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Speaker 2: Ah, which button is it?

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Speaker 3: Jim?

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to turn on the lights. That won't turn

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Speaker 2: on the microphone. Boy, bet you that gives you a

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Speaker 2: It's late, you know what. It's New Year's I'm tired,

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Speaker 2: so I'm feeling better. Second hour, though, I think the

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Speaker 2: cold medicine is working. But let's see how we do

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Speaker 2: this hour. Let's get things going right away. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Lois in New Jersey. Thirteen lexus and some problems

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Speaker 2: with a nose start Lois, Welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 2: How can I help?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: See, I have the thirteen lexus. It doesn't start, and

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Speaker 5: what happens. I get a message tea not detected or depressed,

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Speaker 5: grape pedal and shot button. And what I have to

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Speaker 5: do is jiggle the gearshift when it's in park, okay,

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Speaker 5: and then it'll start up. And it's intimitt.

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Speaker 2: Do you do you have a push button or is

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Speaker 2: it a key that goes into a cylinder.

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Speaker 5: It's a push button.

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Speaker 2: It's a push button. So when you push the button,

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Speaker 2: foot on the brake, push the button, do the dash

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Speaker 2: lights come on? The red yellow orange dash lights?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: Right? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Nothing nothing? Okay? And then you wiggle the shifter and

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Speaker 2: it comes and it works after that?

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Speaker 5: Correct?

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Speaker 2: All right, So there's a bunch of things that that

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Speaker 2: happened here. Has anybody looked at this or tried to

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Speaker 2: diagnose it yet?

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Speaker 5: Yes, I did bring it to my mechanics, but he

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Speaker 5: kept it over the night and it started every time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, did he at least scan it for codes?

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Speaker 5: I think he didn't.

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Speaker 4: There was nothing there.

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Speaker 2: There was nothing there. So if there's really nothing there,

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Speaker 2: and just take note, what we're looking for is does

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Speaker 2: it have an immobilizer fault? And a mobilizer is part

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Speaker 2: of the anti theft system because if it's if it's

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Speaker 2: not considering the key as correct, it will typically set

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Speaker 2: a b as in Baker twenty seven to ninety nine

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Speaker 2: fault code telling us that this is going through an

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Speaker 2: anti theft event. So be certain that he did scan

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Speaker 2: it for codes, all right, That this isn't a case

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Speaker 2: of well it didn't have a check engine light on,

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Speaker 2: so I'm not checking codes. So it's it's just important,

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Speaker 2: all right, because if there truly are no fault codes

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Speaker 2: in it, then we're into something very mechanical, something along

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Speaker 2: the lines of, yes, do you have a problem that

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Speaker 2: it doesn't recognize park position? Could this be a problem

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Speaker 2: with the park switch park neutral, you know, drive and

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Speaker 2: so forth. When you push the button, no dash lights

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Speaker 2: come on, right you You can't even get the shift

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Speaker 2: indicator light to light up.

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Speaker 5: You know, Well, honestly, I don't remember now that you

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Speaker 5: mentioned it, they might come on.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and that's and that's important to watch for because

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Speaker 2: that would skew the diagnosis left or right. All right,

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Speaker 2: So so the next time it happens, take note, right,

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Speaker 2: put on the brake, push the button. What happens? It says,

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Speaker 2: keynot recognized? But are any of the other lights on?

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Speaker 2: Do the shift indicator lights on the dashboard light up?

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Speaker 2: If they don't, that tells me that park it doesn't

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Speaker 2: recognize the shifter or it's not energizing the circuits because

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Speaker 2: it doesn't recognize the key, and there's likely a fault

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Speaker 2: in the immobilizer. It thinks you're trying to steal your car, right,

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Speaker 2: I know, it's it's odd, but it's it's it's an

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Speaker 2: odd it's an odd situation. Now, if there are no

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Speaker 2: immobilizer faults and the lights nothing lights up, foot on

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Speaker 2: the break, don't wiggle it foot on the break. Can

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Speaker 2: you shift it into neutral?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: I tried that, Okay, So it's it's not recognizing the

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Speaker 2: key at all. Right. I think this is going to

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Speaker 2: be in a mobilizer issue. I really do. And you've

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Speaker 2: got it. You've got to be able to tell us

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Speaker 2: the difference between lights or no lights, and then we

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Speaker 2: can kind of go down that road of diagnostic.

