1 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Ron Ananian check engine light comes on, by the way, 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: just as a point of contention, because the Clean Air 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: Act of mandated that when the vehicles of missions exceed 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: one and a half times the legal limit, the driver 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: meaning you were me, would be alerted by that light 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: on the dashboard. The Car Doctor. Recently, we're noticing that 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: if the car is off for more than about a day, 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: we have to jump it and then let it run 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: twenty minutes, or my mom can't take it out later 10 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 1: in the day. Does it have lights in the visors? 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: That would be a common fault. Welcome to the radio 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian the Car Doctor, since this 13 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: is where car owners the world overturned to for their 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: the garage doors are open? What I am here to 17 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: take your calls? At eight five and now running? It's 18 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: your UM, I guess this is a jeep open right. 19 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: We're gonna ta a little bit about jeep wrangler was 20 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: in the shop this week, and I see this as 21 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: a common problem, and I never thought to talk about 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: it because I don't know I guess sometimes I just 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: I just missed the small stuff. But you know, if 24 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: you've got if you've got a late model Wrangler and 25 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: when you shut it off, if it clacks, you know 26 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: there's a clock clack, clock clock clack over the right 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: side of the dashboard, what you've probably got is a 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: broken recirculation air door motor. What does that mean? You know, 29 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: if you look at your heater controls, and all cars 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: have this, They've give you the ability to draw in 31 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: fresh air from the outside of the vehicle or recirculate 32 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: the air that's in the vehicle constantly through the heater 33 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: or the a c EV operator corps. Well, on the 34 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: jeeps they've developed this problem. They've had it for a 35 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: while now, a long where the actuator motor itself fails 36 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: and it can't properly close the door, so it ratchets 37 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: trying to find it's it's minimum limit or stop, and 38 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: you'll hear this really obnoxious clock clock clock, clock clock 39 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: off the right side. You'll scan it for codes. We 40 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: did it. It's got a fault for the research door motor, 41 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: which it did. You know, it was a bad motor 42 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: and now you've got to change it. You know another 43 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: case of somebody drinking too much before they design a 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: car and then they let it out in the production. 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: So to do this job, and sometimes I think you 46 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: need a drink to do this job. Um, you have 47 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: to take the speaker out. You take the speaker out 48 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: of the right side of the dash, you take the 49 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: glove box out, you take the speaker out, and then 50 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: you have to lay across the driver's seat with the 51 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: shift they're sticking in your side, and stick your hand 52 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: all the way around the far side of the box. 53 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 1: And there's two seven millimeter screws holding the actuator in. 54 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: It's kind of tough to get to. You can take 55 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: off the bottom three there's three eight millimeter screws holding 56 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: the bottom edge of the dash in and you can 57 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: sort of peel it up a little bit and I'll 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: give you a little bit of flexibility in room, but 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: not much. And the point of all this is that 60 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,679 Speaker 1: if you're doing this, you can do it. It's I 61 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: was reading online, I was doing some research. You're trying 62 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: to establish a pattern. Just how would I explain this 63 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: to you? Guys? I see a lot of you are 64 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: complaining about it. You know, it's yeah, it's a tough job. 65 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: That's what the job is, right, it's it's it's it's 66 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: things you can't see that you have to work on. 67 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about it often enough, and we 68 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: got it done. We uh. You know. One of the 69 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: things the stumbling blocks we had was that the research 70 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: door motor had stopped in a spot because the actuator 71 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: was broken. It couldn't position it properly. Then what the 72 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: new actuator came in. So you can fix this one 73 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: of two ways. And that's the whole point of this 74 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: little bit of a tech tip. As we opened up 75 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: this with the repair of the week in that what 76 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: we what I did was I've saved actuators. I've got 77 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: a pile of broken actuators. So if you have one, 78 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: take one apart. Here's the use you've got for it. 79 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: Take it apart. Take the old actuator, take the stub shaft, 80 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: the piece that actually goes in to the heat of 81 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: ventilation air condition and control the h v A C case, 82 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: and use it as a tool to position the door 83 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: approximately where you think that new actuator is zero that 84 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: where it's stopped. All right, Then it's just a simple 85 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: matter of put it in, give it a little bit 86 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: of a nudge to line it up, and put your 87 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: screws in again. You're at a real bad angle. You're 88 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: really going to struggle with this, but you can get 89 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: it done. We I I put a little bit of 90 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: dumb dumb, a little bit of you know, putty sealer 91 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: on my fingertip and just you know, kind of walked 92 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: it in. I've also seen as a company out there 93 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: they make something called the magnetic finger which will hold it. 94 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: You know, it's just a it's just a little sleeve 95 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: that you put over your index finger and it allows 96 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: you to pick the magnet, pick the tip of the 97 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: screw up. It's a magnet will just hold it in place. 