1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Ron Anian sort had two different fault codes in areas 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: that have no relationship to each other other than the 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: fact that they're both on the vehicle work the car Doctor. 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: How do I keep that just stick up while I'm 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: operating the vehicle? 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: Well, it'll probably sit up by itself, all right. 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian, the Car Doctor. 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 2: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 2: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: the phone and call in the garage doors. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: Are open, but I am here to take your call 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: at eight five five five six ninety nine hundred. 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: And now pee running. 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: You know, never did I imagine in my wildest dreams 16 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: as a kid growing up in the seventies, I'd be 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: listening to bto in the opening month or theme of 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: a radio show I'd be doing nationally syndicated later on 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: in life. Just that's crazy, I just I just it's funny, Right, 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: It's funny where life takes you. Hello, and welcome. Just 21 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: how to get that off my chest? I want to 22 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: talk to about a couple of things. It was sort 23 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: of a and thank you for being here. I appreciate it, 24 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: I really do. I want to talk to you about 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: a couple of things. We had a crazy week in 26 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: the shop. Some of it I can talk about. Some 27 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: of it I can't, for reasons that you'll find out 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: soon enough. But all good stuff, all good stuff, great stuff. 29 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 3: You know. 30 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: We had to put spark plugs in a Honda this 31 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: way in for normal maintenance twenty ten Honda a court, 32 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: you know, just like I never imagined bto would be 33 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: in the opening theme of a radio show i'd be doing. 34 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: Never did I imagine I'd find a case where I 35 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: had to go find a high ignitability spark plug. 36 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 3: What is that? 37 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: You know? I remember as a kid when we were 38 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: building hot rods, we would put hot boxes on the 39 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: ignition system to fire a hotter spark or a stronger 40 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: spark or ms D multiple spark discharge. We would do 41 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: different things to ignite the engine, depending upon compression and 42 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: depending upon if we wanted to thrown it all when 43 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: it was cold, because it was kind of a you know, 44 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: maybe it had a bigger cam in it, or you know, 45 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: maybe it had a lot of compression, and we were 46 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: just trying to get the thing the light off. Well, 47 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: you know, the manufacturers now we're calling for on certain 48 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: vehicles high ignitability. And what high ignitability does is it 49 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: helps in specific situations for better efficiency and more power 50 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: for cars today. You know, n GK is the leader 51 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: in this, they really are. They've they've created a whole 52 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: category onto itself for high high ignitive, high high ignitability 53 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: spark plugs. Got to watch how say that Ruthenium is 54 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: the way I'd pronounced the word r u t h 55 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: E n i u M. Ruthenium h x is the 56 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: secret ingredient and a lot of what makes high ignitability 57 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: spark plugs what they are is the tip. If you've 58 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: noticed the tip of a spark plug of late, if 59 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: you if you've been doing any kind of spark plug work, 60 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: you'll notice it's getting finer and finer. It's like a 61 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: little tiny point. It's like the pin. 62 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 3: Of a needle. 63 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 4: You know. 64 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: You look at this and the first thought that comes 65 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: to my mind is there's no way I'm going to 66 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: gap this. So they they, and they do. They come 67 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: out of the box pre gapped. You can't gap that 68 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: spark plug, you know, I remember years ago. We would 69 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: sit there with a gaper and wed you know, gap 70 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: the set and you know, clean the threads, oil of threads, whatever, 71 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: and then put them in. You can't gap spark plugs 72 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,519 Speaker 1: anymore on certain applications. I think in a lot of applications. 73 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: I think spark plugs for vehicles made in the last 74 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty years, everything's got a fine tip point 75 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: and if you're not careful. Some of these double platinum plugs, 76 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: if you gap them wrong, you'll knock the platinum off 77 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: the ground side electrode and create an issue. But you 78 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: look at the high ignitability plugs and it's such a 79 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: fine precise point that I can't see you're gapping them. 80 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: Is a good idea, and they're going to come out 81 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: of the box right anyway. They're in gks, you know, 82 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: So just but be aware. You know this this twenty 83 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: ten Hondo court, when we looked it up by application, 84 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: it'd said high ignitability required. MGK was the only one 85 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: in the category that had them, And would the car 86 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: run on a non high ignitability spark plug. Yeah, but 87 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: it makes me wonder, you know, if I'm gonna get 88 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: a phone call in two years from somebody that says, well, 89 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: my Honda or whatever car I'm driving that calls for 90 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: it isn't getting better fuel economy, or it's a gas 91 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: mileage is down, or when I started cold