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Speaker 1: Couldn't you just put cheaper oil in it? It stop

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Speaker 1: contact me through the shop text email system on a

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Speaker 1: weekend and say, Ron, I'm stuck. Welcome to the radio

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Speaker 1: home of Ron and an Ian the Car Doctor, since

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Speaker 1: this is where car owners the world over turned to

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: here to take your call at eight five five five six,

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Speaker 1: actually learned from their mistakes or they just keep making

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Speaker 1: I think they do. I just think they don't care.

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Speaker 1: Volkswagen back in the sixties and the seventies, and probably

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Speaker 1: for as long as they've been around Volkswagen Beetles, and yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: don't get this. They put the battery into the back seat.

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Speaker 1: So if you look at an old Beetle, all right,

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why I'm ranting about a fifty

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Speaker 1: out first because all the battery acid collected and just

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Speaker 1: rotted through the sheet metal. So if the battery didn't

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Speaker 1: the car. Now, sometimes the battery event to which didn't

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Speaker 1: an O eight Volkswagen touring this week? Now, you would

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Speaker 1: get smarter. Nope, not Volkswagen. You know where they put

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Speaker 1: the battery on a Volkswagen turg You want to guess.

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Speaker 1: It's not under the back seat, it's under the driver's seat.

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Speaker 1: Swall you Volkswagen tourg owners out there that are driving around,

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Speaker 1: you're sitting on top of forty pounds of lead and acid.

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Speaker 1: Which how can I say this? You know, God forbid

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Speaker 1: forty five pounds of acid and lead that could end

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Speaker 1: up on top of you. Because I don't see how

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Speaker 1: the little plastic case that they put it in is

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Speaker 1: I don't think there is any logic. I'm sure there's

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Speaker 1: We had a change one this week and changing it.

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Speaker 1: Holy con unbolt the front seat. Tilt the front seat

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Speaker 1: since you're changing the battery, that's dead. You now have

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Speaker 1: because that's always made the last And get down to

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of work. And whoever does it right?

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Speaker 1: It's two guys. It's a two man gig. One guy

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Speaker 1: just don't understand what are they thinking, and they're not thinking,

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Speaker 1: and that's the problem. So the next time you go

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Speaker 1: And you know, the next time you go to buy

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Speaker 1: Ask the guy still working on cars, Ask the guy

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's safety. But for me, a battery under the

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some of the stupid things from

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Speaker 1: the other car companies today too. This is the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: I am Ron and any in the phone numbers eight

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Speaker 1: five five five zero nine nine zero zero. Let's kick

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Speaker 1: the garage doors open. Let's go to Rex in Arizona

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Speaker 1: fifty Rex, Welcome aboard, sir, How can I help? All right? Ron,

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Speaker 1: I have a seven point five and seventy it wait,

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Speaker 1: wait for it just just just broken in, brother, keep

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Speaker 1: it going, Uh, yeah, I bet go ahead. Okay, she's

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Speaker 1: it would still intermittently give me trouble. I went and

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Speaker 1: did all the grounds, clean the grounds out. That helped

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Speaker 1: the tumbler the ignition tumbler, which an afford is really simple.

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Speaker 1: But now it's getting worse, and it's taken longer and

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Speaker 1: more more flips back and forth. And I've even changed

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Speaker 1: the tumblers, the old tumbled a new tumbler back and forth,

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Speaker 1: got three things I want you to do, all right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: The vehicle power reference or the vpw R circuit for

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Speaker 1: That's also vehicle reference voltage or vehicle power voltage for

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Speaker 1: have vehicle power voltage? There? As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: if you're a regular listener, just just wire in a

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Speaker 1: side marker bulb. You know what market bulb is, those

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Speaker 1: that truck doesn't start, is that bull blit? If that's lit. Good,

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Speaker 1: next thing. Vehicle reference voltage at the TPM. At the

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Speaker 1: white wire has to be five vaults four point nine,

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Speaker 1: not so good? All right? Last thing? Do you know

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Speaker 1: what the spout connector is? You know, for the condition

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Speaker 1: control module when you set timing? No, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what that is. There's a little there's a little square

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Speaker 1: It's taped up by the distributor. How do you set

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Speaker 1: unplugged the spout all right, which is a spark output tab?

