Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor - Classic Car Doctor , October 17, 2015 - Hour 1 - The Mechanic Makes the Scan Tool

Ron An Aian.

They do it so bad it takes five and a half months, and they develop a customer that'll never go back there and put another stink on a business that well, it sort of smells like New Jersey at low tide, and I can say that I live in New.

Jersey the Car Doctor.

I'm really surprised at what's in this industry. You think

it's getting better and then you see a vehicle like this and you say one.

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to get right into it today.

Two cars.

First time in a while we've had two cars like this at the shop that just absolutely epitomize what it takes to fix cars in this industry and also what's wrong.

With this industry.

First car two thousand and eight Hyundai Hyundai two Soon V six that had a whining noise for three years.

Poor little old lady driving it was, as she said, just out of her mind.

She couldn't take it anymore.

She had been everywhere, everybody had looked at it, done everything to it, tried everything. The list is long and frustrating.

The dealer put a timing belt in. It didn't fix it.

She still had to pay for the timing belt. They

told her it would fix it, but it did not, and she laid out a good bunch of money for something that didn't solve her problem. Another repair shop took

a look at it. They took a stab at.

It, They hung an alternator on it.

Yet another repair shop took a stab at it hung a power steering pump on it. One repair shop came

close in the sense of a diagnostic routine. They washed

out the power steering reservoir because there's a bulletin from Hyundai that talks about if they have any kind of moan or wine or externally loud noise related to power steering or related to engine operation, perhaps the power steering reservoir is restricted making that noise.

None of them fixed the car.

Car showed up on my doorstep, ended up at Ariotomotive this past Monday, and Harry, who's helping me at the shop, took it in. And after assuring them that I could

fix anything from this car to that car to a Boeing seven forty seven, as Harry likes to do, I felt the pressure was on, so I better come up with a solution. I looked at the car customer and

I said, well, did anybody ever take the belt off as part of their diagnosis? And she looked at me

and she said, why would they do that? And I said, well,

let me just just leave the car, wrote her up for a one to fifty six diagnosis, and a way I went. First thing I did, yeah verify the complaint.

Yeah, the car has a all the time.

Took the SYRP belt off, the serpentine belt, the one belt that drives everything. Alternator, power steering, air conditioning.

Guess what the noise is gone?

Well, now we're down to it's either the power steering pump, the alternator, or the air conditioner. This wasn't too hard

to figure out. Two other shops had placed the alternator

in the power steering pump. That left me with the

air conditioner. Okay, there was a tensioner and a tensioner pulley,

and that sounded absolutely perfectly fine, and you'd spin everything and everything was nice and quiet. It sounded like this,

And then when you spun the air conditioning compressor it sounded like this.

That kind of hurts my throat when I do that.

I don't think I can do that anymore. Guess what

you need?

An AC compressor and an AC compressor and a thousand dollars later, guess what.

Your car is fixed?

But why didn't the other shop try to take the belt off first? Why did they just start changing parts?

And why did the dealership put a timing belt on it?

And how come nobody could.

Figure this out?

And you know, I've been driving this car for three years, and I felt like Bill Cosby in that clip where he says, oh yeah, and I've heard it before. Then

another car came into the shop, a twenty ten Toyota Yars.

This was a no start, no crank, no start, did nothing, turned the key, nothing happens, dashlights lit up. They It's

a sad story in a sense because the young man that owns it's an EMT in the next town over.

Nice young man, and he was trying to install flashers.

He's an emergency medical technician. He was trying to make

his headlights flash in the event of an emergency call.

And in the process of working on it, they got an emergency call.

So he started the car, moved it over so.

They could get the ambulance out, and came back from the service call the emergency call.

In hour later.

I went to start the car and it wouldn't start.

No crank, no start, no click, no nothing. They took

it to a repair shop in town there and they were told because we have to snap on virus and we can diagnose anything, that we've diagnosed your car that it has a bad a mobilizer key. The key for

the mobilizer which cuts off the injection if the wrong keys inserted, sort of an anti theft measure, and it has a P sixteen oh four folt A mobilizer keynot recognized, so it either needs a key or you blew up the computer, kid, because you were wiring in the lights while you were trying to work on it with the key on and the engine off. So I ended up

on my doorstep because this nice young man's mother knows what I do, and she knew I could fix it, and I have to tell you, I wasn't quite sure what I could do, but I said, gee, I can't do any worse. And you know, someone once told me,

you can't make it anymore broken.

