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Speaker 1: God willing, because that's what this radio show is all about.

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Speaker 1: I'm just here to help you fix your car. No

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Speaker 1: Let's get it solved. Let's kick the garage doors open

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Speaker 1: Let's go over to Craig in Wisconsin. O H Chevy Silverado. Craig,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir, canna help welcome. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I gotta when I kick it into uh four wheel drive? Um?

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Speaker 1: does it actually go into four wheel drive? Uh? It

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Speaker 1: kind of feels like it does once in a while

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Speaker 1: not necessarily engaged in working correctly. So there's a fault

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Speaker 1: It does not? Is it every time you shifted into

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Speaker 1: it in the four wheel drive again. So the way

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Speaker 1: this system works in a nutshell is there's there's a

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Speaker 1: That's one set of software language. This is going to

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Speaker 1: a happy new Year. And Christophers Tin is all about

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Speaker 1: love and thank god you're there to answer our questions

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Speaker 1: and get us out of trouble. I appreciate that now.

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Speaker 1: But on the maland blewis like wise car she got

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Speaker 1: It's not allowed noise. You could just you could hear it,

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Speaker 1: it too much. It's like it's like a watch tick. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: um see if that frees it up over time. But

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Speaker 1: and two or thousand miles how deep do you want

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you said that, because you know I

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Speaker 1: value your opinion. Ron get rid of the damn thing.

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Speaker 1: We'll get rid of it. Yeah. I think I think

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Speaker 1: My way of thinking winter's coming. The road is a

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Speaker 1: wonderful holiday. YouTube David Merry Christmas eight five five zero

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, how can I help? Hey? Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, what do I got If I'm still blowing stone?

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Speaker 1: What can I do for you? Well, I can't keep

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Speaker 1: Tom uh sounds familiar, but not exactly. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the hood, So take the covers off, all right. I'm

427
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: not gonna be surprised. You know, you want to look around.

428
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: There's there should be a fuse box on the driver's side.

429
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: There may even be a fuse box over on the

430
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,959
Speaker 1: passenger side by the glove box. Again, some switches are

431
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to be disabled, so lights don't stay on,

432
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: So we don't create a draw, get the vehicle to

433
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: go to sleep, take the thermal imager and start scanning

434
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: the vehicle. Does something show temperature more so than the

435
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: item next to it? What I think you're going to

436
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: find and this will be located in the underhood fuse

437
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: box and the other infuse box I believe to the

438
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: right the passenger side front corner is the eight. The

439
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: a C compressor clutch relay is going to be stuck

440
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: on not an uncommon failure the relays. The relays go bad,

441
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: they'll stay stuck on. UM. There's a couple of relays

442
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: because they're all there's four or five relays depending upon

443
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: how the cars optioned out that are the same manufacturer,

444
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: MITSABO or something. It's um uh something uh to that

445
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: extent as far as it sounds, and that relay is

446
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: likely sticking and it will do it intermittently, it won't

447
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: do it all the time, and it'll create that draw.

448
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 1: So you know, we can we can do this by

449
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,719
Speaker 1: looking at thermal image and heat temperature, or we can

450
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 1: just try popping a relay out one of the up

451
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: until we find the one. Yep that we actually did

452
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: that or I did that because I brought it home

453
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: the last time and uh we unhooked the as an

454
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: aftermarket remote start with an alarm on it, and we

455
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,719
Speaker 1: actually unhooked that and brought it home fully charged the battery,

456
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: let it sit for five days and it was completely dead.

457
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: So I charged the battery up rand the car for

458
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: an hour and UM the took that air compressed air

459
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: conditioning relay out and actually UM, I switched that because

460
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: it's a normally open switch. So I thought, if I

461
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: could pull out the two of them that are next

462
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: to it that control the fans, the cooling fans for

463
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: the radiator, and I would put it in if it

464
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: is stuck closed, that it would that the family would

465
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: come on. And it did not. So, but I actually

466
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: left that that one out for the last three days,

467
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: the air and the air conditioning one. Left the other

468
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: two for the fan in and uh, this morning it's

469
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: that again. So you know, like I said, there are

470
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: other relays there um that are the same manufacturer. Hence

471
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 1: the thermal image. The thermal image will show what's hot.

