Why Warning Lights Mean You're Already Late

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Why warning lights mean you're already late?

We're gonna unpack that.

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Well, here it comes, brothers and sisters.

It's still winter.

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And yes, that includes you and your household,

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it's you, because there's a lot of companies

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There's a ton of companies that I used to do

fleet maintenance for that they weren't highway trucks,

they were vans, they were cars, they were SUVs,

pickup trucks, yeah, so it applies.

Fleet service maintenance applies to whatever it is

that you and your family are driving.

All right, let's jump into this morning's topic

before I get down too many rabbit holes this morning.

The service light, yeah, I love the topic this morning.

Why warning lights mean you're already late

and that is so true.

By the time that service light has come on in the dash

and put you into an absolute dither and panic,

oh, what's this gonna cause?

Is it gonna blow up?

Can I drive it?

Yeah, you see how the world gets into your mind.

Yeah, you're watching way too many James Bond movies

and others where the car explodes.

Yeah, when the service light comes on,

that's not gonna happen.

But here's the thing, there have been,

by the time that light comes on,

you're so far behind on your vehicle maintenance,

it should not be a shock.

Because at some point, what happens is the computer

can no longer make adjustments on the fly

to prevent that light from coming on.

So in other words, we've run out of ideas.

That's what the ECM is saying.

We've run out of ideas.

We're still seeing that there is a drivability issue here,

but we can't fix it.

There's nothing left to use to fix it.

Then the light comes on.

So all of that that I just described to you

is what's been going on with your automobile

to put that light on.

And lack of maintenance, L of M is the technical term

in the car connection workshop.

L of M, lack of maintenance will put that light on.

So my question to my customers when I had my shop

on the Hamilton Mountain for 11 years,

when I'd have to give them some not so good news

and no good or good news, but mostly not good news,

there would be moments of intense fellowship

between husband and wife, if they're both there,

dropping the car off or coming to have a look,

a look what I call a look EC,

I need someone to stop by so I can walk you through this

so you can see it.

Now it's cool that we can shoot a video

and not interrupt anyone's day and fire that over to you

so you can have a look and with audio.

So it makes things move along so much faster,

but in the day we did not have that opportunity to do that.

Service lights on, vehicle is running like a dog,

a bag of poop and a bag of hammers and what's up.

Well, it's generally when we'll find that a lot of things

have not been getting taken care of

and now they've stacked up to the point

where the car says, I've had enough of you, mister, I'm done.

The light comes on and now it's running poorly

and in some cases it may seem like it's still running

fairly decent, but you've pushed the ECM,

the electronic control module, the computer, the brain,

to its max and it can't fix or mask the problem.

I like to use the word mask

because that's exactly what happens.

There's problems arising,

but the computer will mask the problem till it can't.

And so at that point I'd look at them and say,

well, when was the last time?

I said, I've checked the file

and it's been almost two years since this vehicle's been

in here for any kind of maintenance whatsoever.

Have you been going somewhere else?

And I said, it won't hurt my feelings if you have.

I said, that's simple.

You're here now and here's what we're faced with

to get this vehicle back up and running

and it generally takes a whole pile of things

need to be serviced and corrected

in order to get that vehicle back to health again.

And that's what you have to understand.

If the service light is on, you have to remember one thing.

If something else should go wrong,

that's the only service light you have.

It can't turn it on a second time if it's already on.

Kind of like a light switch in the house.

If the light switch is already on and the light is on,

can you turn it on more?

Okay, I hear you armchair warriors.

Yes, if it's on a dimmer, we can.

Well, way to go.

All right, let me rephrase.

If you turn the light switch completely on

that is not on a rheostat or a dimmer type switch,

the light is already on, yes?

If I said to you, just go and turn that light on for me,

would you?

Well, it's already on.

Well, turn it on some more, turn it on again.

Well, it's already on.

Oh, well, I guess we can't turn it on anymore

or turn it on again, because it's already on.

That's the same principle.

The service light's on for a reason, yeah.

And I've seen some pretty cool abstract things

covering up that service light, yeah.

Like somebody's business card, you know, for hair salon,

or dog grooming, a picture of somebody,

not sure who it is, a favorite pet picture,

piece of electrical tape, hockey tape is good, yep.

Anything else?

A sticker, like a decal.

So that's usually the point where I know

the service light's been on for quite some time

to have its own bumper sticker on there.

Yeah, interesting.

But the light is still on, just so you know,

the light, you know, no matter what you put in front of it,

the light is still on.

There is still issue or issues

that need to be taken care of.

And fear should not be the factor.

Here, fear should not be the factor.

It should be, yeah, okay, the light's on,

let's get it in and let's find out what's going on

and what needs to be taken care of

because we don't have the money to replace this vehicle.

