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Speaker 1: Ron, and your car has value, and right now your

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Speaker 1: Oh six Coyota Tacoma, just broken in. I wish I

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Speaker 1: Since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: see Sam in Pennsylvania with a two thousand and eleven

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

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Speaker 1: First I want to say thank you for taking my

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Speaker 1: What's going to be? Uh? Let escape it's it. It

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Speaker 1: We bought it with forty four thousand miles on. It's

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Speaker 1: It was telling me it was four hundred sixty pounds

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Speaker 1: And just for giggles, did you, by chance you have

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Speaker 1: the ability to pull codes that Were there any fault

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Speaker 1: the eyes and she kind of got because I take

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00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: that very serious, you know what. I take that serious

425
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: for her safety, your safety, and my safety. I might

426
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,479
Speaker 1: be in the car in front of you or behind her,

427
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,200
Speaker 1: or you know, next to her when she hits the

428
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,879
Speaker 1: brakes and they go the wrong direction, so you know,

429
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of common sense. I just wanted to

430
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: bring this to air just to say, hey, you know,

431
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: if the brakes don't feel right, because I also said,

432
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 1: how long has it been going on? Three weeks? You

433
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 1: know what, if it's been going on longer than three times,

434
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 1: it's time to have somebody to look at the brakes again.

435
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: I don't care how many computers are on cars today,

436
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: it still takes common sense to sort of take a

437
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: look at these things and and and and see what's

438
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: going on. So um, anyway, that was that I want

439
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 1: to talk about Jeff Lexus. But before I do that,

440
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: let me go over to the phone. Let's go over

441
00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: to Mike and Virginia oh seven Toyota four runner and questions. Yea, Mike,

442
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: welcome to the car. Doctor, sir, how can I help Ron?

443
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: I guess this is a verification question. I got seven

444
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 1: four runner that's got an exhaust leak, and it appears

445
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: that it's up at the manifold where it bolts to

446
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: the block. And I've read up on this, and it

447
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: seemed to be a common problem that the four runners

448
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: from O three to oh nine. It's the it's the

449
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: wait with a converter hanging right there at the manifold.

450
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: You know, once once us out of warranty, I guess

451
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: it's tough luck for me, and so what are my

452
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: options here? It's it's not gonna fix itself, I know,

453
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: and it it's got the four point seven V eight

454
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: and of course you know it's shoehorned in there to

455
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: begin with. So yeah, big job, lot of work. How

456
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: many miles are on it. It's a hundred and sixty

457
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: four thousand. It's a very good truck. I intend to

458
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: drive until it literally falls apart, and that could be

459
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: a while. So you know, let's let's let's make it

460
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: the worst it could be. All right, Let's say the

461
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: engine's got to come out, it needs too exhaust manifolds,

462
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: and the exhaust system has to be replaced, and you

463
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: spent seven grand. I'm just making a number up out

464
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: of thin air, just to scare you a little bit.

465
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: Would you would you would you put five to seven

466
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: grand in this truck to fix it? It's fifty dollars

467
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: plus truck, brand new, right, I got news for you.

468
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: It's probably a sixty dollar plus truck brand new today

469
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: if you can find one. Right, So you're right, you

470
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: know it's it's I would Do you have a regular

471
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: mechanic that you go to, whether it be the dealer

472
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: or an independent. Do you have somebody you trust that

473
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: you know that will treat you right and and look

474
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 1: at the job right and take the time. Yeah, that's

475
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: it was my independent mechanic. As a matter of fact,

476
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 1: that I took it to. I thought maybe it was

477
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: a flange, a league or something. And he said he

478
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: was pretty certain it was at the block. He had

479
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: never done it. He was very honest with me, he said, Mike,

480
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: I had to sit down to study on this one.

481
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: He said, because that's that looked like a tough job.

482
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: It looked tough just to get the eat shields off

483
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: the manifold. Then I think, Monday, what you're gonna do

484
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: is it sounds like your guy hasn't done it or

485
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,959
Speaker 1: is not equipped to do it. And that's okay. Listen.