472
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: The only other thing you could do to prove a

473
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: draw is if you have a good digital volt home

474
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: meter a d v O m is, put it in

475
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: record mode and just leave it hooked up, set the

476
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: car up for an am draw test, leave it hooked

477
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: up and walk away. Make sure it's got a fresh

478
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 1: nine volt battery in it. That that nine volt battery

479
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: should last upwards. I think the numbers seventy two hours, uh,

480
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: seventy two or ninety six hours if you wanted to

481
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: drain a nine volt battery completely. If you put the

482
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: meter in min max mode record most of the meters

483
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: on the market today will not auto turn off. And

484
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: you can come back to it, you know, the next

485
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: day or the day after that and look to see

486
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 1: what was the max amperage reading. If we see a spike,

487
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: then we we we know we've definitely got a draw issue.

488
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: Something is turning on at random, and then we'll have

489
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: to figure out how to go and attack that. We'll

490
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: have to take a look at a wiring diagram and

491
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: maybe um split the car in half, you know, um

492
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: uh in terms of components, try to you know, how

493
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: do we measure from this or that side of it?

494
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: But first let's prove that we've got a drawing that

495
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: we're not chasing something else. Does that make sense? Okay? Um?

496
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: Or like I said, get a thermal imager and and

497
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: you know, when you see the draw a cur, you

498
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: know to to look at it live on a meter.

499
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: When you see the draw a cur, you know, let's um,

500
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: let's let's let's do a thermal image and and see

501
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: what we say. UM be mindful too. Odyssees, Yeah, they

502
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: seem to be one of those vehicles that have these

503
00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: little compartments and god knows where with lightbulbs. Um glove

504
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: compartments come to mind. Are there any bulbs in the back? Uh?

505
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: In little compartments that when you open them, the lights

506
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: supposed to go on and off. You know, could one

507
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: of those be on? You know? See? The neat thing

508
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: is if we do the record and we see the draw,

509
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: if it's drawing two amps two amps as a bulb, typically,

510
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: if it's drawing ten ams, it's something bigger, you know.

511
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: So the size of the drow will tell us what

512
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: to look for also and help break down what it

513
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 1: is that we're chasing. So um, you know, we can

514
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: do this with or without a thermal image or an

515
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: image will make it easier. But let's let's attack it

516
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: like I just described to you. All right, certain, let

517
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: me know what happens. You're very welcome. You're very welcome.

518
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: Eight five five zero. We're back right after this for

519
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: the best in car Advice Foo zero. Now back to

520
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: run Gone in Wisconsin. N Catillac el Dorado, John, you're

521
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: out with the car doctor. How can I help? Hi? Ron?

522
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call and I pleasure to talk

523
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: with you. Thank you, Catillac Eldorado. It's a beautiful IRN.

524
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: It's what they call Sonora Saddle. My mom bought a

525
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: brand News twenty four thousand dollars at the time, and

526
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: I inherited that car. It's got seventy tho original miles

527
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: on it and it's been an excellent car. It's always

528
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: started up. I've never had any issues here and there.

529
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: I've done different things with the transmission flush and that,

530
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: and currently the radio went and I sent away for

531
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: a different parts of the radio, and that's coming. My

532
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: question to you today, um, is the never had any

533
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: issues of the engine or the transmission. But in that model,

534
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: in that car, is there anything I should be on

535
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: the lookout for a roun? You know? Yes? And no?

536
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: Everything and nothing? John, This is this is this is

537
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: the correct This is an HD for Yes, I believe

538
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: the first year of the U right and and and

539
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: how many miles are on this so you've already gone

540
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: double what the normal lifespan is of the engine on

541
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: this car? Um? Just yeah, just they weren't they weren't great. Uh,

542
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: this this car, this engine was the beginning of the

543
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: downfall of General motors in the eighties. Uh you know this, Yeah,

544
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: it was just it was just a problem from the

545
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: word get from the word go. Um, all kinds of

546
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: weird things happened. But you know the HT forty one D.

547
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: Everybody said the HT stood for hook and tub because

548
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: that's what happened to him so often. Um uh, you

549
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: know it's it's I can tell you stories. I remember

550
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: this engine when it first came out. I was doing

551
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: limousinees and hearses for the other side of the building

552
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: that we were renting at the time, and um it

553
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: was limousine and hearse for the local caddy dealer. And

554
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: I would talk to the dealer text time at the

555
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: time about the limousines and they would tell me stories

556
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: about um, everything from a thirty thousand miles And this

557
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: is an interesting story and that at the thirty thousand

558
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: mile mark, General Motors called for all the intake manifold

559
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: bolts to be retorked. And if you ever took a

560
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: PARTY forty one, you would see that the main bearing

561
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: for the crank support was the center bearing. And what

562
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: would happen is because it was an aluminum It was

563
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: so much aluminum used in that engine, and everything was

564
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: structurally based on everything being tight. Hence the reason GM

565
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: called for the bolts to be retorked. After so many miles.