And that's where I see things really

go in sideways for a lot of families.

Discover that, you know, making payments,

you can hardly make the payments.

Excuse me while I have a swiggy, okay?

Mm-hmm.

That's still not bad.

Might need to be microwaved.

Can you microwave that, do you think?

I think you can.

Yeah, this coming summer, this little sideline, airbags.

We're gonna get into airbags and unpack that amazingly well.

We're going to go to a remote area

where no one can get hurt.

And we're gonna detonate,

set off a passenger side dashboard airbag.

Yeah, they're big, like really big, super big.

So it's gonna be good.

I know exactly what to do to make that happen.

So we're gonna do that and we're gonna shoot a video on that

so we can get a working knowledge of airbags,

just exactly how that creature works

and saves lots of lives.

All right, back to the service light.

The first thing I can say to you is this,

though service light comes on,

don't let that set panic into your world because it's not.

It doesn't mean that we're going to change everything

on the vehicle except the steering wheel

and maybe a hubcap or two.

Yeah, perhaps, center cap.

Because that's the world creeping in.

Fear is false evidence appearing real.

That's what it means, that's what I hang on to.

Fear is false evidence appearing real.

You gotta have the faith to know

that your service tech is trained to deal with that.

It doesn't strike fear into us.

I mean, some vehicles, they can be a challenge, absolutely.

And this, automotive repair and service industry

is not for the squeamish.

If you like to be challenged, kids, I'll tell you what,

you will be challenged in this industry from the get go.

And it's very rewarding when you get a vehicle

that comes in, service light is on

and you go through your diagnostic tree

and you get to the answer

and you find the faulty component, you replace it,

you make sure you've cleared out the computer,

you go for a road test and everything is good.

That's a great feeling that you've conquered it.

But there are those vehicles that are,

they're just naughty.

Yeah, they're naughty and they're problematic.

But you know what, for the most part,

we can make correction.

But again, it's, you gotta know

that you've got the technician that knows how to diagnose,

not get out the parts cannon.

That's where the fear comes in.

I finally figured it out.

Why do people panic when that light comes on?

Well, A, if you gotta have open heart surgery,

do you wanna have open heart surgery from the fella

or fella that just barely got through,

if you know what I'm saying?

They passed, but just barely.

Or do you wanna have that heart surgery performed

by someone who graduated with honors?

That's what I'm talking about.

No difference in the service base.

There are parts swapper routers

and you can train monkeys to change parts.

And I'm not being disrespectful,

but you gotta know who you're dealing with.

Is your service center diagnostic friendly

or do they get the parts cannon out

and hope they can cure it and keep that service light

from coming back on?

That's the question you have to answer, not me.

I'm making you aware of it.

There are shops that are great at a lot of things,

but when it comes to diagnostics, they're not so strong.

So that's where they become a liability, not an asset.

So what I've seen and what we continue to see

is a lot of parts cannons coming out

when the service lights on.

The techs are not up to snuff with diagnostic components.

How to use the tools.

Because there is no code reader

and I wanna make this clear, fellas.

There's no code reader and I have one of those

little cutesy wootsy ones from OTC.

It's actually not too bad, but here's what I know about it.

It does not give me the answer.

Got it?

No, that's not true.

It does not give me the answer.

Oh yes, it does.

No, it does not.

It gives you the clues to get you into diagnostic mode

so you do testing.

Not just, oh, I always tell people,

I love to have a half a penny for every Coca-Cola

sold in Canada on one day.

Okay, I digress.

No, every, or is it Pepsi?

The Pepsi challenge.

Either or, a half a penny of every Pepsi or Coca-Cola sold

across Canada in one day.

And the same applies in my mindset.

I'm gonna go a nickel.

A nickel for every fuel cap, ECM, oxygen sensor

that gets replaced and there's nothing wrong with them.

Right, exactly.

That's called, ready for it?

Trinostics, trinostics versus diagnostics,

that's where the parts cannon comes in

and that's where you, the consumer,

feel the fear factor.

So again, when you know you have a service center

that has texts that are really good at diagnosing,

that fears is not there.

Oh, my light's on.

Okay, yeah, we'll book him, we'll get into that

and see why it's come on and diagnose it.

So again, go and get yourself

one of those little cutie woodsy little code readers.

It's not giving you the answer.

It's only leading you to a possibility

of what's wrong with it.

Diagnostics should kick in at that point,

but if you don't, then trinostics takes over

and the parts cannon comes out

and you start stuffing parts on it

with hope that you get lucky.

Yeah, that your luck kicks in.

And you know what luck stands for?

Laboring under correct knowledge

and that fits the bill this morning absolutely of 100%.

