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Speaker 1: and talk to Barb in Wisconsin. Fourteen Ford Focus Barbara,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor. How can I help? Yeah? Hi,

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Speaker 1: we have a Ford Focus that we purchased brand new,

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Speaker 1: And they told us that UM, we did not qualify

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Speaker 1: So I'm my question is to you, is I had

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Speaker 1: long or did you do all this? Um? Just recent

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Speaker 1: are you aware of the Customer Satisfaction Program release nineteen

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Speaker 1: Like we've been in the shop about four times, right,

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Speaker 1: giggles considered a different Ford dealer? Um knowing it? Why?

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Speaker 1: fix it. I don't see how Ford could not fix

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Speaker 1: the recall word. I don't see recall anywhere yet on this.

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Speaker 1: a tight rope back here. Well, it's all about dollars,

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Speaker 1: it's a game of here. Do you ever think about

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Speaker 1: the Takata airbag recall? We were talking about this this

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Speaker 1: week in the shop. You're familiar with the Takada airbag recall.

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Speaker 1: So how many millions of cars are being recalled by

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Speaker 1: Takata because of the year big recall? Right, millions and

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Speaker 1: millions and millions. They say that it's gonna take I

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Speaker 1: you know, the airbags are replaced. How many cars in

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Speaker 1: And how many cars are going to be you know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a moment here in a moment. You know.

427
00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 1: It's one of those deals, right, And uh, I said, yeah,

428
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: that guy Ron and Nannian He says yeah, And you

429
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 1: know it's sort of like, you know, it's like one

430
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: of those scenes in the movies where the guys like,

431
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: how did you know that? You know, It's like he

432
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 1: hasn't caught on. He hasn't quite the elevator hasn't hit

433
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: the top floor yet. And now I got him. You know,

434
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: I love it when this happens. It cracks me up

435
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: every time. So a couple of more exchanges, and I

436
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: just stuck out my hand and I said, Ron and Nanian,

437
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 1: nice to meet you. And I thank god he was

438
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 1: up against the case because I thought he was gonna

439
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,919
Speaker 1: fall over. Um, and he wasn't holding a sandwich. It

440
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: was just you know, and we were talking and you know,

441
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: he says, oh my god, you know, and I said listen.

442
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: I said, you know, it's um. You know, I explained

443
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: to him how it's not just a podcast, it's a

444
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: radio show. And you know, there's there We're here in

445
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: New York on a m where a M fift Sunday

446
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: mornings at eight and w tb Q and Warwick Sunday

447
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: mornings at eight, you know, a couple of different places

448
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: and um. But it was just, you know, it was

449
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 1: just one of those moments and he says, he says,

450
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,919
Speaker 1: I I'm I'm you know, he didn't really have a

451
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 1: lot to say. It was just it was just kind

452
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: of neat, just a regular a guy, a car guy. Yeah,

453
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: talking about cars, and um, it's nice to know that

454
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: the appliance business. Not that it's nice to know for them,

455
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: but you know, you're not alone. You can't get parts

456
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: for anything. So I guess you know the day is

457
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: coming where we're gonna get rid of appliances, we're gonna

458
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 1: get rid of cars, and we're all gonna sit around

459
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: twiddling our thumbs talking about, Hey, we used to fix stuff,

460
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: not anymore. Um, but yeah, it was really funny. You know,

461
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: never ever worked, I thought, Uncle Steve, you know, and uh,

462
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: thanks Uncle Steve. I appreciate it. Um, just just just

463
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: really good stuff. So let's pull over and take a pause,

464
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll go right to Tony

465
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: in Ogdensburg, New York. I'm run on any of the

466
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: car Doctor will return right after this. Welcome back. We're

467
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: on any of the car Doctor. Let's go over and

468
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: talk to Tony in Ogdensburg, New York. Anthony, how are

469
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: you this fine day? What can I do for you? Good?

470
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: My friend? Okay, I called you a few months ago

471
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: on my wipers coming on automatically. Yeah, this is the

472
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: attie right, Yeah, and you suggested to unplug it. Behind

473
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: the mirror, which we did. They still came on. Another

474
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: friend of mine suggested the signal switch change it put

475
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: another one in, which we did. They still come on.

476
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: There was one thing left, and my mechanics is, look,

477
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: let's change the motor, which we did. They still came on.

478
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: And this is a sixty two six to Cadillac. Correct.

