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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, what does it take to be a mechanic?

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Speaker 1: What's it like during the week? And it's a hard

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Speaker 1: question to answer because it depends on the week. Doctor

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor. Let's assume it's a no code diagnosis,

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Speaker 1: which is always hard. Uh. You know, it's sort of

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Speaker 1: like going to the doctor and saying, Doc, I don't

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Speaker 1: feel good. He says, what's the matter, and you go,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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Speaker 1: and Nanian the Car Doctor, since this is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage. Do

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Speaker 1: orders are open? But I am here to take your

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Speaker 1: calls at eight five five five six, And now he running,

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Speaker 1: I suppose I have to start the show today telling

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Speaker 1: you a repair story, because I know that's what you're

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Speaker 1: really tuning in for. Judging by the email and the

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Speaker 1: comment in the Facebook posts, you guys love hearing about

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Speaker 1: stories from the shop. So here's a doozy, another real

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Speaker 1: story right from the bay. It happened this week, and

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Speaker 1: it actually didn't happen this week. It started about four

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Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, the stories four years in the making.

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Speaker 1: Four years ago, two thousand two, Ford Excursion came in,

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Speaker 1: big Diesel seven three power stroke were right, big truck,

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Speaker 1: the last of the big big trucks, and it needed

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Speaker 1: to maybe s break lines and I had to order

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Speaker 1: them from Ford, and the only way you could order it,

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Speaker 1: and Ford just they couldn't identify it was this line

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Speaker 1: or that line, left or right? Which one wasn't I

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Speaker 1: kept describing it. They couldn't idea. They were cheap enough.

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Speaker 1: I talked to the customer. Parts were getting hard to

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Speaker 1: get forward at that time because these these trucks have

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Speaker 1: been gone a while. And the customers said, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's two lines. Why don't we just buy both

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Speaker 1: and you'll have one in stock in case the other

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Speaker 1: one goes bad. And you know, if I don't use it,

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Speaker 1: it's only twenty bucks. And I said, yeah, you're right, shoe,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. So his brought the Excursion in, wielded

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Speaker 1: in the door. I figured out which line, Okay, put

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Speaker 1: the line on, and you know it's nice when you

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Speaker 1: get an A B S line from Ford, right, from

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Speaker 1: the manufacturer, any manufacturer, right, it's it's it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: bent right, neurld right, the correct fitting clips, pip smips,

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Speaker 1: all the good stuff and Jesus, like a work of art,

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Speaker 1: you can't throw it away and I couldn't. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not a junk collector or a parts collector or a collector.

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Speaker 1: I tend to, you know, things said that they have

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Speaker 1: a finite life in my shop, because otherwise I would

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Speaker 1: need a shop ten times bigger than the one I've got,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want that. And I mean, I tend

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Speaker 1: to actually put you know, I put stuff in a box.

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Speaker 1: I'll put a date on the box in two years

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Speaker 1: from now. I haven't touched it, and I touched it

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Speaker 1: every time I touch it. I'll dated if I haven't

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Speaker 1: touched it and throw it out. That's it. We're done.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't need it that long. But I

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Speaker 1: kept this line. For some reason, I kept this line,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't know why. I just kept looking at it,

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Speaker 1: thinking that's gonna come in handy. I'm gonna need that

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Speaker 1: for something. And I didn't expect it to be another

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Speaker 1: Ford excursion because excursions are gone, right, they were obsolete.

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Speaker 1: I think ten years ago. What was the last year

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Speaker 1: for an excursion at ten and eleven. Maybe maybe less.

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Speaker 1: I just know that, you know, they the bridges moaned

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Speaker 1: every time one of them went over it because they

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Speaker 1: weighed so much. So but I kept this line. This

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Speaker 1: week a a two thousand four Chevy Tahoe that had

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Speaker 1: Brian and he vehicles out here in New Jersey, and

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Speaker 1: he decided he wanted to sell it, so he needed

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Speaker 1: it put in shape. So it was towed to the

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Speaker 1: shop because it wouldn't run, and we got it running.