98 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: You can do a that way too, but it takes 99 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of perseverance and a little bit of 100 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: You have to bend your wrist in three places in 101 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: order to kind of make it around the corner. It's 102 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: it's it's a tough go, but you can get it done. 103 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: The most important thing is to make sure that you've 104 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: got the index set properly. And then the other way 105 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: you can do it is if you don't have a 106 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: spare actuator all right, I mean, you could take the 107 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: old actuator part and surely do it that way, but 108 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: if you don't want to do that, you can plug 109 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: in the new actuator, hold it tight up against the 110 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: case as the gear is turning trying to find its center, 111 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: and then you'll see when it gets to the right point, 112 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: you can just pop it in and then hold the 113 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: actuator so it doesn't spend it will or turn the 114 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: key off and it will find its center and then 115 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: you can maneuver it around and get your two screws in. 116 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: So um, just a little bit of a workaround. We 117 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: ended up doing that. The other thing we did to 118 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: this jeep, which is also common, is the exhaust bolts 119 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: that hold the front half and the back half of 120 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: the exhaust together tend to rot. This particular jeep, the 121 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: studs actually withered away into nothing and they splintered. They 122 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: just splintered into rusty shards, and it needed to be 123 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: replaced while the bolts fell out. But Chrysler from the 124 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: factory puts a fixed well did nut or a pressed 125 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: in nut receiver into the other side of the pipe. 126 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: What I ended up doing was I ended up heating 127 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: it just a little bit, just put a little bit 128 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: of heat to it, just enough so that it turns 129 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: just a touch of orange, and then took a long 130 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: thin point on the air chisel, gave it a tap 131 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: and it popped out. And obviously you know, we had 132 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: water there, had carpenter box standing by on fire duty 133 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: just to make sure I didn't burn the shop down 134 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: the week I was having and UM, you know got 135 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: her done so just and then just just nutting bolted 136 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: to put it back together and away you go. So 137 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: just a couple of things that you have to do, UM, 138 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: when you're dealing with that. Of course, we did a 139 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: complete scan and found a several faults in that vehicle 140 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: with regard two communications and some other things. I recorded 141 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: them all. I see that a lot on Chrysler. I 142 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: see a lot of Chrysler jeep product have multiple communication faults. UM, 143 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: I generally don't see a lot come of it that 144 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: it becomes an issue where there's a problem for them. 145 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: Uh you know, So we just kind of leave it 146 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: there and UM, just put it down in history and 147 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: clear it and see what comes back. But that's just 148 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: some tips for working on a jeep. And the other 149 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: thing has had was UM, I should mention it. Last 150 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: thing was it had a P zero in jeep language. 151 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: It was a fault with the thermostat. The rationality of 152 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: engine temperature didn't drive in terms of run time and 153 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: how long it took to get to a certain tempt. 154 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: So Chrysler has the ability to set a rationale fault. Uh, 155 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: you know it's been running six minutes. It should be 156 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: at this temperature kind of a thing, and it didn't 157 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: have that, and that's a thermostat fault. Um, you can 158 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: watch the rate of rise would be the same thing 159 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: in the house with a heating ventilation system. What's the 160 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: rate of rise of heat in the house, while the 161 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: same thing a rate of rise of heat in the 162 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: engine block. If it doesn't want the temperature fast enough, 163 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't bring the vehicle into emission's compliance and that 164 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: gets to be an issue too. So we put a 165 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: thermostat and it bled it out. Very important, you've got 166 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: to bleed it out. We opened up the bleeder, which 167 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: isn't in a great spot. Again somebody misdesigned this. They've 168 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 1: got the bleeder, you know, directly under the throttle body. 169 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: So you know, how do you get to a long, 170 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: thin screwdriver but still not in a great location. I 171 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: could think of several other places they could have put it. 172 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: And um, that vehicle was fixed in down the road 173 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: and obviously filled it up with the right coolin. So um, 174 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: there was no relearn on that. Sometimes when you do 175 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,719 Speaker 1: a blend or actuator, you've got to zero or re 176 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 1: zero or relearned the relationship of the blend or actuator 177 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: to the vehicle itself. This one did not have that, 178 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: and that vehicle went down the road. So just just 179 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: one of the repairs of the shop this week. So uh. 180 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: This year at the North American International Auto Show, just 181 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: a little article came across my desk that the flying 182 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: cars back the George Jetson mobile. Um, and they go 183 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 1: on to talk about how they actually flew it out 184 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: at the airport out in Detroit during the week of 185 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: the show. Detroit's fire Captain, Captain James Davis tried it out. 186 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: He said it was nice and smooth. I right, or 187 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: hardly anyway, So it was like riding a motorcycle up 188 