to kind 92 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: of stutters and hems and haws. You know, gee, I 93 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: guess I have to check spark plugs now. I have 94 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: to check spark plugs to the point of is it 95 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: the right brand or is it the right type from 96 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: the brand for that vehicle, Because just as I've always said, 97 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: just because they screw into the cylinder head doesn't mean 98 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: the plug is right for the vehicle. Even if the 99 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: threads match up in depth or gasket style, et cetera, 100 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's right for the vehicle. So just be 101 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: aware high ignitability spark plugs. If you want to read 102 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 1: more about it, just go out to ngksparkplugs dot com. 103 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: They've got a whole section there. Just look around. You'll 104 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: see high agnited bility as well as a bunch of 105 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: other things. And if you're one of my fellow shop 106 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: owners out there, fellow technicians, get out and take a 107 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: look at the shop squad which MNGK and NTK is 108 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: putting together. And you know, helping the industry that way. 109 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, high agnitability sparkplugs. What a crazy thing. But 110 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,559 Speaker 1: those were the cars this week, right. I kept thinking 111 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: it must have been the full moon last week. 112 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: I guess it was right. 113 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: We had a twenty ten fourd to escape. I thought 114 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: of Tom My engineer, my lovable engineer, because it was 115 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: the old body style. It was a twenty ten Ford escape, 116 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: the square body as we like to call it. And 117 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: you know Tom loves the square body escapes. Tom loves escapes. 118 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what it is about him Tom's escape. 119 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: His current FOD escape has got three hundred and forty 120 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: nine thousand miles on it, and his last one had 121 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: well over two point fifty when he finally replaced it. 122 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: Of course, I guess he has a good mechanic. But 123 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: you know, we had this square body escape that came 124 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: in and needed air conditioning repair. The compressor was knocking 125 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: and banging and making all kinds of noise, and the 126 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: front condenser, the piece in front of the radiator you 127 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: could see, had literally disintegrated, It had fallen apart. He 128 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: was a two hundred and seventeen thousand mile escape. Another 129 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: high mileage car which the escape, the escape square bodies, 130 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: and I got to say, Tom's is a round body. 131 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: To me, Tom's round body. They all seem to go 132 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: the distance. They all seem to go a good long piece. 133 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: But the square body seemed to have a great track. 134 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: Record for it. 135 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: So it started off and I guess the point of 136 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: this is, here's why estimates are useless, right it's it's 137 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this in a minute. So it 138 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: started off with yet, it needs a compressor. It needs 139 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: a condenser. You know, it's going to be X amount 140 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: of dollars to get this going. But as I said 141 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: to the customer, I said, Glenn, you can't look at 142 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: this as a fixed price thing. There's the potential for 143 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: surprise here. It's thirteen going on fourteen years old, it's 144 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: got over two hundred thousand miles on it. You know. 145 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: It's the AC isn't working right now, you know, so 146 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm going to run into. There's 147 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: no way for me to really test the system. I 148 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: can check it for integrity, and so go ahead, do 149 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: what you gotta do. I guess when you take off 150 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: the compressor, you lower it down from the car the 151 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: way they do it they have three bolts holding it 152 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: up and you lower it down when you undo the 153 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: AC line. There's a there's an insulation sleeve that helps 154 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: insulate the hose to protect it against the blast of 155 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: heat off the radiator and airstream because it's right up 156 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: there in the airstream. The suction hose the larger. I 157 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: guess when refriger and oil comes pouring out and puts 158 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: an eight to ten inch puddle on the floor of 159 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: the shop. Yeah, that hose is porous. That hoses legan 160 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: So you know what came first, the chick under the egg, 161 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: the porosity of the hose that caused the refrigerant to 162 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: be lost. The compressor failing itself because it had a 163 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: little bit of a charge and it was just knocking 164 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: away making all kinds of noise. Or was it the 165 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: condenser that fell apart and you know, or or was 166 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: it the air gap on the compressor clutch that was 167 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: non existent and the rust pouring out of the bearing 168 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: that you know, the compressor bearing was on its way 169 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: to failure. So you know, it was one of those jobs. 170 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: It just it took two days, took two and a half. Actually, 171 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: you know, Chase this part chase that part and got 172 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: it out the door. Finally got it out the door. 173 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, everybody's happy. Clows forty 174 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: one degrees. Customer likes it. Everything's quiet, everything's where it's 175 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: supposed to be. And the point becomes whether it's high agnitability, 176 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: spark plugs, or an AC system that you're chasing from age. 177 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,839 Speaker 1: You know, cars continued