It's already broken. You can only go up from there.

So I took on the challenge of this twenty ten Toyota Yaris that everybody had sort of had their hand in, and I wasn't disappointed.

When I lifted the.

Hood there was spaghetti. Ever, there were wires everywhere under

the hood of this car and kind of rattled me a little bit down to my shoes. But as my

boss way back when in the gas station always told me, he said, you know, you always start a diagnosis at the beginning. You always begin at step one regardless.

That's what you're going to be.

Trained to do, and that's what I was trained to do.

So I went through and I did the usual in this case, in this twenty ten Toyota. I scanned it

for codes. It had a P sixteen oh four, a

mobilizer key circuit or a mobilizer keynot recognized. And I

also went through and checked battery voltage. Standing battery voltage

was nine point five vaults under ten. Let me tell

you why that's so important. In case you're wondering what

I'm ranting about. All car computers need voltage, no mystery.

There there's a minimum at which they will shut off and start to do funny things. Well, this one, for

whatever reason, because of his wiring job, perhaps he left lights on when he went out on the emergency call.

Whatever it was, under ten vaults on a Toyota, especially on this yards, the PCM won't be able to turn on the starter. And when I thought about it, I said,

wait a minute, this isn't an a mobilizer problem. Because

on a Toyota, on this particular car, it's not an immobilizer fault. If the engine doesn't crank, it will crank,

it won't start because the injectors have.

Been shut off.

And I realized that I had been partially led astray by listening to another shop's diagnosis, thinking that, yeah, it's a mobilizer, and I realized very quickly, no, it's not.

This is a traditional won't crank, won't start diagnosis. Gee,

why won't that happen? Started going through the starter circuit.

The starter solenoid on this particular car is energized through a fuse out to the PCM down to the starter.

Looked at the fuse.

There's a row of fuses underneath the underhood fuse block in this particular Toyota. There's ten fuses, or there's ten

slots in the underhood fuse block one through ten, of which eight are used. And they're all there. And the

thirty amp I wanted in position nine. Yep, that thirty

amp is good. Wait a minute, that's not in position nine.

That's in position ten. There's nothing in position ten. How

could the fuse get up and walk? How could it

go from this spot to that spot? Oh, it can't

be this easy. Took the fuse out of position ten.

That I just installed it back in and then realized it was wrong and put it in position nine. Now

I had been charging the battery in the meantime, knowing that sooner or later this car was going to require a battery with voltage. And imagine the surprise on my

face when I got in, turned the key and the car started right up. You see, the bottom line becomes

that not everything is as it appears, but everything needs to be diagnosed from a good basic starting point.

And it's not the scan tool that fixes the car.

The repair shop that put a snap on virus, that snap on says, anybody can use this tool fix the car.

You can spend ten grand, you can spend two grand.

I use the launch scan tool fifteen hundred bucks. Guess what,

I still fix the car. And it's because I was

trained properly. It's because I was educated properly, and because

I applied that education. And I think I've earned the

right to say that that it's not the scan tool that makes the mechanic. It's the mechanic that makes the

scan tool. And in the case of the Hyundai with

the wine remember the e that's just common sense you know, why wouldn't you take the belt off? If you're chasing

a noise that's coming from the belt area, why wouldn't you break it down into its simplest component. Because isn't

that what a diagnosis is. Aren't you supposed to break

something down to as small a level as possible and find out how that component works and if indeed that component is working properly. So remember this when you go

into your repair shop and you say, hey, can you fix my car?

Yeah?

And it's not about Hey, I've got this one scan tool that does everything. The right question is hey, are

you smart enough to come in out of the rain, because I think that's probably a tough question for.

A lot of people in the world today.

And the second is how many scan tools do you own?

Because owning just one doesn't make it anymore. Hello, and

welcome Rod and Andy and the card Doctor. The phone

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We have a packed two hour show today, We really do.