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: in the air. I just question and and the CEO 189 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: of Aerospace Experienced Technologies, John Raminally was there and he said, 190 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, traffics overtaking our lives. We've got to do 191 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,599 Speaker 1: something different. I don't know what it would be like what. 192 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: I don't know that I trust certain people to fly 193 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: drive a flying car. I wouldn't trust Tom. I can 194 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: tell you that Tom in a flying car. Oh my gosh, 195 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: I can see where it's gonna be. Oh yeah. However, 196 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: that being said, people don't understand the rules of the road, 197 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: and people don't understand erro dynamics of a car on 198 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: the road, and I understand how to fly a flying car. 199 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: Well that's what I'm talking about, Tom, And I just 200 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: wonder how well will they do? Will it? Will it? 201 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: Will it work like that? But just to let you 202 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: guys know, flying cars and their creation is on the horizon. 203 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: So we all thought electric vehicles wouldn't get this far. 204 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: Who knows what we're talking about next year at this 205 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: time eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Hey, 206 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: we've got a great book. We're going to give away 207 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 1: this hour um to the right caller. We're looking for 208 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: somebody that's got interest in Porsche. It's all about the 209 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: seventy fifth anniversary of Porsche. It's a beautiful hardcover color 210 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: picture book that we just recently got. It's got my 211 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: fingerprints on it. We haven't let it out into Thom's 212 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: hands yet, and we're looking to put that out there 213 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: for you as we celebrate the kickoff of I think 214 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: this is the start of the holiday season, first weekend 215 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: of October, because in the the years only three months 216 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: away ward this year ago, we gotta live it up 217 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: all we can. So a five five six zero nine 218 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: zero zero run on any of the car doctor coming 219 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: back right after this vehicle not taking you where you 220 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: want to go, Well, call Ron, He's the expert at 221 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: making your vehicle take you where you needed. Eight five 222 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. And now 223 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: back to rot. You know, I had a conversation this 224 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: week with somebody about purchasing a replacement vehicle. Her lease 225 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: is running out. She's driving an Escape, and UM, I 226 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: thought i'd relay this story because I think you'll find this, 227 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: you know, applicable, because I think a lot of you 228 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: are in this position now if you're giving up a lease, 229 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: you know, a two or three year lease that you know, 230 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: this might apply to you. In her case, her nineteen 231 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: Escape has twenty one thousand miles on it. She hasn't 232 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: driven a lot. You know, a lot of you were 233 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: leasing vehicles and they've got lower mileage on them. You 234 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: didn't travel to work, you were, you know, working from home, 235 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: and the commute wasn't there. So her twenty one, I'm sorry, 236 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: her nineteen escape. Her buyout with taxes and licensing fees 237 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: and all the rest of the stuff they put in 238 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,719 Speaker 1: there was about sixteen grand. Now that's for a three 239 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: year old vehicle with twenty one tho miles on it um. 240 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: But it's got a street value. The dealership offered her 241 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: twenty two thousand dollars. So she's got she's got some 242 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: equity in this vehicle. You've got equity in that least 243 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: vehicle all of a sudden, if you've got a complete 244 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: car and day and age of no cars, uh, you've 245 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: got a complete vehicle. And I'm not saying this is 246 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: the case in everybody's situation, but in more often than not, 247 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: I believe this to be true. I've heard this story 248 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: a couple of times that her vehicle, her buyout was sixteen, 249 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: it was worth twenty two. And you know, she made 250 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars on leasing a vehicle. If she chose 251 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: to sell it, of course, you know, then she's got 252 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: to buy another one. And she considered it, and there's 253 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: a point to this, if you give me a minute, 254 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: that you know, she considered it a replacement new vehicle 255 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: like her escape, a twenty two escape. There's no twenty 256 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: threes out yet, or they're just starting to trickle in. 257 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: UM is about thirty eight thousand, so the difference between 258 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: twenty two and thirty eight would be her loan um, 259 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: and that would be her monthly payment. We watch this, 260 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,359 Speaker 1: here's what she did, and she did this on my suggestion, 261 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: and it turns out it worked out that she spoke 262 00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: to Ford. She can buy a premium for warranty policy 263 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: extended warranty policy that will give her roadside coverage, run 264 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: out of gas, flat tire, all the usual stuff, towing, hotel, 265 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: all the usual good stuff for four more years for 266 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: about three grand, so you know, sixteen thousand, three thousand, 267 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: that's nineteen for nineteen thousand dollars. She's got a vehicle 268 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: that's already got you know, a couple of small scratches 269 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: and bangs and bumps in it, nothing terrible, but it's 270 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: been on the road, um for less than twenty grand. 271 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: She's got a vehicle that's proven itself at held together 272 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: all this time, and she's gonna have the same warranty, 273 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: in the same protection and the same degree of service. 274 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: She gets a loaner car. So you know, maybe you 275 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: don't want to rush to get rid of that least. 