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Speaker 1: All right, unplugged that doesn't have spark. Do those three

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Speaker 1: very welcome. Talk to you soon. Zero zero zero running

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Speaker 1: So listen, I want to play a game. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: in your nine geo prism? Hi, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: My my car, I had the ignition coil replaced several

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Speaker 1: Because as the car would not start, it would turn over,

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Speaker 1: admission client. Okay. Was the car jump started at all?

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Speaker 1: The car starts and everything every day right now, I'm

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Speaker 1: But but but but even then, Pamela, even then, Usually

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Speaker 1: If the radio is being provided with power and ground,

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Speaker 1: it much work to get to the back of the radio, Well,

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00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: I'm sure they can do it under an hour. It's not.

425
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: It's not two minutes. It's something you're gonna have to

426
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,120
Speaker 1: leave the car for, you know, if if, if that's

427
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: your concern, you know, but listen, it's it's it's cheaper

428
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 1: to fix it than it is to replace it. As

429
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: long as the car is in good overall condition, even

430
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,919
Speaker 1: though it's twenty seven years old. I'm sure it's, you know,

431
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: worthwhile to do. You gotta have a radio unless unless

432
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 1: you learned to hump? Can you hump? Pamela? You want

433
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: to give us a sample? No? No, all right, well

434
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: I want to look into that. Thank you so much.

435
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. You'd be well, let's get on over

436
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: and talk to Kurt in Arizona. Yeah, Kurt ron eating

437
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: the car doctor at your service, sir, how can I help? Hey?

438
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: Ron Uh talked to you a couple of weeks ago.

439
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: I was working on a military jeep and a jeep

440
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: of a question after we hung up a jeep jeep.

441
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 1: It's a it's a called the mutt m one. The

442
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: engines actually made by Ford. Um, it's the nineteen seventies roughly,

443
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: it's when they made him. And it's got a little

444
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: forebanger in there, and it's geared fairly low top speeds

445
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: about fifty five um. When I pick it up to

446
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: the mountain, I tow it behind the vehicle. I just

447
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: put it newtral And to it. And I've been told

448
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: I wanted to see if this is correct that I

449
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: shouldn't sew it any faster, then I would actually be

450
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,879
Speaker 1: able to drive it because it will mess up gears

451
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: and such. Who can make sense to you at all?

452
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: Who told you that, Uh, it's been a lie? I

453
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: can't remember. I'm not sure if they know what they're

454
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: talking about, you know. And I've got a couple of

455
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: comments about this, but I always, I always go back

456
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: to who said it? All right? You know, it's because

457
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: it's funny how hearsay starts to spread. You know, it's

458
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: an old game of telephone we used to play back

459
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 1: when we were kids, and you know, it started at

460
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: this corner of the room and it comes around the

461
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: other side and it changes so drastically. Why I would

462
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: tell you it's unsafe to tow it faster than its

463
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: rated speed is I'm sure Ford had or whoever designed

464
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: the vehicle for the military, whoever you know why it

465
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 1: has a top rated speed of fifty Is it because

466
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: of gearing, tire size, vehicle stability, the need to go faster?

467
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: You know, if you tote it at seventy five miles

468
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: an hour, let's just say it's free wheeling. Let's you know,

469
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: let's have that conversation. It's in neutral you're you're turning

470
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: propeller shafts. But it doesn't matter. You know, we don't

471
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: have to worry about lack of lubrication or a dry

472
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: some system or something that's being affected, which I'll assume

473
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: we don't have that issue because you can flat tow

474
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: it without disconnecting anything. My concern would be at sixty

475
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: five miles an hour, is there an instability issue that

476
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: they only wanted to allow the vehicle to go fifty

477
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: five in the first place. I think it's mainly just

478
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 1: because the engine and they just didn't have enough power,

479
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: just because of the gearing, right, just because of the gearing.

480
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: And you know, again, are you turning I don't see

481
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: where turning the gears, turning the axles. If you're freewheeling

482
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: the transit, the transit in neutral, there's nothing going on there.