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Speaker 1: Some animals had gotten in under the hood and chewed

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Speaker 1: up part of the wiring harness for the accelerator pedal

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Speaker 1: control system for the throttle control drive by wire, and

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Speaker 1: I got it running. And then it needed breaks because

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Speaker 1: the main brake line going from the front ABS controller

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Speaker 1: to the rear DIF had rotted and blown. So know,

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Speaker 1: we got it running. Okay, it runs. Now we've got

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Speaker 1: sometimes you wonder what they're thinking because they put this

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Speaker 1: right down on the lower frame rail on the left

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Speaker 1: side under the driver's seat area, and it's exposed to

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Speaker 1: all the road salt, corrosion, schmutz, water, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: name it. It hits this thing during its life. So

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Speaker 1: here's this fifteen, sixteen year old vehicle that rotted the

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Speaker 1: brake line right now, it's you got to get it apart.

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Speaker 1: The first four lines came apart, okay, you know, thank

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Speaker 1: god for p B little PBS oaked everything soaked. The

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Speaker 1: had corroded into the aluminum to the point that it

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Speaker 1: it gold the aluminum coming out, and it actually, it's

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Speaker 1: an ugly word when you're talking about an ABS controller.

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Speaker 1: It actually gold. The aluminum took part of the thread

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Speaker 1: with it, not a lot, just enough, just enough that

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Speaker 1: no one wouldn't go back in. You could get a

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Speaker 1: new one in you'd be okay, but you couldn't because

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Speaker 1: it was gold. Oh on the vehicle that we're trying

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Speaker 1: not to spend money because he's gonna sell it. So

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Speaker 1: I'm looking around the shop and and you know, I

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Speaker 1: really think God in the universe give you jobs like

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Speaker 1: this every once in a while because it's a lesson

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Speaker 1: in how resourceful are you and how calm can you stay?

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Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, like life that

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Speaker 1: car in front of you, you got to solve the problem, right.

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Speaker 1: You can't get upset about problems in life. You just can't.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's some, but you try to stay calm.

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Speaker 1: You think better when you're clear. You can get aggravated

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Speaker 1: want to yell, you want to scream, you want to

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Speaker 1: you know whatever, later fix the problem. You know, I

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Speaker 1: guess when they designed that a B S controller, they

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Speaker 1: they kept the thread pitch a secret because it doesn't

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Speaker 1: match anything. Nothing, not a zip there wasn't a line

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Speaker 1: in the shop that a tap, a line of fitting,

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Speaker 1: nothing except yeah, you got it. I kept walking past

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Speaker 1: that line hanging in the brake breck and I turned

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Speaker 1: to it after five minutes and I said to Danny.

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Speaker 1: I looked at him and I went, I bet you

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Speaker 1: This is why I kept this brake line. He said,

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Speaker 1: you think, I said, yeah, I know. Watch this, took

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Speaker 1: it off the rack, oiled it up, put a drop

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Speaker 1: of oil on the threads, put a drop of oil

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Speaker 1: under the coupling so it would spend nice and free,

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Speaker 1: and walked it into the first four break line fitting

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Speaker 1: holes on the A B S controller. We had it

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Speaker 1: out on the on the on the vice, on the

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Speaker 1: on the bench at this point, and you know, they

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Speaker 1: fought a little bit. They cleaned up. There was some

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Speaker 1: gritting there. We were careful. We we we tried to

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Speaker 1: plug the orifices that you know, where the lines go,

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Speaker 1: so we don't put any crut into the controller. And

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Speaker 1: we got the thread fittings working real nice, like yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. No effort to start off, you know, thumb

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Speaker 1: and four fingers twizzled it right in, got to the

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I don't know the

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Speaker 1: exact size. I don't have a tampera die to match it.

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Speaker 1: But I know this will work. Steal fitting going into

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Speaker 1: an aluminum. It's got to form it, put a little

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Speaker 1: more oil on the threads, lined it up straight, and

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Speaker 1: just you know, you say the mechanics prayer, Dear God,

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Speaker 1: get me out of this, and it works all right.

