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Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor - September 27, 2025- Hour 2 - Hot Rods, Air Conditioning & Busy Phones - (855)560-9900 - 24/7 Hotline
Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor - September 27, 2025- Hour 2 - Hot Rods, Air Conditioning & Busy Phones - (855)560-9900 - 24/7 Hotline
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About this episode
Ron Ananian dives into a variety of automotive topics, addressing listener calls about air conditioning issues, ignition problems, and the importance of proper maintenance. He shares insights on troubleshooting techniques, such as voltage drop testing and the significance of calibration in vehicle systems. The episode also touches on the impact of misinformation in auto repair and emphasizes the importance of understanding modern vehicle engineering. Ron encourages listeners to enjoy the process of car maintenance and repair while providing practical advice for common automotive challenges.
Topics:
air conditioning issues
ignition problems
troubleshooting techniques
voltage drop testing
calibration
misinformation in auto repair
importance of maintenance
modern vehicle engineering
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Oh, it's my turn again. What a crazy day, right? We're still kind of recovering from our lack of being at PB-A-286 car show. And Tom and I are talking about it. And you know, what we're going to find out this week when we call up and talk to the software company and why this didn't talk to that and that didn't talk to this and the thing of magic didn't work. And you know, we're talking about pivoting.
And that's part of what auto repair is, right? It comes back to and it teaches me the lesson over and over again that life is about pivoting and being flexible and making the change that you don't want to make when you least expected but have to.
And I just keep thinking that's the lesson today because we're frustrated as you can tell that we didn't get to stay the whole day at the show.
On the other hand, I did get to wash and wax the hot rod. Something I haven't done in two years because I haven't taken the cover off but three times. And I taught me that I have to get out and drive it more. And you know what? It was good in the sense that I enjoyed driving the car. It's been a while. I have to do more of that because there's only so many nice sunny days left in a lot of ways.
Let's open up the garage doors 855 560 9900 is the phone number. Let's go over to Donna down in Tennessee, a 10 Chevy equinox Donna. Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help?
Hi, thank you. I had my air compressor on my air conditioning go out. Okay. And so I had it replaced. And it only blows cold air from one side. It barely blows from the other side.
And the guy who did put it in had a transmission fall on him so he's not available. I checked the actuator doors already changed the cabin filter and no luck.
Okay. Well, if it's not getting any air flow. Is the air coming out anywhere or there's just. Yes. Is there just no air flow?
No, the air is coming out on the passenger side and it's cool. Very cool. And then on the passenger side. Did I just say that? Yeah. I know what you mean. I'm at the driver side. Right. That's okay. That's okay, dear.
But on the passenger side, I'm getting very little blow. And it's not cool. All right. So we've got minimal air flow. And what's there is not cool. Now is that since the AC compressor was done. Yes.
And you're you never got back. I mean, what did he do? I'm going to I'm going to paraphrase it like this. The AC compressor was done on Monday. The transmission fell on him on Tuesday and you went back on Wednesday and he wasn't there. It was that quick. That kind of a scenario.
Well, I kind of think it was about a week later. Yeah. Okay. And you have no way to contact him. Is it was it like this when you the first time you turn the air on?
No, I can't say that it. Well, it might have been because I drive it. So I didn't realize the passenger side wasn't getting it. I just was getting really warm outside. Right.
I started sweating in the car with the air conditioner on. And then I started checking.
Because you're doing the right. You're looking at the right things. Listen, the first things that come to my mind is air flow, notwithstanding when I see a system that's warmer on one side than the other.
And it's a split evaporator like this one is I always think about low system or incorrect system charge. All right.
So that's that's always on the back of my mind. Do I have a system charge issued a charge level issue.
But the fact that there's no air blowing out of the one side, where is the air going? And I would get curious at that.
I would want to take a scan tool and do a sweep test to sit there and you can actually take a good quality scan tool, something more than OBD2 and self test the actuators.
In other words, take the front door to your house. You know we're closed. You know we're closed is right. And you know we're full open is right.
Well, you can do that with a scan tool and the computer will log that it will see you all, you know, whatever it is, 182 steps.
And if it only gets up to 160, it will report that as a problem. Now, is it possible for some reason this is out of calibration? Sure.
