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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian.

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Speaker 2: There are times when in the shop, if you've done

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Speaker 2: your research, and you've done your diagnosis, and you've you've

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Speaker 2: done your due diligence, you got to take your best shot,

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Speaker 2: the car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: I already ordered the wires, okay, that was going to

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Speaker 3: put the me in that.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm going to change out the bugs too,

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Speaker 4: because it's such a half full pick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good for you. I'm glad. I'm glad you're on

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Speaker 2: the path, Mike, and I think if you stay with it,

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Speaker 2: you'll fix it and you'll be happy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Ananian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage. Do orders are open?

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Speaker 2: But I am here to take your call at eight

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Speaker 2: five five five six ninety nine hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: Running.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about this Buick regal

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Speaker 2: that I got an email about this week, and I

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Speaker 2: think it's pretty typical of what shops miss, all right,

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Speaker 2: And I hate to pick on a shop, but you know, listen,

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Speaker 2: not everybody. I don't know. We're throwing parts at it,

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Speaker 2: I think, and I've got to call him out on it.

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Speaker 2: I think they're missing a few things here. So I've

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Speaker 2: got this email and it starts off, you know, pretty simple,

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Speaker 2: comes to us from Eric. Eric rights in ron. I

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Speaker 2: enjoy the show. I'm a novice and do as much

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Speaker 2: as I can with my limited tool set. But I've

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Speaker 2: been helping out my son in law with his twenty

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Speaker 2: fifteen Buick. And he goes on to give a description.

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Speaker 2: It's a twenty fifteen Buick Regal two liter turbo with

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five thousand miles. Check engine light

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Speaker 2: came on about two months ago. He checked it with

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Speaker 2: a code reader. It had a P eleven oh one

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Speaker 2: fault code. They replaced the air filter in the mass

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Speaker 2: airflow sensor with no success. I hope there was some

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Speaker 2: testing involved there, Eric. If not, I would put things

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Speaker 2: back to where they were, you know, because we're changing parameters.

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Speaker 2: I hate changing parts without testing. Obviously it's a waste

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Speaker 2: of money and time. But the big actor is why

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Speaker 2: do you change something and you find out you put

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Speaker 2: a secondary problem into the vehicle Simply by changing a

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Speaker 2: part that well, I'll try this. Uh, you know, give

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Speaker 2: me a give me a diagnostic reason, and you know,

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Speaker 2: simple test. You got a scan tool, uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: and you need a scan tool to work on a

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Speaker 2: car today. I don't. I don't think that, you know,

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Speaker 2: And just having a code reader doesn't do it. All right,

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Speaker 2: let's talk high level indicator here. You think the mass

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Speaker 2: airflow sensor is a problem, all right, you think that's

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Speaker 2: going to be an issue? Tell me what the mass

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Speaker 2: airflow sensor is? Grams per second at idle. This is

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Speaker 2: a two leader. Guess what the number should be two grams?

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Speaker 2: Say two grams two point one, two point two, one

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Speaker 2: point eight, one point nine. I'm good with that, you know.

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Speaker 2: Is it three that's wrong? Is it one and a

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Speaker 2: half that's wrong? But you can eliminate gee, you know,

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Speaker 2: is it a mass airflow sensor right off the bat?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Of course you could do what you could do. We

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Speaker 2: could do a calculated load test. We could talk about that,

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Speaker 2: but I'd rather see you guys starting to do some

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Speaker 2: basic testing. You don't need a super expensive scan tool

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Speaker 2: if you want to get your feet wet it, all right,

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Speaker 2: and start out with you know, a generic OBD two

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Speaker 2: scan tool two hundred bucks three hundred tops five hundred

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Speaker 5: You're good, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we spend a lot of money on golf clubs,

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Speaker 2: baseball bats, football tickets, et cetera, et cetera. Can't we

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Speaker 2: spend a couple hundred bucks on a scan tool and

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Speaker 2: you know, stick around, tune in and I'll teach you

