Mr. Mechanic 5-11-24

Episode Transcript

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Meet Bob. He's a four timetire rotation champion. When he was a
baby, his first words were automatictransmission fluid. Bob's so cool he has
engine coolant running through his veins.And then there's Kyle, also premium unletted.
Legend has it that Kyle can changeyour oil with his toes and that

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he can tell your tires ill pressurejust by how you're walking. He's Bob,
He's Kyle, and every Saturday morningthey morphed together to form the greatest
superhero known to man. Mister Mechaniccheck engine lights, don't stand a chance.
This is the Mister Mechanic Show oneleven ten, kfab great Saturday morning

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to you. This is a MisterMechanic show. This is an interactive call
in show where you have the questions, we'll give you some answers. Try
to hit you back to the garageso you can get that car started,
fixed and back on the road.We were Buchanan Service Centers A fiftieth and
Dodge eightieth and Dodge guaranteed breaks fortyninth Avenue and Dodge. So it's gonna

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be a nice day out there,and need to need to get that car
fixed. Get it into the driveway, get it fixed, then go mow
the lawn. Yeah, after theshow, after the show, because it's
going to rain tomorrow, and ofcourse you can just it's it's May.
So if you stand outside long enoughand it's quiet enough, you can hear
the grass grow. M hm,that's how fast it's growing. I got

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weeds in my neighborhood. We don'tget grass yet. Oh no, okay,
all right, well that they growtoo. They love fertilizer. H
late summer, the grass will comein. Now we just got weeds.
Yeah. Yeah, I read somethingwhere last night and the northern lights,
you might be able to see thatmight be something interesting that's not really car
related, but you might have togo out into the country get rid of
some of the light pollution. Maybeyou can look up to the north and

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see if there's Yeah, they wereseeing them as far south as Arkansas.
I saw. H interesting. Thisis like a first time deal. Yeah,
yeah, that might be soing interestingto see. You know, what's
what's interesting out there that I've read? Oh, there's you know, I
read several different things about the oldcyber truck. I've seen a couple of
them. Maybe it's the same one. I don't know, driving up and

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down in here here in Omaha.Maybe it's the same You can't miss it,
you can't miss it. Maybe it'sthe same guy. Maybe there's two
or three of them out there,but uh, I think they have Uh
you gotta have car wash mode toit through what I've heard. Otherwise water
can get somewhere where it shouldn't beand then thing dies. Yeah, the
bug zapper noise, you hear that, you're maybe all the problems that are

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that are you're gonna have with anew car are just kind of coming out
with the guy breaking his finger inthe front fronk as they call it.
I don't know who thought that wordup. I can't it just be a
front trunk? Why there got tobe what do we gotta Why do we
have to have a new word.It's just a trunk. Doesn't matter if
it's front or rear, does it? It's your external cargo bay. Portion

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never had a special name for it. Volkswagon, and they've been doing it
for what is it twenty four they'vebeen doing it for one hundred years?
Yeah, why do we have tohave a special name for it? Kyle?
I don't just rewrite the dictionary.I see another one that was leaking
coolant on the on the internet alittle bit, and something about that wasn't
covered. I don't know why thatwouldn't be covered. At very low mileage,

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these things haven't been out long enoughto get anything past five thousand miles.
Yeah, they're just they look kindof like a novelty kind of thing
that you kind of have to have, you know, They're just odd enough
that because they've been out what twoyears? Yeah, I mean you got
people shooting bullets through the stainless steelto see how tough it is. You
got people doing this and people doingthat. I mean, it's just all

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well, I mean, how manymiles can you put on that thing in
a year? I mean feasibly?I mean if you were driving the thing
day in and day out, becauseI mean you're going to spend two hours
at the charging station every a couplehundred miles, exactly, how many miles
can can you feasibly put on onein a year? I don't know,
it's a good question. I mean, at national averages anywhere from about ten

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to fifteen per year, you're maybeten twelve in this area and easily twelve
to fifteen in California or Texas,a place where you've got to really really
drive and go a long ways.I don't know. Yeah, you're you're
limiting what your battery can do.And it's got a big battery and a

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long mileage deal. But you alsohave to charge it when you're done.
Yeah, and I think charging ratesare going up too. Of course,
that's all going to be and that'sthat's the big rub there. So the
electricity rate will go up. Andright now, it's fairly reasonable here here
in Nebraska's fairly reasonable because of thecooperatives that we have. But other states

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it's going to be kind of thewild wild West soon as you start using
more. Yeah, I'm waiting forMilwaukee to get into it, you know,
and make their own car. Thatway I can use all my M
eighteen bad Oh there you go.Yeah. Maybe a Dwalt car. Yeah,
why don't they they got the capabilitymm hmm. Maybe a Ryobi car
or a Craftsman car or just youknow, I mean, why not back