It could think 160 is maximum opposite end position, but that's kind of odd right that he did a compressor and all of a sudden you've got this problem.
So, you know, instead of looking for what's bad, I really want to go back to what I always say. I want to look for what's good.
Does it pass a sweep test? Does it have a good system charge in it? Is air coming out anywhere on this vehicle other than the events when you've got it in the event position?
If you put it on the frost, can you, well, let's say you can't do that, right? You can your split side to side temperature wise, but you can't change position.
If you put this into frost, the frost probably over rods. Well, wait a minute. How are you? How are you split on this? Your split temperature wise, not position wise.
Well, it does, like I said, it barely blows out the passenger side and it's not cool. I did just hit the defrost button and I can feel it on my feet.
So, oh, but that's because it is.
Right. Turn the air conditioning off. Does the defrost come out through the top?
Sounds like it is, but I can't reach that.
And then why were you feeling it on your feet in the defrost position with the AC on you should be feeling it in your face or is it coming?
Is it coming out the bottom? See, I think you've got a stuck door. I really do.
I did change the middle one. I forget what it's called, but I kind of checked out them one on each side and those seemed fine.
Right. It actually weighed your doors. Yeah. And the middle one did not look like it was operating well. So when it hadn't just changed it.
Right. When you, when you had that one off, were you able to freely move the door?
I didn't, I just put a new one on. You didn't try, you didn't try moving it, right?
Yeah. I guess I should, I still have the parts.
Right. Is it, is it, because is it binding? And then if you put a new one on, did you calibrate it?
Because sometimes they require calibration. Thank you. No, I did not.
All right. So you got a bunch of things to do here.
Yep. I need a high low pressure gauge for checking the high low, right?
Well, you do need, you do need gauges, you know, you will need some kind of a recovery system too.
If you're going to do this on your own, you know, and I can get into an argument with AC guys about this all day long.
Everybody says, well, you look at ambient temperature and if ambient temperature is 80 degrees,
and it's showing 85 pounds on the low side gauge at rest, or 85 pounds across the system at rest,
that means you've got correct charge. Yeah, I disagree with that.
I don't find ambient temp and a relationship to pressure in the system really exists anymore as being accurate.
I've had far too many systems with new 134 refrigerant show me just the opposite to being correct.
And I really like if I'm dealing with a mystery system, I really like to be the guy that pull it out, measure it, recharge it,
you know, what kind of oil comes out, what kind of refrigerant comes out, and you know, go from there. So.
Well, should I, and my other thought was, should I waste the money to do a die test on it?
Well, why are you thinking maybe it's low?
Well, I think that I always like to start with the easiest stuff, which I've done.
Yeah, but you know, the, well, the problem is you can listen, you can add die to this.
All right, you can surely do that, but you know, how low is it? You're about, you're on step four.
I think it's great. I really do, but you're on step four. I think step one is the things we talked about.
Can you, can you manually move the door? How much refrigerants in it?
You know, if you, if you play with the knob, does it come out anywhere or is it stuck in one position
that it's always going to be blowing out at your feet? Right?
Right, you know, yeah, I've changed the knob.
Right. So it's, it's, you know, and then does it need calibration?
And then yeah, okay, if it's, if it's low on charge, did he not charge the system properly?
And you know, maybe he made a mistake, maybe he read the wrong amount.
Is there a rear evaporator in the car?
And he didn't realize it. So he charged it for a front only evaporator system.
Right. Okay. As long as it as long as it is.
But you know, you'll answer the question.
If you're using a machine that recovers, and if it's supposed to have two pounds in it, you take out, you know,
one pound, 14 ounces close enough. If you take out one pound, that's 50%.
That's, that's, that's very low. And then that's a problem.
Now you want to recharge it. Hey, the system works perfect except I got to figure it away.
The air is not blown because I made a mess of my mode door when I did the actuator trying to, you know,
shotgun this. You know, now you want to add a die to it.
So if in two weeks, it's low on charge again.
Now you got a place to go.
But to start to start adding things to the pot.
You know, there's always 10 steps.
I like, I like to encourage people to sit down and follow the 10 in order.
