Mr Mechanic 10-4-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
By how you're walking.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed together to form
the greatest.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Superhero known to man.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Mister Mechanic check engine.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Lights, don't stand a chance.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
This is It's an interactive call in show where you
have some questions. We'll give you some answers and give
me head you in the right direction at least depending
on the car that you got. You know, old ones,
new ones. Just give us a call. We already began

(01:05):
in service centers at eightieth and Dodge, fiftieth and Dodge
and guaranteed breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge where we
do breaks right the first time, do alignments and everything
else at that store. So we've got a little bit
of everything that's going on. Give us a caller soon
because the lines always do fill up towards the end
of the day. And you know, there's no football game

(01:28):
going on right now, there's just a tailgating so I
mean somebody in the group's probably got to have a question.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
So do you talk about cars and tailgates?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, we talk about cars all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
At tailgating parties too.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, you know football, you get tired of talking football
and this that and the stats and what they're going
to do, and then you look over there and say,
that's a nice new car. Who's that? And then the
conversation goes.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Is this one of those branches or choose your pathway
sort of thing?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you know something interesting I see the
other day on kind of you know, I check obviously,
I'm a car guy, so I check a lot of
different things car wise all over the place, and a
little bit for this particular show is in two thousand
and I think it's twenty two, Toto went away from

(02:20):
their big suv, their big seven passenger vehicle. They still
make it, they just don't seem to be importing it
into the United States. So they went to a downsized version.
And the only reason that you kind of do that
is because of sales and the downsized version land Cruiser.
I kind of like it. I think it's a really
good looking car. It's just not as big as the

(02:41):
other ones. So those people that still have those other
ones are kind of hanging on to them, and those
that are ones want to sell it and move into
something else. They are commanding an enormous amount of money
on the used market. I mean you're looking at twenty
two's and maybe even nineteens that are going for fifty

(03:06):
and sixty thousand dollars that have one hundred thousand miles
on them. It's just crazy the amount of money that
they and they're going to last forever. Those cars go
for two three hundred thousand miles if they're well taken
care of. But it's just an explosion of that particular market.
Now do they still make them, Yeah, Lexis still makes
them too, they just don't make them for this particular market.

(03:27):
They put diesels in them and other things along that
line too. But you know it's not just us. It
goes global all over the place, and you know they're
going to ship and make to whatever part of the
country they got to ship and make it to it.
So I tell you it's kind of interesting. Tota's got
a whole new line, though the forerunners kind of neat.

(03:49):
I've seen a whole area of those, not plug in
Toyta by any means. I just happened to be in
an area where there was those on display, and the
new styling that they had was, uh, it was really nice.
So all right, we're gonna head into some calls. We've
got Mike with an O eight explorer. Mike, what's up today?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, I've got an old age to explore with the
stock radio and just it just quit working.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
And I checked.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
The seasons, they're all good. Where's the next thing to
check for? Did you tell me?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, yeah, if you checked the fuses. This is just
a standalone radio. Correct, just it's it's not incorporated in
part of the dash.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, I believe it's stock.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, you know, and I'm just trying to picture that
because some stock now radios are just part of the
dash in which you got to go in and kind
of fix. Actually, the radios now are just display screens,
just like at home, and then you got something else
driving them somewhere else in the car. So I'm just
trying to get a mental picture of it. It's in
the radio.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, it's an old style.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
It is. It's the old style, and it is in
the radio, and it is the radio. And more than
I'm going to say ninety nine percent, it's the radio.
They're just problems. You could go out and get a
used one, find the one you want, and maybe plug
in a new one. Do you just listen to the
radio itself or just am or do you listen to

(05:22):
it like on Bluetooth or anything else like that?