479
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you've eliminated components, provided you've got good

480
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: used parts or good new parts, whichever you've purchased. So

481
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: we're now down to a wiring that We're now down

482
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: to a wiring diagram. There's there's there's nothing else there, brother,

483
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: you know, um. The only other thing you could do

484
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: is you could go to the motor and you could

485
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,479
Speaker 1: tap into and I'm you know, I'm trying to remember

486
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: wire colors. I think there's a round, a blue and

487
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: a white. Uh. If I remember colors correctly, but I

488
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: would sort out which is power, which is ground, which

489
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: is signal and maybe wire in some side marker bulbs

490
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: if you wanted to go to this depth and you

491
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: know what lights up and what doesn't at the wrong

492
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: time whenever the problem happens because it's intermittent, correct, right,

493
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: So at least, if we did the bulb trick, we

494
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: could say, well this this lights on, this lights off.

495
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: You know, the bulb trick works two ways. The bulb

496
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: trick works that if the wire is always supposed to

497
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: be hot and the circuit gets grounded to turn the

498
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: component on, that you know, we can watch the bulb

499
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 1: and as long as the bulb is lit, and then

500
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: if the bulb goes dim when the motor turns on.

501
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: If the bulb goes dim and the component doesn't turn on,

502
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: that tells us things. But my point is we can

503
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: use the bulbs the bulb method if we want to

504
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: go to this level and pin down which circuit, which

505
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: portion of the harness is causing the problem. But I've

506
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: got to say, if you've changed all the components and

507
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: there you know new old stock or good used components,

508
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: or as I learned today, the new word is field tested,

509
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: not used. And uh, you know you're you're down to

510
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: a wiring harness. There's nothing else left, there's no modules,

511
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: there's nothing else special about this particular vehicle. Straight Yeah,

512
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: nobody ever said well, well, but you know, to put

513
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: a harness in this car. You know, this could be

514
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: the forward half harness. Now, the only other thing I

515
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: would think about is look at where the wiring harness

516
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: comes through the firewall. I'm trying to remember in sixty two,

517
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: and I believe it was because I think I think

518
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: junction boxes at the firewall for GM started like fifty

519
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: six or fifty seven. So perhaps there is contamination inside

520
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: the firewall junction box creating a short circuit or a

521
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: path to ground for the trigger wire that would affect

522
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: and turn the wiper motor w on. So perhaps we

523
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: want to pull apart connectors, whether it just be at

524
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: the firewall or elsewhere in the harness, and make sure

525
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: they're good and clean and nothing's oxidized and dirty. Allowing

526
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: a cross circuit or a short circuit makes sense. Okay, Yeah,

527
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: I don't know much. You know, I gave it up

528
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: to my guy. He's very very good. No matter what

529
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: I bring him to him, he's able to solve it.

530
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: And he's a little puzzled at this one. Well, think

531
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: of it. Think of it like this. You know, you

532
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: walk into your house and you turn on the lights

533
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: by the light switch. You ever have one where the

534
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: light doesn't turn on and it's not the bulb and

535
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bad connection in the wiring in

536
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: the house or or the light. You ever have a

537
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: light turned on by itself because there's a problem in

538
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: the wiring such that something's feeding where it's not supposed to,

539
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: and it'll it'll actually turn the light on. That's a

540
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: short circuit or a cross circuit. And perhaps you have

541
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: that with this too. You know, just changing a wiring

542
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: harness isn't that easy? Yeah, you know, well, I appreciate

543
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: everything you said, Ron, I appreciate it very much, and

544
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: I enjoy your show very much. You're very welcome, sir.

545
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: Like I said, the most important is make sure you

546
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: get a wiring diagram that matches that vehicle and then

547
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: have him follow it in troubleshooter from there, and I

548
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: think he'll be just fine. Barry in Virginia, Mercury Villager,

549
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: how can I help you, sir? Yes, my sister has

550
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: his car in the Nashville, Tennessee, and anyways, when she's

551
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: in stop and go heavy freeway traffic. After about a

552
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: half an hour, so suddenly the brakes start becoming very

553
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: sensitive and then the accelerator requires more pressures in order

554
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: to accelerate. It's as if something is dragging on the

555
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: car or the engine. And this continues up to maybe

556
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: forty five minutes until she gets home. And she doesn't

557
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: smell any hot break smell or anything like that, or

558
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: doesn't get any kind of warning lights. Uh the car

559
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: has a eighteen thousand miles on it, but she had

560
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: she had it, uh you know, service uh properly over

561
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: the years and everything. But she's mystified, were mystified as

562
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: to what it's it sounds like. The first place I'd

563
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: go is, you know, I know the brakes don't smell,

564
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: but if you're creeping along in traffic, or if you're

565
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: going slower, perhaps you're not gonna get as you know,

566
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: as much abuse on the brake pad or the brake

567
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: shoe as you're thinking. I'd be curious to know it

568
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: does break, Does the brake rotor temperature go up? Are

569
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: the brakes truly dragging? I mean, then we can have

570
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: a conversation about that breaks dragging for a variety of reasons.