Don't hop scotch.
All right. So not scolding just saying, you know, I don't, I don't like to play hopscotch.
It's painful for me too. Believe me, because I want to get to the solution.
You know what? Auto repairs like life. Here I am saying that again.
You got to enjoy the ride in the process.
Yeah, you really do. So, yeah, well, I'm not enjoying the ride when it's too hot.
Well, I get that 100%. 100%.
No, do you give me some depth to think about because I had no idea about the car calibration on the door.
Right. Sometimes there's a calibration. You have to tell it.
Here's the new actuator. Here's zero.
Have you ever had a car with a dead, you know, have you ever had a car and then I got to go?
Have you ever had a car with a dead battery and you replace the battery?
And then the windows, the power windows, the automatic windows don't work.
And you have to train the windows.
Same thing. You got to show the computer up.
You got to show the computer down and then all of a sudden it knows position.
You got to, you put an actuator in it. You got to show it zero.
You got to show it 180 degrees in the other direction and back.
And that's probably a good chance of what you're going through.
So, you got some steps to do here, Donna.
You do them. You give me a call back if you need me.
855-560-9900.
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Hey, let's not waste any time.
Let's go right to Jamie and Iowa.
Seventy-nine, F-150.
Jamie, welcome to the car doctor.
What's going on?
Hi, Ron.
Yes.
Well, I've got this truck
and it's been running perfectly.
Except the other last weekend,
I folded in the garage and parked it
and then I went to go start it
like Monday or something
and it wouldn't start.
Just crank over.
So I thought, well, there's no spark.
So I put a spark plug tester on it
and it didn't show any spark.
So I said, okay, I don't have spark.
So I checked the coil
and the coil with the little meter, you know,
little dial meters.
Right.
Multimedia.
It shows that the coil is good.
Okay.
Well, I checked the coil fuse.
You didn't, you didn't own reading on the coil.
Yeah.
You owned the primary.
Okay.
And then I went and checked the fuse
for the coil and it was good.
All right, you had power at the positive side.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Okay.
And I actually replaced the fuse.
But anyway, then I disconnected the durus spark
where it was into the wiring harness
and made sure it was all clean, not corroded,
put it back together
and it wouldn't start.
So then I thought, well,
I have been having trouble with the cell annoyed
on the firewall there or the fender.
It's been sticking and I'd had to jump out of open hood
and we'll walk it and it'd stop cranking.
So I thought, well, I need to replace that anyway.
So I replaced that.
I thought, well, maybe when it was cranking
over the engine longer than it's supposed to be,
that it maybe caused it to burn out the ignition side.
So I got a...
Before we go too far, Jamie.
So you know, you know you don't have spark.
Do you have fuel pressure?
Yeah, there was gas.
Okay.
I pumped the carburetor and it was my gas.
Right.
And...
Okay.
So you have fuel pressure.
Okay.
Right.
Seven million.
I put another cell annoyed on it.
That was a new one.
And then I cranked it over and it started and it was running perfect.
And they just all said quit.
And I thought, well, that's a fluke, but it's cold.
You know, just started up.
You put another...
You put another ignition module in.
No, I haven't.
I put a cell annoyed for the starter.
Okay.
Right.
It was sticking.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Maybe it was a bad...
What kind of ignition solenoid is this, Jamie?
Is it the square rectangular piece mounted to the distributor?
Or is it the big box with the two leads that come off
and it sits on the driver's fender wheel?
Yeah, it's the round little deal with the two leads.
And then on the middle of it, it's got the starter side
and it's got the run side.
Right.
And it sits on the fender wheel.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
How are the grounds...
How are the grounds on the 45-year-old vehicle?
They're good.
Okay.
How'd you check them?
Back up.
How'd you check them?
Unscrewed them.
Okay.
Back up.
How about...
Can we do a vaulted drop test?
Do you understand the concept?
Not really.
Okay.
Let's learn it then.
So, you know, in New Jersey, if you want to go to the shore,
you take the parkway.
Okay.
The parkway goes down the...
Down the length of New Jersey.
Now, you get to Woodbridge and the parkway goes over the...
Over the Raritan Bay, Raritan River, okay?
Right next...