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Okay, well, then the easiest thing to do is probably
go to if you want to get back to that
particular one and just you know, pull it out, PLoP
it back in.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
It's real easy. Then you can go to eBay and
try to you know, plug in what you want. They
could probably they'll send you one like that, or you
can go to a place called cardash Parts dot com
and they will send you on what you want. There's
there's going to be a lot of different models though,
just so you know there's going to be eight ten
different models. What we recommend most customers do that have

(06:01):
this particular problem is we really don't get them from
a salvage yard or something like that because the ones
they have are going to go bad too. So radios
have come down in the point where they're just not
that expensive. Used to be. Back in the day, you
could spend five, six, seven hundred thousand dollars on a radio.
Now you can just go buy a radio for what

(06:23):
you want with the display screen for one hundred and
fifty bucks and maybe one hundred and fifty bucks. You
haven't installed, and you've got Bluetooth, You've got all the
stuff that plugs into your phone and does all that
stuff so you can play music straight to your to
your car. It's just it's just asked.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
What do you think, bulken or what would be wrong
with it?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
What would be wrong with it? What's going to be
wrong with it is the internal circuit board that's on there,
the solder joints and things like that that they're in
there because we pulled them apart before. These have terrible
problems with the CD players. They've got a single disc
and sixty CD changers. Inside that sometimes and they are
just they all come apart and they never work. I mean,

(07:10):
I don't know how many CDs we've people would ask
us for to dig out so they can have their
favorite CD back, and we say, well, this is how
we're gonna do it. We're gonna disassemble this thing and
we're done and it ain't gonna be worth it, but I'll
get your CD back. So that's that's where it is.
It's a solder joint that usually goes bad, and there
may be a power joint maybe something along that line,

(07:31):
but it's it's a it's a it's a it's a
mass to pull apart because they're all tiny little screws
and it's nothing ever goes back together like it's supposed to.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Okay, Okay, thanks for the information.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
You bet.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Mike appreciate you all. Yeah, absolutely appreciate the call. Appreciate
the call. All right, we're gonna take quick break on
the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight to eleven, tens
and numbers to get in and we'll be back in
a quick minute.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Building this fall to the CW from the creators of
Marvel's X Men, who the next chapter in the MCU,
The X Mechanics, Yeah, the EX Mechanics featuring your favorite
mechanic mutants like Mark the tire Rotator.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
They call me a tire rotator.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
You want to know why because you can rotate tires.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Well, yes, that is why.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
But I can do it really fast.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
I don't believe people have superpowers that cool.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
Prove it?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (08:29):
I just did?

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Speaker 4 (08:53):
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Speaker 2 (08:54):
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Speaker 2 (09:39):
We're gonna head over to Bob. Bob's been wait patiently
for ninety two f one fifty Bob, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Hi? On my pickup.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
I've got an intermittent problem with my fuel pump. It's
got the front and the back tank, and it's I
just used the front tank, and you know the normal
thing he turned the key that builds up pressure and stops.
Will every once in a while, it'll it'll just keep
running and not build up any pressure and it won't start,
and I just I shut it off and leave it

(10:09):
for a couple of days and come back and then
it's working. So it happened a few times, so I'm
just curious what I should do.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, you know, those, uh, these were very common problem
and they kind of went away from Ford completely went
away from this after a while. You know, you got
a couple of possibilities. You've got to switch over valve.
That's that's down underneath there, and you got a the
fuel pump. You know, that's really that's really where it
starts at. So I guess when it doesn't work, the

(10:36):
first thing you need to do is check powers and grounds.
I mean, that's what we're going to do, is is
do I have power and ground of this pump? Is
it actually capable of working or do I not have
anything there? And that's why I have a problem. You're
only running the the front tank, so you can't really
switch it over. We got nothing in the back tank,

(10:56):
probably because it's rusted and lencoln and just decided not to.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah I did.

Speaker 8 (11:02):
I did switch it once just to see and it didn't.
It made a different noise, so it must step. I
sin that's a separate pump, and it is. It shut
it off right away because I haven't used it for
years and didn't want to pump something in that.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, it is. It is a separate pump. And
depending on how many miles you are on it, it
could have the front pump could have that many miles
on it. It's just an electric you know, obviously a
low voltage motor that's sitting in there, and it just
they can get corroded. There could be a lot of
different reasons, but that's the first place we start. And

(11:37):
if I'm getting power and ground to it and I
know it's capable, then and here's another trick you can
try too. If it doesn't start, take a rubber hammer
or two by four whatever you got around and have
somebody crank it over while you're kind of banging on
the bottom of the tank. A lot of times that'll
shock it to the point where it'll fire up and run.
And then you know that you've either a shocked the