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Speaker 2: how to use it. They took it to a shop

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Speaker 2: he said, where TSB existed. Right, it was right, there's

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Speaker 2: so on. The TSB that you guys looked at, you

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Speaker 2: ring seal. But the shop, after talking to a GM hotline,

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Speaker 2: stated I need to replace the entire intercooler, as GM

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Speaker 2: doesn't just sell the O ring. Well yeah, but again,

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Speaker 2: pay grade. Eric, but the shop should have the ability

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Speaker 2: to test for air leaks. All right, there's more than

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Speaker 2: enough ways to do it. There's you know, if we

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Speaker 2: want to talk about what's at the top of the mountain,

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Speaker 2: let's get out to Redlinedetection dot Com. Let's go look

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Speaker 2: at the smoke machines. Redline Detection has. They make a

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Speaker 2: couple of smoke pro They make a speed smoke both

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Speaker 2: capable of doing evaporative emissions testing, which is a low

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Speaker 2: pressure test, and then an intake air duct test which

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Speaker 2: is turbocharger boost and so on, a high pressure test.

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Speaker 2: But for the sake of what's literally a five minute test,

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Speaker 2: fill the system with smoke. You see smoke coming out,

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Speaker 2: you have zero flow and so on. We're changing parts.

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Speaker 2: We're we're not even diagnosing, We're just throwing parts at

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Speaker 2: the car. If we're going to do this, I say

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Speaker 2: we get a dartboard, we list every part on the car,

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Speaker 2: and you buy one dart Okay, on Monday, this is

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Speaker 2: what I'm going to change. On Tuesday, this is what

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Speaker 2: I'm going to change, and so on. Heck, by the

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Speaker 2: time you get down with the dartboard, you've got to

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Speaker 2: have it fixed. So you know redline Deetection dot com.

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Speaker 2: I can't say enough about it. You know, doing some

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Speaker 2: smoke testing here would be wonderful. The inner cooler was

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Speaker 2: replaced by the shop. Eric's email goes on, who then

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Speaker 2: called me back to tell me I didn't need just

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Speaker 2: the inner cooler replaced. I smell guessing, but also the

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Speaker 2: inlet and outlet hoses. Sure, let's throw more parts at

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Speaker 2: the car. I got the car back after declining the

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Speaker 2: hose replacements, good boy, and I replaced the outlet hose myself.

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Speaker 2: The check engine light came back on after putting enough

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Speaker 2: I was given by the shop. No, the next diagnostics

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Speaker 2: step would be to actually diagnose something. But it really

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Speaker 2: feels like there's those feelings again. We got to stop

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Speaker 2: I agree. GM wanted to charge one thousand dollars for

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Speaker 2: each hose. Wow, I guess there's some labor involved here,

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Speaker 2: and I see intake hoses for about five hundred online,

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Speaker 2: But I really want to drop more money if there

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Speaker 2: are other read less expensive options to try next. Thanks Eric. Eric. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you're not going to buy a smoke machine, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not telling you to do that. And obviously the shop

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Speaker 2: would have done it by now. I would tell you

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Speaker 2: get out to Redlinedetection dot Com. At least if you

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Speaker 2: read about what a smoke machine can do and get

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Speaker 2: the idea under your head, you'll see that. Hey, if

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Speaker 2: start changing things? Then we can begin talking about the vehicle.

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Speaker 2: You know, a P eleven oh one is all about

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Speaker 2: pressure and airflow, all right, Like, for example, did you

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Speaker 2: know that a sticking pcvvl can cause this problem? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: cars still have pcv vals.