to change and evolve. It's not 178 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: like it used to be fifteen years ago. I probably 179 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: could have predicted that AC repair would have been something 180 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: simpler because the car wouldn't have two hundred and fifteen 181 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: seventeen whatever it is, torn twenty thousand miles on it. 182 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: That compressor would have likely failed at the eighty to 183 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: ninety to one hundred thousand mile mark. Yeah, it needs 184 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: a compressor, Maybe it needs a cool Maybe it needs 185 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: a flush and a receiver dryer, which you always do 186 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: with a compressor. Car evolving, cars are constantly changing. Two 187 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles to me, with the right mental approach 188 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: is really just two thirds of the way through. You know, 189 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: you look at it and for the money that was 190 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 1: put into this vehicle, you know, a couple of thousand bucks, 191 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: you can't buy a car for two grand. You can't 192 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: buy a car today for three grand, not a good one, 193 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 1: not anything, you know, I mean, unless you stumble across. 194 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: It's rare, right, A decent used car today seems to 195 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 1: be in the fifteen to twenty thousand dollars range. And 196 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: you know, it gets to where the quality of the 197 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: car has gone up, the maintenance and the repair costs 198 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: have surely gone up. But sometimes you got to weigh 199 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: that against the replacement price of a new vehicle. Not saying, 200 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: you know, you should never buy a new vehicle, but 201 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: there's moments where you know, two grand's not a bad 202 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: option for repairing a car and keeping it going for 203 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: another get another year out of it, you know, versus 204 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: is that forty five fifty thousand dollars investment into the 205 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: new vehicle. So just just just one way of looking 206 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: at it. And then of course, you know, we want 207 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: to have high ignitability spark plugs with or ruthenium sounds 208 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: like the uh worp sounds like the flux capacitors come 209 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: to town, and uh, you know, just just cars have changed. 210 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: I just you know, just my observations, Yes, Tom. 211 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just gonna say, when I was over 212 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 5: there when I picked up my car the other day, 213 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 5: I noticed one of those spark plugs sitting on the 214 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 5: bench and I kind of looked at it when you 215 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 5: were on the phone, because it caught my. 216 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: Eye with that little right you know, in where you. 217 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 5: Expect the gap, and I was like, huh. 218 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's It's really crazy. It's such a fine, 219 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: fine center electro that you don't even realize what it 220 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: is until you know. I've got to say, I would 221 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: have just looked at it and said, well, it's just 222 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: a fine wire or a real sharp precision point gap 223 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: plug until the high ignitability part in the application catalog 224 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: caught my eye and I had to read up about 225 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: it because I'd heard the term, but I didn't realize 226 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: it was so predominant. You know, it's it's there when 227 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: you least expect. So just be aware when you're buying 228 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: spark plugs. You know, you want to verify and and 229 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: and to verify if it was a high knight ability car, 230 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: I should point out I had to know if it 231 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 1: was California or federal emissions. I had to know which 232 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: exact engine and which engine code it was. So it's 233 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: you know, it pays to have a good auto parts 234 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: store or somebody knowledgeable looking up parts for you. So 235 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: just very very important. Let's pull over to take a pause. 236 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: The phone number here if you'd like to talk to me, 237 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: and I'd like to talk to you. I guarantee it 238 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: is eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. 239 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: I'll give it out again. Eight five five five six 240 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero. I'm running any in the 241 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: car doctor. I'll be back right after this. Don't go 242 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: away the GTO. 243 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 5: You need advice on how to maintain that classic gt O. 244 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 5: Ron is the guy eight five five five six zero 245 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 5: nine nine zero zero. 246 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: Here's Ron. Hey, let's get over and talk to Mark 247 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: and Lass Vegas. Mark, what's going on running Indian? 248 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 3: The car doctor at your servicer? How can I help? 249 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 6: Hi? Ron, It's great to talk to you again. I'm 250 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 6: having a little issue with my air conditioning on my 251 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 6: eight on the CRV. The other day, I got in 252 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 6: my car. Now, the car's been sitting out in the 253 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 6: heat for some time. You know, this time of year, 254 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 6: it's getting kind of hot here, so I just happened 255 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 6: to notice one. I got in the car, started it up, 256 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 6: and I'm sitting at a light, and I noticed that 257 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 6: my vents on the driver's side were not blowing quite 258 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 6: as cold as events on the passenger side. Okay, so 259 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 6: I look, you know, about two years ago, I replaced 260 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 6: almost everything in the air conditioning system because my compressor 261 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 6: went out, so I replaced that, the condenser, the evaporator, 262 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 6: you know, almost everything, and it's been working great for 263 