When that service light comes on

and you know you have a trained team

of automotive service texts that can diagnose

and they have the equipment, they know how to use it

and they know how to use a troubleshooting tree

to get to the answer as to why that light is on

and they can confidently have that conversation

when they get to that point

and inform you of what needs to take place

in order for that service light to go out.

This time, this time,

because the light can come back on even after we fix it.

For something else, that's the way it is.

Same with working on a vehicle's air conditioning.

If you saw all the components laid on the ground

in a service bay that make up

your vehicle's air conditioning and be going,

wow, there's a lot of pieces there.

Yeah, and every single one of those

can make the air conditioning go down.

So if I fix, I like to use this analogy.

I'm a plumber, I come into your house,

there is a leak in the basement in the laundry room.

So I go there, I diagnose, I repair it, it's done.

Now there's a leak upstairs in the upstairs bathroom.

Was I working up there?

No.

Did I touch any plumbing up there

while I was working in your laundry room?

No.

So why am I responsible for the leak

in the upstairs bathroom then?

Because that's where this conversation always goes.

Well, you touched it down there in the laundry room.

Yeah, but I wasn't working in the bathroom upstairs.

I was in the laundry room downstairs in the basement.

This is where that challenge comes in.

So I wanna make it perfectly clear.

Oh, I shouldn't say those words.

That makes me cringe.

Yeah, it's too political.

I just wanna explain you something, Lucy.

That's much better.

Let me explain you something, Lucy.

The service light is after I make corrections,

so there's the four C's,

concern, cause, correction, confirm.

That's how we build a work order.

Have for decades, concern, cause, correction, confirmation.

That's the test drive, make sure that you're not going home

the light comes back on.

Yeah, then you mail me a dead rat or something gross.

I don't want that, okay?

Just telling you, I got lots.

Yeah, I give them away.

Anyhow, the light is there to notify you

that the ECMs, the onboard diagnostic team,

can no longer fix, mask, and mask the problem

that's been developing for a while.

That's why the light comes on.

And again, if the light is already on

and there's other problems in behind that,

the light can't come on a second time.

After we go in, searching for the concern

and then the cause, what is the causal component

this time around for putting the light on?

Make correction, we need to change this

and that'll correct it.

And then we road test it to make sure

that we've got confirmation secured.

Everything is fine, we're back to normal.

That doesn't mean six months from now

the service light comes on again for something else.

Because it will, that's what the light is there for,

is to indicate there is a problem, a challenge,

a something going on.

But I want to just finish and wrap up with this.

Don't pan it.

Don't let fear creep in when the service light comes on.

Because if it does, that means you don't have confidence

in the service text that you're dealing with

to diagnose it and not cost you a fortune.

Because that's where the problem is.

The problem is in the industry where we have service texts

that know a little bit of diagnostic,

but not enough to get to the goal line.

And so then the parts cannon comes out

because they panic, they gotta get this fixed,

they don't understand what they're doing.

And no disrespect, but you know what?

That's what classrooms are for, fellas,

is you need to get stronger at diagnostic.

That means get away from your 72 inch flat screen TV,

get your butt in the classroom

to become a better diagnostician

and not cost your customers money

at throwing the parts cannon at it.

And that's where the fear comes in.

That is the formula for disaster.

When you don't have a service text you feel confident in

to diagnose properly the first time

why the service light is on and not telling you a story.

Well, you know, we needed to change the computer

because, you know, a duck flew over and farted

and that set the service light.

And then, you know, we discovered

that the fuel cap was not quite locked on properly

and it damaged the gas.

The stories start to grow.

And I've read those work orders

and I actually crack up laughing.

Yeah, what a load of crap with a big K.

No, what I read there is I don't know enough

to fix and diagnose when a service light's on.

So we just threw a whole pile of parts at it

and created a story to sell it all to the customer.

Well, because this went bad,

we ended up having to put that on

and then we discovered that the light still came back on

but now we can't send that part back

because it's electrical.

Once we plug it in, we own it.

That's the backstory.

So again, to close out today, fear,

false evidence appearing real.

That's what it is.

When you don't feel confident in your repair shop

to diagnose and repair a check engine light,

then you're in the wrong place.

You're in the wrong place, baby,

because that's where the fear comes in.

Because the last bill was like 1500 bucks by the time

they got the service light to stay out.

There's the big clue.

And that's where the fear comes in.

Fear knocks, faith answers, no one's there.

When you're working with the right team,

there's no fear, none.

Oh, hey, Joe, service light came on today.

Can I make an appointment to bring it in?

Yeah, we'll get on that and diagnose it.