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Speaker 2: Cars engines have to have a way to breathe, all right,

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Speaker 2: It's a big air pump. I tell you guys this

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Speaker 2: all the time. You know, air in, air out, and

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Speaker 2: take exhaust. It's the process. But this particular vehicle has

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Speaker 2: three crank case vent valves, three PCV valves, and you've

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Speaker 2: sticking at one hundred and twenty five thousand miles seven

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Speaker 2: going on eight years old, eight going on nine years old,

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Speaker 2: depending upon when you bought it. Maybe we've got a

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Speaker 2: bad PCV. One of the pcvs is an issue. The

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Speaker 2: crank case vent valve could be blocked, and those are

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Speaker 2: both of those. The PCV and the crank case vent

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Speaker 2: in unwanted air from somewhere. Hence the reason for the

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Speaker 2: smoke tests, hence the reason why they're telling you to

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Speaker 2: change inter cooler hoses. But nobody's diagnosing this. The sad

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Speaker 2: part is, you know, if a GM dealer gave you

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Speaker 2: any of this. I believe the speed smoke from redline

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Speaker 2: Detection is a GM essential tool. I'm not one hundred

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Speaker 2: the dealers are required to purchase that. That's how good

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Speaker 2: the tool is. That's what it does, that's its purpose,

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Speaker 2: that's what he existed for. Let's regroup. Okay, you asked

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Speaker 2: for my opinion. I'd look at Redlinedetection dot com. I'd

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Speaker 2: understand what a smoke machine can do, what a speed

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Speaker 2: smoke could do, what a smoke pro could do. At

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Speaker 2: least get the idea into your head that looking at

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Speaker 2: intake ducts would help you better understand this issue, all right,

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Speaker 2: And then I would tell you, let's go look at

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Speaker 2: the pcvs. Let's go look at the crank case vent.

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Speaker 2: Do any of those appear to be sticking, stuck, deformed, clogged?

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Speaker 2: What's the oil change schedule been on this vehicle? Cleanliness

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Speaker 2: is next to godliness, as I like to say, and

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Speaker 2: it'll help keep the vent and the crank case clear.

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Speaker 2: And then send me another email or call me because

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Speaker 2: I'd love to talk with you about air on this

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Speaker 2: because I'd love everybody to hear the answers and the results.

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Speaker 2: I like to do things on air. I'm finding more

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Speaker 2: and more just simply because everybody benefits from it, you know.

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Speaker 2: So I'm easy to get a hold of a five

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Speaker 2: be glad to talk to you. I can even do

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Speaker 2: a midweek recording. We're trying to record phone calls midweek

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Speaker 2: Wednesday night, East Coast time, seven o'clock to start talking

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Speaker 2: to people about Hey, you know, I've got this problem

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Speaker 2: because I know some of you can't wait till midweek

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Speaker 2: or till the weekend, you know, Saturday Sunday kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: Just keep in mind if you do call and say, hey, Ron,

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you, if you could send

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Speaker 2: me an email in that just spell it out for me,

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Speaker 2: you know, Joe at main Street dot com or whatever

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Speaker 2: it is, because I'll probably reach out to you buy email.

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Speaker 2: It's easier for me and then we can call and

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Speaker 2: talk and chat. So, but I don't think they diagnosed

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Speaker 2: anything for you, Eric. I think they're changing parts, and

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Speaker 2: I question whether they've got the ability. So I would

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Speaker 2: look elsewhere and find another shop, find somebody that's got

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Speaker 2: some diagnostics capability, and at least a smoke machine, if

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Speaker 2: not a speed smoke from redline detection A five to

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Speaker 2: Doctor's coming back right after this. Whether it's a.

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Speaker 6: Little red Corvette or you go, you've come to the

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Speaker 6: right place to get that car fixed. Ron and Andy

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Speaker 6: in the Car Doctor eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 6: nine nine zero zero. Now back to Ron.

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Speaker 2: Hey, let's get over to Douglas in Virginia Douglas. Welcome

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Speaker 3: Well, like I said, when I run the car for

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Speaker 2: Well, no, you're you're you're common to me? Was you

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Speaker 2: One will always be cooler when we look at heater hoses.