571
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: If is this something that's reproducible at a at a

572
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: repair shop, as she left it with anybody and told

573
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: them to drive it home, and well, the people would

574
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: have to drive it probably for about a half an

575
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: hour or so in stop and go type traffic under

576
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: normal conditions, just driving home or something fifteen or twenty

577
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: minutes on typical neighborhood. It isn't a problems to stop

578
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: and go freeway traffic because she's she's probably got her

579
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: foot on the break. She's applying the break more frequently,

580
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: I presume. Yeah. So you know, the easy answer is

581
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: for the price of admission an hour of diagnosis, let's

582
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: call it a hundred bucks, whether it's a hundred, twenty

583
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: or eight or whatever it is in Tennessee, for the

584
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: price of admission for a hundred dollar bill, let's give them,

585
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 1: give the give them mechanic, an infrared thermometer, throw them

586
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,959
Speaker 1: out in traffic. Let's see what it does. You know,

587
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: every diagnosis begins with the first step. And if after

588
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: a half hour he feels the sensation, if he's recorded

589
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: break temperature ten minutes into the right and if he

590
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: stopped and recorded break temperature every ten minutes, if all

591
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: of a sudden there's a dramatic increase in break temperature,

592
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: you know. Now we know, okay, break temperature is going

593
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: up because something's locking up. Let's go back to the

594
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: shop and put it up in the air. Do the

595
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: wheels spin? You know? Sometimes you know break break components

596
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: are very sensitive in the sense that up in the air,

597
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: even when you're not having the problem, sometimes you'll find

598
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: a wheel that doesn't exactly spin as free as the rest,

599
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: and you'll be onto something. You'll you'll possibly find the

600
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: problem before it becomes a bigger one. But I would

601
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: I would tend to start there. Um. I might even

602
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: tell you to just have them mechanic put up in

603
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: the air and spin all four wheels to all four

604
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: wheels spin easy, same amount of you know, to spin

605
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: the wheel? And does everything go one and a half

606
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: or two turns? Is everything equal? Is something isn't, then

607
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: we've got to break this dragging. But by all means,

608
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be afraid to tell somebody, Hey, I gotta

609
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: go for a ride. I gotta duplicate the problem. I'll

610
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: measure temperature and then at least I know where I

611
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: stand and I can come back to you with better information.

612
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: Have them do that this week and call me next week.

613
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: I'm curious about what this might become, and I appreciate

614
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: the call. Barry zero zero the car doctor is coming

615
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: back right after this. Hey, running needed the car doctor.

616
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: I'm in a highway. I'm not sure where I'm going though,

617
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: but I'm there. So you listen. I want to comment

618
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: on that last call, you know, and Barry I think

619
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: it was and if anybody's remembers the call was listening.

620
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: Not every diagnosis involves plugging something in a scan tool

621
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: of voltmeter. Sometimes it's common sense. And I'm not saying

622
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: common sense isn't being this displayed here, But you know,

623
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: there's a hesitancy to approach a problem. How does it work?

624
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: All right? And and that's how you have to approach it. Danny,

625
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: my my tech um, his van broke down this week.

626
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: He was at the local hot dog place in the

627
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: town where he lives and he went out to start

628
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: it and it didn't start. It just went click. So,

629
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: you know, we we had to sit down and write

630
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: a how does this work? So I printed out the

631
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: wiring diagram for him before he left yesterday and I

632
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: gave him a copy of it so we can troubleshoot

633
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: it over the weekend. So there's three fuses, a main

634
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: starter relay, a b c M, and a PCM. There's

635
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: two computers involved alved in a starter circuit and an

636
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: ignition switch right and a battery four grounds. You know,

637
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: this is something that years ago things were. It was

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Speaker 1: and you know he was just his head was spinning

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Speaker 1: works in the late model GM product. How hard did

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Speaker 1: next time. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you