1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Ron and you know, I think to be successful in life, 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: I think to be successful in order repair. You really 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: got to know yourself. You gotta know who you are, 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: the car doctor. Go buy the cheapest round head, old 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: school headlamp you can find. All right, it's gonna cost 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: you ten bucks or less. It's not gonna be a 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: lot of money. Run down to the local Orello to parts. 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: Tell him you're looking for a test headlamp. Welcome to 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: the radio home of Ron and Anian the Car Doctor. 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: Since this is where car owners the world over turned 11 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: and call in. The garage doors are open, but I 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 1: am here to take your calls at eight five now 15 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: he running. You know, it was a peaceful week. It 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: it really was. We Um we were on the cation 17 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: last week. So you know, stories from the shop. I've 18 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: got a few. They're gonna be old stuff that I 19 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: was thinking about during the right out of Pittsburgh. Took 20 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 1: a little bit of a ride to Pittsburgh to see uh, 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: to see family, and um, yeah, it's good. Right. You 22 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: got to recharge the batteries. It's important, no pun intended 23 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: being a mechanic, but you've got to do that. And 24 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: you know, you zip along the Pennsylvania Turnpike eighty miles 25 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: an hour trying not to get run over and and 26 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: and you know, stay safe, and you get to think 27 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: and your your mind kind of wanders a little bit. 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: Of course, the excitement was that the northeast here in 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: the in the United States was getting pounded by a snowstorm. 30 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: But we left just ahead of it and we came 31 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: back right after it. And I will say this, the 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: technology does come in handy. You know. You don't appreciate 33 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: the technology that cars have developed into, you know, until 34 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: you get to use it, until you get to utilize it, 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,639 Speaker 1: attraction control and a BS and and all the different 36 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: sorts of vehicle stability safety items that they pack to cars. 37 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if we want to pay for it, 38 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: because I can't imagine when it breaks out an expensive 39 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: It's going to be um an expense has to be 40 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: on your mind, right. It's funny if you go out 41 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: to the Facebook page. I posted it five minutes before air. 42 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: I was cleaning out files this morning and I came 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: across an invoice, and I've had this in my possession 44 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: for Jesus thirty years. Uh. It's a copy of an 45 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: invoice from a company called Coleman Halleran Inc. Scientific Service, Paterson, 46 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: New Jersey, home with the Great lu Costello, dated November 47 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: fifty one. So it's been around a little while, and 48 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: I've got it wrapped in plastic because I don't want 49 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: it to, you know, fade away. And it's for a 50 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: Mrs p. Petrie somewhere I think it was. I think 51 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: it was Patterson or a Adella kind of faded in time, 52 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: but um, she had a thirty nine Plymouth in one 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,119 Speaker 1: that she was getting serviced and this this thirty nine Plymouth, 54 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: you know. Um, the oil change was seventy five cents. 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: They did some kind of tune up in the engine 56 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: for three bucks. They adjusted the brakes for seventy five cents. 57 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: They checked the shocks and said they were okay, and 58 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: they repacked the front wheel bearings for a dollar. The 59 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: entire service was seven dollars and fifty cents. And if 60 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: you live in New Jersey you can really appreciate it 61 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: because you look at it and there's no sales tax. 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: So it was before the the the they decided we 63 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: needed sales tax to pay for things. I guess it's 64 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: when people worked. But you know, seven fifty seven fifty 65 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: doesn't put two gallons of gas in the car a 66 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: lot of times nowadays. And you look at that and 67 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: you say, but by the same token, you look at 68 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: it and you say, g thirty nine Plymouth. Would I 69 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: want to go to Pittsburgh in a thirty nine Plymouth? 