(12:00):
pump to the point where now it runs, or you've
made a better connection with something on top of the pump.
But anyway, you're gonna pull it down and check it
all anyway, alrighty.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
So so it is when it's.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
It continues to run and make make the same noise.
So I'm assuming it's the pump is running or is
it something separate.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Well, go it goes up to you broke up there
for just a quick second. But you say, when you
turn the key and you can hear it running inside there.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Yeah, and it'll it'll run and it'll just keep running
and not shut off because it's it's not building pressure.
I guess like I normally would.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Okay, I guess I misunderstood that a little bit. So
if it's building pressure, then the next thing to do
is or you can hear it run, the next thing
to do is put a fuel pressure gauge on it
see if it's actually running. Is it building pressure or
is it just running and it's just bypassing and not
doing not making anything up to the engine. So yeah, yeah,

(13:06):
that'd be the first place to start, because yeah, and
if you if it's not building pressure, you could always
take a little carbret or cleaner and make sure the
engine runs. So if it if it's if it's building
and you can hear it. But usually once it fills
the lines, that's going to stop. It's not going to
keep going all the way through normally, right, exactly exactly,

(13:27):
So I hope that helped a little bit. I mean,
you got to start with a couple of tests to
kind of narrow it down to see where you're going. Okay,
all right, appreciate the call, Bob. All right, we're gonna
head over to Greg Craig's got a twenty eleven GMC
Sierra Craig. What's going on today?

Speaker 9 (13:45):
Well, I was having intermittent problems with my cruise control.
So I replace the brake switch off the pedal.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
YEP, common common problem.

Speaker 9 (14:00):
I I thought that would fix it. Well, there's something
wrong because now my brake slide is on all the
time and I don't really see a way to adjust it.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Um, they can be a little. So if it's on
all the time, there's either one or two things that's
going on here. It's either that that particular switch that
you replaced it with as bad. Is it aftermarket switch
or GM switch, or.

Speaker 9 (14:32):
Uh, it's just something I got from not a bar store, gotcha, Okay,
I don't know if or not.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Okay, well, and it probably isn't if it comes from
the part store. However, they do carry some original equipment parts.
You know, what would I do in this situation? You
if you if I still have the old switch, which
I hope you do, I would go put the old
switch back in and see if that problem went away.
If that problem went away and you're now back to

(14:59):
your ridge, no problem, I would suspect a switch being bad.
Otherwise I would say that it just needs to be adjusted.
Can you go underneath there and press it with your
thumb or make it make it go out on tone?

Speaker 9 (15:17):
No, okay, I haven't tried that.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Okay, but no problem, no problem.

Speaker 9 (15:22):
It's uh, it's got like a square thing, a square
thing that goes in the middle of the switch, and
it's got a clip on top of that and then
one boat going into it. It looks like it should
be self centering.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
A lot of times these are adjustable where they'll pull
up and you just barely gently, you know, start the
car and gently push down on it and kind of
self adjust itself. But it's not uncommon to have a
bad switch right out of the box. I'm I'm going
to tell you, in fact, we're going to do an
article on parts and things of that nature here in

(16:03):
this hour or two. But I would see if it's
adjustable some way. If it's not, I'm putting the old
switch back in and see if I've just eliminated my
break switch problem, and then all my brakes come back
to normal and I bring it back to where I
just don't have a cruise control. And if that's the case,
then I'm going to go get a different switch, maybe
a different switch from them, maybe even a different switch

(16:27):
from somewhere else. I have run into those that I've
just gone back to General Motors because it's a better switch.
I'll be quite honest with you. And when you get
to this particular point and you're all done and you've
solved that particular problem, make sure you go in and
get a code scan and clear the break light switch

(16:51):
or the cruise control code, because there's going to be
a code in the computer that you don't see because
it didn't come up on the dash, that is going
to be in the computer. You need to clear that
code because a lot of times your cruise control may
not come back and work properly until you clear that
code in the computer. It still thinks it's well.

Speaker 9 (17:10):
Right now, I'm figuring the cruise control isn't working because
the brake lights on. So the brake lights engaged and
that's supposed to shut off the cruise ye. So but
this I was looking for a tip on either how
to adjust it or I don't know how to tell
if it's bad. Then take it back and say this
don't work.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Well, you still have the old so the old switch
was stuck onto No, okay, yeah, put the old switch
back in. See if your problem goes away. Yeah, you
put the old Put the old switch back in. See
if your problem goes away. Then you know, for a
fact you can walk into the parts store and say
this is bad, or you can you can try to

(17:53):
adjust it to sitting there. That that's the only tip
I have, not being able to sit here and be
able to do it. But it's that's what I would do,
because I've run into so many parts that are bad
right out of the box, and it just throws you
into left field. This should be this should be an
easy problem. I mean, this isn't the first one you've
ever replaced.

