil. They put additives in there. They put you know, 429 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: we call them vitamin packs, and you know that's what 430 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: makes oils what they are so high miel of oil. 431 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: They'll take a bas stock of you know FI I 432 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: thirty for example, and they will add certain things that 433 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: will help invigorate engine seals and help break down sludge 434 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: and varnish and you know, some of the crud that 435 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: builds up in an engine over time. But my question becomes, 436 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: what if you're doing regular maintenance, what if you're doing 437 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: fuel system cleaning, What if you're changing oil in a 438 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: regular scheduled timeframe. You know, what if you're using a 439 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: good quality oil and doing what you're supposed to do, 440 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: do you really need it? And the answer I always 441 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: come up with in my mind is, now, you know, 442 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: we we in our shop, we follow some very normal 443 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: what I consider normal oil drain intervals. Synthetic oil if 444 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 1: you're a typical customer of fifteen thousand miles a year. 445 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: We're calling for every five to six months, every five 446 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: thousand miles. And you know, it's a full synthetic. We 447 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: don't sell synthetic semisynthetic anymore of the you know, the 448 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: half synthetic stuff. You know, we don't sell conventional anymore. 449 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: Nothing really takes conventional. So it's our efforts are towards 450 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 1: a synthetic oil and a good quality oil, something that 451 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 1: has good cleaning agents in it, and that's important, you know. 452 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: And yet you know, we still see engines, you know, 453 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: go two hundred thousand miles. 454 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 3: Now. 455 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: Does this work every time? No truth be told. Just 456 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: this past week, we had a customer with a nineteen 457 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: Kia that actually went too long on her list couple 458 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: of oil change intervals, she sort of missed the mark 459 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 1: and she started doing nine and ten thousand mile oil 460 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: change intervals, and at eighty five thousand miles now the 461 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: engine started burning a court of oil every thousand miles. 462 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 1: According to Kia, that's normal. According to Ron, it's not. 463 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: You know, So what am I saying? I'm saying that 464 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: I think the high mileage stuff is stick and maybe 465 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: in certain applications. Maybe if I had an engine that 466 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: was consuming oil and I wanted to try and do 467 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: some clean up in the engine and break down some 468 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: of the GrITT and crud on the crank case, on 469 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: the I'm sorry in the crank case, and on the rings. 470 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: Sure give it a shot. You know, if I've got 471 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: leaky oil seals, there are some high mileage oils that 472 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: are better at it than others that will help revitalized seals. 473 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 1: But to just go to it, I don't know that 474 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: you need to. You know, I don't think it's going 475 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: to hurt anything. I think there's some extra expense involved. 476 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: But believe me when I tell you I don't stock 477 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: high mileage oil. I sell it occasionally on request and 478 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,199 Speaker 1: for certain situations, but it's not the bole and end all. 479 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: It's not a blanket statement. Seventy five thousand miles do 480 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: I put high mileage oil in it? You know, somebody's 481 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: gonna write in and tell me how wrong I am, 482 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: and I get that, but I can only comment on 483 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: real world. It's what we see every day every week. 484 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 1: So that's you know, that's my thoughts. 485 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 2: There. 486 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: The Dexos rating boy that dexos rating is really important, Pete, 487 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: It really is. You know, believe it or not. The 488 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: last thing motor oil does is lubricate crazy, right, How's 489 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: that for a statement? You know, it's it's it's the 490 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: last thing it does is lubricate, really and truly, and 491 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's yeah, you know, lubrications in 492 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: the top five. But there's sheer strength, there's you know, 493 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: they do so many things with oil today, variable valve timing, 494 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 1: you know, hydraulics, you know all the things that oil does. 495 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: That just and that dexos rating is part of it. 496 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,479 Speaker 1: So you know, if you're running a fleet, and by fleet, 497 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: I assume you know it's is it? Are they delivery vehicles? 498 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: What kind of vehicles are they? 499 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 2: Yeah? 500 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 5: Just to you describe product of delivery stuff? 501 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 2: Right? 502 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 5: Small, small vans? 503 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: Right? And what what what kind of oil drain interval 504 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: are you doing? Oh? 505 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 5: I mean I'm going thirty five hundred miles okay, full synthetic? 506 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: All right? How many miles have you gone on those vehicles? 507 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: What are they up to now? 508 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 5: Anywhere from sixty k to one hundred and fifty k right. 509 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: Kind of And you know you haven't run high mile 510 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 1: of oil yet, right, I haven't. 511 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 5: Yet, because I don't see any problems. 512 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: Right, So kind of interesting, right, It's it's sort of 513 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: like it. It's right, you don't see any problems. You know, 514 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: there's got to be something to what I'm saying, not 515 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: just because it's me. I have a you know, I 516 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: have I have a former employee, Chris, that you hear 517 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: me talk about from time to time, and true story, Chris. 518 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: I've been friends with Chris for the better part of 519 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 1: thirty five years. You know, I was his original instructor 520 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: when we sold him his first diagnostic machine back in 521 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: the eighties, and you know, that's how the relationship formed. 