486
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: I pass on things from time to time too. I

487
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: passed on a steering rack on a thirteen Milan this week.

488
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: It was an all wheel drive Milan with eighty thousand

489
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: miles on it. I believe it needed an electric power

490
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: steering rack to get it out. You had to pull

491
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: the cradle in the You had to ower the whole engine,

492
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: power train cradle, the whole nine yards. You need something

493
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: called a power bench, which is a hydraulic imagine a

494
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: work bench, but it's got hydraulic rams on it that

495
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: lifts up, supports everything. You unbolt everything from the body

496
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: and lower it down to get to the rack. You know,

497
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: I don't have one of those in a three base shop.

498
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: I haven't had need for one up til this point.

499
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: I doubt that I ever will. And I passed on

500
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: the job. And that's another conversation. But my point is

501
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: there are some jobs that just not every shops just

502
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: no matter how much you have, he just can't can't

503
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,239
Speaker 1: do it. He may not be equipped to pull the

504
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: engine on that. Uh. And it may be something that yeah,

505
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: it's time to have a conversation with the dealer and say, look,

506
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: you know, what do you see this becoming? What do

507
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: you normally do when this happens? And I'm sure they

508
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: can rattle you off some prices, and you know, they

509
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: may scare you, but at least you know what you're

510
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 1: dealing with going in at a buck sixty. You know,

511
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: before I did all this though it's what fifteen years old,

512
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: I would also ask them to go through it. What

513
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: does this vehicle need? You know? Is if the engine

514
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: had to come out, is now the time to solve

515
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,719
Speaker 1: the oil leaks that are in question? Is now the

516
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: time to reseal the engine? Is now the time to

517
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: look at suspension breaks, all the things you can't get

518
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: to all the engine is in the vehicle as well. Uh,

519
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,719
Speaker 1: you know, rubber products so on and so forth. If

520
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: you're planning to drive this, you know what, putting putting

521
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: ten grand into a vehicle seven grand, eight grand, nine grand,

522
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 1: ten grand at this particular point when there's such a

523
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: shortage of vehicles isn't a bad idea because you know,

524
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: it's it's fixable. Listen. I was gonna tell you guys

525
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: a story about Jeff. Jeff is a regular customer at

526
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: the shop. He drives in eleven Lexus e S three fifty.

527
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: This week we did we did some service and it

528
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: had a belt noise, and as a result of the

529
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: belt noise, I found the water pump was just starting

530
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 1: to seep. When I took the water pump out. Jeff,

531
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: you know what, let's put an alternator in it. Hundred

532
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: and five thousand mile car, it's uh, just eleven years old.

533
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do an alternator, Let's do the belt.

534
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a water pump obviously, Let's do a thermostat.

535
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: We started to talk about doing system and component replacement

536
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: based on time and mileage because he can't buy another one.

537
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: You know, you can't buy another e S three fifty.

538
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: If you can't, it's probably every bit of fifty grand

539
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: and he put a couple of bucks in it this week,

540
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: and he's still cheaper, and he's still ahead of the game.

541
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 1: And that's how I think you've got to look at it.

542
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: That's my suggestion, and that's how everybody's got to look

543
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: at it. Now. You know, it's not what's the car worth?

544
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: What's its gonna cause you to replace it? Do you

545
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: do you feel like that the engine would have to

546
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: come out or it can be done with the engine still.

547
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: And I've seen them done in the vehicle, and I've

548
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 1: seen them done where the engine comes out and it's

549
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: just easier to get there. Everything it depends on which

550
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: bolts are which, which bolts give you the hard time,

551
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: and what has to be drilled to something snap and

552
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: have to be drilled off in the head um. I

553
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: don't think it's worth while to pull the heads off.

554
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: I think that's more work than it's worth. Right, Okay, well,

555
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: all right, you verified what I've kind of read on land,

556
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to hear it. Yeah, I consider

557
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: you a pro and listen to you. Thank you. But

558
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: I think I think somebody liked the dealer, for example,

559
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: or an independent shop that's done that job, if they

560
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: sat down and wrote an estimate, and like I said,

561
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: before I did that job, I would want to know

562
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: what kind of shape the rest of the vehicles in.