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Speaker 5: All right, okay, thanks so much for your health.

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Speaker 2: You're very wealthy here, you too, very very well. Happy

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Speaker 2: New Year to you. Let's go over to gee. Can

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Speaker 2: we go to No, we can't go there. First. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about I want to do this email.

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Speaker 2: I'm gona try to do the cemail for two weeks now.

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Speaker 2: Ron My twenty nineteen Honda Cord has new rotors and

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Speaker 2: brake pads. Always a bad sign for a to start

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Speaker 2: out this way. First time in the morning, just once

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Speaker 2: and then for the rest of the day. It's okay.

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Speaker 2: The car makes a squealing sound when backing up. If

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Speaker 2: I go forward, there isn't any squealing. I had the

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Speaker 2: break check twice for adjustments and dirt blown away. They

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Speaker 2: said everything looks okay. Before I had the pads and

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Speaker 2: rotors replaced, I heard a slight squealing once in a while.

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Speaker 2: Thomas Thomas, So, my first question is are the guys

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Speaker 2: that are saying that there's no problems with the other

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Speaker 2: ones that did the pads and rotors. You know, sometimes

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Speaker 2: guys are lazy, right, there's nothing wrong with what we did.

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Speaker 2: This guy's out of his mind. Have they heard the noise?

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Speaker 2: Because in all truthfulness, yet, breaks shouldn't make noise backing up,

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Speaker 2: And usually this is going to come down to this

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Speaker 2: is either a compound issue. This is a break shim.

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Speaker 2: One of the little shims that the pad sits on

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Speaker 2: in the caliper bracket is sitting a little too far

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Speaker 2: inward and it's rubbing against the rotor or do we

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Speaker 2: have a rotor? You know, depending upon how the we're

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Speaker 2: backing plates are, Are they rusted? Are they do we

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Speaker 2: have a rotor rubbing on the inside face? And then

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Speaker 2: after you start going forward at shifts and the noise

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Speaker 2: goes away. So you know, you got to look at things,

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Speaker 2: all right, If you gently apply your foot on the brake,

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Speaker 2: put a little brake pedal on it, okay, and gently

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Speaker 2: put on some pressure, does the noise go away? If

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Speaker 2: it does, that tells me I'm into something. Contact pad shim, pressure,

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Speaker 2: load the clip, all right, something along those lines. But

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Speaker 2: breaks shouldn't make noise when they're you know, when we're

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Speaker 2: backing up. Could it be that we didn't clean the

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Speaker 2: rotor properly during assembly? Yeah, it's possible, although a lot

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Speaker 2: of the roads available today, they come with I won't

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Speaker 2: say cosmoline, but they'll come with a coating on them

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Speaker 2: that we don't even wipe them off anymore. There, and

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Speaker 2: actually a lot of the rotors today you'll find in

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Speaker 2: the aftermarket. If this is an aftermarket break repair, they're

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Speaker 2: putting a gray coating on there that actually helps the

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Speaker 2: pad the seat. So you know, I but there's something

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Speaker 2: more here that they're not telling you, Thomas, breaks shouldn't

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Speaker 2: make noise like that, And I think you've either got

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Speaker 2: to go back to them or go to a secondary

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Speaker 2: mechanic and get another opinion, because if these are the

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Speaker 2: guys that did the breaks, they may want to admit, hey,

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Speaker 2: there's something wrong, and you know they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 2: do what they have to do. So I just point

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Speaker 2: a contention, Yeah there's something wrong there. I'm betting it's

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Speaker 2: either assembly or the quality of the break pad itself. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's go to Clara in Virginia. Eleven Kia and a

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Speaker 2: multitude of lights on Clara. How can I help Ron

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Speaker 2: and Andian at your service?

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Speaker 4: Hi, Ron, I can't tell you how happy I am

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Speaker 4: to speak with you. I've listened to you for so

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Speaker 4: many years. Thank you, my my sportage. The dash lights

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Speaker 4: dim while I'm driving almost almost out, I mean, I

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Speaker 4: can still see them that they're very they're very dim.

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Speaker 4: And I don't drive much at night, so I don't

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Speaker 4: know how long this has been happening.

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Speaker 2: Do they do they start dim? And do they start

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Speaker 2: bright and then go dim? Clara? Or is it okay?

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Speaker 4: They start bright like oh okay, and then halfway down

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Speaker 4: the road they're dim?