Right next to the parkway is Route 1-9.
When there's traffic on the parkway, you go Route 1-9.
All right.
That's the bypass.
So, when there's a restriction,
electricity takes the easiest path.
It takes the path of least resistance.
So...
Yeah.
Voltage drop is a very bad term.
I don't like the term voltage drop.
It confuses people.
I like the term voltage bypass.
So, what we want to do is, under duress, we'd like to see...
I'd love to see a 12-volt headlight using one leg of ground
as the ground for whatever we're testing.
And then the other side going to hot.
If it glows as bright under duress with one as it does under the other,
hey, great, then I got a good ground.
That's a voltage drop.
I mean, you could put a meter on it also,
and measure it with a digital meter.
If you go to YouTube University and just type in voltage drop testing,
you'll come up with about 40,000 different ways to do it.
But understanding the concept of what you're doing,
voltage drop testing is so important.
All right.
So, it's like having an intermittent voltage drop
because then it started up and ran out.
Sure it could be.
Especially, listen, I remember 30 years ago
when these trucks were only 20 years old.
All right.
And I say it like that because we're talking about a 46,
almost 47-year-old vehicle.
All right.
We've got to just be mindfully aware of corroded components.
And, you know, I just want to do a voltage drop test.
Hey, it's good, good.
Let's go off, check the box and move on.
Right?
Okay.
Yeah.
The other thing that was more common with these
in terms of failure was,
if you take the distributor cap off,
I did that.
Okay.
And you looked at it.
Is there any oil on the inside of the distributor?
No.
All right.
And this distributor has two pig tail leads leading out of it.
Yeah.
Right.
And this is the initial module on the distributor.
Sit tight.
No.
All right.
Sit tight, Jamie.
Don't go anywhere.
I'll come back.
We'll finish up.
And then we'll get on to Greg in New York.
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Just a lot of little tedious things we've got to talk about.
I'm Ron and Amy in the car doctor.
We'll be back right after this at 855-560-999-00.
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Let's go back to Jamie and Iowa.
Jamie, you're still there.
Yeah.
I was thinking about this car.
There's a black wire coming off the ignition module, correct?
Yeah.
That goes to ground.
I want you to voltage drop test that or if you have any doubts, tap into that
and run on an auxiliary ground to the right to the negative battery post.
And then just make sure there should be a body ground coming off the negative battery post
that goes to the body or the frame.
Do you see all that?
Is that still intact?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Just to be sure, because that's typically where the ground issues become.
Look, you know, this could just flat out be a bad ignition module.
And then the problem becomes getting a good one, right?
Because it's 45 years old.
And it got to the point in 82 when you were working on these.
There were limited methods of testing them then that this was the originator in my mind
of swap and hope, right?
It was substitute known good part.
So this very well could be.
Is it that the vehicle sits for a length of time?
And then it starts?
Yeah.
And what's that?
No, it just, it'll start up right away.
It's just like your drive.
I drove around the block and drove perfectly fine.
And, you know, I want to like it a mile or so.
And then when I got in front of a house practically, it just all said it's dried.
And I cranked it over and it cranked a little bit.
And it wouldn't start and I turned it off and started it again.
It started up and go right up in the driveway.
Right. So you've got an intermittent random.
It sounds like something is getting hot.
The other thing is do you have a hairdryer in the house?
Oh, yeah.
Portable hairdryer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you hit the ignition module or,
or in the other common, the other common thing that nobody really thinks about
or thought about even then 40 years ago was the pickup coil to piece inside the distributor.
They were, they were not uncommon to fail also.
But again, limited, limited simple ways to test it would take a lab scope
and to look, to look at it and look at a wave and see what the voltage is doing.
You know, but there's, but there's no oil inside the distributor right?
It's bone dry.
No, there's no oil.
I look at it.
It's beautiful.
Okay.
So it's a way like on the old with the points.
They would replace the distributor with one of those electronic ignitions in it.
Well, you have a distributor with electronic ignition.
Do you want to put a different system in?
Is that what you're asking?
Well, is that a way I could eliminate the dirt spark?
You could.
Or just.
But before you do that, this is a, this, this, this is a carburetor.
This is an E2 vehicle.