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Speaker 1: I was able to very carefully form the aluminum back

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Speaker 1: worked it back out, twizzled it back in my hand,

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Speaker 1: dead square, bolted it up, and we went about running

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Speaker 1: the rest of the brake line. Hey, you know what,

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Speaker 1: keeping that old crumby line worked, it really helped. It

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Speaker 1: put it back on the shelf. I said, you know, ever,

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Speaker 1: no we may get an a tahoe in or a

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Speaker 1: Suburban or a Chevy Silverado, because they all wrought the

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Speaker 1: their issues. I said, but you know what, at this point,

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Speaker 1: maybe the universe is gonna send us another road to

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Speaker 1: excursion with a rusted out right side brake line, and

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be the only one in existence because

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Speaker 1: they're obsolete. You can't get these anymore. You can't get

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Speaker 1: the parts for it, this particular brake line. I knew

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Speaker 1: it was a real test though. As if that wasn't

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Speaker 1: bad enough, Once you take that A B S controller route,

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Speaker 1: you now have to a BS bleed. You have to

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Speaker 1: do an A B S bleed with a scan tool.

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Speaker 1: You have to um run a test where you activate

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Speaker 1: the A B S motor and purge the air out

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Speaker 1: of the controller in order to get a brake pedal. Well,

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Speaker 1: remember back at the beginning where I told you they

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Speaker 1: were animals in this car. Well, I got running and

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Speaker 1: we never worried about the rest of the lights on

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Speaker 1: the desk because the customer is gonna sell it. And

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Speaker 1: one of the lights on the desk was antilock break

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Speaker 1: controller and I never really thought about it because he

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Speaker 1: wasn't concerned. I looked it up. I had scanned it

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Speaker 1: at the time, and it reported a right front wheel

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Speaker 1: speed sensor circuit fault and they said, okay, it's probably

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Speaker 1: got a bad wheel bearing. They all do. They're they're

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Speaker 1: they're common on this generation and we're not. We don't care, right,

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Speaker 1: We're just trying to make it run and stop. Now.

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Speaker 1: I cared the other thing the GM engineer did, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a legality here, but if a General

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Speaker 1: Motors truck of this year in vintage has an anti

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Speaker 1: lock brake fault in the system, it won't let you

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Speaker 1: do an anti lock break system bleed. It just it

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Speaker 1: just won't. You have to fix this to fix that,

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Speaker 1: even though even though you could drive that truck from

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Speaker 1: California to New Jersey and back seven times and the

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Speaker 1: brakes will still operate as regular brakes. For whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: if the antilock break light was on because the antilocks,

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Speaker 1: so the antilock system wouldn't work for whatever reason when

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Speaker 1: it comes to bleeding. They want to they want the

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Speaker 1: system to be perfect. They wanted to have no faults.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a legal reason or an engineering reason,

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Speaker 1: uh smoke on your pipe seven times reason, But whatever

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Speaker 1: it was, I can't figure it out. It makes no

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Speaker 1: sense to me. So I knew it was a circuit

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Speaker 1: come right back without the vehicle moving which tells me

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Speaker 1: it's a circuit fault related to the computer. When it

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Speaker 1: gets powered up, it's going out and it's looking at

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Speaker 1: And have you have you tried disconnecting the battery again

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Speaker 1: this welcome back. We're on any of the Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: Oh you know this story? Then? Yeah, that's right, boy,

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Speaker 1: trying to think now now you got me, Eddie Marino,

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, sixty nine firebird heating problems. Just moved to

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Speaker 1: See if you've got something like that out your way,

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Speaker 1: this two door post car. I made it the spitting

426
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: image of Black One. Nominated Black two sold Black One

427
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: to have fell out on the island. That has taken it.