We're gonna talk to We're gonna talk to Jerry Asta Lacki from Gibbs. We've got an email here from a

listener from Anthony out in Chicago. Our friend Anthony Emilio,

the retired Chicago PD who I think we're turning him onto car doctor products. He wrote a nice letter to

the folks it Gibs about his vinyl garage door in sighting and how Gibbs works on that. We want to

talk to Jerry about that, and it's always nice to talk to Jerry up there Michigan Way. He always tries

to convince us that Gibbs makes peanut butter and jelly sandwich just tastes better, but in reality it's a great penetrant and a great lubricant. We just want to talk

to him about that. And we're also going to be

talking to I think it's Hugh Grant, I think is a gentleman's name from Drew Technologies in the second hour about Jay twenty five thirty four flashing and all that that's about and how the average any repair shop can reflash VA vehicle computers. Today it's not as specialized a

task as it once used to be, and Drew Technologies is helping make it better. And we also reached out

to Harlan Siegel. How can I not talk to Harlan

Siegal from launch this week, especially after the Toyota Yars, but more importantly some conversation. We've gotten more than a

few emails about launch scan tools, consumers looking for them and some of the perks, and we thought we would talk to Harlan one on one as we get ready, as he getting ready. He's going to Seema in a

couple of weeks and he can talk about new product and features and things like that. So it's a scan

tool OBD two Gibbs, answer your questions, emails, phone call, car Doctor kind of show today, and that's just what we're gonna do. I'm running any and the card Doctor

and I will be back right after this and we'll kick the garage doores.

Over out of my head more likely running any in the car.

Doctor here as we talk about cars this week. It

was really just just so amazing on that Yarus. I

still think about that car to go with the fuse and it started, and then the part that the owner said to me, he goes, but how could a fuse keep the car from starting? And I had to explain

to him, and I took him a little under my wing and yeah, I know, Tom's looking at me and he's saying, come on, really, I'm like, yeah, you know the problem is that nobody mentors young kids today. And

it was funny. He had taken and I know we

have calls. I'll get to them a minute, one second.

I'm sorry for if you're on hold. He had taken

coils of wire to put the headlights and he wanted to make his headlights flash and he wrapped it around in coils on various parts of the car, and I said, you know, if you're not careful, you're gonna make a giant electromagnet. If you wrap the coils of wire around

the steel and then pass voltage through it, at some point you're going to magnetize something and on a computer car and the wrong situation. And he's like, really, that'll

make a magnet. And I'm thinking, didn't you take tenth

grade science? He goes, oh yeah, I go what did

they teach you? He goes, not that, I mean, gee whiz,

I remember tenth grade science. We were learning about electro

magnets and all sorts of neat things. And Malahid school's

probably still really from the time I put the two chemicals together that they said don't mix these two and I went, oh, you mean like this and smoked out the place.

But that's I don't know.

I don't know what they're teaching kids in school today, but you know what you still got to You need to be very smart to be a mechanic, I think, to be good at it. And I'm not saying I am.

I'm just saying I follow a procedure and that's the most important thing. Let's get over and talk to Eric

online one. Let's kick the garage doors open. Enough about

me today and see what's going on here with his Pontiac Vibe. Eric.

Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help you?

And thanks for calling in from Racine, Wisconsin.

Hi, Ron, Yes, sir, Yeah, I was listening to your story.

You're talking about the gentleman that was in love with his zuzu.

Joe Azuzu. Yeah yeah, sure.

Yeah yeah, and you are telling him that, you know, sometimes it's time to get rid of a car when you can't get parts for it anymore. And I got

to thinking about my Vibe. It's probably been one of

the best vehicles I've ever had. It still looks like

it came off the showroom floor, the paint flawless, It's got eighty thousand miles on it. I've done nothing but

maintenance and brakes on it, and I'm thinking about spending five hundred dollars on tires for the winter. But you

got me thinking should I do that? Is it time

to get rid of the car? Because it's a Pontiac

and you know they don't make Pontiacs anymore.

Well, you know they don't make Pontiacs anymore. But you know,

I think the other.

Side of that is that you know that.

Really came from Toyota as well. Isn't there a Toyota

version of the vibe? Isn't it the Matrix?

I think? Is that the car?

Yes, that's the car I'm thinking of. I would say, no,

it's not time to get rid of it. It's it's

it's it's good to consider it. Here's why it's not

time to get rid of it. You can still get

parts in some form or another for that vehicle, the Asuzu.