70 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: How long would it take driving through a snowstorm, driving 71 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: over mountain highways covered in ice, and and and so forth, 72 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: And you think about how much more stable the car is. 73 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: We were in a four to Explorer with a broken 74 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: navigation system. I must point out, by the way, Uh, 75 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: they still haven't figured that out. And you're thankful for it, 76 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: you really are. Um, yeah, it's it's a great story, right, 77 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: you know, if you're a regular listener, you know we've 78 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: got a twenty eighteen Explorer in the family in x LT. 79 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: Great vehicle, like the vehicle a whole lot. There's a 80 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: lot of good about it. But Ford this has SINC 81 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: three uh, their Level three UM communications with the navigation radio, 82 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: heater touch screen in the center of the dash, and 83 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: Ford still hasn't sorted it out. They still haven't figured 84 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: that out how to make it work, because in the 85 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: last year and a half, I'm gonna say last year 86 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: and a half, it's been back three times and they've 87 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: done too software updates, a hardware change and it works 88 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: for a little while and then it's broken again and 89 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: they have no answers so far. Um, in all fairness 90 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: to them, I know they're working on it, and as 91 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: I told the service writer that I'm working with Dave 92 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: and I think they's doing a great job. Um, gotta 93 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: think a little outside the box. There's there there's something 94 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: else going on here. Personally, I think it's a I 95 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: think it's gonna be hardware. I think that technology is 96 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: changing so fast that the hardware can't keep up with 97 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: the differences in phones, or differences in satellite radio, or 98 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: something's evolving and changing, or they're just bad parts, which 99 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: could be that too. But UM, very grateful. It was 100 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: a nice ride. Uh. You know, we made Pittsburgh in 101 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: six hours. I don't think I could say I would 102 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: do that in a thirty nine Plymouth. I think it 103 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: would take a whole lot longer. I think you'd be 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: exhausted to write, uh, you know, either that we'd all 105 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: be more physically fit, we'd have arms like gorgeous George 106 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: trying to steer thirty nine Plymouth down the highway at 107 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: which was probably close to top speed for one of those, right, 108 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: you know, how fast? How safe did you feel driving 109 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: in that? I mean, this car was a tank, this 110 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: car that I found this in this thirty nine Plymouth. Um, 111 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 1: it was in the old shop when we were when 112 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: we were on the other street. And what happened was 113 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: this car sat at the end of the big giant 114 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: parking lot that was part of the building. And nobody 115 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: knew anything about this car. And we were in the 116 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: building the better part of ten years, and we'd walk 117 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: by the car, but we never looked inside. We didn't 118 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: you know, we're two busy fixing cars. We didn't care. 119 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: And one day we you know, we had to look 120 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: into it because we were junking it. Because the building 121 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: next to the parking lot, there was a big stone wood, 122 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: older building in a lumber yard. UM fell on it. 123 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: It fell on the car, entered the roof a little bit. 124 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: We were still able to, you know, push the car 125 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: out on the four wheels and then get it up 126 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: on the flatbed. At that point they scrapped it. They 127 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: they it had been a trade taken in at the 128 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: local Chevy dealer there in North Jersey that had taken 129 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: it in trade. The Chevy dealer was out of business 130 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: fifteen years and they just never knew what to do 131 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: with it and throw it in the corner of the lot. 132 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 1: So I go through the glove compartment. That's where I 133 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: found that invoice for the thirty nine Plymouth and I 134 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: kept it. I thought that was kind of neat, um, 135 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: you know, sort of a look back in time, November one, right, 136 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: what was the world like then? Just so very very different, 137 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: and about the change in thirty days, and uh, you know, 138 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: just just neat stuff. So we went to Pittsburgh, came back, 139 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: Um made record time coming back, which we we rode 140 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: ahead of the snowstorm or the tail end of the 141 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: snowstorm coming back. And I learned, you know, because I 142 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: like to go on trips, I like to drive around. 143 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: I like to look at different repair shops. I mean 144 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: that's my thing, right, what else would I do? Pittsburgh 145 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: is interesting. We were in the Jeannette Greensburg area, so 146 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: I guess that would be the southeastern area of Pittsburgh 147 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: Township and you know a little bit outside of Altuna Altuna. 