483
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: You're turning the input shaft. Um, you know how fast

484
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: are you're gonna tell it? Kurt? I mean we're in

485
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 1: a drag race to get somewhere you're gonna do. You're

486
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: gonna do eighty miles an hour? You just want to

487
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: be able to do sixty? Um, yeah, I don't. I

488
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: don't think sixty five is going to be an issue.

489
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: But my concern would be towing something that it sounds

490
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: like a pretty big vehicle. I'm not familiar with this.

491
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: Um just how big this is? But again the extra

492
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: weight at sixty five? How stable is it? And how

493
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: well can you slow it down? What are you telling

494
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: it with suburban? It's pretty small, vick Let's it's actually

495
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: smaller the regular jeep kind of like it looks a

496
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: lot like the old the old old jeeps. Okay, And

497
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: how far are you going to tow it? I mean,

498
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: you know, are we taking it two miles down the road?

499
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: Are we trying to go two hundred miles away? Now

500
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: we're telling it away to the mountains? Yeah, I don't

501
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: think twenty miles is gonna bother it, you know. And

502
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: if if you were going to tow it further than that,

503
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: common sense to me would dictate I'd buy a flatbed

504
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: trailer and tow it on that, because why would I

505
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: want to put the extra miles on the drive train

506
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: of the rare mility very vehicle. Yeah, that's true. So

507
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: side you can always use a flatbed trailer, and it's

508
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: an excuse to go buy something. We have to look

509
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: for excuses. He who collects the most toys wins at

510
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: the end. Just remember that. So I've got too many,

511
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: I'm winning so far. Well we'll have to have a

512
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,719
Speaker 1: contest one day, all right, sir, I gotta go. All right,

513
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: but I appreciate the cold. Thank you. You're very welcome.

514
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: You'll be well. I'm running any of the Car Doctor

515
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: zero zero coming back right after this. Welcome back, running

516
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. You know, they've got books

517
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: on everything today, it seems, And I'm just letting you know, Tom,

518
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: you're any good books lately. I'm reading one now on

519
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: the Nissan Z car, Fifty Years of Performance by Pete Evan.

520
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: Now there's a forward in here by Mr Hiroshi Tamura,

521
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: which excellent. I was gonna say, I just uh, I

522
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: just read the recent Stephen King book and this could

523
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: have been written by Stephen. Well, you know, this is

524
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: the kind of thing a car guy reads. I mean,

525
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it's neat. It tells the whole

526
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: story of where the you know, the Z cars came from,

527
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: their whole history. Fifty years um passed not Gods can't

528
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: believe it's fifty years these cars are around, but it

529
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: sort of tells the the beginning of where Nissan started

530
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: and how it came here, and um, just a good book.

531
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: You know. Maybe um, you know, Tom, maybe we'll give

532
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: this away, not not this week, but um, I'll keep

533
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: it clean and we'll give it out to a consumer,

534
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: to a customer or a listener or whatever they are. Uh. Um,

535
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: So let me put that on the side. Remind me

536
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: of that in the next week or two. Um. So,

537
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: which story you want to hear about. I'll tell you

538
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: about the Toyota raf for because this is kind of

539
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: a you know, this is something I think everybody can

540
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: relate to, and it's sort of it's sort of screw.

541
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: We had a we had a Toyota raft for a

542
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: thirteen raft four in this week that had a tire

543
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: pressure light on. Now about a year ago. The person

544
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: that owned the vehicle had taken it to a repair

545
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: shop and they had four tires put on and I

546
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: don't know why, but they changed the tire pressure sensors

547
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: through the original ones away. The tire pressure light was on.

548
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: After the customer left, I don't know what transpired, what

549
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: the conversation was, who said what We told him this

550
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: would fix it. That would fix it and so on.

551
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: But this guy's been driving around for a year with

552
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: a tire pressure light on. That to No. Three two

553
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: previous repair shops plus the original, so three all together

554
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: could not fix. The last shop that had it gave

555
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: it to us yesterday and said, we can't get this

556
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,239
Speaker 1: light to go out. We don't know what's wrong with

557
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: this car. Can you fix it? Yeah? I can fix anything.