Did you hear the whole comment about the Issuzu. I

wasn't making that up. If you want to purchase parts

for an Asuzu from Asuzu, not only do you have to go down there and pay cash, at least that's the way it works around our neck of the woods.

You have to go down there and pay cash, okay, but you have to wait for the parts to show up.

And if they never show up, oh well, if the parts show up and they're wrong, oh well. If the

parts show up and they don't work, oh well. And

if the parts show up and they go bad in two months, oh well, order some more. So you know, Vibe, Yeah,

you know right it Just listen. Why don't we just

you know, why don't we put a Suzu in charge of the government, because they would probably be just as efficient as running that business as well. Uh, you know,

the Pontiac is a much different animal. There are parts

available for it. I wouldn't get rid of the Pontiac

for that reason. I'll tell you the one reason why

I would get rid of a Pontiac, Vibe.

I'm not picking on you.

I'm just okay as long as we're being one on one here today, right, Whi's okay is how do you clean that back window? Isn't that the car with the

back window that the with the glass? Am I thinking

of the right Pontiac? Doesn't that have the crazy back

hatch that the glass is just really, it's always dirty.

You can't keep that back window clean, can you.

Oh, but it lifts up and it's really nice because you can pop up just the window by itself.

Right.

Here's well, here's the most I know.

I have had no problem with that.

All right, Well, if you can get past that, then I say keep it, because you know what, You're not going to get a whole lot for it. And if

all that car needs to get through the winter is tires, then frankly, you know what You've done your maintenance, You've done your due diligence. Spend five hundred dollars, let the car.

Let the clock start counting. If you get two months

out of the car, that paid for the tires right there, because two fifty a month is an easy car payment, and anything after that is gravy. But if the engine failed,

if the engine failed tomorrow, then I'd probably hold off and think about, you know, replacing the vehicle. That's not

that's not something I think is practical, unfortunately, And I guess it's a sign of the times. When I started

this radio show twenty five years ago, the expression was it's.

Cheaper to keeper.

Today, it's cheaper to keeper as long as you can get parts for it. The company hasn't gone out of business,

the car hasn't been recalled, and the people manufacturing the car originally still manufacture parts for it somewhere on this side of this part of the planet.

And that really is how I look at it.

I'm still waiting on that airbag recall that I've had for two years, and they don't have a fix for it yet.

Well, listen, don't hold your breath. I just finally real quick,

and then I'm gonna go. We had an O two

grand and Cherokee at the shop since and I don't like to do dates on radio because sometimes we play these shows back at other times. We've had to show

the car in the shop since September second. It needs

an airbag module. It's under airbag recall from Chrysler since March.

Cute little old lady.

We want to do it for. We want to send

it out to the dealer for so she doesn't get sold to the world. So the service writer can't buy

lawn furniture on his commission. And not only is the

partner not available, they haven't even assigned a part number to it yet, so remains to be seen Eric. I

appreciate the call you call us in the spring list.

Now you enjoyed your vibe all winter long. I'm running

any in the Car Doctor. I'll be back right after this.

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along the way and we're sorry, understand the volume that we're dealing with. Recently got an email from Anthony Emilio.

He's our retired Chicago PD listener out in park Ridge, ILLINOI way, and he wrote, Hey, I heard about your product on the car doctor Ron and any and this is a copy of what he sent to the folks over at Gibbs. I hearde six cans on the net

while I found a new use for Gibbs my vinyl garage door and siding. The installers said to use WD forty,

but Gibbs works much better now. My garage is protected

and it looks great. It's my all around protected and lubricant.

If only the government works so well. Thanks Anthony Emilio,

park Ridge, Illinois. And you know what, it just kind

of jostled my brain a little bit. I said, I

haven't talked to Jerry. Uncle Jerry as we call him here,

but Jero Mas Delechi as his Facebook given name is, and that we've got him on the line with us to talk to him about Gibbs and all sorts of things.

Jerry's always good for a good time. Mister Rostillki, How

are you today, sir?

I'm fine, Ron. How about yourself?

Oh, not bad at all? How's things out Detroit Way?

I think we're starting to get a change of seasons here a little nippy.

Today, yeah, a little cold?

Yeah.

Did you happen to go to the Woodward Cruise this year?

Yes?

I did, sir. How was it one of my must

dos every year?

Yeah?

How was it excellent? As always? Yeah, it's mind boggling.