148 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: We're up there on Altuna Radio. We're about forty five 149 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: minutes west of there. When we're in Jeannette, and you know, 150 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: it's funny they still have what I call the smaller 151 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: mom and pop store they have. You know, it goes 152 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: from very rural Pennsylvania, too high tech you know, uh, 153 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: silver platinum and glass dealership fronts to the change store 154 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: that I mean, the variety is more than North Jersey has, 155 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: which is home based to us. But you know, it 156 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: made me think, how is technology going to change? Or 157 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: how are we going to change? How are we going 158 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: to adapt to that. I read an article in one 159 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: of the trades this week that talked about the fact 160 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: that mom and pop repair shops. There are one and 161 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: a half percent less repair shops in the last year 162 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: at the mom and pop level, and they based it 163 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: on a number of employees. And you know, salt proprietorship 164 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: to smaller operations. They've lost one and a half to 165 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: two percent of those guys have either retired not been replaced, 166 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: just can't keep up. The technology continues to climb recently, 167 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: it seems like the industry is above with a DOS. 168 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: A DOS is the buzzword, the automated driver assist systems, 169 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: and it's becoming a stumbling block. It really is, because 170 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: there's no there's no way around it. You know that 171 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: thirty nine Plymouth didn't have it, but the twenty nineteen 172 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: if Plymouth existed, would, But the any other car has it. 173 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: Where you take a bumper off to do a headlight, 174 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: you're probably affecting the ADS system because there's sensors in 175 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: the bumper. You put a windshield in the car, that windshield, 176 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: that camera has to be calibrated. You do a wheel alignment, 177 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: that a DOS camera system has to be calibrated. And 178 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: the cheapest entry level I'm seeing right now to get 179 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: into a DOS is a minimum investment for a repair 180 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: shop of thirty grand. It's not like writing a tool 181 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: on the snap on truck for a hundred bucks. It's 182 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: thirty grand. And then there's software updates and and and 183 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: calibrations that have to be made, and then there's the 184 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: issue of space. And as I was driving through Pittsburgh 185 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: and around Pittsburgh, I kept thinking that in the back 186 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: of my head that place can't do it. That place 187 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: can't do it. That place can't do it. And I 188 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: think if I looked at a dozen businesses, three out 189 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: of the dozen had the space because you need I 190 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: forget how I think you need a thirty foot bay 191 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: or you need a thirty foot bay and then thirty 192 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: ft of extension space in front to set up the 193 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: calibration cameras and mirrors and the ability to actually calibrate 194 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: the system so the cameras can see the road and 195 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: just crazy stuff. And I come back and I find 196 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: this invoice for this thirty nine Plymouth and I go, 197 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: I bet they didn't have any ADS system on that 198 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: and the car ran just fine. Probably not as comfortable, 199 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: but um, just just a variation. Just such change, right, 200 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: such change in technology. And in less than eighty years, uh, 201 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: never mind forty years since that car was traded in, 202 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting too. I asked when that 203 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: car was traded and I knew the owner of the 204 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: dealership that thirty nine Plymouth was traded into the Chevy 205 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: dealer against the new car in ninety four. Start doing 206 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: the math and think how old that car was? Um, 207 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: you know, and that car just sat there for the 208 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 1: better part of years before. It was just the building 209 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: fell on it, so we had to get rid of it. 210 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: Can't have a building fall on a new car. Um 211 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: you might hurt the building. So anyway, let's pull over 212 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: and take a pause. I'm Ron, and any in the 213 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: car doctor, I'm here to take your calls at five 214 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero zero. Again eight five five 215 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: zero nine zero zero. Give us a shout. Let's talk 216 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: about your car and it's problem. I'll be here waiting 217 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 1: for you. Don't go away for the best in car advice. 218 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: Give Ron a call eight five five five zero nine 219 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Now back to rock and then welcome 220 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: back by the way we we I get back to 221 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: the shop and you know, of course, leaving a repair 222 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: shop trying to get away on a vacation, just it's 223 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: difficult to just do it's it's and you get back 224 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: and now you've got this. We had we had snow 225 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,719 Speaker 1: in North Jersey where the shop is, and okay, I 226 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: put the plow truck with the plow inside the shop, figuring, okay, 227 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: I'll just come out and push the snow. How hard 228 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: of that big big Chevy three quarter ton pickup, you know, 229 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: big Western plow and um, I only got stuck twice 230 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: in my own parking lot trying to push snow, which 231 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: is very, very frustrating. Just wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 232 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: the car doctor got his truck stuck. Tom, I'm telling you, 233 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: there was just so much snow. Snow is a nickel 234 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: a pound. I could have retired. Uh. It was just 235 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: it was just amazing how much snow there was, and 236 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,479 Speaker 1: the problem is it gets it gets all wet and heavy. 