Is it not?
Yeah, it's got a, yeah, it's a little two barrel on it.
Right.
But there's some electronic elements to this vehicle.
I'd have to, honestly, I'd have to look back at the wiring and see what this is.
I think this is either E1 or E2.
And I want to see what the computer, I want to see what the computer authority is on this.
You know, frankly, if I can still find a dirt spark module and a pickup oil.
Right.
Well, but what's the, what's the quality and what's the brand?
Well, they were standard brand.
I would have no problem with the standard module.
Absolutely.
If, if you could find a standard module for this, what is it?
50 bucks.
Yeah, they were like $70, $68.
Right.
Yeah.
I have no problem with the standard module to tell you the truth.
I know the engineer that designed that standard module back in 79.
Doug, Doug, his first name was Doug.
I can't think of his last name.
I haven't talked to him in 30 years.
But I was, I was actually involved with the testing of those modules out at the Long Island facility or the facility in Long Island city.
40 years ago.
So when you say it, I do the voltage drop test.
If you do the voltage drop test when you're having the problem and it passes and you've got good ground at the module and you still have no spark.
You've got, you've got positive.
You've got 12 volts at the ignition coil and then crank it and it maintains better than 10.5 volts.
I say you've got a problem on the trigger side and I'm going to tell you to look very closely at the ignition module and the pickup coil.
All right.
And the pickup coil, like I said, unless you have a lab scope, is a little bit more difficult to test.
But replacement requires some special tooling to press it on and off to get the shaft out.
So process of elimination on the older vehicle and eliminating known good or known bad, trying a module is a whole lot easier.
So, okay.
All right, but look at all the grounds.
All right, and then go from there.
All right, kiddo.
Thank you.
You're very welcome.
You keep me posted.
Let's go to Greg upstate, New York.
I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Greg.
I wanted to make sure I covered the bases with with Jamie.
So how can I help, sir?
Hello.
Let's see.
I was listening to your show about an hour ago.
You had a guy with a BMW.
Right.
Brad from Florida.
Yeah, Florida.
All right.
Yeah.
Still chance.
Strip tram.
Right.
Yep.
So I have a friend.
It's the number one mechanic in Sacramento, California area.
Who does BMW's, Miserades, Lamborghinis and all that.
Right.
And I asked him about it.
And he said, there is a helicoyle kit available from BMW.
Right.
Yeah.
And that's what I suggested.
You know, it's not an uncommon.
I'm not sure why the dealer is telling him you've got to take the engine out six to eight thousand dollars.
Either it's either it's lack of knowledge or there's actually a bulletin that talks about it.
And BMW has actually come out with a special service tool that allows even in tight fits, depending upon body style and configuration,
that you can, you know, cut the threads into oil pan instead of having to pull the engine out.
So.
Yeah.
You know, it's definitely a thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It happens.
You can be done in one day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it's, well, and you know, the bulletin is dated 2018 talks about the issue partly is because it's only a 12 millimeter plug.
It's soft aluminum threads.
You know, and it also stems and goes back in here.
I'm going to get on the drum and bang the drum Greg about, you know, when you do an oil change on a lot of these vehicles.
You need to change the drain plug gasket if the vehicle is so equipped.
But everybody wants to be jerkyleys and just pull on the chain so hard that are pulling the wrench so hard that it just, you know, crushes the gasket and, you know, pulls the threads.
And it becomes an issue.
So, you know, it's just, it's just a problem.
Yep.
That's for sure.
Very much aware, sir.
Hey, listen, I appreciate you taking the time.
Most people, you know, I don't think a lot of people would take the time to research it and give us a call and try and help.
So, kudos to you, brother.
All right.
There's just a phone call.
Yeah.
Yep.
Listen, it's all we can do is be kind to each other and try to help.
And that's the whole point of this radio show most days.
All right, kiddo.
You be well.
Thank you so much.
You have a great rest of the weekend.
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Hey, how's it going today?
It's going good, man.
Tell us who you are and what you do.
I'm Dan Morgan.
I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan Morgan,
which is America's largest injury law firm.
That's pretty awesome.
Why do you guys think you win so many cases?