Yeah.

If it's got wheels and rolls, you'll see it there.

Yeah, so I imagine.

So?

And were you out?

Were you out in the middle of the boulevard handing out cans of Gibbs to everybody?

I would have loved to, but unfortunately I don't have your kind of money.

Well, there you go. You know, listen, if I had

your money, i'd throw mine away.

Tell me about Gibbs, Jerry.

You know, it's it's tell the tale here for the listeners that are new to it. Where did Gibbs come

from and just what exactly is it.

It started out a guy named Paul Gibbs came up with this formula back a number of years ago, and he had it a little two ounce drip bottles. And

the problem being is he couldn't find an aerosol can valve that would contain the product. So they put it

in an aerosol can and I god, it would leak out.

So after much research, trial and there, they came up with an aerosol valve on a can that would contain the product and they started making it available in twelve ounce cans and it comes in a twelve ounce case and you can use it on anything.

And when we say anything.

Like for example, you know, everybody thinks this is an automotive show. So sure, there's tons of automotive applications, but

it was.

It was fascinating. It works.

They use it on guns. It's it's one of the

biggest things they use it on is taking care of weapons.

Correct, Yes, it is.

In fact, there was a large shipment of Gibbs that went to Iraq through a distribut you know, a military supply company. They wanted it out into Iraqs. I provided

them with a substantial amount of gibs to send out to the troops and keep everything running good. Now, one

of the things that it will not do is catch fuzz bunnies and dust up and whatnot, so it doesn't come up right when you get in a harsh environment.

You know, it's quite the item. Also, it's good for

fishing gear. It's around the house. One of my first

use is they had a sliding glass shower door in our bathroom and it was really sticky, and I first applied some gibbs to it, and I forgot to tell my wife and she put her whole one hundred and two pounds behind it and him near drove the glass door through the wall.

Yeah.

So now every time I give something, I have to tell her, Hey, I put some gibbs on a watch out.

You know, it's going to open and close pretty easy.

And like my daughter now her kids, she won't put gibbs on their door door hinges on her bedrooms because she wants to hear them when they try to sneak out at night.

Well, I can understand.

There, go get the defrigerator, yeah, you know, go get back.

On the computer, right, I could understand that.

You know, one of my favorite uses for Gibbs is spraying it on aluminum pieces like intake manifolds and how it preserves them and keeps them looking fresh.

Yeah, that it does. Also, it's very good for their

metal surfaces. It'll prevent the fingerprints that you get on

it from touching it when your oils from your skin get on to the metal. A new supply chain that

I've gotten involved in is people that do media blasting on vehicle bodies. They coat the car down with Gibbs

immediately after the blasting and it can sit at the shop no matter how long before the owner picks it up and takes it over for his pain to the next step in the processing pain.

Well, because you know, one of the things I've learned with Gibbs is there's a lot of lubricant. You know,

we can mention I've experienced with WD forty and some of the other things out there they spray on. They're

a lubricant. But the one thing with Gibbs is there's

a cling property to it. Correct It'll it gets into

the porosity of the metal and stays there. It doesn't

wash off like everything else does am I correct?

Correct, You're one hundred percent correct. It is molecularly absorbed

into the material and becomes one with the surface. Yeah,

and that's one of its strengths. And you can paint

over it, which you know that raises a lot of eyebrows.

But I have had parts that I painted in two thousand and three that are still looking like they just came.

I just painted them, right, you know, underhood bracketry and things for the different cars. But you again, you want

to do your metal prep as per your painting instruction.

Sure, yeah, sure, I mean I.

Wouldn't say to you, Ron, spray your part with gibbs and then with the next breath, say, Ron, grab your rattle can and give it a coat of a glass of black, because that's not going to happen.

Right, That's not going to work. You know.

By the way, I got a set and set up, good, good choice in time, wipe it down, keep it dust free, do your tag rag you know, a couple of days later and go at it.

Yeah.

You know, in the ten twelve years you and I have been talking back and forth on radio. I always

go back in my mind when we have these conversations to the snowplows. You know, I have a snowplow. I

plow the truck. I plow the shop with the big

plow truck, and I plow the house because you know, it's just I just I don't have time to do anything else, but I want to keep my stuff open in the snow. And I've been gibbsing is that a

word I've been give protecting, emphasize.