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Speaker 2: All right? Have you tried playing with you know, there's

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Speaker 2: that riastat, that that illumination knob. Have you tried playing

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Speaker 2: with that knob to see if changing that changes the brightness?

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Speaker 4: I'm honestly, Ron, I've only had this car a few

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Speaker 4: months and I can't find.

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Speaker 2: That all right, it's there somewhere. I don't remember where

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Speaker 2: it is off the top of my head. But I've

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Speaker 2: never seen I've never seen anything keys included where they

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Speaker 2: don't have some sort of dash illumination. And it may

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Speaker 2: just be that, you know, maybe there's a bad spot

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Speaker 2: in that riastat and cycling it will help clean it up,

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Speaker 2: or cycling it will prove you know what I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to do. Is is it a problem in the switch

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Speaker 2: or is it a problem in the dashboard itself?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: Well, because I have three issues with lights on the

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Speaker 4: dash I'm wondering if I've got.

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Speaker 2: Some cluster problem, what other lights do you have.

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Speaker 4: On the heat direction? My heater stays on even if

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Speaker 4: I turned the heater off. Okay, light stays illuminated on

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Speaker 2: Panel never well, but that's that's in the panel above,

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Speaker 2: that's in the center stack, that's in the center console

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Speaker 2: right right, okay. And then what's the third condition you've got?

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Speaker 4: That one is my tire pressure light which comes on,

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Speaker 4: you know, flashes at first, and then it stays constant.

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Speaker 4: And I've had all four tire sensors changed, all right.

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Speaker 2: So when they changed them, did they at least test

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Speaker 2: to see do they read properly? Or did they just

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Speaker 2: change them?

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Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you that. I know that I had

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Speaker 4: to take it to the Kia dealer because they had

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Speaker 4: the computer to test them or to re.

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Speaker 2: Looking for yes, right, And and did the dealer actually

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Speaker 2: do the TPMs work?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay? And what did they say as a result they

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Speaker 2: put four sensors in it, they said, they came out

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Speaker 2: and they said, hey, Clara, your sensors are bad. We've

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Speaker 2: got to put sensors in it. And you said, sure,

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Speaker 2: go ahead, And five hundred dollars later, you've got four

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Speaker 2: sensors and you've still got a dashlight on. And what

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Speaker 2: did they say to that?

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Speaker 4: Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Oh, come on, they can't say nothing. That's that's that's said.

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Speaker 4: They've done all that they could. That these that something.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Did you have to pay for this?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank goodness.

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Speaker 2: So they didn't charge you, but they put four sensors

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Speaker 2: in it.

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Speaker 4: Correct. Do you have a regular I hope they did.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a regular mechanic?

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Speaker 4: I haven't gone back to the regular mechanic since my Ford,

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Speaker 4: my Ford escape, which I heard you a few weeks

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Speaker 4: block it was that was causing.

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Speaker 2: Right, they had gas get issues.

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Speaker 4: Right, Well, that's what happened to my Ford.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'll tell you what, Clara, Sit tight a minute.

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Speaker 2: Let me pull over, take this pause. When we come back,

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Speaker 2: we'll finish up. I'm running any and the car doctor.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you guys on the other side. Don't go away, Clara,

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Speaker 2: you're still there, sweetheart, all right? Let me make you

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Speaker 2: a mechanic. All right, how many houses are on your street? Okay,

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Speaker 2: so you're one of the fifteen and you've got at

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Speaker 2: least three houses around you. Each house has a unique address, right,

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Speaker 2: don't tell don't tell me your address. But each house

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Speaker 2: didn't have a unique address, and you couldn't identify which

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Speaker 3: Right, correct?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you're the tire pressure computer on your car.

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Speaker 2: You with me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right?

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Speaker 2: You know which house is which because you look at

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Speaker 2: the number on the house twenty two twenty seven thirty five. Right,

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Speaker 2: you know who's left front, right, front, left, rear, right rear. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: makes sense? Yeah, okay. If you didn't know who was who,

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Speaker 2: you would start to blink because you would be an overload.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, where am I going? And who is it?