237 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: But I did I did come up with an idea 238 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: that I'm kind of noodling because you know, I was 239 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: able to call someone in the It doesn't take much. 240 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: You just need a little bit of a tug to 241 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: get you off the snow bank because the snow gets 242 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: tucked up under the plow frame and it just pulls 243 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: the front wheels off the ground. There was that much 244 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: snow because the plow was getting pushed over because the 245 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: snow is so wet and heavy. I'm gonna make a 246 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: I have to work on this, but I want to 247 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: make a winch that sits on a tongue that goes 248 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: inside the trailer hitch opening and then just locking in 249 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: with the pin and then just you know, extend the 250 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: cable out, wrapped the cable around defence post or another 251 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: vehicle and pull the truck off that way. This way 252 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: you don't have to wait for anybody. I think that 253 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: would I think that would probably work. But it's it's just, 254 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: you know, so frustrating. You're trying to um, you know, 255 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: plow the parking a lot and you're stuck. And then 256 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: the rest of the week I did shop work. I 257 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: cleaned up the shop in different places, I did different things. 258 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: I uh um. I started cleaning out tool cabinets. You 259 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: think it's scary cleaning out your closets at home, try 260 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: cleaning out tool cabinets of a repair shop you've had 261 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: for forty five years. I found in mint condition three 262 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: three mind you download modems, you know, telephone modems, four 263 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: bulletin boards and internet service from n nine seven. And 264 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: these modems were so old they were made in the USA, 265 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: And I told you to put them on eBay, right, Yeah, 266 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: you know, Tom, I thought about it, but I just 267 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: I threw them out. I couldn't help it. I just 268 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: maybe we should have given them away here on the show. Maybe, 269 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: But I don't know, anybody, what would you do with them? 270 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: You know? It kind of reminded me of you know, 271 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: how technology is just gonna pass us all by. And 272 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: that's part of the problem with the repair shop. You 273 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: know when when I drive around and I look at 274 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: repair shops and I think who will survive and and 275 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: how will they survive? You know, the mom and pop shop, 276 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: they can buy that hundred dollar tool every week. They 277 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: can afford that hundred dollar tool every week. The guy 278 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: walking in the door is now going to ask them, Hey, 279 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: you got to spend thirty grand like that, just just 280 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: boom done. You've got to do it. You've got no choice. 281 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: And you know, that's the next evolution because the problem 282 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: is going to be that that mom and pop repair 283 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: shop is going to have to pull a bumper off 284 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: at some point to do a headlight bulb, or they're 285 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: going to have to do a wheel alignment that's going 286 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: to affect the steering angle sensor or some thing is 287 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: going to require calibration of the the ADA systems, the 288 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: self driving systems, the camera systems on the vehicle, and 289 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: they can't do it. They don't have the room, they 290 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: don't have the expense, they don't have to they don't 291 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: have the ability to buy the technology. You know, everybody's 292 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: all excited. I I actually heard some people talking we 293 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: we we had stopped at one place along the road 294 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: and we we walk we're walking through because we don't 295 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: want to sit, obviously because of the pandemic. And people 296 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: were talking about GM and mandate of all electric vehicles. 297 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: And I could have gotten involved in the conversation so easily, 298 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: but I just you know, nobody's stopping to think. I mean, 299 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: it's great, right, it's you know, we'll we'll, we'll change 300 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,479 Speaker 1: our carbon footprint in theory, which is a whole another conversation. 301 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: I don't necessarily agree with all electric but you know, 302 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: it's back to the hundred dollar tool thing. You can 303 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: afford the hundred dollar tool. You can afford the five 304 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: tool with payments. You can't afford the technology. It's gonna 305 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: be very difficult for smaller repair shops to keep up 306 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: with the technology. And then what happens. Then the neighborhood 307 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: loses that neighborhood repair shop and all of a sudden, 308 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: take the car down to the guys on the corner 309 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: is over and then who's there? And it made me wonder. 310 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: I started to think about the kids at the trade 311 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: schools Lincoln Tech and Dover Diesel and all the other places. 