566
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: When they were retorked, you would pull things back to square. Well,

567
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: what happens when something SAgs over time? It wears that way, right,

568
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: So you you'd retork everything back to square like you're

569
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: supposed to. And the dealer text would tell me that

570
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: the car would get from the service bay to the

571
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: door of the shop and the crank would let go

572
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: and break in half because it just couldn't take. It

573
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: would just become a louder noise, louder noise, and then boom. Um.

574
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: So if you've got seventy thousand miles out of this, brother,

575
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: you did good. Um. Yeah, I've always done regular oil changes.

576
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: I've done to transmission flushes. Same mechanic. Who's my cousin

577
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: who I trust? Sumplicitly, you always say that a good

578
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: mechanic is priceless. Um. I love driving it because it's

579
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: just like driving a boat. And it was, let's face it,

580
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: it was it was Mom's car. Um. You know, it's

581
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: we we go out for right, we think of Mom.

582
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: You can still see Mom behind the wheel, right, yeah,

583
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's the best part of it.

584
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: I would tell you not to get too crazy with

585
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: you know, chemicals and and and things like that. I

586
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: would just continue to do what you're doing due diligence,

587
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: you know, just staying on top of it. I definitely

588
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't retort the intake amountifold bolts, no matter how many

589
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: times somebody told me to do that, um, because I

590
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: know the problem that creates. And you know, maybe you'll

591
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: get the one that goes a hundred thousand miles. You

592
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: just might. But it's I can. I can tell you this.

593
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: If the engine does fail, I don't think there's parts

594
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: for it anymore. Uh, you know now? And I say that,

595
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: you know, small block Chevy, some of the other cars,

596
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: some of the other engines, you know, the stuff out

597
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: GM stopped producing those I think back in and they

598
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: did so because they wanted this engine to go away,

599
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: because they knew what a disaster it was. Um. So

600
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: just just just be mindful, all right, sir, Thank you

601
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: very much, run very well. Pleasure talking you too, sir.

602
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: You take good care and have a good rest of

603
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: the day. Zero the car doctors coming back right after this. Hey,

604
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: welcome back the car doctor. Real quick, let's go over

605
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: to Ryan and Michigan. Ryan, what's going on? I got

606
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes. I got a two thousand

607
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: ten forward transit connect man. But as I drive it

608
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: down the road, the door open alarm comes on every

609
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: now and then and it just kind of drives me crazy. Yeah,

610
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: I can understand that. Um, I can understand that. So

611
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: you know, the easiest way, you know what my first

612
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:03,959
Speaker 1: thought is, you know, do we have a switch that's

613
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: shorted pulling the circuit the ground and turning the light on,

614
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: the easiest way to do this is you know, or

615
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: any of the doors loos? Is this a delivery vehicle?

616
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: Is this a beat up work truck? How fresh and

617
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: clean is this? And how tight? If you know what

618
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying to the doors close right, I've checked the doors.

619
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: Um it is a delivery vehicle. But um it's in

620
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: really good shape other than that, and I give a

621
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: go for a couple of days without it happening left.

622
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: So you know, let's get it into a mechanic and

623
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: let's put a scan tool on it, all right, And

624
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: what we want to go into is we want to

625
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: go into the body or GEM module and we want

626
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: to look at and see those switches should report to

627
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: a module because the module has to know if the

628
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: door is open to turn the light on the dish, right,

629
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: that light just doesn't appear, you know, by magic um.

630
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: Let's look at this on a scan tool. Let's look

631
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: at data stream and look at what we're talking about

632
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: data stream for a door module, right, and let's let's

633
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: see does does does it have the ability to report

634
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: door switch status? And does it tell us which switch

635
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: is intermittently showing open? All right? So you know if

636
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: there's what there's three doors on this car, four doors

637
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 1: on this truck. Four so that you know, you'll probably

638
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: see like a left front, right front, middle, and rear

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Speaker 1: um in the pit lift and let's just go for

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00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: a ride. It might have to sit with the mechanic

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00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,720
Speaker 1: for a day or two until he gets it to happen.

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Speaker 1: And one of those is going to switch state even

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Speaker 1: when the door is closed. Easiest way to go about it,

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Speaker 1: so let us know what happens. I'm run any of

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Speaker 1: the car. Doctor mechanics aren't expensive, they're placeless. See you