Give a size. Yeah, I've been doing it.

Gives a size to the snow plow ever since. And

you know what, the thing still looks brand new because it doesn't rust. And I think it kind of you know,

it's funny when I go out for coffee and this is what generates I start thinking of you, because I'll be there at the at the coffee shop and you know, there's seven plow guys and everybody's got a plow on it.

It's rusty, corroded, falling off, beat up, and here I pull in with this plow that's ten years old. It

looks you know, it's all shiny red, it's brand new.

And they're like, oh, look a new guy. I've been

doing this a while. I just you know, it gives

my plow, and they look at me and.

They go, you do what I go. It gives my plow.

It's the snow falls off easier.

But you know, neither also works on lawn wars. I

have a lot of people that use it under writing worst to undercoat their deck, to treat their deck, and then when they need to get out the clumps and things that tend to accumulate under your more deck, just take the host to it and it's gone, right, Yeah, cuts down on their maintenance time.

Hey, listen, by the way, I apologize. I think it

was your birthday recently, wasn't it, Am I correct?

Did I see that?

Yeah?

That was another one on another, another notch on the belt.

Yeah, another trip around the planet. But you're still but

you're not for sure, you're not.

That old of a guy. You still have the hot rod.

Right of course. Yeah, tell me about that my paston

equipped to sixty six Mustang.

Yeah, and you'll.

Probably never get rid of that, right, that's the car.

That's the baby. I've searched far and white for that car,

and when I found it, I've been to other states.

I've been all over the country looking for that stink silly car. And as luck would have it, guess what

I found in the town too over from me.

Yeah. That's always the way it works, isn't it? And

it's always the way it works. Hey, listen.

Since you got it in the garage, I got it in the stable and that's where it's stands.

Yeah, listen, you're you're so good at finding cars. If

you happen to stumble across a seventy two Chevy Monty Carlo, I've got my eye out for one, so you keep me in mind.

Hey, listen.

If the listeners want more information about Gibbs Jerry, where can they get it?

They can go to www dot get Gibbs g E T.

Gibbs dot com. Gotcha, that's get Gibbs dot com. And also,

as an offer to your listenership and your your fans on the radio and on the web, I'm offering a free gift to anyone that mentions car Doctor in their order form. Now, as you go through the PayPal processes

which I use, there's an area where you can, towards the end of your purchase you can add comment and if you get to that point, add car Doctor and I will send you very generous little gift, a little token of my appreciation for your support of Gibbs and for run support. Well we just go on through the

year twenty fifteen.

Well, listen, we appreciate your support of the Car Doctor these many years, and we're glad to have you behind the scenes helping us bring this information out to the public.

And always a good always a good time talking to you, Jerry.

I mean that we get around a lot, but always a good time talking to you, sir. Hey, listen, you

go have a good rest of the afternoon.

All right, okay, buddy, thank.

You, Take good care, Jerry, Jerry, Asta lucky folks, get Gibbs, Get Gibbs dot com. Always a pleasure. I'm running eny

in the Car Doctor. I'll be back right after this.

Welcome back, were the Car Doctor rolling along at eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Let's

get over and talk to Bob Nan you wit in New York two thousand and seven to a matrix.

Hey, Bob, how are you, sir? Good? How can I

help you?

Well? I had a album with my CD player and

my matrix. Okay, it was jammed on me. So what

I did is removed it from you know, the car land the jam, put it back in the A M f M. The radio. Everything will work. But when I

go to push where it says disc, it will not read disc.

Okay.

I'm just wondering if there's a code or anything.

There's no, there's no coding for that.

And if the radio is working, then I would say the problem is internal in the tape deck unit itself.

Let me just ask you two quick questions. Bob, does

the dome light still work?

Uh? Yeah, inside the car, yes, as far as I know. Yeah,

that's okay, okay.

And the cigarette lighter still works.

Right well, yeah, because I use it for you know, utilities here right.

So, because those those are the only two fuses involved in that circuit for those components, and one of them is radio, one of them is CD. I don't remember

offhand which goes which way, but if both of those are working, then we.

Can safely say that it has power.

You could verify ground for the CD, but it's all part and parcel of that same component plug for the radio.

So unless you missed something, something's not plugged in. Provided

all power grounds and components are plugged in properly, I would say it's an internal failure of the CD player.