312 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: The kids that are going to trade school to be mechanics. 313 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: And I don't want to dissuade anybody, but you know, 314 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: let's keep it real. It's not gonna be what it 315 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: is today in fifteen years. It's not gonna be what 316 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: it is today in five years. And you're trying to 317 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: get people into a trade where it's a minimum of 318 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: a twenty dollar investment, and then they that's for the education, 319 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: right minimum, And then they come out and they've got 320 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: to buy a thirty five dollar set of tools at 321 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: a job making at best? What are these shops paying 322 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: fifteen twenty bucks an hour, eight hundred dollars a week 323 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: on a good day. And then in fifteen years it's 324 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: all going to change. In less than fifteen years, some 325 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: car companies say they're gonna be all electric. You know, 326 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: you're not gonna need all those tools. Think about all 327 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: the tools you don't need to fix an electric car. 328 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't need half of what I've got. 329 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: I don't need a two thirds of what I've got, 330 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: because what's gonna break The electric motor is gonna come 331 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: out the wheels and tires have to come off. Uh, 332 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: you know, the breaking system will be different. The cost 333 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: to learn that technology is going to go up. I 334 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: just so I look at I look at what they're 335 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: saying with General Motors is saying a five, we're gonna 336 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: be all electric at what price? Um? Yeah, General Motors 337 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: might be able to put out the car, but who's 338 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: gonna fix it and who can afford it. You want 339 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: to see something really neat, go out to YouTube and 340 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: go type in GM assembly plant or GM assembly line 341 00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: and you can see videos older stuff that. You can 342 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: see videos of older stuff where they're assembling older cars, 343 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 1: and then watch the new stuff, the new videos where 344 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: they've got robotics involved, and you'll be stunned. That's absolutely amazing. 345 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: I'm running any of the car doctor. We'll be back 346 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away, do you get you trudge? 347 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: Thank God, bless this truck or without missing a beat, 348 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: he goes Nopez, delivering that overpast I ran out of gas. 349 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: Welcome back, run any car doctor. Let's uh. I have 350 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: a suspicion here. I think technology has goofed up the 351 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 1: phones and I'm gonna ask Tom, Tom, can you turn 352 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: on the phones. Is someone there? Yeah, they're on the phone. 353 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: I've got two people on the phone right now, but 354 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: nobody's calling. Well nobody loves you today? Well no, you 355 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: know no, But I mean I'm looking at the phone. 356 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: I'm looking at the phone system. We're talking about technology, 357 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: and uh, we can't get a phone system to work, right, 358 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: we gonna get cars to work, right? Is there anybody 359 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: on hold on the phone system? Or am I crazy? No? 360 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: I've got two calls here. Huh. That's why I see nothing. Okay, 361 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: that's how you should have said something, because the first 362 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: call we have is Peter from Bingham to New York. 363 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 1: Who wants to talk about is eleven cameray for a cylinder? 364 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 1: That with a humming from the alternator, Let's do it. 365 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: Let me. I'm gonna reboot the phones on my end too, 366 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: by the way, tom So, but hello Peter, Yes, yes, sir, 367 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: how can I help Ronan any and at your service? Yes? 368 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: I uh, I have a two then Playota camera two 369 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: point five liter. I got just about over a hundred 370 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: thousand miles on it. And about a week ago, Uh, Mike, 371 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: I had to change my all the car was dying. 372 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: That and that all the lights were coming on, and 373 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 1: I got the car stopped. I checked the it was dead, 374 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: and I checked the alternator. I jumped started. I have 375 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: a jump start box. I jumped started, and it doesn't 376 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: test on the alinator and they showed the alternator was 377 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 1: no good right, so I changed. I changed the alternator. 378 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: After I changed the alternator, and the alinator was bought 379 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: at a reputable place that a lot of garages used 380 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: that they delivered parts too, So I figured it's a 381 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: good allanator. I put the alternator on. I had no 382 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 1: issues with it. The next following day, I start the 383 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: car cold, start o me in the morning. The car 384 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: maybe been setting for ten hours overnight. Started. The car 385 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: starts up fine, and then a few seconds go by 386 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: ten seconds, I hear all this this noise coming from 387 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: inside the engine. I don't know where it's coming from. Well, 388 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: come to find out it's coming from inside the alternator 389 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: and the light and the lights dim for a second, 390 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it goes away. Never 391 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: have another issue with it again for the whole day 392 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: until the following next day. So I just did it 393 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: for a few few days, and I said maybe maybe 394 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: the alternators the reject. I go back to the park store. 