276 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: Maybe you want to consider, you know, certain you know, 277 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: uncertain economic times. Maybe it pays to buy that vehicle 278 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: and you know, if you can. In her case, she's 279 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: just gonna make a cash payment. She didn't she didn't 280 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: have to take out a loan for it. Um, you know, 281 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: sometimes that may not work out because you get into 282 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: that used car payment is six percent, where the new 283 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: car payment is based on three and the difference is 284 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: getting close to that new car purchase. But still, um, 285 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, it's just one alternative to go by that. 286 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: You know, maybe you don't need to purchase a new 287 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: car if your if your least car has low enough 288 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: mileage on it that, uh, you know, you can get 289 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: away with that and save a few bucks. And she 290 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: told me, she said she's gonna do it, and uh, 291 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: she's gonna pretend that she has a car payment every 292 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: month of and uh put money away so in three years, 293 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: when she's done with this car, she'll have actual she'll 294 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: actually have money to put down on a new car 295 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: and keep the process going. So just one person's look 296 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 1: at it. I thought it was a good idea, and 297 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to share that with you. Tom My Spies 298 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: tell me that before I go any further, you had 299 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: you had a little bit of an adventure this week. 300 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: How did you make out with your escape? Oh? Well, 301 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: I had a little, uh little issue about two weeks ago. 302 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: I received a recall notice about a transmit and bushing 303 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: with the shifter cable. And you know I'm busy. I said, Okay, 304 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: in about two weeks, I'll call and make the appointment, 305 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: just because I'll have a slow period. Well, on Monday, 306 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: the car made its own appointment. I was at a 307 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: client in Connecticut, pulled into the parking space, had to 308 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: run out to the hardware store to get something, put 309 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: it in reverse, backed out of the space, put it 310 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: in drive. The dashboard said the car was in the reverse, 311 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: The shifter said the car was in drive. The car 312 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: was actually a neutral. Um. So I put the shifter 313 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: back into park and went and pushed it back into 314 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: the space and shut the car off, and that was 315 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: it couldn't restart, the car couldn't move the shifter level lever, 316 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: and had to have it towed to Newburgh, New York 317 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: from Connecticut. UM shout out to the guys at Sunshine 318 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: Forward because I called over there to say, hey, my 319 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: my car is coming in and they let me talk 320 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: to the guy that all he does is escapes, and 321 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: he said, let me guess your symptoms. And the shifter 322 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: lever is locked, can't start it, don't know what gear 323 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: it's in. I said, well, I know it's in neutral. Okay, 324 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: so he's he's, he's good for you. Uh, he says, 325 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: get it in here, he's. I had it out the 326 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: door in half an hour. We got the parts for 327 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: the recall, and I went, oh, so, needless to say, 328 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: it got there the next day, well because it got 329 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: there after business hours. Uh. The next morning they looked 330 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: at it and I told them, you know, I think 331 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: it may have a problem going to sleep because the 332 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: car thought it was a neutral or I'm sorry, I 333 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: thought it wasn't a reverse. And you know, they they 334 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: did the recall obviously at no charge, and they ran 335 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: it through a battery attests just to make sure everything 336 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: was okay and didn't charge me a cent and even 337 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: washed the car, So you know they're good people over there. Yeah, 338 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: I think you had a and I said that to 339 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: you during the week. I think the guys at Sunshine Ford. 340 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: Where is is that Monroe Tom No, that's uh no, 341 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: that's in the Newburg, Newburgh, New York. Um. I think that. Um, 342 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: you know, they've got it going on. They they you know, 343 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: they took care of and that's what they're supposed to do. 344 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: And that's that's just so important. But um, that's good. Now, 345 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: how many miles escapes? Almost got three hundred thousand miles 346 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: on it? Right, I know three? So that that's what 347 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,120 Speaker 1: you know that And that's why it took my time 348 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: with the recall. I figured the transmission has got three 349 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: and on it, what's the rush it should have? It 350 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: should have kind of reared its head by now. You 351 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: know it's so funny, right, you are just the living 352 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: epitome of of you know the difference between the person 353 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,479 Speaker 1: that does around town mileage and the person that does 354 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: highway miles. Uh. You know that car just doesn't know 355 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 1: you a diamond. It just keeps going knockwood. Um, you know, 356 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: and I blame a lot of it, not that I 357 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: blame it, but you know, it's based on the mileage. 358 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: You do all highway miles and and you do your 359 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: oil changes. I think, uh, you know, you stay on 360 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: top of that. But other than that, that car has 361 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: been vige for entires, breaks and uh, you know it's 362 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: so yeah, and that's and you know, part of the 363 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: problem why it had that issue where it didn't know 364 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: what gear it's in because everything is electronic today. It 365 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: needs to know what gear it's in for so many 366 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: other vital engine functions, not to mention the ability to 367 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: allow it to start at the ability for idle, the 368 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: ability for you know, just everything else. So it's it's 369 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: it's no surprise that it was that confused, but I'm 370 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: glad it worked out well. And if you've got an escape, 371 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: I think that recall goes from like the four teams 372 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: up to the twenties, sixteen or seventeens if I remember right. 