So what you're gonna have to do.

Is I would either tell you to go online or stop by your local Toyota dealer and ask them where do they send out their stereos and electronics to be repaired, and you can you can send it out and have it overhould for I'm going to say two hundred dollars or less, depending upon what's broken. As an educated guest, you.

Don't want to go and try and purchase that new I've I've learned.

The hard way over the years that factory radios are frightfully expensive. But you know there are there are usually

repair facilities that the dealers, the manufacturers are are using to uh to repair their stuff.

Right, So what what what it does is, in other words, I'll I'll push, I'll push you know, okay, and then it'll come back and tell me you know that it's empty.

Right.

So then when I push load, you know, it'll it'll blink okay, and then it'll shoot back over to the radio.

Right.

Yeah, So it's not it's not seeing maybe the radio is not seeing the CD player. So at that point,

like I said, verify, you've got everything plugged in verify that the dome light the cigarette lighter both work because they are on that fuse for that particular componentry And at that point then it sounds like an internal component failure.

And you've got to get the CD player checked out and verified. And you may want to send them the

radio too, just to see that the problem isn't in the radio, since one talks to the other in order to give information back and forth, so they can they can work together and get the sound out. So I

appreciate the call, Bob, and good hearing from you up there and then you at New York A five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. I'm ronnin Ady

and the car Doctor, and I'm back right after this.

Ah, curious tonight.

I got to feel something, right, I'm so scared.

I kiss a phone of my chair.

Every haway.

Hey, welcome back, run on Nadi and the car Doctor.

A quick piece of well, actually, I don't know if this is email or a newspaper article. You know, I

like to review the things that you send in too, me here and we talk about it up on air.

This comes to us again from Tony Emilio out in Park Ridge, Illinois or retired Chicago p Dean. I like

mentioning that I like, you know what, I like to because then I get to say, you know what, Thank you, Tony for your service and for all the boys and girls in blue out there for all they do to protect us and keep.

Us safe on the highways.

And speaking of highways, Tony's article from the Chicago Tribune a couple of weeks ago talks about mischief on the highway.

All those country songs about line cheating spouses and honest, dependable pickup trucks may need to be revised. It turns

out you can't trust your ride either. Last week, Ford

recalled thirty seven thousand new F one fifties because they may slam on the brakes for no reason. The problem

is a glitch in the high tech cruise control, a fancy form of automatic pilot that detects slower cars in the front and reacts. The F one fifties get confused

when passing large, highly reflective trucks and think there's an obstacle in the lean head. I'm not laughing because I

think it's funny. It's just, you know, it's what I've

been saying all along, And Tony included that in a note he said, ron, it's exactly as you say. It's

a computer on wheels. One accident has been attributed to

the phenomenon blame unreliable software, which Ford said it can fix.

And as this article points out, and I agree with it, the biggest reason we're thinking about computing power rather than horsepower now is it's probably because of the Volkswagen scandal.

Let's face it, Volkswagen kind of opened our eyes.

It was funny.

I had a conversation this week with a couple of German engineers for another company that makes fuel cells, and they're telling me, how, you know what, Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all do the same thing as Volkswagen.

They just haven't been caught yet. Yeah.

Well, I think Ford, GM, and Christler have been under the microscope enough that by now they would have been caught.

And you know what, you got to face up to it.

Volkswagen got caught. But the point of this article going

back to that is just it's the software. And it

appropriately points out that The New York Times recently stated that a new high end car, and we've said this before, contains one hundred million lines of computing code. And that

there are fifty million lines of computing code in the Hadron collider, you know, the atom smasher, So you know, stop and think about that, something that's trying to find the origins of the universe only has fifty million lines of code, whereas the device that you get in, sit in, go down to the Starbucks for the cup of coffee and has one hundred million lines of code. You know what,

they haven't been able to figure out the origins of the universe. It's a blessing cars run at all when

you stop to think about the obstacles and the technology that's in front of them.

So yeah, that's just crazy.

Hey, this hour, the Car Doctor, I can tell by looking at the Great Vivad is just about over.

There's another hour to come on many of these affiliates.

If you happen to take it.

We're going to be talking to the folks from Drew Technologies and Launch, so you want to stick around for that.

But til the next time I'm running ending the Car Doctor.

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