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Let's go out to Ben in Tennessee, 99 E150,
and some heat and AC problems.
A lot of heat and AC problems today.
I guess the weather change or something.
I'm not sure Ben, Ron and Amy in at your service, sir.
How can I help?
I, yeah.
Takes your taking my call.
You're welcome.
We're having an issue with the van.
When we start to go up hills,
it was not about six months ago.
But anytime we get just a gradual hill,
the AC or the heat will kick out.
And then when we go back downhill,
it kicks back on it.
But we're turning it off,
because we don't want to burn up the unit.
Is it that the unit turns off
or the airflow changes position?
We're also getting a noise when we,
when after we go back downhill or get on flat land,
the under our passenger side,
under the floorboard there,
it starts to do like a compression noise,
almost like a, like a diaphragm.
Right.
Or filling up.
It almost, it almost,
it almost sounds like you've got a problem
with door position.
If, when you say no heat, no AC,
you're talking no air coming out of,
like, for example,
if you've got it set to AC
and the air should be coming out the center events,
if you're saying it doesn't come out
from the center events,
if you're going uphill
and you're putting your foot in it.
Yeah, yeah.
It's either way.
I thought it was the AC at first,
and we did like that.
We put some, you know,
some fluid in it.
I forgot the word.
Right.
Yeah, no refrigerant.
No, but here we go.
My question is,
you know, when you lose,
when you lose airflow at the center events,
do you still have air flow
at the defrost position or on the floor?
No, it completely goes out.
All of it.
Okay.
So the blower physically stops.
Right.
But have you checked to see
if you have air coming out of the ducts
at the defrost or at the floor?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll put my hand in there,
and nothing comes out.
And then it'll do,
like I'll release almost like,
like you're holding your breath
and then somebody excels.
That's what it feels like.
It'll take about 10 seconds
when you go down the hill,
and then it'll just go
then release.
And then...
Okay.
If you're going down the hill,
and you take your foot off the gas,
yeah, it's,
so you go up the hill
and it just,
everything cuts out.
Okay.
If you're going downhill
and you take your foot off the gas,
and coast in neutral,
does it all come back?
It all comes back.
Okay.
You've got a vacuum problem.
It sounds,
this sounds like a vacuum problem.
The classic,
the vacuum reservoir tank
is either ruptured broken
or the hose fell off
that feeds supply.
All right.
Okay.
We've got to look at that.
It sounds like there's just a good size hole in that,
and you're just not getting enough air flow
to control the doors in the proper position.
That would be,
that would be the first step.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Let's go with,
let's go with,
let's go with,
let's go with,
let's go with,
let's go with,
first,
has it had any recent work?
Is anybody worked on this recently?
Uh, yeah.
I did, uh,
I did,
I did tune up on my,
um,
uh,
uh,
uh, spark plugs and wires
about eight months ago,
eight months ago,
and did the problem happen
right after that,
or has it been a while?
Um,
it was,
yeah,
I didn't think I was touching any of the hoses,
but I probably, I might have,
when I pulled one of the wires, I couldn't.
Okay.
Because the vacuum tubing for that,
if memory serves me correct, comes down
around the passenger side corner of the engine
and then feeds into under the dash,
the feed the canister, which is attached
to it just under the passenger side portion of the dashboard.
Okay.
Okay. So I would be paying attention there.
It will confuse you because they actually feed
manifold vacuum to those reservoirs,
but that's just the way they are.
They're just trying to get maximum vacuum applied
to that if they can.
But I would go back and look at those hoses.
Did you somehow break something
not realizing it?
Do you have a vacuum leak of some magnitude
affecting door operation?
And if not, just make sure that the door for the system
or the doors and the vacuum supply line
is intact doing what it's supposed to do,
but that's where I think you're headed for this.
All right.
All right.
I appreciate it.
That narrows it down because I was gonna,
I was gonna pull the whole thing.
No, no, no, no, no, let's,
let's go back and try and be sequential.
All right, kiddo, you call me back if you need more.
Okay, I appreciate it.
You're very welcome.
You're very welcome, Ben.
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I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod.
Say hi, Dan.
Hey, how's it going today?
It's going good, man.
Tell us who you are and what you do.