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 6: two years. So I got to looking up online, like 264 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 6: what you know. I guess it's a common problem, or 265 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 6: you get a little bit and it's blown about ten 266 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,839 Speaker 6: or fifteen degrees warmer on the driver's side. So right 267 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 6: away from what I found online, it was like, well, 268 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 6: you're probably low on you know, refrigerant. So I'm thinking, okay, 269 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 6: that makes sense. It's been a couple of years, you know, 270 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 6: maybe I've got a small leak around the Schrader valve 271 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 6: or something. And so I got gauges and everything. So 272 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 6: the next day I got in pooked up my gauges. Now, 273 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 6: my static pressure was around one hundred and the ambient 274 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 6: temperature was about seventy five. So that tells me that 275 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 6: it might be overcharged. So I just wanted to get 276 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 6: your opinion on what you think it could be. 277 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: It sounds like it. Yeah, it's either you know, typically 278 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: when we get this complaint, it's either a system that's 279 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: overcharged too much oil or undercharged. It's a charge issue. 280 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: It's a charge or a balance of of refrigerant and 281 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,599 Speaker 1: oil issue. This is a split system, correct to go 282 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: side to side. 283 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 6: No, No, this is just a basic you know one 284 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 6: control controls all four Okay. 285 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: Okay, so this this does not have a driver's side outlet, 286 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: no motor and a passenger side. Okay, so you know, 287 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: one of the things to look at. Although I agree 288 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: the charge sounds high and my but my question would 289 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: be who charged it last? You or a repair shop? 290 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 6: Well, I did it. I did it because I replaced 291 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 6: everything in the car. Now, I meant to tell you 292 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 6: the the pressure, the low pressure side when I checked 293 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 6: all of this the other day. I took it out 294 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 6: and warmed it up, and the low side was forty, 295 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 6: the high side was one sixty. And that's just in 296 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 6: park running around seven hundred and fifty RPMs. 297 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's that's not too terrible. It's you know again, 298 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: it depends on ami and temperature and heat load. But 299 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: you know you're in the game. You're you're definitely in 300 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: the ball game. Let me let me, let me ask 301 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: you this. You know, in the last two years you 302 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: have not added refrigerant to it. 303 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 6: No, okay, it's run, it's run perfectly. 304 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: So if if you had to recover that refrigerant, how would. 305 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 3: You do it? 306 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 6: Well, I would take it to a shop and let 307 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 6: me do it. I don't have that machine, right, sophisticated. 308 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: So if you're pretty sophisticated to me, you know, I 309 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: know a lot of shops that can't do what you're doing. 310 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: So you know, my next, my one, my one other thing, 311 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: because I think this is I think, really think this 312 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: is going to be something to do with refrigerant volume. 313 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: You know, silly question. You're using true one thirty four right, 314 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: no hybrid, no, no blended gas okay, right, you know, 315 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: just take a look at the water valve, you know, 316 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: the hot water valve for the heater core. This this 317 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: has a manual valve, does it not with a cable? 318 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 4: Uh? 319 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 6: You mean if I want to put the heat on? Yeah, no, 320 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 6: it well it's push buttons right. 321 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: Ash, But what's it what's it like? What's it like 322 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: under the under the under the engine compartment under the hood. 323 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: Here's here's here's where I'm going. All right, certain models, 324 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: and it varies base or you know what trim level. 325 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: Certain model Honda's seven, eight, nine, ten, even some of 326 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: the elevens will have a water valve regardless of dash 327 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: control with a cable. And I've had I've had. 328 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I've seen those. Right, I don't think my 329 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 6: mind might have that, But I know what you're. 330 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: Talking about, all right, Just just be sure or be 331 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: sure of whatever you've got that it's it's truly shutting 332 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: off the hot water valve going to the heater core. 333 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: And then you're going to say to me, but Ron, 334 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: it's it's hot on the it's warmer on the driver's 335 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: side than the passenger side. It's not both sides, that's true. 336 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: But I have I have seen the water valve affect 337 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: one side versus the other, and I believe it's just 338 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: the way it's a characteristic of the Hondas, the way 339 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: they split the system and divide up the airflow. So 340 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: I just I just don't want you to miss something 341 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: simple because. 342 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 6: From what about go ahead? What about like too much 343 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 6: air in the line, which I don't understand if you 344 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 6: have a leak, let's see, have a slow leak in 345 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 6: the system. 346 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: Right, where would the air come from? 347 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 6: Because it's yeah, exactly. 