373 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: But if you get a recall notice for the shift, 374 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: the pushing tom's living proof that you have to pay 375 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: attention to it and get it done as soon as 376 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: you can, because uh, you will get stopped dead in 377 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: your track, so zero we're coming back to continue right 378 00:18:33,160 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: after this. I'm run eating the guard. Doctor. Don't go away, 379 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: A welcome back corn into the car. Doctor. You know, 380 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 1: I've been working on this nineties six Bronco for a customer. Um. 381 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: Bill's funny. He's a funny guy. He's got these two Broncos, 382 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: got two of them, all right, Um, and their neat 383 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: you know, it's like I remember the last of the 384 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: full sized Broncos. He's got a blue and white one 385 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: and a black one and um, both five point eight 386 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: leader just big fun trucks, you know, the Bronco, the 387 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: big the original Bronco. Um. You know, well this wasn't 388 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: the original, right, The original was back in the sixties, 389 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: and uh you know, and now the small one, the 390 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: new one sort of resembles what they originally were like. 391 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: But uh regardless, Um, you know, I'm working on this 392 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: full sized Bronco. I call it it's tough because you know, 393 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: never mind the parts shortage, the parts just don't exist. 394 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: And every time I go to buy something, I buy 395 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: two of it because I'm working on the one and 396 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: I know the other one's gonna need it at some point. 397 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: So him and him and I have an understanding that 398 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: I'll buy one and I'll buy both, and you know, 399 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: i'll buy two, and this way, the other one's already 400 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: got its part in stock, and you know, it just 401 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: makes life. We're prepared. So we're working on a C 402 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: this time around. The a c IS hasn't really held 403 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: a charge in a long time. And you know, a 404 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: C leak detection is a black art, it really is. 405 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: It's it's difficult at best because you know, the refrigerant 406 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: leak detectors on the marketplace, I don't think anybody has 407 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 1: one that really works well. And with the price of refrigerant, now, 408 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: when you're leaking refrigerant, uh, it's expensive. You're you're wasting 409 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: refrigerant because you don't get it all back. I've switched. 410 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: I switched the shop about two years ago. Two C 411 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: O two carbon dioxide leak detection. A company by the 412 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: name of Automotive Test Solutions, the great Bernie Thompson and 413 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: company out and I believe it's Arizona or New Mexico. 414 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: I forget where um, but he's got a bunch of 415 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: different tools on the market and one of it is UM. 416 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: He's come up with a carbon dioxide leak detector, and 417 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: he's got a regulator set up that he built that 418 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 1: that will help pressurize, you know, anything from evaporative emission systems, 419 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: the fuel system looking for the tank leaks uh, to 420 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: air conditioning air conditioning heat or cores um, you know, 421 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: pressurizing anything and then using a CEO too sniffer which 422 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: works so well. And it just it's it's just spot on. 423 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: It's really just you know, on the money. So I 424 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: did my CEO two leak detection. I prepped the vehicle 425 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: and I did my CEO two leak detection, and the 426 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 1: condenser was leaking. Sure enough proved it a matter of fact, 427 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: I got it down to it. It pinpointed into such 428 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: a tight area. I took out my other trick that 429 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: I've been doing lately, is um, we use something called 430 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: tire soap. It's that's what that's what the or tire 431 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: soap leak detecture leak detector UM or tire leak detector soap. 432 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: I forget what the heck is says on the bottle. 433 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: I just you know, Danny knows. I say, give me 434 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: the tire soap uh. And what it does is it 435 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: bubbles ester. If you can believe that it's a product 436 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: that reacts to leaks quicker, it's it actually bubbles faster 437 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: and smaller um than regular soap. I know that sounds weird, 438 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: and the first time I heard it, I said, you know, 439 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: I feel like somebody's trying to sell the ocean front 440 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: property in Arizona. Like it just doesn't exist, right, But 441 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: sure enough it does. You spray it onto a leaking valve. 442 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: Stam mean, you can see it's so much quicker and faster, 443 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 1: and it's such better detail. It's it's worth every penny. 444 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: It's not expensive stuff. I think we bought a bottle 445 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: of it for twenty bucks two years ago. We're still 446 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: working on the same bottle. So it just it just 447 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: last forever. So I you know, when I get down 448 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: to in the in the case of doing the CO 449 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: two leak detection on on vehicles now for AC, I'll 450 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: take some tire soap and I'll I'll sprits right around 451 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 1: it's and there it is. Hey, look at that bad part. 452 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: Found a condenser. Found two right, Because I gotta feed 453 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: the one that's not in the shop. I've always got 454 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,479 Speaker 1: to give Bill back two parts. I give him back 455 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: the second, put the second one in the back of 456 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: the truck. Put the first one in the truck. Start 457 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 1: the vehicle up. We'll not start the vehicle up. I 458 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: I you know, finished the vehicle up, and I do 459 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: and a c evacuation, draw it all out, and do 460 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: a vacuum leak check. Now, I don't put a lot 461 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: of stock and vacuum leak checks, primarily because I've seen 462 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: a lot of vehicles. I've seen more vehicles in my 463 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: career pass vacuum tests and fail pressure because one sucking in, 464 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: one's pushing out. There two different kinds of stresses on 465 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: the vehicle system. So I did the vacuum test and 466 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: pulled it down and you know, gave it a leak 467 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: detection test and it failed. Uh uh. And now I'm like, jeez, 468 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: do I have a bed new never ever worked part? Right? 