522 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: He's now the national trainer for the Automotive Training Group 523 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: And Chris comes into town once in a while and 524 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: we get together and we have dinner and we chat 525 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: and you know, we kind of yuck it up and 526 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: we talk about different things, and he tells me some 527 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: of the things that he sees out on the road, 528 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: the cars that you know, go bad and the problems 529 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: they have. And I always look at him and I say, 530 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm missing out on something, Chris. 531 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: I don't I don't see clogged PCV valves. I don't 532 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: see bad catalytic converters in those kind of numbers. I 533 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,880 Speaker 1: don't see the failures that you're described. And he looks 534 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 1: at me every time and he says, don't you get it, 535 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 1: you dope. He said, you change oil, you do maintenance, 536 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: you do fuel system cleaning, you do good filters, you 537 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: do regular scheduled fluids. And he said, he said, that's 538 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: the secret. He said, all the shops that he sees 539 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 1: in all the different places around the country, he says, 540 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: a lot of them don't follow scheduled maintenance. They don't 541 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 1: They don't even follow manufacturers, let alone create their own. 542 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: And I've said this for years. You know, if if 543 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: you think the way you maintain a vehicle in North 544 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 1: Jersey would be the same in the heat of Florida, 545 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: in the in the in the dust of Texas. Not 546 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: picking on Texas. I love Texas right in the heat 547 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: and the hot and the cold and the and the 548 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 1: climate change in sort of southern and mid California. You know, 549 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: auto repairs are is a national phenomena with regional consequences. 550 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: It varies by region, and you've got a kind of 551 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: if you're smart as a mechanic. You've got to kind 552 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: of tailor it, and you've got to look at how 553 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: are we using it, like you with your fleet. How 554 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: is he doing his fleet? How is he doing his maintenance? 555 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: What kind of service does it? Stop and go driving? 556 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: Is it? Is it all highway? I challenge somebody to 557 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: read an owner's manual where they describe severe service and 558 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: normal service. I challenge somebody to prove to me how 559 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: they're they're under a normal driving condition. You know people saying, well, 560 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: I never go over, you know I don't. I don't 561 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: do excessively high speed. Really, if you live in New 562 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: Jersey and you go down the Garden State Parkway every 563 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: once in a while, you can't tell me you're not 564 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: sitting in traffic for ten fifteen twenty minutes at a 565 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 1: clip idling in a July day high heat load. Hey 566 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: guess what now, that's severe driving conditions. So you know, 567 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: the proof's in the pudding, peet. I'm gonna leave it here. 568 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: What you're doing is working, it's working. Leave it alone, right, 569 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: Stay with the stay with the dexos, stay with the filters. 570 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: You know, if you're not doing any sort of fuel 571 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: system cleaning on those on those fleet vehicles. I would 572 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: think very long and hard about doing a tank additive. 573 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: All right, you know something on a regular basis, and 574 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: you know that's gonna help as far as fuel economy, 575 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: carbon deposits and cleaning things up, and you know what, 576 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 1: if it's not broke, don't fix it. 577 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 5: Brother, all right, yes, beautiful. 578 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: Okay, cool beans, Pete. I want to thank you for 579 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: taking the time. I appreciated the conversation even though I 580 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: did most of it. So all right, all right, you'd 581 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: be well, I'm running any of the Car Doctor. We 582 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: are back right after this. Don't go away. Hey, hey, 583 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: welcome back running any of the Car Doctor. There's a 584 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: really good article at over at all dat ol data 585 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: dot com. You go over to resources, you get into 586 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: old data news all data news this month, and it's 587 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: talking about it's titled two time saving scan tool tests 588 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: courtesy the folks over there at all Data. And in 589 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: it below there's a quick go no go test for 590 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: two and three circuit sensors, you know, and it's kind 591 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: of handy, right because it lays out the information you 592 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 1: need to do basic sensor testing. Look, we talk about 593 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: scan tools all the time. What kind of scan tool. 594 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: Do I need ron ron, I need a new scan tool? 595 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: You know, I don't think there's ever been a mechanic 596 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: when they're up against something they couldn't fix it didn't say, well, 597 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's not my fault, I must need new tools. 598 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: But the truth is you get the new tools and 599 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: do you learn how to use them? And that's kind 600 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: of what this article talks about in the sense of 601 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: just explaining how things work. It breaks down how two 602 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: and three circuit sensors operate, you know, it talks a 603 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: little bit about mass airflow sensor testing, how to hook 604 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: up a scan tool and do some graphing. And it's 605 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: just a good, solid article and you'll find it over 606 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: there under all Data at their you know, under resource 607 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: and then all Data News. So it's it's just that 608 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: important and I encourage you to I encourage you to 609 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: take a look. Are you getting your car ready for 610 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: you know, full driving? And you know, are you ready 611 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: and judging? 612 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 2: You know? 613 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: It was funny this week in the shop, we had 614 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: a bunch of people call up and they were looking 615 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,719 Speaker 1: to get service done on cars that have been broken 616 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: since June, and we had to turn them down because 617 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: we're so overloaded, and I guess you know, when I 618 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: start thinking about and asking you, are you getting your 619 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: car ready for full is? Are you getting your car 620 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: ready for fall? Are you are you planning to take it? 621 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: Are you planning to send the kids off the college? 