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Speaker 2: A tire pressure computer does the exact same thing. The

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Speaker 2: It's confused, it doesn't know where to go, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: know who's there, it doesn't recognize. Now that's gonna happen

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Speaker 2: either because you've got the house, isn't there somebody came

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Speaker 2: they're supposed to the house address is supposed to be

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Speaker 2: it's programmed incorrectly and it won't see it. You as

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Speaker 2: the tire computer. No where twenty two, twenty three, twenty

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Speaker 2: four and twenty five is. And if somebody slips in

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Speaker 2: a twenty seven or twenty eight, No, that's not for me.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. That's not I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna and you start to blink. Does that make sense?

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Speaker 4: Well it does, except they couldn't seem to fix it.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we can't. We listen. Just because you're the

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Speaker 2: deal it doesn't mean you're smart, all right, So come on,

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Speaker 2: let's come on. You know how many cars I get it?

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Speaker 2: You know what, Let's let's not put faith in the

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Speaker 2: fact that somebody's a dealer makes them the absolute be

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Speaker 2: all and end all that that that doesn't that doesn't

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Speaker 2: jive right, all right. So if you have a regular

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Speaker 2: look to see are the houses at their right address?

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Speaker 2: If he looks in the computer and he sees twenty three,

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Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, and he goes around

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Speaker 2: it's got the sensors that it's seeing, and it recognizes

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Speaker 2: them and they're recorded in the tire computer. Maybe there's

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Speaker 2: a problem with that tire module itself. I could accept that, Hey,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to put a tire pressure module forever,

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Speaker 2: how many hundreds or thousands of dollars it is in

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Speaker 2: a twelve year old, thirteen year old vehicle. I get that.

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Speaker 2: But to hand you back the keys and go, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we can't fix your car later you're out. Oh, come on,

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Speaker 2: that's ridiculous. Something's wrong with this story. The tire pressure

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Speaker 2: problem is the easiest of this bunch to diagnose from

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Speaker 2: my seat here, all right, because that can be verified

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Speaker 2: with some basic tools. And I would say ninety percent

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Speaker 2: of the shops out there if they're doing tire pressure work.

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Speaker 2: This is a twenty eleven automobile. This is an old

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Speaker 2: car to us. If you don't have a tire pressure

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean yes it does. I'm just wondering with

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Speaker 4: you know, with multiple things happening, am I facing some

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Speaker 2: You could be. But that's why I'm going to break

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Speaker 2: it down for you. So that's how I want to

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Speaker 2: approach the tire pressure problem. The the heater control light

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Speaker 2: that's always lit up? Okay, y, does the car have

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Speaker 2: a dead battery issue? Have you ever gone out to

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Speaker 4: Once about six weeks ago?

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Speaker 2: Okay? And what did they say was the cause of that?

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Speaker 2: Had you left something on?

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Speaker 4: Is the I believe that I had left. I believe

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Speaker 2: Because it hasn't happened since. Right.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I'm not even a hesitation.

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Speaker 2: So the heater control that's always on, is it just

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Speaker 2: showing everything in the off position? But it's just lit up.

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Speaker 4: Everything's in the off position. There's an actual off button.

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Speaker 3: For my r.

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Speaker 2: But if you turn the heater on, does it show

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Speaker 2: the corresponding reaction to your action? If you turn the

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Speaker 2: three and so on. Yes, okay, So is that I

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Speaker 2: propose to you. Is that center heater control display showing correctly?

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Speaker 2: It's just that the dash is so dim you don't realize.

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Speaker 2: You know, the heater control is supposed to be that lit,

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Speaker 2: but the dashboard itself has a dimming problem and it

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Speaker 2: just looks odd as a result. You think that this

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Speaker 4: That possible?

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Speaker 2: Right? So good, we just eliminated problem number two. Right,

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Speaker 2: there's a logical reason for all of this, is my point. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Now let's go. Let's go to the dashboard. Does the

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Speaker 2: Nobody ever reads it. It's it's, you know, next next

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Speaker 2: to the Bible. The Owner's Manual is the most underread

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Speaker 2: if it see if it finds dash illumination. There's got

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Speaker 2: illumination of that dash cluster. And if not, after you

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Speaker 2: get answers to TPMs with a good mechanic, call me

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Speaker 2: fix the dash cluster knowing the age of the car

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Speaker 2: for what it is. But first things first, fix the TPMs.

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Speaker 2: I'm running any in the car, doctor, Clara. I enjoyed

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Speaker 2: our time. I'll be back after this.

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Speaker 4: From the city streets to the open road.