558
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: I don't care, um basics, all right. First thing I

559
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: did was what research, You've got to read the problem?

560
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: You know what's there? Is there anything particular scanner for codes,

561
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 1: and had a Charlie initial registration failure fault in it,

562
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: which told me that the censors, even though they were

563
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: supposedly programmed, weren't either programmed properly or communicating with the

564
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: receiver to tell it that hey, we're here, all right.

565
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: So the interesting parton is what the initial diagnosis and

566
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: research told me was in model year Toyota RAV four,

567
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: there are three different protocol languages that the sensor speak.

568
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: There is and it depends on the part number of

569
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: what the original sensors that the original chop threw away.

570
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: So now I called up Toyota and I try to

571
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: find out what was the original part number of the

572
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: original sensor. Well, the part number they give me doesn't

573
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: correspond to the I D part number that would have

574
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: been on the sensor, So now I have to guess.

575
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: Because it was a top of the line wrap four,

576
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: I felt like it wasn't the first one that was

577
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: usually entry level, And for some reason, I said, I

578
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: don't think it's the last one. That would be too obvious.

579
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta listen to the universe, right. I picked

580
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: out the middle one, which corresponded to a five to

581
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: oh two oh part number on a sensor, and walked around,

582
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: reprogrammed it in proper protocol. We can do this wirelessly.

583
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: We have the tooling to do this so we don't

584
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: have to take the tires apart, and reprogrammed the correct

585
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,959
Speaker 1: protocol into the sensor. Then went around and did an

586
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: initial registration recording them, recording the the sensors and then

587
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: uploading them through the O B D two port. And

588
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: do you know what? The light went out? And the

589
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: point isn't you know? Gee, look at Ronnie fixed the car.

590
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: The point is everything is reparable. It just takes research

591
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: and diagnostics. It takes time, It takes the ability to

592
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: say to yourself, hey, I don't know the answer, but

593
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: i'm gonna go look it up and i'm gonna figure

594
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: it out. And that's exactly what we did. If I

595
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: can do it, you can do it. And there's a

596
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: guy out there with a Toyota Rev four and he's

597
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: real happy right now. So anyway, Zero, I thought it

598
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: was a good story. It was interesting. We were excited.

599
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: We fixed something that couldn't be fixed. Look at us,

600
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: We're almost mechanics. Starting Tuesday, were dating girls. I'll be

601
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: back right after this girl. You know when I talked

602
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: to you about fixing cars and what does it take?

603
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: All right? I think about one of the cars on

604
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: my list that I wanted to talk about this week,

605
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: the overcharging Mazda. All right, we had a Masda in

606
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: the shop this week, and oh six Moms, the three

607
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: series that had a battery light on the alternator had

608
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: recently been replaced and the battery lights stayed on. And

609
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but make the comparison I was. I

610
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: was reading an article on mitchell one mitchell one dot com,

611
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: the shirt track community fixed and talked about a charging

612
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: system on a Honda Pilot that had a similar problem

613
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: where they had somebody had changed the alternator and the

614
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: shop and desperation. They had gone through everything. They had

615
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: looked through wiring the e l D, which is the

616
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: electrical load um moderate moderator in the system. Because handa

617
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: uses an electrical load system to vary the alternator outputs,

618
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: they don't put a strain on the engine and so on,

619
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: and they replaced the alternator. Battery light was still on,

620
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: but a charge correctly, it was similar to this Mazda.

621
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: And in the end in the shirt track community fixed

622
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: they put another alternator on, but they used a different brand,

623
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: a better quality brand. And I was thinking about this

624
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Masda because the person that had done this themselves, they

625
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: had used the cheap part, and that cheap part created

626
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: the problem. As you guess. You know, when I tell

627
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: you to do something like by apart from O'Reilly oto

628
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: Parts or o'rillyoto dot com, the reason is because they

629
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: stand behind what they're selling and they've got the good stuff.

630
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: There's too much junk out there and the temptation of

631
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: buying parts online from just anybody, you know, you got

632
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: to think about it. And in the case of this Mazda,

633
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: the customer had to pay us to do the job

634
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: correctly because at that point they needed the car and

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