I'm Dan Morgan.
I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan Morgan,
which is America's largest injury law firm.
That's pretty awesome.
Why do you guys think you win so many cases?
The insurance companies and other companies
that we go against know that we're going to take it
to the end that we believe in the case.
So we fight for every dollar
and we're not afraid to go that extra mile for our clients.
Our insurance companies, like actually afraid of you guys.
We don't bluff, we take it to trial
and we are not strangers of getting
very, very, very large verdicts.
Awesome.
So how does someone get in contact with Morgan Morgan?
What would I do if I got into an accident?
Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law.
That's pound five, two, nine from your cell phone
and our call center is always waiting to take your call.
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Hi, I'm Arteen Hackett, host of untold stories,
life with a severe autoimmune condition,
a production from Ruby Studio,
in partnership with Argenics.
This season, we're sharing powerful stories
of resilience from people living with MG and CIDP.
Our hope is to inspire, educate and remind each other
that even in the toughest moments, we're not alone.
We'll hear from people like Corbin Wittington.
After being diagnosed with both CIDP
and dilated cardiomyopathy,
he found incredible strength through community.
So when we talk community,
we're talking about an entire ecosystem
surrounding this condition,
including, of course, the patients at the center,
that are all trying to live life in a moment,
live life for the future,
but then also create a new future.
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I want to finish out the hour today
and talk about the massive amounts of misinformation
that's out there in the world of water repair.
Some of it's perpetuated by the repair shops
that I think are wrong.
Some of it is perpetuated by the internet library,
the university of the internet,
and some of the conversations that people have
and talking about the way procedures
are done and processes are done.
There's a lot of engineering that goes into a modern car.
And if you find somebody saying,
well, that's not how we used to do it on my dad's car,
which was 30 years ago,
it's a bad example because there are some places
where the laws of physics are the same,
but you know what, on a modern vehicle,
the laws of physics have changed the game.
And just in the way we approach repair,
just in the way we approach maintenance,
just in the way that we think about it.
And these misnomers that are out there
on the internet where people start,
and I think they just want to be heard,
they don't know what they're talking about
and they start talking about oil change intervals
and tire rotation time and wide repair shop does this
or that, I think they're wrong.
And I think the proof is in the pudding.
I think it's, you know, what's the longevity of the vehicle
and I think that's the bigger picture
and that's really what it's all about.
So I want to just plant that seed in your head.
Maintenance is still the single most important thing
you can do to a vehicle to keep it running longer.
And it really is.
It kind of comes back to that.
I've gotten a couple of emails of the last two or three weeks
of people looking at different cars.
And I want to just comment on that.
I see without commenting to any specific one,
but just the four that I've got on my desk in front of me.
Some of them talk about they want to buy a Toyota hybrid
or a Kia hybrid, which hybrid should we buy?
One fella says, you know, they both fit as extremely well,
we're of this age, we're not quite sure.
You know, what are your thoughts?
I think you're still buying a car company
and I think the difference between buying a Toyota
or a Kia, if those are my two choices,
I'm probably gonna lean towards the Toyota.
I think the Kia is a great five, six-year vehicle.
I just haven't seen Kia Hyundai
because I lumped them both together,
evolve into the same state where they're better than that.
They're a five-year vehicle, six-year vehicle.
And a really good one,
but then they just seem to fall apart.
They don't seem to hold up.
If my choice is Kia, Hyundai for a hybrid
or Toyota for a hybrid, I've got to think the Toyota's
got to win hands down every time
because I think the engineering is better.
I think the quality control, I'd have to give the nod
to Toyota and I think it becomes a case of,
you're buying again, the culture of repair.
What does that company say?
It's gonna take to maintain that car
and keep it on the road.
Now, first and foremost, absolute first and foremost
when you're looking at cars,
what's Ron's rule?
Drive it during the day, drive it at night.
Are all the buttons in the right place?
Does everything have a good tactile feel to it?
Can you find what you're looking for fairly easy?
It's really that important.
And those are the things you have to look for
and those are the things you have to keep in mind
because you're gonna have this car for five or six,
seven or eight or nine or 10 years.
Till the next time, I'm Ron and Amy in the car doctor.
Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.
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