563
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: I think they can give you a range and tell you, hey,

564
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: here's where you're going. But at the end, you know

565
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: what you're gonna have, and you've got a vehicle that's

566
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: reliable at that point and it will probably last you

567
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: another five six years and that's worth you know, grand

568
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: in this market, in this world. So something to think about.

569
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, Thanks, Ron, I appreciate You're very welcome, sir,

570
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: you'll be well. I'm run on any in the car

571
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: Doctor eight nine zero. I'm back right after this. Don't

572
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: go away. Welcome back running a car doctor. Let's do

573
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: this quick. We're running out of time this hour. Gene

574
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: and Georgia. Some questions and comments. Gene, welcome to the

575
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: car Doctor. How can I help? Thank you off for

576
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: taking my call. Like to listen to you lately, and

577
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: I have a question that might be uh partner to

578
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: the today's day. A lot of manufacturing, the chips are

579
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: not available for a lot of cars, and not too

580
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: many cars are in a lot How about revamping some

581
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: of the old car manufacturing, the equipment that's maybe sitting

582
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: idle in the country or in Mexico, and build back

583
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: some of the old cars. I wouldn't even mind, you know,

584
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,479
Speaker 1: getting a new old car style, you know, and uh,

585
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: get more cars on the road. Well I can I

586
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: can tell you. I can tell you why that won't happen,

587
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: because the old cars won't me the missions compliance. And

588
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: that's why we've seen all the changes we've seen, you know,

589
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 1: as time goes by. But you're right, it's it's it's

590
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: a matter of mobilization. We're at a critical point. You know.

591
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: We were at the dinner last night as an aside,

592
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: and we were driving up where where we were driving

593
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: up Route twenty three here in North Jersey, and I

594
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: was pointing out to the family because they they they

595
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: tend to get the pre show version of the night before,

596
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: and we were talking about somebody brought up the chip shortage.

597
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: I was in the suburban and we had eight people

598
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 1: in it and rolling along and I said, look at

599
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: this dealer and went by a Honda dealer, the Honda dealer,

600
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I remember when there was a

601
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: Chords as far as the eye could see, they're they're empty.

602
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: There's like, you know, seven cars on the lot and

603
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: they're off brand or they're used. You can clearly see

604
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: there more than a couple of model years old. And

605
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: my point to them was a rolled past the Honda dealer,

606
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: the Kia dealer, the Ford dealer. I said, you know,

607
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: look at what's going on here. We're running out of cars.

608
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a crazy scenario. And all we're

609
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: seeing as the price of an existing vehicle be worth more.

610
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: And you know, Gene, I almost chuckle sometimes. You know,

611
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: it's like remember when you were raising your kids and

612
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: they wanted to do something, you told them not to

613
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: do it, and then they did it anyway, and you

614
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: kind of chuckled to yourself when they when they skin

615
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: their need, they're going to find out. You know, I've

616
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: got people still in the shop telling me and that

617
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to put four four You're I'm gonna

618
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: do four wheel breaks and tires. I'm gonna go buy

619
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: a new car, Okay, go ahead, And you know, two

620
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: weeks goes by, three weeks goes by, a month goes by,

621
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: and then they show up on my doorstep. Hey, you

622
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: know what, there's no cars out there. Yeah, no kid, Um. Yes,

623
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: that's even with the emissions. Like here in Georgia, the

624
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: emissions are only in the near the city area. Outside

625
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: of that, you don't need emissions. So I could solve

626
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: a problem, you know, one way and the other way.

627
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: I dove with some of these emission problems, and in

628
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: some cases, you know, you go to the dealer and

629
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: I can't even fix the emission problem because they don't

630
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: even want to be bothered. Ward, I think, well, it's

631
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: it's it's it's the other thing is uh. At times,

632
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: after you replace the part, after it's scanned or whatever else,

633
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: sometimes it takes you know, maybe a hundred miles to

634
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: reset the whole thing. In some cases, I've heard stories

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Speaker 1: that it takes a thousand miles to get the thing resets.