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to the Industrial Revolution, you gotan assembly line make a car right right
like we had in the old days, and we had hoovers and frigid frigidaires?
What was a calvinator? We've we'vegone through all these over the years.
How many of them have gone away? But any a few guys in
the assembly line and a bucket ofbolt, you could make a car.
Yeah, let's sell them. Well, you know, making a car is

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not like it used to be inthe old days. But do you now
you just buy from a tier onecompany that says, hey, I need
a whole sub assembly. Here yougo. Yeah, a lot of these
manufacturers that that come now are doingeverything, I mean, the the frame,
the axle, the tires, thewheels, the whole nine yards just

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getting shipped to them by rail,all to the manufacturer and they just married
the two to the other and offyou go. So it's not like the
old days where you had to putin the rear end, you had to
put in the control arms, youhad to put in the springs, and
you had to put in tyrode endsand all that stuff. Now it's all
coming pre assembled, and it's alljust showing up and on time delivery.
And here comes another one down theline. Somebody's shooting them in the back

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door and out the front door theygo. Yeah, So really you're just
assembling. You're not really doing anything. And that's kind of how it was
back then. But it's gotten moreand more and more that way. So
I don't know, it's kind ofinteresting. I see it kind of going
down the highway and you can't missit it. I don't know, it's
ugly to me. Yeah, itlooks like the thing that keeps the door

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from shutting on it where the doorstopkind of does, don't it YEA for
big, big, huge doors.I'd have to tint the windows just so
somebody couldn't, you know, seeme in it. But that's me.
I gotta have something, a vehiclethat looks good. I can't just drive
around something that's terrible looking. Yeah, you got your doorstop vehicle. Much

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Here's uh, this is an interestingarticle I noticed too. Over in the
UK, they kind of had gotfed up a little bit with people not
either registering their cars, you know, licensing or driving without insurance. Okay,
so they decided in twenty twenty three. So far we're up to fifty

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six thousand cars that they just I'mtowing them to the impound yard confiscated.
Really, so you either pay yourinsurance or you get your license or both
one of the two. That's that'sjust a way to collect a bunch of
tax money. Fifty six thousand vehicles. And I'm not sure how much of

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that we got going on over here. I mean what I think everybody would
be riding, everybody be walking.Yeah, that's an omaha. They would
be not everybody, and I somepeople would be walking. If the cars
a week coming through the station.And I mean we could out an old
sticker on a plate like nothing,and the plates, I would have to
say, out of the thirty pluscars we work on every day, I

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would probably say there's at least fiveof them, a minimum of five of
them. That plates are anywhere fromone month out to six or eight months
out over overdue. Not only that, Like there's been a couple of times
in my career that you're on atest drive you get pulled over because the
plates are expired. I've had thata couple of times. Yeah, it's

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happened to me multiple times. Andyou know, the cop comes up to
the window, license and registration,it's not my car. You open the
glove box, what's in there?Nothing? Okay? Whose car is it?
Yeah? And I've never when onceyou explain who you are and what
you are and where you're going andwhat the deal is and what I'm trying
to do, they just say,get back to where you're going right now,

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and can't drive it anymore. Yeah, they followed me back a couple
of times just to make sure Igot there whatever they wanted to know that
I was actually going there. That'sthat's cool. I don't dress like this
recreationally. I don't put on pantsand a shirt and roll in the dirt
and then go drive cars. That'sjust part of the part of the how
it works. Yeah. No,I've been pulled over a couple times too,

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And then then they get it.They understand. Yeah, and so
we just gently remind hey, uh, I can't dry this car anymore,
come down and get a license,bring it back to me. Then I'll
fix your car. I'm not gettinggetting here. I am pumped and I
got the thing running after fifteen yearsof sitting, and now I get pulled
over in it. Yeah, exactly, all right, We're gonna take a
quick break on mister mechanic five,five, eight to eleven tens the numbers

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What's his name? He's a carwhisperer, a true auto part Einstein,

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an automobile casanova. Yeah, Iget all that. Like he's great
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oh two three ninety three two seventwo two. In twenty three, we're
kind of slightly down in the cardesks. People are learning to Uh.