469 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: That's where your thought goes. And I, you know, stay 470 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: calm and got a bad new part. Least I know 471 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: where the spare is. It's in the back of the 472 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: truck because I already have one. And the new part 473 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 1: was okay, I I c O two leak detected it again, 474 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: because that's the only thing I could think of I said, 475 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: what else did I touch? And so I did a 476 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: CEO two. I charged it with CEO too. The evaporator, 477 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The condenser passed, It was fine. I think 478 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: I said evaporator before, but I was talking about a condenser. Um. 479 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,959 Speaker 1: The condenser passed, it was fine, and I started sniffing 480 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: around the system. Now I did the same test that 481 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: I did before when I found the bad condenser, and 482 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: now I did it and the O ring. There was 483 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 1: a there's a thermostatic cycling switch on the accumulator back 484 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: in the day. And wouldn't you know it that the 485 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: O ring on the thermostatic cycling switch just just just 486 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: enough and it failed vacuum test. Why did it do 487 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: it at the moment that I changed the condenser. I 488 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: don't know. Um, I just don't know. And you know, 489 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 1: the real joke of it is, you know, we've been 490 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: kind of chasing this problem for a little while, trying 491 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: some different things before we went to the CEO too, 492 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: and somewhere along the way, I do a vacuum test 493 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: with the old condenser and it passed, which is why 494 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: I resorted the CEO two. It's a little sometimes it 495 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: can be a little tedious, you know, going through that. 496 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: But you know it's it's that's like my last resolution, 497 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: that's where the buck, the buck stops here kind of thing. Um, 498 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just weird, you know, working on cars, 499 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: you're never quite sure. It's I always think Yogi Barrow 500 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: was right. I don't know if he was talking about 501 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: baseball or repairing cars, because it ain't over till it's over, 502 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: you know. You just you just don't know where the 503 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: repair is gonna go. You don't know where it's gonna 504 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: take you. It is that far as Gump box of 505 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: chocolates thing. It's just you never know what you're gonna get. 506 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: And I say this because I think everybody needs to 507 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: try or to repair once in their life. I really do. 508 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: I think it's like dating. I think you know, you 509 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: go date somebody else, you figure out either how good 510 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,239 Speaker 1: you got it or how fast you want to run 511 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: away like your hair is on fire. Um. You know, 512 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: when it comes to auto repair, you might have a 513 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: really good mechanic. You just don't realize it. Be is 514 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: you don't know what they have to go through every day, 515 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just just something to be aware of. 516 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: I know that, Um, in his twelve years with us, 517 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: Danny has said to me many a time he goes, 518 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: you know, I thought you were kidding when you said 519 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to see things that I'm never gonna understand 520 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: or believe until I actually see it more than once. 521 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: And now I'll sit there and he'll tell you some 522 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: things that he says. He says, you know what, some 523 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: really crazy things happened in order repair. Why would the 524 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: O ring go bad? Just you know, and it didn't. 525 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: It just happened to be that moment when the plastic 526 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: distorted enough that we caught it that it just made 527 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: all the difference in the world. So but UM, in 528 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: any event, that that car will go this week, because 529 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: the last thing I would have gone Friday. But the 530 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: last thing I did to it was, you know, I 531 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: got the A C problem out of the way, because 532 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: that's the hard job. So the easy job was to 533 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: change the transmission fluid. So I, you know, I had 534 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: ordered up a pan and filter and gasket and uh, 535 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: you know, got the old pan down and cleaned up 536 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: the pan and when they get the gas getting put 537 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: it on right shape, wrong size holes because in nine 538 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: they had a different style gasket. They had a reusable gasket, 539 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: and they had different style pan openings, and then ninety 540 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: five was a completely different style pan gasket. Or evidently 541 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: I've got an early ninety six Bronco with leftover parts 542 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: from ninety five. That's a different pan gasket than the nineties. 543 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: So again, it's it ain't over till it's over. So um, 544 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: just be aware. But uh, you know, if you have 545 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: the ability and you're a shop and you're doing a 546 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 1: lot of a c diagnosis, consider CEO two leak detection, 547 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: which by the way works with regards to um water leaks. 