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Speaker 1: So you're actually polluting more. Um. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you're polluting more, but you are. It is a complicated repair.

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Speaker 1: What you're talking about is you're talking about UM weighted averages.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere around oh, seven years ago, most of the car

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Speaker 1: manufacturers went to a system whereby if you had to

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Speaker 1: do a clear codes, relearn and reset fuel strategy. It'll

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Speaker 1: take the vehicle anywhere from three to eight hundred miles

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Speaker 1: to relearn its fuel cat cat characteristics, operating curve, transmission

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Speaker 1: shift points, um, just overall operating strategy. And yeah, and

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Speaker 1: that vehicle won't pass or being emission compliance during that

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Speaker 1: time period because it doesn't run itself tests properly, and

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Speaker 1: it creates a whole slew of problems. You know what, Gene,

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Speaker 1: you make some excellent points. Unfortunately, emissions is going to

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Speaker 1: override all this because we're an emissions based industry and

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Speaker 1: an emissions based country. They're worried about clean air at

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Speaker 1: this point. And I don't think we're gonna I don't

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna find an answer here, but uh, it

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Speaker 1: is going to be interesting the next couple of years

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Speaker 1: because I think it's gonna be a while before this

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Speaker 1: chip shortage gets corrected or the supply chain problem gets

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Speaker 1: straightened out. I always appreciate the comments, Gene. Keep them coming, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I'm r A Nady in the car doctor. I'll be

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Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back. We're on any of

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Speaker 1: the car doctor kind of winding it down this hour.

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Speaker 1: You know, auto repair is also about and I think

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Speaker 1: I'll close here this week that auto repair is also

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Speaker 1: about community. It's also about having a second set of

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Speaker 1: ears and eyes and a brain to talk to and

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Speaker 1: somebody else to respond to some of your questions and problems.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I really love about Mitchell one

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Speaker 1: and their sure Track Real Fixes is the community that

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Speaker 1: they've established, and they've done this online. You can actually

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Speaker 1: go and Google search it right, or just search it

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Speaker 1: right on their website Mitchell one, or you can go

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Speaker 1: and just Google search shirt Track Reel Fixes and it'll

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Speaker 1: take you right to the archives. And I like to

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Speaker 1: read them from time to time because there's some really

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Speaker 1: interesting things there in the shirt Track community archives. And

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Speaker 1: one of the ones I recently came up with told

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Speaker 1: the story about a two thousand eleven Subaru forester and

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Speaker 1: they talked about how the timing cover was leaking oil,

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Speaker 1: and they took the cover apart and they resealed at

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Speaker 1: this repair shop, and when they put it back together,

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Speaker 1: the link was fixed. But it was fixed because there

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Speaker 1: was no oil pressure in the vehicle and they were

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Speaker 1: trying to run around, you know, talking to different people.

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Speaker 1: Does the oil pump have to be reprimed? They had

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Speaker 1: taken the oil pump apart, and one of the community

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Speaker 1: members responded by saying, listen, I've had more than a

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Speaker 1: few of these parties of Subaru specialist. The gentleman that

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Speaker 1: was replying, and he said, you know, he said, you

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Speaker 1: probably pushed the oil pump pick up tube out of

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Speaker 1: place because there's a seal there, and maybe you didn't

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Speaker 1: realize there was a seal there. There was some real

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Speaker 1: a good positive exchange and feedback, and the bottom line

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Speaker 1: is they're able to get the shop that took the

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Speaker 1: time and cover apart back on track just following some

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Speaker 1: simple suggestions looking for the seals. They cleaned some uh

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Speaker 1: debris out of the oil pump pickup that was there,

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Speaker 1: and the vehicle is fixed. And my point is, sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's not hard problems, and sometimes it's not mechanical strain.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's brain power and the ability to talk to

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Speaker 1: one another and share the possibilities of what it could

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Speaker 1: take to fix that vehicle. More information at mitchell one

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Speaker 1: dot com. I'm run an ady in the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: reminding you this time until the next time, like every time.

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Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you seven