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Last year was forty two, thisyear's forty one. Not much but thousand
people, thousand people. Yeah,it's something, yeah something, So a
lot of a little better drivers thisyear. I mean it was it was
terrible when we kind of coming backout of out of the pandemic. Everybody
forgot how to drive well other thanyou and me. Yeah, because we
were working every day. Yeah,we didn't take a day off, did

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we. And boy, the streetswere clear. We could really open these
cars up and see what they madeof. That was an interesting time.
I tell you what. People say, I want to bring my car down
for service and you can have itfor a while, and then they wouldn't
pick it up for two weeks.Yeah, fix it down because we you
know, our our deal is thatwe kind of get it in and out

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that day. I mean, youain't got to wait. That's kind of
what we're that's what we're all about. And there's all you know, there's
saying things now that you can't findparts so it turns into a couple of
days or if you can't. Ithink that's getting a little bit better.
I mean, now that everything's kindof getting back in the flow of it,
it is getting a little bit better. That one of the biggest things
we're running across. Uh So,if you've got an engine that's bad,

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we're running across that sometimes can taketwo three days, that's take a week,
that could take two three weeks.These engines that we're getting for rebuilds
are just not very good quality,and we're you know, we're not letting
it leave until it we know it'sright, and it's having problems right out
of the box of trying to getthings done and to go find a brand

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new one from your manufacture can bevery difficult or a long weight in order
to get to them. Chevrolet hashad a long wait for certain engines,
you know, other cars too,So it's just some of the quality of
rebuilds aren't as good as what weused to have back before pandemic. I
don't know what they're using, wherethe help's coming from, but it's just

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being kind of troubling. It's notjust us. Anybody's having that problem.
Sure, So yeah, all right, we've got one. Jim, We've
got gym on the line. Jim'sgot a fuel injectory question. Jim,
what's going on? I got aquestion about fuel injectors. Where do you
get them cleaned? Sonically? Hereanywhere to get them clean because they're thirty

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years old and I'm wondering if they'respraying right. Well, so diesels,
what you're after, No, they'rejust guessed so personally, I don't know
of any company in town that iscleaning fuel injectors or that even has a
tester. A dealership may what kindof vehicle are we talking about? Well,

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it's okay, Well it's just notdone so much in the in the
gas Liane side of it, justbecause the gas is a lot cleaner and
everything else. The filtering is alot better by the time you'd run some
uh if you're probably running premium inthat, then an you run some fuel

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injection cleaning through it. Whatever's inthere is probably getting getting cleaned up pretty
good. And they're not terribly expensiveto do. They're probably harder to get
to than they are anything else.Now, when you go down and you're
talking about an old BMW, likefrom they got the vehicle, okay,
okay, well there's a good wayto clean Maybe you guys did it,

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knew somebody had a machine or something, because you know the dealership is gonna
have the machine. I'm sure,because they're gonna bench test them. That
would be my first call. Otherwise, I know that there's a lot of
like online companies you can send themto to have it done. Monster Engines
does it, and they're in Utah. There's another company UH injector pros or

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something like that. You can findthem on the internet pretty easily. What
are those things? Costs about twofifty apiece? Okay, all right,
so they're worth trying to clean,right right, It's just not done very
much unless you're trying to get aspecific problem. But yeah, there's I
don't know too many places that theother The only the suggestion I would have

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would be to call some uh maybediesel garages in town and find out if
where they send theirs. There usedto be a diesel specialist out west that
they did a lot of UH injectorpumps and maybe injectors. Maybe they did
something like that, but that's primarilywho who does cleaning of injectors. But
they might be able to do automotivesat the same time. It's just obviously

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you're not the diesel guys will dothe gasoline ones. Well, I don't
know that they will do that.I think, well, they're not flushing
fuel through them, they're using acleaning solvent and that's how they're testing them
as well. So either way it'sgoing to be, you know, the
same deal. Yeah, don't theyput them in a sonic machine and then

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ultrasonic. Yeah, yep, andthat's just again it's a cleaning solvent that
they either can you use can youuse regular uh solvent that you have in
your parts cleaner and put in aJewelry Sonic cleaner Ultra Sonic cleaner. Would
that work? Yes, but there'sgoing to be a specific You're gonna want

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to look up what you want tobe chemical. You know, the regular
mineral spirits might be enough to doit, but like you're solving that you're
putting in like a wash tank mightbe a little bit thick for that.
Yeah, you're you're gonna want somethingthat's a cleaner and specific that doesn't hurt
the O rings or the internal partof it. Yep. Yeah, okay,

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I gave it. Guys, Thanksfor your advice. Appreciate it.
You bet. I haven't had thatquestion before. Yeah. Well, there's
always a first, you know,And and that's kind of like I say,
those injectors and diesels are very expensiveand that's kind of why they clean
them. And ultra sonically is goingto break up some of that stuff.
And you're right that the chemicals thatgo through that. We want to make
sure that the chemicals are correct,because anything thicker than gasoline is going to

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cause an issue in side. Yeah, you just don't know what's in what.
For example, that's why you havemass airflow sensor cleaner because you don't
want a stone in there. Andif you spray your mass airflow sensor cleaner
onto a mass airflow or just regularbrake cleaner rather regular brake clean on it's
got acetone. It eats all thatstuff right off that wire and now you