548 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: I've filled the interior of the car with c O 549 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: two and I found water leaks this way. I've used 550 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: it for twelve thirty four y F refrigerant. I've used 551 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: it for evaporative emissions leaks. Uh you know, I've used 552 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: it for a variety of leaks and just different ways 553 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: and different things that you wouldn't think of that. Uh, 554 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: you know, just make the job with that much easier 555 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: that you're positive and you're building confidence that the car 556 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: is fixed. Eight five zero zero zero. The car Doctor's 557 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: cruising back right after this Welcome back, right, name of 558 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: the car Doctor I got a really great email. And 559 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: you know, I try to read as many of your 560 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: emails as I can, um and this one kind of 561 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: bothered me a little bit because maybe I'm not explaining 562 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: myself right. I sometimes I do that I get a 563 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: little flustered. Ron. I've been listening to you for many 564 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: years on your podcast. I'm a podcaster. I'm a third 565 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: generation general contractor and lifelong hobby mechanic and boat owner. 566 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: Somehow I got lucky enough to marry a beautiful doctor, 567 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: God bless I love your show and preach your philosophy 568 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 1: and diagnosis and continually educating yourself to everyone I know 569 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: in every walk of life. On your recent September tenth show, 570 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: you were talking to a gentleman about a two thousand 571 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: one for seven point three diesel and some old iron. 572 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: It has always bothered me to hear you respond to 573 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: questions about hot Rod's monitoring engines and trans running modern 574 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: engines and transmissions and not knowing what to do about 575 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: electronics except oh we am well, you know, Greg, I 576 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: don't know if that's necessarily a fair statement. I guess 577 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: maybe that's the way it comes across. My concern is, 578 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: does anybody does everybody have the pocketbook to deal with that? 579 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: Because to convert, I mean, listen to the easy answer 580 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: is go find a junk vehicle that runs a seven three, 581 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: transfer the wiring harness over and then go pin for 582 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: pin and delete which you don't need and keep what 583 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: you do. And but it can become a very tedious task. 584 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: You know, it's very different today. You know. Back when 585 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: I was a kid. Uh, you know, it was just 586 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: a matter of if you could if you could turn 587 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: four bolts and nuts down, tighten the carburetor up on 588 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: the engine, you made a hot rod, it was you 589 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: were done. Um. You know things have changed. Does everybody 590 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: have the tenacity to sit there and go through wire 591 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: by wire pin by pin? There's an awful lot of 592 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: computer knowledge that you have to have in order to 593 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: do this. So then you go on to say, and 594 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: I agree with you, Um, why not use something after 595 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: market like products from Hall Tech h A L t Ec, 596 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: Halltech dot com. In the hot rod world, you must 597 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: have seen what others have done with their products. They 598 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: make ECU and Consistence and just about everything else you 599 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: need th run any if you put your mind to 600 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: it and know the ranges, the O e m ranges 601 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: of your inputs and outputs. You see, that's part of 602 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: the problem too, There isn't enough information out there. Can 603 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: you do it? Sure? You then continue in your emailing. 604 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: You see there all sorts of wild cars and trucks 605 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: out there running all sorts of engines and older and 606 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: more modern chassis using hall tech and other aftermarket modules. 607 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: There are individuals and shops that can help you do 608 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: it or learn to do it, not many as they 609 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: are rare like you that are out there. There's also 610 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,479 Speaker 1: applies to electric vehicles. There are electric cot rods, yes, 611 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: there are. I understand that. Um I guess I'd like 612 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: to see you recommend a hot rod. People asking these 613 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: type of questions that anything is possible, but it takes 614 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: patient research, tools and time, as well as those fuel, 615 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: special companies and people out there that can help you. 616 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: And of course a bottomless wallet, you know, and it 617 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: does listen. You can do anything, uh, you know, you 618 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: can build anything to your heart's content, but is it 619 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: going to be a practical built in terms of are 620 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: you gonna lose interest halfway through? You're gonna finish it? 621 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: So let me be clear for the gentleman, if he's 622 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: listening with the diesel in the old car. Um, yeah, 623 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: listen if you can find the right wiring harness and 624 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: by all means, checkout whole tech dot com. And that's 625 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: part of the reason why I'm reading this email. I 626 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: want to get that information out there. Um, something I 627 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: hadn't thought of, but haltech dot com. I'm not afraid 628 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: to admit, you know what, I forgot something. But also, 629 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: like Greg points out, Um, you know this does take 630 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: bottomless dollars. Sometimes it's you know, how big of a 631 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: project do you want to make. You can't approach something 632 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: such as putting a seven point three power power stroke 633 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: diesel and I think it was a thirty nine Ford 634 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: or something. I forget exactly what the car was that 635 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: you were trying to do, but you can't, you know, 636 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: project to do that and say, hey, I want to 637 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: do it for two grand. Um, you know, it's just 638 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: it's it's just you just write a blank check. And 639 