428
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,239
Speaker 1: Now he's actually driving it. I don't think he really

429
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,919
Speaker 1: knows the history of it or who it belonged to,

430
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,160
Speaker 1: but it's gone. I know where it is. I see

431
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: it from time to time, and it's okay. You know

432
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 1: what I had my phone with it, sent for somebody

433
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: else to have fun. Was Black One shopped? Black One

434
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: was not shopped. Black One had the rear wheel wells

435
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: were opened up with the big slicks right, you know. Uh,

436
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: black two is the image, but the quarter panels Black

437
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: two is a is A is an original thirty seven

438
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 1: thousand mile car that I found in just sitting there.

439
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: It was parked in fifty seven or fifty eight, I

440
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,199
Speaker 1: think fifty eight, and the owner walked away from it

441
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,360
Speaker 1: for forty years and it just kind of fell into

442
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 1: my lap, like things seemed to do. And um, you know,

443
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,199
Speaker 1: I just I just created a clone. You can do

444
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: things a lot easier when you're older, because you have

445
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: a checkbook and you're a lot smarter. Um, you know,

446
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're not doing death defying things

447
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: to make the car work, if you know what I mean.

448
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: So things are just a little bit easier. So well listen,

449
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,239
Speaker 1: my friend put to hear from you, so you'll be

450
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: you'll be well out there Phoenix Way, and you take

451
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: good care. Yeah you too, okay, but my bye, um jeez,

452
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: put me on the spot. Look at that. I mean,

453
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 1: that's Eddie Marino. That's high school. That's my god, that's

454
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: a long time ago, Jeff and May and I'm feeling

455
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 1: older by the minute. How can I help you in

456
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: your thirteen thirteen in present? What's going on. Well, Ron,

457
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: I didn't go to high school with you. I'm too

458
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: old for that. That's okay, we talked. I was from

459
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: New Jersey, Okay, right in your general neck of the woods. Okay.

460
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: Um yeah, Well my wife and I both had in presents.

461
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: She beats hers pretty badly. I'm very gentle on mine. Um,

462
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: she's not listening to the show. Uh. Well, we don't

463
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: get it until tomorrow. So you have to you have

464
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 1: to make sure she's gonna do something else tomorrow. Boy.

465
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: Otherwise I think I think next week here to be

466
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: calling the uh the dating doctor. Go ahead. So so

467
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 1: they both got some air conditioning issues, hers more than mine. Um,

468
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 1: you know, and I see these do what you said, recharge,

469
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: and so I just didn't know if that was a

470
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: wise procedure to undertake. I have watched some YouTube's on

471
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: and talking about a high pressure I'm not and you

472
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: know what, Jeff, I'm not a fan of the self

473
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: charged d I y kits. They used to be okay,

474
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: and then they've changed some of the chemical composition. They've

475
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: also started they've added stealers now to them. And here's

476
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 1: the problem. So you charge the car with a can

477
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: of refrigerant with sealer in it, all right, And if

478
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: that doesn't fix the problem, or if it does fix

479
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,439
Speaker 1: the problem, and two years from now a component fails,

480
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: a compressor, a condenser, you you need to have a

481
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: component replaced the repair shop, all right? Is going if

482
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,479
Speaker 1: if first of all, if they know it's got sealer

483
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: in it, if they're in their right mind, they're going

484
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: to refuse the job. And if they don't, if they

485
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: identify it, it shows up with stealer. And if they're

486
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: going to refuse the job. And if you el him

487
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: it's got refrigerant with sealer in it that you charge

488
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: it with, they're going to refuse the job. Because the

489
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: point I'm trying to drive to is the little cans

490
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: of refrigerment with sealer in it, that sealer will ruin

491
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: the eight thousand dollar ACA machine. Yeah. So it's like

492
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: and you know, it's like I told somebody this week.

493
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: Somebody called me, uh the beginning of the week she

494
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: needed air conditioning work, and we kind of kind of

495
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: listened to the whole story, and you know, I got

496
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: the well, my husband charged it with. Okay, I said, right,

497
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: which brand did you use? And she mentioned the brand

498
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: and I said, right, here's why I can't do the job,

499
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: all right, because it had sealer in it. And she said, well,

500
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: he actually never got the refrigerant to go in, which

501
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 1: is why I'm calling because I've decided to not let

502
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: him do this because I don't think he knows what

503
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: he's doing. Long story short, because I don't know what happened.