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Speaker 2: Na, babe riding needs here, Ron.

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Speaker 5: We'll keep you rolling right.

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Speaker 6: He's a car doctor, doctor, car in.

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Speaker 2: Bad right, Thanks? Boys, nice and mellow. I like the

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Speaker 2: way we kind of zinged our way in there. Let's

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Speaker 2: go over to Tom and Warwick twenty three Kia. Tom,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Tom?

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Speaker 6: Is Alan?

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Speaker 2: Alan?

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Speaker 6: We got the name wrong.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. He's got it wrong. What's up, Alan?

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Speaker 2: How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 6: My daughter's got a twenty three Kia. She bought it.

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Speaker 6: News she's down in Florida and right now she's got

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Speaker 6: fifty one thousand miles on us. And did she bought it?

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Speaker 6: She took it to the dealer for the first two

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Speaker 6: while changes, which is like seven thousand miles eat between them. Whatever, right,

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Speaker 6: And so now she's going to a place it's a

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Speaker 6: said it was a bad oil felt was leaking. Shure.

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Speaker 6: They're supposed to be coming out tomorrow to clean the

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, I

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Speaker 2: think that's a cartridge style oil filter. It goes in

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Speaker 2: But anyway, go ahead. So all right, so they got

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Speaker 2: an oil leak and they fix that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but she says, to find out, she goes into

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Speaker 6: the oil change. She says, they do everything from the top.

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Speaker 6: I said, what do you mean from the top. She goes, yeah,

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Speaker 6: they suck the oil out from the top.

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Speaker 2: Right, So they're not pulling the drain plug.

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Speaker 6: No, she said she was. They told her that the

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Speaker 6: corny Keys have a bad drain plug and they always leak.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well guess what the way they're doing it, it

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let's let's call it like it is.

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Speaker 2: But she went to the dealer twice with no problems.

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Speaker 6: So as she did, she has a receipt where they

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Speaker 6: replaced the gasket on the what are your ring on

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Speaker 6: a dream bluger?

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, so.

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Speaker 6: So something something's telling me now that they kind of

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Speaker 2: Right, I would agree with that, So she's gonna have

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Speaker 2: to go back to the dealer. What I would tell

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Speaker 2: her to do, Alan is go back to the dealer,

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Speaker 2: tell the story. Hey, you know, and you got to

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Speaker 2: kind of say this nice. We don't want to insult

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Speaker 2: the dealer, but it was just more convenient. I went

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Speaker 2: to a quick loop. Here's what happened, right, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: can you can you change my oil and tell me

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Speaker 2: are the are the threads on the oil pan? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Is the drain plug? Okay? Just you know what exactly

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Speaker 2: is going on here?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: The the problem is, you know, and and I hate

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Speaker 2: to say this because it condemns a quick glob industry.

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Speaker 2: But the quick loops don't. They're not repair shops. They're

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Speaker 2: quick loobs, all right. And you know what we see,

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Speaker 2: We see and hear more concerns and complaints from quick

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Speaker 2: not an abnormal conversation, all right. I have this conversation

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Speaker 2: a lot.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It would it be easy for me to say, oh,

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Speaker 2: the quick globs are bad, no, because I think there's

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Speaker 2: know what they're doing. Obviously, where your daughter is, there's

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Speaker 2: a problem and they're trying to come up with an excuse.

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Speaker 2: I don't like to do an evacuation through the dipstick

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Speaker 2: tube as on a normal basis. There's a few cars.

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Speaker 2: There's a few cars we have that are really old

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Speaker 2: as customers twenty one car is an O five pt Cruiser,

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Speaker 2: and it would actually it would actually need a drain,

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Speaker 2: it would actually need an oil pan. And she's older,

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Speaker 2: she's on a budget, and we're just trying to help

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Speaker 2: she can't roll along in the car anymore. She'll be

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Speaker 2: ninety next month. Actually, and you know, we do an

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Speaker 2: an extra six years out of the car. Kind of

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Speaker 2: a different conversation. We're trying to match her budget. This

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Speaker 2: is a twenty three automobile. I don't like doing evacuations

438
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 2: long term. You know, there's that little bit of sentiment,

439
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 2: that little bit of crud down in the bottom of

440
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 2: the pan. You're just not going to get out. I

441
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 2: think training it is more efficient, you know. I think

442
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 2: I think you've hit it spot on. I think they've

443
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 2: I think they've created a problem and they don't want

444
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 2: to admit to it that you know, it's it's But

445
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 2: I would go back to the dealer and make that

446
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 2: the benchmark, and then she can decide does she want

447
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 2: to go back to the quick glube and have that

448
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 2: conversation afterwards, because maybe she just found a bad one

449
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 2: and she's got to go somewhere else.