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Speaker 2: Now, it's possible, since you had this flush or whatever

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Speaker 2: These heater cores are not uncommon to clog. All right.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I was wondering, because it's just a

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Speaker 2: Well, now on a basic system, no, sir, But if

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Speaker 2: But after that, and after the other things I said,

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Speaker 2: If you can interject your email in that phone call,

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Speaker 2: all the fluid came out, but in the wrong place.

431
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 2: It came out under the hood, dripping on the ground

432
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,679
Speaker 2: because the washer nozzles were broken. How that happened, I

433
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't care I care, but I don't care.

434
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 2: You know, my job is.

435
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 5: To fix it.

436
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,719
Speaker 2: It needed to washer nozzles, and I couldn't help but

437
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,120
Speaker 2: think to myself how awkward it would have been that

438
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,680
Speaker 2: if I had listened to what the customer said to do.

439
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 2: I do own a washer bottle for a twenty ten

440
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 2: Lincoln MKZ, which there's not too many of those left anymore.

441
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 2: That are like dinosaurs when they roam the earth in

442
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 2: greater numbers. So that job interview that at the counter,

443
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 2: my card does this, this, and this. You know, it

444
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 2: just proves the point. It stresses the need for it

445
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 2: ever so much more. It's just it's just so critical

446
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 2: that information that we collect as the mechanics and you

447
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 2: provide as the consumer as to you know, what might

448
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 2: actually be the fault and just just something to be

449
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 2: aware of. So just wanted to point that out the

450
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 2: job interview. When you go on it, don't don't be

451
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: afraid to share information, but try to be concise. And

452
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 2: you know, I don't necessarily need to know what you

453
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 2: have for breakfast that day, but i'd like to know

454
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 2: when you were driving, what speed you were driving at.

455
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 2: If you get my meaning, Let's go to Frank in

456
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 2: Virginia twenty f one fifty and some questions. Frank, welcome

457
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 2: to the car doctor, sir, how can I help?

458
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,959
Speaker 4: Hey, Ron, thanks for taking my call longpem list their

459
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 4: first time caller.

460
00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate your effort.

461
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 4: I have a twenty twenty f one to fifty that

462
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,719
Speaker 4: I bought new, and about six months after I owned it,

463
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 4: it began to ping. The engine would knock on mild acceleration.

464
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 2: Which engine is that?

465
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 7: I mean?

466
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 2: Which engine is this?

467
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 7: Right?

468
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 4: It's the five liter V eight Okay, go ahead, and

469
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 4: it pings on mild acceleration from about you know, when

470
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 4: I pull out of my driveway until I get up

471
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,479
Speaker 4: to about forty miles an hour. Sometimes it's louder than

472
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 4: other days, but it's pretty consistent on that range of pinging.

473
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 4: I took it to the dealer on my latest service

474
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 4: call and I said, hey, here's what it's doing. Is

475
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 4: runny adjustment you can make? And they said, no, there's

476
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 4: no adjustment. We recommend you just put in a higher

477
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 4: graded gasoline and see what happens. And that just didn't

478
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 4: sound right to me, so I wanted to get your

479
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 4: take on that.

480
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: Okay, So the software in this particular vehicle, and I'm

481
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 2: familiar with this, I've seen this on a few of them.

482
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 2: My belief is that eventually when the priority, when it

483
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: becomes a priority, they will right a change of software

484
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 2: or software upgrade for this vehicle, you know, before we

485
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 2: go through extensive testing. The first thing I would do,

486
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 2: because there's probably no fault codes here, I'm gonna guess

487
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 2: and say right, and by that I mean not just

488
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 2: you know, is the check engine light on? Is there

489
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 2: anything pending?

490
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 5: All right?

491
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 2: Pending is just as important as you know, current all right.

492
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 2: You know. It's sort of like you ever notice when

493
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,239
Speaker 2: you go to the doctor, what's the first thing they do.