348 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: Right right, So. 349 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 6: Because that's kind of one of the that's what they're 350 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,959 Speaker 6: saying for the high static pressure could be have too 351 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 6: much air in your system, which I don't know how 352 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 6: that got in. 353 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 1: There, but you know, this is this is I just 354 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,360 Speaker 1: I just had this conversation with somebody the other day 355 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: mark where I was arguing over using static pressure as 356 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: a diagnostic aid, and I said, it seems to be 357 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: better on older vehicles and older systems, but I don't 358 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: know that I would count it as truly accurate on 359 00:17:59,119 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: a modern day vehicle. 360 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 3: So do this. 361 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, you're gonna have to bite the bullet because if 362 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 1: the water valve, the heater issue doesn't check out or 363 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: pan out, the next step is you've got to recover 364 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: what's in there, measure it, and then go from that 365 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: just you know, maybe it's got the right amount of 366 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: refriger in it, but then at least we can chat 367 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 1: more so find out how much refrigeran's in that can 368 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: me called back next week as always, sir, a pleasure. 369 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: I'm running Indy in the car doctor. I'm coming back 370 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away, welcome back, run an 371 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: indie the car doctor before I go over to ted 372 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: and Illinois real quick. Uh, Gene writes and Ron, Why 373 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: do oath read My three Yukon dashlights have not been working? 374 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: I've had problems with the battery running down this winter. 375 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: I put a tender on it and it seemed to work. Okay, 376 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: that is the battery state up. Could you give me, say, 377 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,959 Speaker 1: a idea what's happening. I have an appointment. I may 378 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: want to take it into bangor tire here in bangor Gene. Yeah, Gene, 379 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: it obviously it sounds like you've got a drain or 380 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: a draw in the system. All right, you're not specific 381 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: as or you're saying. I guess you're saying. Maybe I'll 382 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: take that a different way. That your dashboard illumination lights 383 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: are not working. That could be a completely separate problem 384 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: and unrelated, or it could have something to do with 385 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: why the battery is going down. What somebody needs to 386 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: do is hook up a digital voltometer in milli ant 387 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: motor in ant mode and measure between battery and the 388 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: battery cable. Looking for an amperage draw and the determined 389 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: does it have one? And then there are steps they 390 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: can take after that. So that's that's first step. But 391 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: it sounds like a you've got a battery draw. B 392 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: Why aren't if I'm assuming, why aren't the dashboard a 393 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: loom nation lights working? That's got to be diagnosed. Perhaps 394 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: it's the there's a rea stat or a thumb wheel 395 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: built into the headlights switch and that's failed. You could 396 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: try cycling that that that dimmer quickly up and down, 397 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: up and down, up and down. Sometimes crud builds up 398 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: on the contacts and see if that causes the dashlights 399 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: to flicker. If that's the actual problem. So, but more 400 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: than that, just you know, give me a shout. 401 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 3: We can talk about it. 402 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: Let's get over to Ted in Illinois and see what's 403 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: on his mind. Ted, Welcome to the car doctor, sir. 404 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: How can I help? 405 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 7: Hey, thank you Ron for taking my call your show. 406 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: Sure, thank you. 407 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 7: And I'm the guy that has a thirty eight Willies 408 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 7: but I don't have any Willies questions. I'm good. So anyway, 409 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 7: I what I wanted to talk to you about, or 410 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 7: just reinforce what you've been doing, is your electric vehicle conversation. 411 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 7: You have to keep doing that. You know, they are 412 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 7: really trying to force us into electric cars. You know, 413 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 7: it's not trying to build a better car, it's forcing 414 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 7: us into them. And you know they're more expense of 415 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 7: the batteries are coming from China. You know, there's really 416 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 7: and what it costs to mine the minerals to make 417 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 7: the batteries. You know, there's no savings and cost The 418 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 7: environment is getting hurt worse with the pollution that will 419 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 7: go into the air, you know, because of the mining 420 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 7: the minerals. So you know, I just think you need 421 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 7: to keep talking about electric vehicle. 422 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: You're gonna You're gonna get me in trouble ted. You know, listen, 423 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: and I appreciate that, I really do. Look, I talk 424 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: about electrics, and I try to do it from a 425 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: non emotional perspective. All right, you know, I'll give up 426 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: my right as an American citizen and you know, but 427 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: just talk facts in that sense of the word. You know, 428 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: they don't make sense. You know, the average electric vehicle 429 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: is has a bigger carbon footprint in its first sixty 430 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: thousand miles than an internal combustion engine vehicle. And for 431 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. You know. I saw this week 432 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: that the President is trying to put into law he's 433 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: putting some filters on the power plans to reduce their 434 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: carbon output in the next Is it by twenty thirty 435 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: or forty? I forget where it was right where we're 436 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: going to put filters on them or some you know. Listen, 437 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: you can say in state anything you want, but but 438 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, I want to be eighteen again and lose 439 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,360 Speaker 1: forty pounds. I can lose to forty pounds. I don't 440 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: know if I can be eighteen again. I you know, 441 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: it's it's it's how's that going to happen? Do I 442 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: think electric vehicles have a place. Yeah, I think certain 443 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: things should be electric, all right. I think I think 444 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: root vehicles things that are I think taxicabs should be electric, 445 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: all right. I think every taxi cab should be electric. 