Speaker 9 (18:12):
I'm sure, but it is. But I don't see how
I screwed it up.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Really, Yeah, agreed, agreed, it's very it's a pretty simple process.
I agree completely. I can. So that's what I would do.
Replace the old one, put it backs, make sure it
all goes back to the way it was. If it does,
then you know you've you've got a bad switch. That's
what That's a diagnostic procedure that I would use in
order to make sure I'm just not out in left

(18:41):
field here and I got a different problem or I
got a bad switch. So okay, try that, Craig, let
me let it. Let's know if it can help you
some more. Thank you, you bet. All right, we're gonna
take a break. All right, We're gonna take quick break
on the Mister Mechanics Show. Five, five, eight to eleven,
ten is numbers to get into the show. We'll be
back in a minute. Back over to the calls. Kevin's
got a two thousand GMC Jimmy, Kevin, what's up today?

Speaker 10 (19:05):
Well, I'm kind of confused. My grandson bought this a
few weeks ago. I had to do a bunch of
break work and sex, gass anything stuff on it now,
and when he drove it over here, it seemed to
run fine. But now when it's under load, it just
falls flat.

Speaker 8 (19:23):
On its face.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Hmm. Okay, so let's see how we kind of.

Speaker 10 (19:33):
Figured out it's it's throwing no codes.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
These these had problems with fuel pumps in them.

Speaker 10 (19:41):
First of all, I checked the fuel pressure. I got
fifty eight with key on, started up, and it holds
around fifty eight fifty five. I accelerated it. It'll go
up to near sixty. And then I believe the field
pump been changed because what I had to fix on
the gas tank was the the van bell had been

(20:05):
snapped off. So I think they dropped the tank and
didn't know that was there and broke it off.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh got you yeah, yeah exactly, or it's stuck and
then they pulled it down and that's what broke inside there.
Yeah exactly. Okay, so they put another pump in. I'm
so I'm guessing they put another pump in and trying
to solve this problem. Yeah, they couldn't solve the problem,
and that was just kind of moving on from there.
It would would be my guess a little bit. So

(20:31):
it falls flat on his face like it just can
you ease into it and drive it?

Speaker 10 (20:36):
In the old days with the carburetor, when you had
a bad accelerator pump, it just kind of dies out
and then slowly built back here.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, all right, so we've got we followed down are
the rules that we go by their fuel spark? You know,
it sounds like you got all that. There's a there's
a free flow on the exhaust a little bit. Do
we have maybe catalytic converters that are plugged. That's why
I was asking if it if you can gently kind

(21:04):
of go all the way up or does it fall
on its flace face and stay that way the entire time?

Speaker 10 (21:12):
No, Like like I said, if you like give it
like half throttle, it'll it'll fall on its face and
then it'll slowly build back in. Uh, it has been
pumping a lot of moisture out of the exhaust.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Okay, Well that just sometimes it's just that is just
what it is on some cars. If it loans, it's
running okay and in your anna freeze level isn't really
going down and you're not overheating anything along that line.
That doesn't really concern me too much. But some cars
do have a lot of water out of the tailpipe.
Other ones don't. So I guess what you've on this

(21:47):
pecular car. This has probably got that Vortec B six
in it, I believe. Yeah. Which also the other thing
that's that's possible, have no codes whatsoever in the thing?

Speaker 4 (21:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Well, you know, I guess the next thing that you
really kind of has a problem to can you power
break it at all and or have somebody power break
it and while you add some carburetor cleaning to it
and see if it comes out of it, And that
would kind of tell me whether or not, or would
tell you whether or not you're still in the fuel
area or you're dropping off because of something else. It

(22:24):
sounds to me like you're still in the fuel area.
It really does. And that's they were on the right
They were on the right path, but just didn't get
something fixed.

Speaker 10 (22:33):
Uh No, I had I had to take down. Is
it possible it's a shield solfer.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
It is.