494
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,399
Speaker 2: They weigh you, they stick you know, stick out your

495
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 2: tongue and say on, they check your your your blood pressure. Right,

496
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 2: They're looking for the problem that's about to happen. They're

497
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: looking for the pending fault because obviously you're alive, you

498
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: made it in all right, so they know, you know,

499
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 2: you don't have many current full codes so to speak.

500
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 2: So you know, cars are the same way, you know,

501
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 2: just different models. And one of the things I like

502
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 2: to look at with this is, well, I go through

503
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 2: my high level indicators. But I'm going to look at

504
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 2: fuel trim. Fuel trim's a biggie. Do I have negative numbers?

505
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: Do I have positive numbers? Or are they you know,

506
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 2: middle of the road.

507
00:24:59,680 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 5: You know.

508
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 2: If I'm seeing negative fuel trim numbers, meaning that the

509
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 2: vehicle is running rich so it's pulling fuel away, that's

510
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 2: a concern. Now, the five leader in this year vehicle

511
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 2: is a flex fuel vehicle. This is a flex fuel vehicle. Correct,

512
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 2: you can you can run flex? Do you run gasoline

513
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 2: or do you run eighty five?

514
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 7: No?

515
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 4: I run eighty seven octane gasoline because I think ten fanol.

516
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 2: Okay, so perfect. That's why I think this is going

517
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 2: to fix this, all right, you know, because what I'm

518
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: seeing is the flex fuel version of this truck has

519
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 2: a problem with software. So if you go look at

520
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 2: fuel trim, you're probably going to see negative fuel trim.

521
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 2: If zero is a balanced fuel mixture, zero is your

522
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 2: resting heartbeat, you're going to see a number less than zero,

523
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 2: meaning negative, negative ten to fifteen percent, all right, okay.

524
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: Most fuel trim fault codees occur at twenty five percent

525
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 2: plus or minus. Okay, So if if you're if your

526
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: negative fuel trim. Let me see, let me see. You're

527
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 2: gonna get the test now you're ready. If your negative,

528
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 2: if your negative fuel trim Frank was twenty four negative,

529
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 2: twenty four point five, is it going to set a code?

530
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 4: Not according to what you just said.

531
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: Right so, And that's my point, and that's why we

532
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: want to look at fuel trim. You know, if the

533
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 2: dealer's saying, well there's no code, there's nothing to look at,

534
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that's what they said, that's what

535
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: I understood them to say, then you know we're missing

536
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 2: the beat. So once we establish fuel trim, no pending codes,

537
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 2: the next thing I want somebody to do is do

538
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 2: a CAM memory reset, keep a live memory.

539
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 4: All right, am memory reset?

540
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: O KAM, cam memory reset, keep a live memory. What

541
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 2: that will do is reset the onboard computer. The PCM

542
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 2: has learned how Frank drives. All right, it's learned you're

543
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 2: operating characteristics. It's going to do a memory reset of

544
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: fuel trim, adaptives how the vehicle functions, and start from zero.

545
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 2: Does the pinging go away? If the pinging goes away,

546
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 2: it shows that cam memory was locked up and it

547
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: couldn't properly adjust fuel trim. By the way, did you

548
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 2: try a higher grade of fuel? Did that solve the problem?

549
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 2: Or you haven't done that yet.

550
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 4: No, I haven't done that.

551
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 2: Good boy.

552
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 4: I'm a little bit stubborn because I feel like Ford

553
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 4: says this truck should burn eighty seven octane used.

554
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 2: I agree. And then the last thing I want you

555
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 2: to do is I want you to mention to them. So,

556
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: because this is a flex fuel vehicle, there is an

557
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 2: alcohol content PIT parameter identification. A PIT is a piece

558
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 2: of data, all right, it's what we see on the

559
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 2: scan tool, those lines of data that a scan tool displays.

560
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 2: There is an alcohol content PID in this vehicle. It's

561
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 2: flex fuel. Right, if you're running, If you're running ten percent,

562
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 2: guess what the alcohol value content should be. Go ahead, guess.