446 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 7: But why not? 447 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: Why not? 448 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 3: What hybrid? 449 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: Yeah it could be hybrid? 450 00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 6: Why not? 451 00:22:59,440 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: Sure? 452 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 7: Why not? Why do we have to go totally left? 453 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,680 Speaker 1: Yeah? You know why? But you know I always come 454 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 1: back to this that, you know, it's got to have 455 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: a point of practicality. And what nobody's talking about is 456 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: the way we're being hurt. I don't know if the 457 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: lack of parts that I'm seeing, and it's getting worse 458 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: every day, is because car companies are starting to gear 459 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: down preparation for maintaining the internal combustion engine fleet, or 460 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,239 Speaker 1: if we truly have a supply problem. But there's a 461 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: lot of weird things going on. I've got to tell you. 462 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: We had to go find an alternator for a twenty 463 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: ten Toyota FJ cruiser this week. And you know, there's 464 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: one or two brands that we and the first brand 465 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: it's always there. I mean, there's always six of them 466 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: on the shelf. They're just a diamond dozen. It fits 467 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: every V six Toyota made in the last fifteen years. 468 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: There isn't one. Now you got anerstand how what a 469 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: parts distribution works, Right, there's the local parts store, then 470 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: there's the warehouse, then there's the regional warehouse, and then 471 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: there's master distribution. There wasn't an alternator for this Toyota 472 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: from my first choice brand, which was Denso all right, 473 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: I'm not going to hide it. They don't have an 474 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: alternator for that? Why why is that? Where did all 475 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: where did all of them go? It doesn't it doesn't 476 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: make sense. Right, We were able to get we were 477 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: able to get our second choice, our second brand, and 478 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: we got it out the door. But why why is 479 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: it so hard to get parts? We had to get 480 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: break roaders the other day for a Honda Accord. Couldn't 481 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: find them. Took two days. You know, why? Why why 482 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: are we being denied parts? It doesn't make any sense. 483 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: Pandemic's over in the eyes of the government, pandemics over 484 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: in the eyes of the medical field. CDC just you know, 485 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: lifted any kind of bands. I read that in the 486 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 1: paper the other day. So what are they trying to do? Oh, 487 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: you got me lit up? Now, ted, you got me 488 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: lit You know, it's crazy. 489 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 7: The cost of everything, you know, the cost of a 490 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 7: quick story of the cost of everything is going up 491 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,199 Speaker 7: real quick. I got a buddy that has a I 492 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 7: don't have the paperwork in front of me right now, 493 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 7: but it was a thirteen Mercedes Benz four fifty x L. 494 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 7: The brake light came on. He's in he's in South Carolina. 495 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 7: He took it to the dealer. They said that the 496 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 7: brakes were you know, all the lines were rushed it out. 497 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 7: It needed breaks all the way around and needed all 498 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 7: the brake lines replaced, It needed some sensors, It needed 499 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 7: a CB joint replace. I mean he drove it into 500 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 7: the dealership and they said he could not drive it away, 501 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 7: and they gave him an estimate to fix it of 502 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 7: eleven nine dollars. Okay, and any anyway, and. 503 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: What you're well, what your what your car is at 504 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: ted thirteen? 505 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 3: Okay? 506 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: How many and how and how many and how many 507 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: miles are on it? 508 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 7: One hundred and one thousand. 509 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 1: That's young for a Benz. That's young for anything, especially Ben's. 510 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: That that's a half a million mile car. 511 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 7: Yes, it's supposed to be. And anyway, anyway, he got on, 512 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 7: you know, to make a long story short, he called 513 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 7: me and said, you know, I got to get it 514 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 7: away from them. He said, I'm not going to pay 515 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,439 Speaker 7: that kind of money. He said, can I drive it? 516 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 7: And I said, well, did you drove it in there? 517 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 4: Okay? 518 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 7: Did you notice anything? He said, he said, no, it 519 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 7: drove good. I had brakes. I said, well, I said, 520 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 7: check the Master center. Make sure you got full you know, 521 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 7: a full set of full flood in the master cylinder filled. 