Yeah, I don't change any parts when a service light's on

till I've done my diagnostics

and I reach my 99% threshold.

That means I've done my dyag,

I've done pinpoint testing,

I know what circuits can be involved

in the service codes or service code that I pulled off.

And I know what components can also set that same fault code.

And then I go and test them one at a time

to find out which one actually set that code.

That's the short story.

So let's wrap it up there and say thank you

to Rita and Ramiz Shinuta, the brothers up in Scarborough

at Rainbow Motors and Garage.

Sales and service you can trust anytime of the night or day.

I don't think that worked 24 hours,

but you can drop it off overnight.

They have a small car lot, they don't sell any junk there.

They also have extended warranties

on some of the vehicles that they sell.

That's a question you can ask when you're there,

but they fix all years, makes and models,

including light commercial vehicles as well.

That's Rainbow Motors and Garage, sales and service

you can always trust up in Scarborough.

You'll find them as one of our program partners

on our website at carconnectionbusinessnetwork.com.

A big thank you to our certified financial planning professionals

helping us to keep the course and stay on course

when it comes to our finances and financial management.

That's what they're there for.

Over 50 years experience, Tony Mele and Larry Tietro

with IG Wealth Management and managing millions of dollars

for others and they're there for us.

They stepped forward in 07 and said,

hey, we wanna be a part of the program, maybe we can help.

Maybe we can be of help and assistance to your listeners.

So they look after portfolio management,

so if you've got some investments with the bank,

you need to get them out of there

because they're not making you money,

they're making them money.

Debt retirement, let's get rid of that debt dragon.

Estate planning, not escape planning.

That's powers of attorney, the whole schmiel that you need

to make sure that your final wishes are taken care of

and that your estate has a plan, should something happen

and you go to your great reward.

You haven't left family and friends

in a great big financial mess.

And I have a friend that's going through it right now

and it's gonna be two years of yee-haw

and it's already not funny.

They can arrange a mortgage, I've had a mortgage with IG Wealth

for over 15 years now and I wouldn't think of considering

going anywhere else, great rates

and fantastic customer service and there's more.

There's a lot more services available to you.

You can get yourself a discovery meeting,

we call an hour and a coffee, no sales, no sales gimmicks,

nobody's gonna, there's gonna be no condemnation,

either Tony, choose to work with Tony or Larry,

but choose to work with someone and sit down

and get your questions answered by those

who actually have the fruit on the tree.

And you know what, get that weight off your shoulders.

You know, if the person that's giving you financial advice

is not standing where your feet should want to be,

then you should respect them, but not listen

because they're not where you wanna be.

And that's it, flat.

So connect with Tony Miele or Larry Tietro,

let them know that we sent you over,

book that hour and a coffee, you can meet in person by Zoom,

a conference call, whatever you're comfortable with.

They can come to you, you can go to them to the boardroom,

meet in a coffee shop, that's where we came up

with the hour and a coffee to just sit and chat

and you're gonna talk more

and they're gonna listen a whole lot more and say less

to see how they can formulate a way for you

to deal with whatever is an issue.

Thank you to our nonprofit, faith-based organization,

Crystal Ridge Dream Center, Serving Men, Women,

Single Mom, Children's, all age groups, meals, love and hope

and changing lives one at a time in the entire Niagara region.

They have a lot of volunteers,

but they lose volunteers all the time,

people move away, people retire and whatnot.

So maybe you can be part of the volunteer team,

maybe you can make the part of your one-time gift

or monthly giving, either way, thank you.

Thank you for considering that

and for the total freedom addiction campuses, Canada and US,

what they're doing to help those struggling with addictions

and that is a serious challenge.

As they provide healing and restoration to individuals

and families enslaved by cycles of addiction

and destructive behaviors.

If that's you or someone you love,

get them to our website, carconnectionbusinessnetwork.com,

click on the link for total freedom

and take a look at the lives that have been changed.

There's testimony after testimony.

They've been doing this for 25 years

and they know, they know how to deal with it.

You can't fight what you can't see.

So someone with an addiction can be very abusive

to the ones that they love,

but they have to make that decision that they're ready.

They're ready to deal with it.

So till tomorrow, folks, folks, yeah, it's Friday tomorrow.

We're gonna be talking about lifetime fluids.

Yeah, lifetime fluids when it comes to your vehicle.

So stick around for that.

I'm gonna unpack that for you

and there's more information coming.

So have yourself a fantastic Thursday.

You've made it to the end of the week.

We're on the cusp of the weekend.

Drive safe out there.

Keep an eye on the other guy and happy, healthy motoring.

And remember, peace, patience and kindness always.

We'll see you tomorrow morning

for another edition of MotorMouth's Morning Drive.

Bye for now.

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