504
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: I never saw the cart, never showed up with its

505
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: scheduled appointment time. Anyway, Um, you know what air conditioning

506
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: is something that I can guarantee a few things. Yes,

507
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be expensive to fix. B it's better for

508
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: the system if it's service properly. Such is instead of

509
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: just adding refrigerant and playing, you know, poke and hope

510
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: it's it's pulled down, vacuumed. Oil is measured coming out,

511
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: oil is measured going in, and the system is charged

512
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: to the correct spec Because understand, back in the days

513
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: when I went to high school, we'll go back to

514
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: that reference. You know, the average air conditioning car it

515
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: was three and a half four pounds of refrigerant. If

516
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 1: it was off by four maybe six maybe eight ounces,

517
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: it's still blue cold. Right today, the average system is

518
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,719
Speaker 1: a pound sixteen ounces. If it's off by four ounces,

519
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: that's the charge you'll never know. I've had cars. I've

520
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: had cars two ounces uh lower than normal, and it

521
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: affects air conditioning cooling. Air conditioning is is very much

522
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: an exact science and the only good thing about to

523
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: do it yourself can in this mechanics opinion is it

524
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: generates work for the real shop. Unfortunately, I just I

525
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 1: just not a fan. Yeah, And I and to be

526
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: and to be transparent. That attitude, that position has changed

527
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: over the years because I've seen the problems that have

528
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: come up. Real quick. Second question, so the on my car, um,

529
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, I've got four events that blow blow at

530
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: chess level, okay, which I generally keep mind on one

531
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: of them, the third one from the left, it's blowing

532
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: very cold, right. The other three are different. Does that

533
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: indicate anything in particular or I'll tell you what. I'll

534
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: tell you what, jeff I have to do this to you.

535
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: When the car doctor returns, I'll answer your question. I

536
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: gotta pull over him up against the clock. Don't go anywhere, Jeffrey,

537
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,239
Speaker 1: I'm running any in. The car doctor will return right

538
00:28:49,240 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back rom the of the car Doctor.

539
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: Jeff Mayne, you're still there, sir, Jeff. Jo Jeff Jeff,

540
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: Oh no, Jeff's gone. Let me tell you, guys what

541
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: what I was gonna tell Jeff. Then. So here's a

542
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: classic example of why you don't want to just put

543
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: a a pound of refrigerat in a system. The only

544
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: way sometimes to know what's good or to know what's bad,

545
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: ist to know what's good. And here's a car with

546
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: some strange behavior, right, it's blowing warm air out of

547
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: three ducks and cold they're out of one. This could

548
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: be a low charge, but this could also be a

549
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: problem with the under dask controls in the way that

550
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: the blend doors are designed to operate. So hooking up

551
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: getting a pressure reading, knowing system capacity, and I'm not

552
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: a fan of system pressure is telling me capacity either.

553
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: I still think here's a car that's a thirteen car

554
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: seven years old. If it's never had the A C

555
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: system service. In my opinion, it's three going on four

556
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: years overdue. It should be serviced every couple of years

557
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: from moisture and other issues. And let's do a system

558
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: pressure test. Let's see what capacity is. Let's put the

559
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: right amount of refrigerent oil in it, and maybe there's

560
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: nothing wrong. Maybe it's just gonna be a straight service

561
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: and just call it done. At least at that point

562
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: you know it's not refrigerant, it's not a capacity problem,

563
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a it's it's nothing that

564
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: has to do with the basics. You've baselined it. Then

565
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: at that point start to get into and go look

566
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: at the rest of the system. I've got a sneaking

567
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: suspicion this will be capacity and it's gonna be a

568
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: very small amount. I was just trying to make a point.

569
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: Bottom line. It all starts with basic service and diagnosis,

570
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: and that's what's so important. There is no there's very

571
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: little margin for error in order to repair anymore. And

572
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: you know I can't express that or stress that enough.