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: that's really what it takes sometimes to do a hot rod. Tom. 640 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: This is before I and I want to give credit 641 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,479 Speaker 1: to credit is due with Satowski. Um is Greg's last name, 642 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: but it's it's the town. Can you see the town 643 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: on that email, c A n A and d is 644 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 1: that can can Canda dagois New York. Now I'm saying 645 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: that wrong. Um, that's A that's upstate. I'm holding up 646 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: the email, okay, and it is Canoniga Kennon Dagua. There 647 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: you go. So I knew you would know how to 648 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: say that you're you're a fellow upstate or though I'm 649 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,719 Speaker 1: not allowed to say upstate, Um, well not where I'm 650 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: not where I am, he's he's way upstate. He's really 651 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: an upstate. Now you can't say upstate. They're not allowed 652 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,719 Speaker 1: to call that upstate. Remember we got that email from 653 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: the folks yelling at us that that's not considered upstate. 654 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: I don't know what they consider upstate New York, but 655 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: it's not upstate. It's something else. So I don't want 656 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: to get in trouble to listen. He may be mid state, 657 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: but he's far enough north to be upstate, doesn't he's 658 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: north of Jersey, so he's upstate to me. Eight five 659 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: five five six zero nine zero zero, Greg, I do 660 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: appreciate your thoughts though, and uh, I'm always open to 661 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: everybody's ideas, comments, questions, concerns. I'm running inning of the 662 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: Car Doctor. I'll be back right after this. Welcome back, 663 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: Rannie of the Car Docorate five five five zero nine 664 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: zero zero. By the way, keep in mind that Car 665 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: Doctor Showed dot com is our website and we're putting 666 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: videos up there from time to time, and not as 667 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: many as I'd like, but you know, time gets limited. 668 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: We are busy in the shop and we try to 669 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: just give you, you know, right from the base kind 670 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: of stuff, and so that's out there. But the five 671 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: five us want to point out the eight five five 672 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: five zero phone number is seven. You can call it 673 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: any time, day or night, leave a message and Tom Ray, 674 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: executive producer, will call you back and get you in 675 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: the Q for the next live broadcast. We are live 676 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: on the weekends Saturday afternoons to to four pm East 677 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: Coast time. And you know, just because you don't hear 678 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: the show live, you're a podcaster and you don't hear 679 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: the show live, that we're glad to sit here and 680 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: talk to you during show hours, and we prefer to 681 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: answer you know, I do get some of your I 682 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: do get your emails, and I try to answer some 683 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: of them, and personally, I've I've kind of changed my 684 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: thinking that I'd rather answer them up here on air. 685 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: So I'd rather get you on air because there's sometimes 686 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,239 Speaker 1: there's information missing in most cases, and information missing from 687 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: the emails, and uh, you know, I'd like everybody to 688 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: benefit from it, and I think it would make good 689 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: show content. So if you don't get a call back 690 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: from me or an email back from me, you don't 691 00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: assume that I didn't read it. You know what it 692 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: might be that it was interesting, and a lot of 693 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: times I will send the reply, hey, can we get 694 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: you up here on air? UM, But you know, schedules 695 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: being what they are, there's only only one of me 696 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: and one of Tom. So uh, you know, it's take 697 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: some initiative and call us at zero zero. We'll talk 698 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: to you about your car and it's problem. I want 699 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: to leave you with this thought. We recently read an 700 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: article on All Data All data dot Com. I was 701 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: in their tech tips section and um, it talked about 702 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: a center that came into a repair shop where the 703 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: power windows were all broken. And you know, I say 704 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: this because as as crazy as it sounds, I've seen 705 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: scenarios like this where it'll come in with four power 706 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: windows not working and the shop will change all four 707 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: power window motors um and they'll do a minimal amount 708 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: of diagnosis where they'll just put a master power windows 709 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: switch in it and again, minimal amount of power, minimal, 710 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: minimal amount of diagnosis, if any at all. And it 711 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: was a good article the tech Tips section of All 712 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: Data because it explained how the technician sat down and 713 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: read a wiring diagram and what he found was that 714 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: you know, power coming into the master switch. He verified 715 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: that was there, and then he checked the master ground 716 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,399 Speaker 1: for the power windows switch circuit. This master ground, which 717 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: came up the master switch on the driver's door, was 718 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,320 Speaker 1: ground for all the motors. Turns out the ground was 719 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: bad and that singular ground took out all four power 720 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: window motors, and repairing the ground repaired the car with 721 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: minimal amounts of parts, just some shot materials, you know, 722 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 1: electrical wiring and so forth. So again, proving diagnosis is 723 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: the way to go. And it was all right there 724 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 1: and All Data All Data dot com. You can check 725 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: it out online. Until the next time I'm on an 726 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 1: any in the car doctor, I want to thank you 727 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: for taking the time to be with us this weekend 728 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing you next weekendun Til then, 729 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you