395 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: They get another alternator. I changed it all there. It 396 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: does it again, and it still has been doing. It's 397 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: been about a week. The car charge it charges fine. 398 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: I checked it. It's charging. It's not. It turns over fine. 399 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: And that noises every morning. Okay, and what makes you 400 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: how do you how do you know it's the alternator? 401 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: I catch it. I got, I started it, and I 402 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: got into the engine couple and I can hear I 403 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: put the I put it right up a piece of 404 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: I can hear it coming right out of the alternator 405 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: with us. I take a screwdriver and I put my 406 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: and I can hear the noise coming out of the alternator. 407 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 1: It's like it's like an electrical noise. And you can 408 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: kind of tell that the that the belt. The belts 409 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: are fine. Uh as the tension er I changed, it's 410 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: like it's like a it's like it's got a load 411 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: to the load to the to the alternator and then 412 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: all of a sudden it stopped. It's just for a 413 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: ten seconds or so. I'd love to see I would 414 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: love to see voltage. I would love to see voltage 415 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: out put an ample JE out put from the alternator 416 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: at the moment when it's making the noise. And and 417 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: this is the funny thing is I have mechanic friends. 418 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: They come to my work. The other day he came 419 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: and it wouldn't do it because it's got to set overnight. 420 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta drop it off overnight somewhere. And 421 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: it only does it only does it when it sets 422 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: long enough. How old is the battery, Peter, it might 423 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: be about a year old's. It was a Walmart battery, 424 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: So I don't know. You get what you pay for 425 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: too well. I'm not saying it's bad. Listen, nobody makes 426 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: batteries anymore except there's three companies in the country making 427 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: batteries and they're all making and they just branded for 428 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: whoever's respect that they're running the assembly line for that day. 429 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: Somebody told me that I have not had the battery check, 430 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: that I might have a bad sell in that battery. 431 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: And it puts such a load at the starting time 432 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:54,719 Speaker 1: when I started that it draws, it makes that alternator 433 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: makes this noise. It could That's why I said I 434 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: would love to see voltage output, voltage demand on the 435 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: alternator and amperage demand on the alternator, and I'm still 436 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: not I'm still not ruling out a potential belt issue. 437 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: Do you have a little spray bottle you can put 438 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: some water in? Yeah? Okay, So when the alternator is 439 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: making this noise, can you get it right on the 440 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: belt and hit hit the belt with a little bit 441 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: of water? Does it change the noise at all? I 442 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: haven't done that. But the belts are are not that 443 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: old and everything is tight in there, right Listen, Peter, 444 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: be open to change because neither is the alternator. The 445 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: alternator is not old, and it's probably a potential problem. 446 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: So new doesn't mean good, you know, new means new 447 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: means now we've got a diagnose. It's not. I mean 448 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: this is it's two alerators that were brand new, rebuilt, understood, understood. 449 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: Could not be a defect of another alternator, did it? 450 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,199 Speaker 1: Why not? It could be could anything? That's another thing. 451 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: It's toy out. The one that came on the car 452 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: was one that had Toyota stamped on it, rapped from 453 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: the factory. And these rebuilts they may be a little 454 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: inferior compared to original. Oh e M. They could. What 455 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: would you would you pay for the alternator? Peter? Uh, 456 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: it was. It's not cheap. It should be quiet. It 457 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: should it should be quiet, it should work. So let's 458 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: do this, okay, Can your mechanic friends help you. Can 459 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: you put a voltmeter on the system and look and 460 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: see what voltage demand and amberings demand is at the 461 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: moment that it's making noise? And can you and can 462 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: you wet the belt to see what the belt is doing? 