522 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 7: And I said drive it. I said, you'll know right away. 523 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 7: If you if you got breaks, as long as they 524 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 7: didn't screw with it, you should be okay. And so 525 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 7: he took some extra break food with him, filled the 526 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 7: master cylinder, and drove it away and had to go 527 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 7: drive it about thirty minutes, and he said it was fine. 528 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 7: Nothing happened, and he got away from the dealership, and 529 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 7: and anyway, they ended up trading for another car, a 530 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 7: BMW got they leased a BMWs. 531 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: So well, don't you know, don't don't confuse perhaps a 532 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: dishonest repair shop when they're a tend to try and 533 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: push somebody into a repair versus. I understand where you're 534 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: coming from. But you know, I think that's a separate 535 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: issue from the electric vehicle conversation. You know, it's it's 536 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: I see, I see a lot of repair shops. Oh 537 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: you need this, Oh you need that. You did the 538 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: absolute right thing, you know, you asked him, you know what, 539 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: what was there any difference in the way that the 540 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: vehicle operated. So but in any event, Ted, I appreciate 541 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: the call as always. And by the way, if you 542 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: want to solve the electric vehicle problem, vote for me. 543 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to run for president Ron and any and 544 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: the car doctor for president. Every problem solved in twenty 545 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: minutes of your money back, and I might just do that. 546 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 1: Let's get some write in votes, so till the next time, Ted, 547 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: you'd be well and I'll be back right after this. 548 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 3: I'll see you. 549 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: Pat of welcome back, Ronning the car doctor. Let's get 550 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: over to Suzanne in Pennsylvania. Five Toyota Corolla. Hi, Suzanne, 551 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: how can I help out your service? 552 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 4: Hi? Thank you for taking my car? Yes, I had 553 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 4: my Toyota Corolla two thousand and five, two weeks ago 554 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 4: to be inspected at my garage, which it has only 555 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 4: seen this garage since I bought the car, so they 556 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 4: know my car very well. They're great people. I hadn't inspected, 557 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 4: so they called me up and said, Suzanne, your car 558 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 4: needs back breaks with the shoes in order to pass inspection. 559 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 4: I said, okay, go ahead. I said, didn't seem like 560 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 4: the brakes were you know, anything wrong, but go ahead 561 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 4: because I trust you people. And so when I went 562 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 4: to pick up the car, he said, you know, all 563 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 4: good and well, but then you need a new clutch. 564 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 4: And he said it's running. It's not running, but it's 565 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 4: like catching very high because they take it for a 566 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 4: test drive and I said, yeah, I realize it's catching high. 567 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 4: I don't know anything about a clutch, but my cars 568 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 4: like ninety thousand and a little bit of cancer on 569 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 4: the back, dog ears on the back underneath the back door. Right, 570 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 4: But they're telling me a clutch is thirteen forty to 571 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 4: put a clutch in? Does that sound right? 572 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: That's cheap, that's cheap. 573 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 574 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's let's let's let's back up a second. 575 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: So let's go to the first part. I want to comment. 576 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: I want to comment about the breaks. Okay, you know 577 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: this is a drum break set up in the back. 578 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: Oh is it? When you say it breaks? 579 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 4: They said it needed shoes or shoes. 580 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: If it's shoes, then it's a drum break set up. 581 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: Or were the breaks ever done before? The break's ever 582 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: done before? 583 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 3: No? 584 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: Okay, so ninety thousand and you know eighteen years later, 585 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: it's not an unreasonable expectation, right. 586 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 4: So right, exactly? 587 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: So I get thatactly, And it sounds like I just 588 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: want to benchmark this. It sounds like this is a 589 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: shop you've been to for a long, long long time. 590 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 4: They know it's the car has only seen this shop. 591 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 1: And they're your guys that you have a great relationship with. 592 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 4: Yep, yep, Yeah, very good relationships. 593 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 3: Got it. 594 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: So here's here's what I want you to ask them. 595 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: All right, in that clutch estimate, all right? In that 596 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: clutch estimate, who's clutch or what brand clutch are they using? 597 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,479 Speaker 1: All right? Oh okay, because there's all different levels. I 598 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: like I call it. I call it luck. I think 599 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: it's pronounced luke l u k. They make a great 600 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: clutch in the aftermarket or are they gonna Are they 601 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: going to buy a Toyota clutch right from the manufacturer, 602 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: which in all probability could be a Luke. Also, the 603 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: other thing is are they going are they going to 604 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: machine the flywheel? All right? 605 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 4: Right? I heard about that. He said, she are you 606 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 4: having any chattering? And I know what he's talking about chattering? 607 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 4: I said no. He said, well, it's it's kind of 608 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 4: so high that you may have it. And he said, 609 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 4: if your clutch goes on you wherever you are, you're 610 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 4: just gonna stop and you're you're gonna have to call 611 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 4: a tow truck. 