450
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 6: Yes, I I wanted to get down the call, but

451
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 6: she's kind of hesitant to give their phone number to me.

452
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, sooner or later, they got to

453
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 2: stand on their own two feet. But she's got to

454
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 2: decide if she's if she wants to stand on her

455
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 2: own two feet, tell her to stop calling you and

456
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 2: asking for advice. Advice is advice. I can listen, I

457
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 2: can be as brutal as you want me to be,

458
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 2: but I think the real issue here is, you know,

459
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 2: she did take it somewhere. They did make a mistake,

460
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 2: they did do a problem, and you know they've got

461
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 2: to deal with it. So uh, you know, let her

462
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 2: go back to the dealer. Let her go back to

463
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: the dealer and do what she's got to do, and

464
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 2: see what they say and see how they handle it.

465
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 6: And you can kind of kind of what I told

466
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 6: her to do too.

467
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 3: Right.

468
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 2: It's it's right because you know, a twenty three kiya

469
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,360
Speaker 2: is far too new that you know. Listen, I say

470
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 2: it all the time and it sounds kind of negative,

471
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 2: but there's an incompetence everywhere, and you just got to

472
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: expect everybody until they prove otherwise that maybe they're an idiot.

473
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 2: And you know, that's just the way it is. It's

474
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 2: just Tom and I talk about this all the time

475
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 2: on the automobile side of things, on the radio side

476
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 2: of life engineering. You know, we see it everywhere. It's

477
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 2: it's you know, there's a reason most of us go

478
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 2: around shaking our heads going, oh my god. And you know,

479
00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: here's an example of it.

480
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 3: Right.

481
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 6: She said that they already have three complaints against them, so.

482
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, here's number four. So it's it's you know,

483
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 2: all the more reason it's it's this is this is

484
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 2: exactly why I say it's time to have a relationship

485
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 2: with a mechanic somebody can count on and trust, because

486
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 2: obviously these guys aren't it. Alan, I got to move along,

487
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: but good, look to your daughter and have yourself a

488
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 2: good happy New Year, you too, all right? Be well,

489
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 2: Ron and any and the car doctor eight five five

490
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 2: five six oh nine nine zero zero. I'll be back

491
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 2: right after this. Less, keep it going. Let's go over

492
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 2: to Ron in Illinois, twelve Silverado. Ron, Welcome to the

493
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 2: car Doctor. What's going on?

494
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you for taking my call.

495
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: Appreciate it well, iome, sir, what's going on?

496
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 3: Well?

497
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,439
Speaker 7: I have a twenty twelve Chevy pickup. Last winter, as

498
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 7: soon as it's darter getting cold, the battery would intermittently dying.

499
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 7: No primary reason is totally a haphazard jump pack. One start,

500
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 7: I had to jump it from another vehicle, had it

501
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 7: to a couple of different shops to look at and

502
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,479
Speaker 7: replaced batteries twice. Since then ran great over the summer,

503
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 7: and the problem started to gain in December since we

504
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 7: started getting cold again.

505
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: Okay, and when it's when it's dead, when it won't

506
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 2: start the note jump pack thing does but doesn't mean

507
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 2: anything to me because it's just you know, how big

508
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 2: is the jump pack? We could talk about you know,

509
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 2: what's the what's the reserve capacity of that? How dead

510
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: is this battery? Because what it sounds like you're gonna

511
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 2: go up to this this battery when it doesn't start

512
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 2: if you turn on the headlights, do you have headlights?

513
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's completely dead noe half lights no uh, signal

514
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 7: bells on the inside. Other times it'll start to turn

515
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 7: over but won't.

516
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 2: Go all the way right, So you've got a random

517
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: electrical draw which prep right, it's it's you know this

518
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 2: is this is one of the hardest things in the

519
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: world to find because you know it's it's it's random.

520
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 2: There's there's no rhyme or reason any add on accessories

521
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: with this vehicle.

522
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 3: No, they're completely stock.