622 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: You know it should be done by now, right, it's 623 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: late August, and if not, you're going to be gently surprised, 624 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: because I guarantee you, you know, the better shops are 625 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: busy and it's difficult to make room, and it becomes 626 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: a case of then you know, what do you ask? 627 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: All right, what do you what are you trying to 628 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: you know, do with this vehicle? One of the answers 629 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: that comes back to is and it's there. It's actually 630 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: on our website. It's actually on the shops website, but 631 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: our infamous two page checklist, and you know, just the 632 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: idea that you're just trying to do, you know, basics, tires, breaks, suspension, steering, 633 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: you know, fluids. You know, maybe you're not going to 634 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: do all the fluids because you're sending your kid to 635 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: college and who's got money after that? But you know, 636 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: my my conversation with you becomes, you know, doing the 637 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: oil change, and it's goofy stuff. We had someone that 638 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: you know, didn't want to do the oil change this week, 639 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: but did some other service work because the car will 640 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: be back at Thanksgiving and it's still got five hundred 641 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: miles to go, but it's there by time. You know, 642 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: time counts probably in my mind more so than mileage 643 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: when it comes to an oil change, because that oil 644 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: is sitting there and it's condensing inside the engine as 645 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: the engine cools and it collects moisture and it becomes 646 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: a real issue. Danny and I were talking about it 647 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: just recently about some of the vehicles we saw on 648 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: the last year that you know, when too long on 649 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: oil changes, did improper oil changes somewhere else, poor quality oil, 650 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: and within anywhere from a month to four months, we're 651 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: seeing vehicle engines that are dead. They just you know, 652 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: they're just worn out, and they're worn out early. They're 653 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: worn out at sixty seventy thousand miles. So be aware, 654 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: right if you're trying to get your vehicle ready for 655 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: college where the kids are leaving, you better get it 656 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: done soon, kiddo, because there's not going to be a 657 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: lot of room. You know, as you expect, it's gotten 658 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: to be very very different in the last couple of years, 659 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: so just don't take anything for granted. Well let me see, 660 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: let me pull over, Let me pull over one last time. 661 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: I'm running ending in the Car Doctor and we'll be 662 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away. Hey, welcome back 663 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: running meting Car Doctor. Thanks, thanks for being part of 664 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor Show this hour, and we appreciate the calls. 665 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: And for those of you that want to give us 666 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: a call and you're you've waited too late, well eight 667 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: five five five six oh nine nine zero zero is 668 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: the phone number. I'll do it again. Eight five five 669 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: five six oh nine nine zero zero. Now keep in 670 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: mind that number is twenty four to seven. You can 671 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: call it and you know, leave a message if you 672 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: If we're not live, we're alive on the ear Saturdays 673 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: two to four pm Eastern time, and you know we'll 674 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: put you in q F the next live broadcast and 675 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,479 Speaker 1: we'll call you back and put you on here. If 676 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: you want to talk midweek, you get out to our 677 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: website cardoctorshow dot com. There's a form you have to 678 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: fill out. It will actually come right to my desk 679 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: and I will call you back. I try to contact everybody, 680 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: and not everybody's there. So please, if you say you're 681 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: going to be there, be there, because otherwise you're wasting 682 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: your time, my time, and you don't get your question answering, 683 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: and you wonder what happened. But you know, we do 684 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: that on Wednesday nights. Usually I tape something. If it's 685 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: a if it's a you know, a good call, we'll 686 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: put it on tape and we'll use it somewhere in 687 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: the future in a Car Doctor future episode. I want 688 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: to talk real quick about parts, which is you know, 689 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 1: the I think it's the major threat facing the industry 690 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: because it's it's just getting worse. It just continues to 691 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: grow and provide with anxiety rights. It's just more and 692 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: more and more. We purchased an O too Thunderbird no secret. 693 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: I think I've been talking about it for a while now, 694 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: but we've got a no tooth Thunderbird in the family. 695 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: You know, it's really great. Let me take you in 696 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,360 Speaker 1: the shop courtesy of AutoZone. You know, it's really great 697 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: to use AutoZone's website because you can just you know, 698 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 1: think of what you're looking for. A break mister cylinder 699 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 1: strut some part of the suspension and look it up 700 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 1: on the website, look at pictures, look at you know, 701 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 1: to your heart's content. And we're finding an awful lot 702 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: of things for this particular tea bird and it's good. 703 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: We're stockpiling ish don't tell anybody, but we're stockpiling because 704 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: we're running out right, parts are running out. So you know, 705 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: there's one thing AutoZone does. I don't even know if 706 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: they do it, but they give you a great candleoct 707 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: toy go U through and you can take your time. 708 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,760 Speaker 1: And that's what I love about their online apt So anyway, 709 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,479 Speaker 1: that's about it for me. This week. I'm I'm gonna 710 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: go Ron and Eni and the car Doctor, and I 711 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 1: want to remind you good mechanics aren't expensive until the 712 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: next time they're priceless. See