Speaker 10 (22:41):
But like I said, one, it's just sitting in the
driveway and I got the fuel pressure gauge on it.
When I give a gas the pressure doesn't drop down.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, they should restriction in the line. Yeah, they need
write it about fifty five pounds to even start. If
they don't have fifty five, it just won't start. And
a lot of times they'll bump up a little bit
to sixty. But yes, I think that still has a
fuel filter in line. And yes, if it hasn't been
it's got a fair amount of miles or anything, something's
plugged in there that can certainly cause that kind of problem.

(23:12):
But usually and over it'll build back over a period
of time. But that that's kind of why I was
trying to discern whether or not we've got a computer
control problem or where we've still got a fuel problem.
So if you if you can have somebody power break
it kind of get to that point where it starts
falling on its face, add a little bit of carburetor

(23:34):
cleaner through the you know, PCB valve or just whatever
vacuum board and see if it can pick back up.
If it picks back up, then we know we're still
in the fuel area. If it doesn't pick up or
just kind of falls more on its face, then in
your fuel system's probably okay. We just got to start
looking into something else, something electronic, because it's you know,

(23:55):
crank sensor or something you know. Along that line. There
is also not just a fuel pump, but underneath that
Vortech is a is a spider leg injector that's underneath
that top portion, and that could considerably have a problem.
They did have a big problem also with the uh

(24:16):
what there was hoses that go into the back of
that and then as it turns into the spider leg
fuel injector, they would get tiny holes in there and
they would start to leak fuel pressure off. I don't
think that's the problem because you've got good fuel pressure,
but that is just something to look to see if
there's any kind of moisture in there.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Otherwise, Yeah, those are the probably two places that I'm
going to head is just trying to see if you're
still in fuel. If not, you're gonna have to go electronic.
If not, you might have to get a little deeper help.
All right, all right, you bet appreciate the call, all Right,
we're gonna head over John. John's got an eighteen buick Encore. John.
What's up today?

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Hey, guys, you bet talk to you last week about
this car. When I called in about my pickup, my
two thousand Dodge Dakota, that the Amprey gage was going
all the way, berried, okay, and you told me to
check that positive connection on the battery, and you were
one hundred percent right.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
All right, awesome, awesome.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
It was black as could be and corroded, and I
cleaned it all up and it's charging to the positive
side just above the center now and working perfectly.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh, we'd love to hear it that was on That
was on a christ or a Dodge product, wasn't it?

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Three? Yes, it was, you said. I was shocked when
I went out there, went right out there to look
at it, and that was it.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
And they don't look dirty, do they.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
No, Well, there was a little bit of corrosion down
at the bottom, you know, before I took anything off
with you know.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, but that's kind of that's.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah, whatever. But then when I pulled it up, it
was as black as could be.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah. They do a lot of arcing on that positive post,
and you know, Chrystler products are really the only I mean,
it can happen anything, but Christler products are the ones
that are the worst. On it. So great, that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Well, like you said, though, it's usually a negative connection problem.
But back to the buick Encore. I asked about that too,
and the ticking took to my mechanic. They checked out everything,
they checked out. They took the valve cover off. There
was nothing there. They took that cover off with the
two bolts. Nothing was loose. That's why I want to

(26:31):
tell you about it. He goes, you're not going to
believe what it was. It was a the porcelin on
the spark plug hitting the exhaust pipe.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Porcel on the on the spark plug.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Spark plug was arcing to the exhaust pipe.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Oh really yep.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
And so they just replaced all the spark plugs and
put another valve cover on it. And this thing is
as quiet as can be.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
That's great. That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
Well, I let you know if he said he thought
it was crazy. I took it in there and I
was telling them what you told me. You're doing what
I had already read and looked at and about all
their issues. You know, and it's my fiance's duick and
she's taken great care of it. And I think I
told you she lives out in the country, so she
gets to go through the dust quite a bit. Yeah,
but no, it's running perfectly and everything's doing good.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
So well great, you saw two of them and they
weren't too terrible. One was easy and the other one
would just didn't cost that much at all.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Well, the thing was, she had taken it to her
where she takes it to get her oil changed by work,
and they had said, do you have any other problems?
She said, why, I have a tick in there, and
so they came out and said, we're not changing the oil.
They gave us an estimate for three hundred and seventy
five dollars to check it out. Yeah, to my mechanic,