523
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 2: Any in any cases of interior dome light staying on?

524
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 2: Is there an after is there an There is no

525
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 2: after market alarm. This is a factory, this is a

526
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: it's it's it's untouched, no add on accessories, no.

527
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 7: Add on accessories. Never seen the dome light come on.

528
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 7: Everything seems to be functioning with the normal limits. As

529
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 7: a matter of fact, just the other day I grove

530
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 7: with for six hours, parked it for four or five hours,

531
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 7: it was dead, grobed for ten minutes, and it started

532
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 7: again immediately thereafter. So just completely haphazard.

533
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 2: Okay, you know the problem is, and I've seen this

534
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: with this generation Silverado from the tens to about the fourteens,

535
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 2: and it's a combination of fuse box, body module, there's

536
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 2: an interface module that that's known to have issues where

537
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: it'll just stay on electrically and it'll keep it active.

538
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 2: So you know, it's it's it's a tough one, it

539
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 2: really is. I'm not gonna lie to you. I would

540
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 2: be willing to bet that if you went out there

541
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 2: when it didn't start and put a voltmeter on that battery,

542
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 2: it's going to show less than ten volts, right.

543
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 7: It just it's because I've done that and like to nine.

544
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: Right, So this battery is just for some reason this

545
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 2: battery is dead. And you've looked at cables, You've looked

546
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 2: at cable ends. There's no chance this is a poor contact,

547
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 2: poor connection. This is a legitimate dead battery, like something drew.

548
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: It down, exactly.

549
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 7: And I've even replaced batteries twice, upgrading each time.

550
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 2: It's not that, it's not that. What we've got to

551
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 2: do is we'd have to sit down and come up

552
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 2: with a way to monitor the battery. I'd like to

553
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 2: catch this in the act right such that I know

554
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: when the draw is happening, that it's it's still active,

555
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 2: it's still you know. I'd be willing to bet that

556
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 2: once you get this to restart, what do you do

557
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 2: when you do restart it? Do you let it charge

558
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: the battery and then it's okay for a couple of

559
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: weeks exactly?

560
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 7: Matter of fact, just a couple of weeks ago, it

561
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 7: was dead after running for I say, six seven hours.

562
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 7: I drove it for ten minutes, and the batteries recharged

563
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 7: after a ten minute driving a ramp. Fine for the

564
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 7: next five or six days.

565
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: Right, is there a plow on this truck? No? Okay?

566
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: Is there a trailer hitch on this truck?

567
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 7: No?

568
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 2: Okay, it's there's no hitch or it's not active. It's

569
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: not active, Okay, just for giggles, can we go back

570
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: to the plug that's not active and make sure it's

571
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 2: stored away nice and neat and there's no chance of

572
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 2: us contamination between terminals causing a random short.

573
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 7: It's possible, but it's integral build into the bumper from

574
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 7: the factory.

575
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, and you're not and you're not and you're

576
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: not using it. Well, yeah, all that is is though,

577
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: that's just that's just the plug that they've got in there.

578
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: But if you look at it from underneath, from the back,

579
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 2: and I'm always concerned, right, I always think about the

580
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: trailer hitch coming in from the back, because as you

581
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: travel down the road, where does all the road slop

582
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: and junk from the road go, It hits the back

583
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 2: bumper and it beats up that trailer plug. Something fierce.

584
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 3: Interesting. Consider that.

585
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm just I'm just trying to look for

586
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: the weird. As a matter of fact, follow that trailer

587
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: hitch harness up over the crossrail where the spare tire sits,

588
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: and there's a I believe there's a module up there

589
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 2: for the twelves. That has to do with the trailer

590
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: hitch too. And if you're not, you in the trailer

591
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: hitch and it's the module I'm thinking of, I've unplugged them,

592
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: and I've solved the problem.

593
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it.

594
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking for that random because this is

595
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 2: either a harness that's exposed to whether that's got corrosion

596
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 2: in it, or this is an actual electronic component that

597
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 2: won't shut off. And the only other the only other

598
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 2: thing I can do is break down the wiring harness.

599
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: Go to the ignition switch, look at the feed coming

600
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 2: into the ignition switch, figure out which wire is which

601
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: wire in a bulb, so that I know when I

602
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: turn the key off, that bulb is out. If that

603
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: bulb is still litting the keys in my hand, that's

604
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 2: the moment when I have the draw. And then at

605
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 2: that point I can start to either go at it

606
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 2: with a heat gun looking to see what's showing me

607
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 2: still warm or hot, or start or start popping fuses

608
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: one by one.