563
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say ten percent.

564
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 2: Bing, go you win the prize, all right, twelve percent,

565
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: fifteen percent, I'm okay. If it says sixty three percent,

566
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 2: either you're buying fuel that's not being correctly blended and

567
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: they're over blending alcohol into the gasoline, or you've got

568
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 2: a problem with how it's interpreting it, and that's a

569
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 2: whole other conversation. So just good things, Just good things

570
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: to look at. Go do that. I'm running late and

571
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: need more. You know where to find me. But I

572
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 2: bet you this is going to catch them by the surprise.

573
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: And if they want to hear this hour two, you're

574
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: coming out of the bottom hour podcast. After the radio

575
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: show gets done in about two hours, it'll become a podcast.

576
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: You can pick it up tomorrow and you know, play

577
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 2: back for him. All right, kiddo, you'd be well, I'm

578
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: running any in the car doctor, I'll be back right

579
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 2: after this.

580
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 3: By right up.

581
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 2: Welcome back, run name of the car doctor. That's me.

582
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: Let's go over to Jeremy and Maryland. Jeremy, welcome brother.

583
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: How can I help you today?

584
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 7: Looking for a recommendation on a good by directional scanner

585
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 7: for like a homeowner. You got a new truck that

586
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 7: you gotta you know, when you put new brakes on,

587
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 7: you got a command the parking break to retract.

588
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. I'm gonna tell you

589
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: Launch tech US a lunch tech USA dot com and

590
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: they've got a slew of you know what we'll call

591
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: DIY scan tools, anything from anything from two hundred to

592
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: one thousand bucks, depending on what you want to spend,

593
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: you know, if we want to, you know, go above that,

594
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 2: go see if you can buy a throttle. A launch throttle,

595
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: I think on the street they're about thirty five hundred

596
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 2: bucks four grand. Probably a little too much for a

597
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: di wire. But you know, then again, we spend two

598
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 2: thousand dollars in a set of golf clubs, and we

599
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: play a better game when we use a better set

600
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: of golf clubs. So you know, there's something to be

601
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: said for that. I think, you know, for a guy

602
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: that I is going to be a little bit more

603
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 2: into it. And you know, Jeremy, you have called a

604
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 2: few times, so I'm gonna, you know, just state my case.

605
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: You know, I think you're going to look deeper into

606
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: it than maybe some other people. The nice thing about

607
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: a scan tool that I would want for you is

608
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: the ability to graph, you know, to put the tracer

609
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: up there. You know, because you're you're your eye sees

610
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: things at at you know, I think we blink four

611
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 2: times a second, whether we realize it or not. And

612
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: you know the rate at which that processor moves to

613
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: catch new data and display it. It's important, and you know,

614
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: when you're buying a scan tool, inasmuch as you're buying features,

615
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: you're also buying processor speed, memory capability, and so forth. Now,

616
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 2: I don't claim to know what my scan tools have

617
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 2: have for processor or memory. I just know that they

618
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 2: work because I've tried them. I've used their functions, and

619
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: I've tried I've tried I think everybody scan tool out there,

620
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: So you know, I know the Launch is very capable. Now,

621
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 2: one of the things you could try. Do you have

622
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 2: an AutoZone near you, Yeah, AutoZone sells Launch. You can

623
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: go talk to them. Oh really, yeah, they if you

624
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: go on their website. If you go on their website.

625
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if you go out to

626
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: the AutoZone website, you'll see and just type in scan tool,

627
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: Launch will come up there. All right. Now, they may

628
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: not have every model you want in the store, but

629
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 2: you know the fact that they're on their website tells

630
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: me they're a dealer or they're a distributor rather, and

631
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: you know they should be able to order it for you.

632
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 7: You know, I mean, do you think for like fifteen

633
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 7: hundred bucks I could get into something relatively usable?