463 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: The wetting the belt make a difference or change in 464 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: the way that that works. And then last thought is, 465 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 1: let's work on the assumption that perhaps when you started, 466 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: it's heavy electrical load trying to charge the battery back 467 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: up from cranking the vehicle over in cold weather being 468 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: up from New York is an actually warm right now? 469 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: So what would happen if you turned on the headlights 470 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: on high beam after the vehicle sat for less than 471 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: overnight or even just running. If you turned on high 472 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: beam rear to foster fan, put all the electrical items 473 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: in the car on, does the alternators start to hum 474 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 1: and make noise? If it does, the alternator can't keep 475 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,719 Speaker 1: up with its electrical output requirement. And I would tell 476 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: you that that particular line of that brand has a problem. 477 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: Now keep in mind that brand probably has some sort 478 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: of tech support at an eight hundred number. That you 479 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: could call that eight hundred number and say, hey, I've 480 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: got this part number of your product. Are you having 481 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: any known problems with it? Called and listen to what 482 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: tech support has to say too. I'm not saying it's 483 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,719 Speaker 1: a bad part. Maybe it's a bad run and you 484 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: know you've got to sit down and sort it out. 485 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: Don't assume because it's new it's good, because new means 486 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: never ever worked. It's not field tested yet. Do those things. 487 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: Call me back if you need more, Peter, I appreciate 488 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,959 Speaker 1: the call. Zero zero The car doctors coming back right 489 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back. We're on the ending of the 490 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: car doctor here at eight five five five zero zero zero. 491 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: We're rocket and rolling. Let's get over to sal in 492 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 1: the Bronx with an O six PT Cruise or sal. 493 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help? Hey, 494 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 1: ron thanks for taking my call. You're welcome, you safe, 495 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: you and your staff. Yeah, I have an O six 496 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: I have an O six PC Cruise. Uh that last 497 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: week during the snow snow, he got stuck in the 498 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: snow and when I went to pull it out. I 499 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: was digging into the snow. Um so I was trying 500 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 1: to rock it back in between UM drive and levers. 501 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: And finally, after about ten tries, UM I noticed my 502 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: UM engine light come on. Check engine light, the orange 503 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: the orange check engine light. Yeah, that's correct. Yesterday I 504 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 1: bored it to I don't know if I had to 505 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: tell you the name. Yeah, auto zone and and they 506 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: loaned me this this gadget you know, to put it 507 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: into the computer, right, and they pulled a code. What 508 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: was the code? The code was P zero five three. 509 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: Okay to the gentleman, he told me that's some sort 510 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: of a brake switch that's also possibly connected with the 511 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: the cruise control. Correct, so you know, do the brake 512 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: lights were cell Everything in the truck operating is normal, 513 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: Everything works fine, Okay, something, I'm sorry. That's the thing 514 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: that I did see differently when I put my wiper 515 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: blades on as I was trying to set it at 516 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: a different speed, they would get stuck to it in 517 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: in the center like and then that that never really happened. 518 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: But once I got to go and I just kept 519 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: it on one speed and that was it. You know, 520 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if that had anything to do with 521 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: it or not. I doubt it. But right, well, you 522 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: know piece P zero five sixty three cell P zero 523 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: five seven three, P zero five seven three. But the 524 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: car is operating normally. Yes, Okay, I don't. I don't 525 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: see the wipers having a connection. I think I think 526 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: the wipers. Um, uh, it's you know, it's it's just 527 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: it's it's got nothing to do with it, really, okay. Um, 528 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: you know five seven three, you know, and this is 529 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: an older car. Um, you know five seven three actually 530 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: has to do with conditions inside the trans And I 531 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: know there's a software update out there. There's probably more 532 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: than a few furn O six, you know. I mean, 533 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: if you wanted to spend the money, you can have 534 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: somebody run run the vent and it gets expensive, but 535 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: you can have somebody run the vent through Chrysler software 536 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: to see if there are any software updates for it. 537 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: My suspicion is rocking the trans back and forth caused 538 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: such a a radical unreasonable change in operating environment. If 539 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: I can say it like that, that the computer saw 540 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: a glitch, especially on something that's what eighteen years old, 541 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: and the electrical is not what it once was as 542 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: crisp as it once was, and it said, well, wait 543 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: a minute, something's out of