(27:55):
he checked it out and fixed it for three fifties.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, that's a probably little high for checking it out,
but it's uh, it's I.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Think they were trying to get to the young lady.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, yeah, unfortunately. Yeah, we're good, John.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
You guys are awesome. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
You bet you bet appreciate the call. I'm glad we
uh bet we were able able to help out. That's
what we want to do something. A lot of people
can get that done, and we want to do so.
I want to help you out and get you back
on the road. All right, We're gonna take quick break
on the Mister Mechanic Show five, five, eight to eleven,
tens and numbers to get in. We'll be back in
a minute. You know, I was going to head back
to an earlier caller, Craig. You know, it was replacing

(28:34):
that break light switch. And I don't believe Craig did
anything wrong. I think Craig knows what he's doing and
they're fairly easy to do. I think he's got a
bad switch. And along that line, we are noticing that
a lot of parts are just to be This is
a big problem back in the pandemic. But a lot

(28:56):
of counterfeit parts are coming into the country. And when
you go to get something that is especially if you
would buy it online. You buy it online, you won't
really know what you get. A lot of the parts
stores could be part of it. There probably aren't, just
because you know they've had a lot of what's coming

(29:16):
in there. But everything looks really good. I mean there
now that you've got ai and you've got printers and
everything else, and it's really hard to tell that the
original good stuff to what's counterfeit. And you know, you
can have water pumps, you can have spark plugs, you

(29:36):
can have brake light switches. You know, we had a
card the other day that was a Subaru and it
was very easy, actual replacement done it, you know many
times before, you know, five hundred and six hundred times
before over the course of a career. And it just
every part we got was three quarters of an inch

(29:58):
too short, all you know, from various different suppliers. So
either this was that kind of problem, or somebody cataloged
it wrong, or it was just different all the way
or wrong, and we end up going out to the
dealership and it was exactly. Of course, they have suber Us,
you know, axles in stock, and we end up getting
one from them, and it was perfect as it should be.

(30:19):
So you just run into a lot of that particular
kind of stuff, and especially when they and this isn't
near a problem like it used to be, but a
lot of times they'll do mid year production changes, which
makes sense because once you've run out of all the
previous production, you start in on a new one, and
sometimes you don't know when you're gonna run out. Are

(30:41):
you gonna run out in January? You're going to run
out in you know, November. So then you've always got
a production change that this axle is up to this
particular time going to be this, and then after this
is that. And sometimes if it's a big enough deal
that they'll just say we're done with cut it off
and first of the year. We're never going back there

(31:03):
if they're that close. So you just it's a thing
that you got to watch a little bit. If you're
getting parts off the internet, you get what you pay for,
and everybody looks for the cheapest thing, but that's not
always what you want. We're gonna head over to William
Williams got a twenty eighteen f one fifty William, what's
up today? William? You're there, William? Can you hear me?

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Darn it, William, if you can hear me again? We
alls we could hear was static. So yeah, So that
that's kind of to finish up on that a little bit.
You just everybody wants to head to the cheapest part,
and sometimes the cheapest part's fine. It was a while back,
we did a brake light switch on a I think
it was a Kiya, and they didn't make one through

(31:56):
the aftermarket, so we went to the dealership to get it,
and I asked him how much that was told me
it was nine dollars, nine dollars, nine dollars. So by
the time they made it and it went through all
the particular stuff that it had to do to come
across the seas and on the ships and everything else,
what did that particular switch cost if it only cost

(32:18):
me nine dollars? Did it costs a dollar and a half?
I mean, how much markup is there all the way
alone between the two or three people that it came
before I finally got it.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't know, I'm not that good at math.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well, it just boils down to, you don't build anything
for a dollar and a half it's worth anything. And
it was a very fairly new it was a fairly
new part. And you know, it doesn't mean that they
couldn't it just usually the more expensive part is has
better stuff in it. That's just really what it boils
down to. Uh, you know, what else do we got here?

(32:52):
Let's see we talked about that, you know, the Chinese
parts that are coming in. That's another thing that's kind
of coming in. You gotta be careful as to what
you get. There are some counterfit airbag inflators. Let's be
careful if you're doing that.