634
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think the number is going to

635
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 2: be a thousand or less or three grand or more,

636
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: you know, in that for some reason, that thousand to

637
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: three thousand ranges sort of like no man's land, you know.

638
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: So at that point, you're buying something used, and I

639
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: don't think you want that, you know, I think, yeah,

640
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 2: you want you want fresh, current technology, and you don't

641
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 2: want to have buyers remorse. And the nice thing is

642
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: if you buy from your local AutoZone, they'll be able

643
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: to guide you accordingly and say, yeah, this works. People

644
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 2: like this, This tool does the job all right. And

645
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 2: at least you have somebody to go to, because one

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Speaker 2: thing I can't stress enough when you purchase a scan tool,

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Speaker 2: whether it be from your local AutoZone, you're gonna need support.

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Speaker 2: You need somebody to go back and talk to. It's

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Speaker 2: it's just very very important. Good luck to you, Jeremy.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the inquiry and I appreciate you being there.

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Speaker 2: I'm running any in the car doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 2: right after this. Welcome back to the AutoZone studio. Here's Ron.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Running in the car doctor. Eight five five

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Speaker 2: five zero nine nine zero zero is the phone number.

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Speaker 2: Give us a call we can talk or we can

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Speaker 2: talk midweek. Call that number, leave a message and we'll

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Speaker 2: get back to you. Leave your email address if you can. Hey,

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Speaker 2: did you see the news article? And I'm just reporting

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Speaker 2: the news, folks, I really am. It was up on Yahoo.

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Speaker 2: California looking to restrict travel for classic cars. Holy cow.

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Speaker 2: The state is looking at instituting zero emission zones soon.

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Speaker 2: The article starts out by saying, written by Steven Simes,

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Speaker 2: this is dated this past Monday, the state of California

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Speaker 2: is looking seriously at instituting or allowing local governments to

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Speaker 2: institute zero emission zones in the near future. In preparation

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Speaker 2: for such a move, the California Era Researcher's Board reportedly

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Speaker 2: is gathering information about classic cars and how owners use them.

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Speaker 2: They knew something like this was coming to the US

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Speaker 2: in California, likely first, but this is still concerning. The

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Speaker 2: article goes on to state. According to a Daily Coler

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Speaker 2: report on August two, CARP sent a survey of classic

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Speaker 2: car owners for model years nineteen seventy eight on down,

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Speaker 2: a question and answer survey about how they used the vehicle,

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Speaker 2: where they store it, how they drive it, and so forth.

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Speaker 2: A little commentary. You know, if it's a classic car

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Speaker 2: and it's being driven on weekends or limited mileage, how

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Speaker 2: much can it really be contributing to the pollution problem

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Speaker 2: that we have, And wouldn't it make more sense to

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Speaker 2: have better motor vehicle inspections, better roadside checks, more enforcement

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Speaker 2: in terms of the people that are ignoring these things,

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Speaker 2: the scoff laws that are just continuing to pollute. You know,

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Speaker 2: here in New Jersey there's an inspection program. You know

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Speaker 2: what it takes to pass the check engine light's not

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Speaker 2: on and it's a plug under the dashboard. We okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that cleans up emissions, but we do nothing

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Speaker 2: for safety, ball tires, brake lights that are out, and

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Speaker 2: so on and so forth. We don't do enough maintaining

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Speaker 2: or stressing or enforcing of emissions in my opinion, and

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Speaker 2: picking on classic cars is clearly the wrong way to

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Speaker 2: go because they're not even looking at the consequences of

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Speaker 2: how many billion with a b industry the classic car

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Speaker 2: is to this country and the economy, and right now

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Speaker 2: the economy can't afford to take any more hits. So

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Speaker 2: if you've got a classic, you might want to talk

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Speaker 2: to your elected officials and be aware of what's coming

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Speaker 2: down the road. I'm running ady in the car, doctor,

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Speaker 2: reminding you till the next time. Happy to be here

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Speaker 2: in a pleasure to serve. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 2: See you