parameter here, boom set the code. 544 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be upset about it. I clear code. I'd 545 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: write it down. I'd clear the code. Let's see if 546 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: it comes back. Because if you can't duplicate it, all right, 547 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 1: you're you're you're chasing your tail. Like I said, I 548 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: believe there's a software update out there. We'll probably more 549 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: than a few on that particular trans for odd odd 550 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: false setting issues with the trans I remember this background 551 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: ten twelve. I had somebody with a similar problem with 552 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: regard to setting false trans codes that really weren't I 553 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: don't want to say not legitimate. I don't want to 554 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 1: say this didn't. You know, it makes it sound like 555 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. It kind of cheapens what happens, sou 556 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying, let me just me 557 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: just say that the first time the gentleman put that 558 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: that code machine on, write the reader and what's it 559 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: called a code reader scantl The first time he had 560 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: the first time he put the code reader onto the car, 561 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: he had to take it back into the into the 562 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: into the store and plug it in to his machine 563 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,479 Speaker 1: to see what what what? What was? What the code 564 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: was all about? And the first time it didn't show anything. 565 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: He says, let's go back out there and do it again. 566 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: So we did, and then we came back into the 567 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: story again. He plugs it into his uh, I guess, 568 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: his computer, and that's when the code pie zero five 569 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: seven three came out right. And the the issue there, 570 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: too is an older car. I'm not saying auto Zone 571 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: doesn't have great scan tools, but they're older tools. They're 572 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: not necessarily updated at the current levels of Um what 573 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: a modern shop, what a shop is going to have? 574 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: Like I said, I'd clear the code, I'd write it down. 575 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: If the code repeats, then you've got a legitimate problem. 576 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: If it doesn't, I wouldn't worry about it. As far 577 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: as the wipers, um, maybe it's coincidence. I see no 578 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: connection to rocking the car out of a snow bank. 579 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: I do see the possibility that if you were trying 580 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: to turn the wipers on and there was a heavy 581 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 1: load of snow on the glass, perhaps the linkage itself 582 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: has an issue as a result of that, and it 583 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: may be a sign of an impending linkage failure that 584 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: you want to get that looked at before they break 585 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: in the middle of a rainstorm. Good luck to you, Sally. 586 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: I appreciate the call rondating the car Doctor. I'm back 587 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. We're on any of the 588 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: car doctor, you know. Let me let me finish this. 589 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: We'll take calls again at the top of the next hour. 590 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: I want to leave the technology thoughts with you for 591 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: this hour. Here I found a copy of this through 592 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: All Data News. The folks at All Data put out 593 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: a monthly newsletter All Data dot Com and it's from 594 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: the Repair Driven News. It's it's for the trade and 595 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: it talks about the twenty two Jeep Grand Cherokee that 596 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: is going to have night vision, hands off, eyes on 597 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: advanced driver assist system sometimes I call it automated automated 598 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: advanced same thing. Are you ready for that technology? Never mind, 599 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 1: let's not even talk about repairing it. Let's not talk 600 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 1: about affording it. Let's not talk about the implications and 601 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: all the things that this is gonna change. Are you 602 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: ready for it? Are you mentally ready to drive a 603 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: vehicle at night, hands off eyes on the road watching 604 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: things go by? Are you ready for that I don't 605 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: know if we're mentally able to. I don't know if 606 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: we're capable. Uh, you know, it's The ride out to 607 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,359 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh last Saturday night was was eerie, right, it was 608 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 1: before the snowstorm hit the area. And it's dark in Pennsylvania, 609 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: all right. There's no street lights or spotlights on the 610 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Turnpike. And when you get out to Western p A, 611 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: it's dark, baby. And you know, if you turn off 612 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 1: the headlights of the car, it's pitch black. And I 613 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: thought about that drive out there, and then I found 614 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: this article on all Data all data dot com, and 615 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: I started thinking to myself, are we ready for this? Right? 616 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: Are we ready to take a ride hands off, eyes on, 617 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 1: by ourselves, self steering cart in the dark? Do we 618 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: trust the technology that much? Makes you wonder? I'm Rodinandi 619 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,879 Speaker 1: in the car doctor, reminding you until the next time. 620 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you