573
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: If you really believe here, I'll tell you a quick

574
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: story at Catillact this week, real quick. I gotta I

575
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: gotta in it. Catillac SRX this week that was setting

576
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: a p zero one seven two and one seven five

577
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: rich fault codes. The vehicle was running thirty percent richer

578
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: than its base value, was negative thirty, fuel trims negative thirty.

579
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 1: The gasoline direct injection pump. This is a car with

580
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: a normal sixty five sixty six p s I pump

581
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: in the tank that feeds the gasoline direct injection pump

582
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: which is driven off the camp, which puts high high

583
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: pressure fuel pressure to the injectors anywhere from five dred

584
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: to three thousand p s I. The diaphragm and the

585
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: pump was was was was seeping, it was ruptured. I

586
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: had to prove what was good, just find what was bad,

587
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: because there was no way you could take that pump apart.

588
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: You wouldn't see it. It came down to I when

589
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, it's gotta be the g d I pump.

590
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: There's nothing else. I pulled the dipstick out, took out

591
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: a match, set the dipstick on fire, and I was

592
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: burning the oil at the end of the dipstick. And

593
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: then he looked at me with his eyes wide open

594
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: because he'd never seen that before work. He was like wow.

595
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, gasoline soaked oil, it's coming out of

596
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: the it's coming out of the g d I pump.

597
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: It's not PCV, it's nothing else related. I eliminated injectors.

598
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: I eliminated everything else. And sometimes that's the diagnosis, and

599
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: that's the level you have to go through before you

600
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: tell the person, Hey, you need fuel pumping system eight

601
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: five zero nine zero car doctors coming up right after this.

602
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: Don't go away, Hey, welcome back. Run the end of

603
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: the car doctor. Let's go over to uh Roseanne and

604
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: Missouri Roseanne. How can I help you? Yes, ma'am, Yes, sir,

605
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: I'm considering. I've always been with Toyota. I know Alexis

606
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: Bill on a Toyota frame. I'm considering as hybrid. Just

607
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: I don't need a hybrid. I drive pity an email miles.

608
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: What do they think about that? I think for you know,

609
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: someone that's not really going far that I don't know

610
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: that you're going to see a return on the dollar.

611
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: To be very honest, I think I would stay with

612
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: a gasoline version. You know, obviously the gasoline version of

613
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: that vehicle is simpler and easier to repair and maintain.

614
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: Will the hybrid? Will the hybrid go to the distance? Sure?

615
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: You know you'll you'll go two hundred thousand miles in

616
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: that car with normal wear and tear, right, you know? Yeah?

617
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's you know what it's if you

618
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: want to do it as a science project, because I

619
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: think you gotta try everything once in life, but you

620
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: know it's it's you know, maybe you want to get

621
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: it and get rid of it in three years. But personally,

622
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: I think I would probably stick with a simple gas

623
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: powered Toyota Lexis version and call it a day. Whose

624
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: services the car Roseanne live in Strength from Missouria. I'm

625
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: thinking of buying it in Tulsa from a dealership. Okay,

626
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: So however, one certified and one's not certified. Well, anything

627
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: you buy used, you want to get it certified because

628
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: you want the paperwork in writing to back it up

629
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: and support what if any problems you have. But the

630
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: bigger question is who's going to service the vehicle? If

631
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: the dealer is going to service I'm sorry, that's non certain.

632
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: The one that's not survived only has thirteen thousands. That

633
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: makes me Larry, I can't see it only has thirteen thousands. Yeah,

634
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 1: I you know what, I'd still go back to, who's

635
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna service it if you have a regular mechanic or

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Speaker 1: is it going to be at the dealer, Because ultimately

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Speaker 1: it's like the difference between a tar roof and a

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Speaker 1: brass roof. For a copperplated roof, which one's easier to

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Speaker 1: repair and easier to find somebody that understands it. And

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Speaker 1: I think, to me, that's the difference. But in your case,

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Speaker 1: listen by what you like, enjoy life. I'm running anting

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you. She was staring sp