612 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: Right, you know? The other the other issue is how 613 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: much I'm trying to think I had a word this 614 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to encourage somebody to drive 615 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: a vehicle that may or may not have a bad clutch. 616 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: I can't see it from here, but the argument. 617 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 4: Can be made not he said, don't go far, don't 618 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 4: go too far, go for your groceries. 619 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: And then you got to you know, he's your guy, 620 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: you know, if he if he's been your doctor up 621 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: to this point, you got to trust him. You gotta 622 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: take him. You got to take him at his word. 623 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: But you're but the comments become you know, listen, I'm 624 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: gonna put a I'm gonna put an irrigation system in 625 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: at the house. And they gave me a quote for it, 626 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: you know, for water in the lawn. And it was 627 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: a lot of money. And but you know, you know, 628 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: my questions are, if if it's if it's x number 629 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: of dollars, what does X plus five get me? Does 630 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: it get me something? More? So, if it's thirteen forty 631 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: for the clutch, you know, does fifteen Does fifteen hundred 632 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: get you an O wee clutch from Toyota? Does does 633 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: sixteen hundred get you a clutch with a machined flywheel? 634 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: You know it's I'll be honest. 635 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 4: With you, he said he won't know about the flywheel 636 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 4: until he gets in there. 637 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: A fair comment. Listen and Luke l u k Luke clutches, 638 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: Luck clutches. They they I believe they still do. But 639 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: they used to sell a complete package clutch, pressure plate, 640 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: disc and the flywheel. All right, So I'll tell I'll 641 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: tell you what. Yeah, I'll tell you what. Susanne, sit tight, 642 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: let me p'll over take this pause. We'll come back 643 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: and finish up. I'm running Ning of the Card Doctor. 644 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Welcome back, Running the 645 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: Card Doctor. I'm here with Suzanne in Pennsylvania and her 646 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: five Toyota Corolla. Susanne, you're still. 647 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 4: There, yes, I am. 648 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: Okay, So let's let's break this down, all right. Uh, 649 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: if you took your hand and pressed it down hard 650 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: on the top of a desk, okay, and try to 651 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: drag it. There's friction there, right, You can't. You can't 652 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: do it if if your skin was smooth and soft, 653 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: or if the desktop was wet, your hand would slip. Correct. 654 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: So that's sort of like how a clutch works, all right. 655 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: A clutch, a disk is gripped between two pieces a flywheel, 656 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: which would be the desktop and a pressure plate, which 657 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: would be your other hand. All right. Imagine you've got 658 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: your hand, one hand on top of the other, pushing 659 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: down against the desktop, and you try to move the 660 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: piece in the middle. 661 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 3: Right. 662 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: A clutch assembly has a flywheel, a disk, and a 663 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,440 Speaker 1: pressure plate. Pressure plate does what its name implies. It 664 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: applies pressure and it locks the disk to the flywheel. 665 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: The disk is connected, is mechanically connected to the transmission, 666 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: and by virtue of it being locked to the desktop 667 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: or to the flywheel, pressure connected or mechanically connected in 668 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: that sense, to the back of the engine. And that's 669 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: what drives the transmission. That's what Let's move forward, all right. 670 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 4: Sean, Could I ask a question, Am I ruining the 671 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 4: car by driving it like this? 672 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: Not necessarily? Not necessarily, because. 673 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 4: When you mentioned the transmission, I thought, oh my god. 674 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you know, if it gets worse, 675 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: you know, does it does it chatter? Do you feel 676 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: the car? So you know it's maybe it's not quite 677 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,879 Speaker 1: at that point. Listen, this is a this is a roll. 678 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: This is a roll of the dice. All right, Yes, 679 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,959 Speaker 1: it's fourteen hundred dollars. Let's say it's two thousand dollars. 680 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: Let's say he takes it apart and it needs a flywheel, 681 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: and it needs a couple other things. You know in 682 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: North Jersey that clutch is two grand all day long. 683 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying thirteen hundred dollars. Yeah, thirteen hundred 684 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: dollars is not a lot of money. 685 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 3: All right? 686 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 4: Okay, he did mention ron that it's labor intensive. 687 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: It is, It absolutely is. So your questions to him? 688 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: Are your questions to him, Mark, because I'm gonna go 689 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: They're gonna grab me now? Is what brand of clutch? 690 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: What are your options for a flywheel? What it's the 691 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,240 Speaker 1: warranty on the repair? Does he have a high limit 692 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,719 Speaker 1: of where he thinks this could go? And even though 693 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: he has no crystal ball, what's projected longevity of the 694 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: vehicle based on the rust that he sees? Claul ask 695 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: him those questions. You're welcome to call me back till 696 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: the next time. I'm Ronne ending the character, reminding each 697 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: and every one of you good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. 698 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 3: See you