609
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: But but that's definitely worth looking at.

610
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: Go go for the trailer hitch first and start. You know,

611
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: we're looking for something bulged in the way of the

612
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 2: wiring harness. No signs of animal intrusion anywhere.

613
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 7: No sign of animal no, not, not what I've seen

614
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 7: at all. Could with the cold weather means a contraction.

615
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: Of the metal. Could that have anything to do with it?

616
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 7: Because it runs great anytime it's above twenty degrees?

617
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: It could? Or is it? Is it moisture or temperature related?

618
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: Do we get do we get more snow and rain

619
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: and that's when it happens? Or is it strictly cold?

620
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 3: Strictly strictly temperature?

621
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 7: Okay, it ran, It ran great from March through November.

622
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 2: You don't have a heated garage by chance?

623
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: To I do not?

624
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 2: It might be a reason to get one, you know me,

625
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 2: I'm always looking for an excuse to put my vehicles

626
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: in warm conditions. But you know, I start I start

627
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: to think about that. But cold stuff, man, that's the

628
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 2: opposite of what we usually see. Usually it's warm. But

629
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 2: yet is something cold when it's cold? Does it contract

630
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: causing the condition? And then I'm going to start to

631
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 2: think about switches, right, I could have a bad ignition switch.

632
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: This could be a bad ignition switch, a cold bad

633
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: ignition switch that contracts and causes circuits to be activated

634
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 2: and starts pulling on things. And you know that's why

635
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 2: I say trailer hitch wiring. First, Then let's talk about,

636
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: you know, splitting the circuit at the ignition switch and

637
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 2: wiring in a bulb to tell us do we have

638
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: do we have something active when we're not supposed to?

639
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 2: Is that bullblit? Do those two things? Ron? Call me back,

640
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 2: we can talk about it further. Send me the vin

641
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: Ron at cardoctorshow dot com. I'll come up with the

642
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: wiring diagram for you so you know what you're chasing

643
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: as far as ignition switch was, and then we can

644
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: talk further about it next week or the week after

645
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 2: a five five, five, six oh nine nine zero zero

646
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: run on eating the car doctor. Coming back right to this.

647
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 2: Did you ever stand behind the counter of a repair

648
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: shop and talk to the people when they call? It's

649
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 2: an interesting time, it really is. The phone rang this week.

650
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 2: I've got a fourteen buick that needs a water pump.

651
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: Can you tell me how much? And when can I

652
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: bring it in? Well, I don't know, it's Tuesday or

653
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: Wednesday before New Year's it's New Year's Eve. It's you know,

654
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Speaker 2: and it's so hard, you know, it's so hard to

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Speaker 2: give out quotes over the phone because you don't know

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Speaker 2: what you're looking at, really, because you're counting on the

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Speaker 2: person that's asking you to know. And you know, the

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Speaker 2: first thought that goes through my mind is always what's

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Speaker 2: wrong with the mechanic that's been working on it up

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Speaker 2: till now? You know, there's this thought process in my

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Speaker 2: head the last couple of seven or eight years, ten years,

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Speaker 2: who's been working on the car up till this point.

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Speaker 2: What did they do that annoy you that you didn't

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Speaker 2: want to bring it back to them? And why are

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Speaker 2: you calling around looking at pricing? Because I think pricing

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Speaker 2: tends to get you in trouble. Pricing tends to get

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Speaker 2: you possibly the lower caliber of mechanic that's you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe he's got time to stand there and do price

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Speaker 2: quotes over the phone, And that opens up a whole

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Speaker 2: nother can of worms for me in my head. If

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Speaker 2: the guy's got time to do quotes over the phone,

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Speaker 2: is it because he's slow, because he's not fixing cars,

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Speaker 2: because he's not really good at it? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think I think phone quotes are kind of a

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Speaker 2: waste of time. I think the better approaches. Hey, my

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Speaker 2: car is leaking any freeze? When can you look at it?

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Speaker 2: I think that's the way we're going to look at

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Speaker 2: it going into the new year, and I encourage you

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Speaker 2: to do the same. I'm ronning Andy and the car

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Speaker 2: doctor till the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 2: See you, doctor. Car advice to write