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got a bigger problem. So that'swhy they make a mass airflow sensor cleaner.
I know what, you want tojust go out and grab some carb
breer cleaner and or just some brakecleaner, but that just ruins that particular
part electronically. So yeah. Otherwise, what we normally do is you hook
up a you hook up a machinethat taps into the fuel rail and you've

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got very high concentrated chemicals that justkind of run through those fuel injectors and
just kind of eats out everything inthe line and and through the screens when
on the intake side of the ofthe injector, so you don't get anything
that goes through the other side ofthe injector, and those injectors are pretty
resilient, but it's it's hard toknow just exactly how they're spraying. I

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mean, we've unless she hook themup and definitely seen injector problems, but
it's not as common as it usedto be. No, we used to
do. I mean, it wasn'tan uncommon thing to have an injector once
a week. Yeah, but mostof the time they went bad electronically.
Yeah, yeah, hardly ever didthey get plugged up plus yeah, or

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if it was a Nissan, youknow they were leaking. Yep, I
do remember that well. I usedto do a lot of those. Yeah,
they just never got plugged up enoughthat would affect any kind of performance
that we could see on the scanneras far as rich Lean conditions. Would
always fail some sort of electronically,and I think we probably I know,

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I've seen more Fords having an issuewith the injectors. What are the ones
do you see here? Subs havebigger than Oh gosh, got all about
that one. Yeah, my gosh, I did not. We had two
super Us go bad with injectors andwithin the same two weeks, within two
weeks, and prior to that wehad not seen one I've done a fair

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amount of super rous and until thatinstance, I'd never put an injector in
one. Yeah, that'd eight.That's part of our repair. You just
don't know what you're gonna see everyday. Everything everything's new and exciting and
different, and you think you knowit all, but you're wrong. You're
wrong, you know. And eventhe people don't think they know that all

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are they're they're wrong because they haven'tseen it yet, but they're but they're
learning. That's part of it.That's part of it. That's part of
what we enjoy is learning every dayand something new. There's there's just not
uh, we don't have that pullingthe machine lever down a million times in
your career. We just keep movingon and finding something new every day.

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Yeah, that's part of what itis. So keeps us coming back,
keeps us coming back. Yeah,you know, you just get used to
it and then I kind of enjoyit. We're gonna head over to Paul.
Paul's got an eight Silverado. Paul, what's up today? I got
a question. I was just kindof curious if there was a way to
permanently disable the traction control and theStabila track the reason being, I'm a

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farmer and I'm always plowing through mud, and if you forget to push those
buttons, you're kind of out oflock. You're going to be pulling an
abs fuse and then your antalog brakesaren't going to work. I mean to
turn them off. I mean,you got that switch on a dash,
but that's really about the only that'show they allow you to do it.

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You're going to have the light onthe dash forever. No, they've kind
of incorporated that kind of to thepoint where you can't just get rid of
it. I mean, if thelights on the dash, it's not really
working, I mean the system isnot working because the light's on, so
it kind of renders it inoperative.You could probably pull your switch from the
dash and tape it, tape itdown. I mean that might be the

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only thing you could do. Butthen as far as some magic thing you
can flip or otherwise, is theresomething easy? No? Not really Okay,
Yeah, if you're willing to dealwith a warning light, you could
probably disable it. Yeah. Yeah, Well, like airbag comes on,
airbag light comes on, it's justkind of disabling that system so that it

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doesn't come out prematurely until you fixit and then the light goes back out
so they can see the whole system. So yeah, yeah, the old
days are gone. Yeah, allright, you bet, you know.
And he's a farmer, and combineins tractors are all kind of getting that
way too. I know. Ihave that exact same truck. And if

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you forget to like if it's icyor whatever, and you forget that,
you're stuck and committed to being stuck. Before you flip that switch, because
you lose throttle control, you losethe whole thing. Yeah, it will
not allow you to floor it.No, then they're what they're allowing for
that to happen is the let ofthings can back up. They're they're thinking

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you can't drive, I want youto blow that engine. Well you'll blow
that engine, or they don't thinkyou can drive, So they just kind
of let off of there, andthen you step on the gas until it
regains what it wants to do.Once it comes back to doing what it
wants to do, I'll lets youhave the gas pedal back. Yeah.
Once you hit that disabled button,boy, you're back to green flag racing.
Yeah, you know, I don'teven haven't even tried lately, Kyle,
can you go out and do youknow donuts in the in the parking

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lot with with abs and traction andcontrol. We'll find out, guess we
will. We pulled up to abig empty parking lot, so yeah,
we got plenty of room. Ihaven't tried that with my newer truck,
so I'll have to go find outif I can do that. I guess
I haven't spun cookies as we calledit in the day that in a long

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time, not on purpose anyway,Well, today's day, Okay, all
right, we'll learn today. Okay, I guess we'll go try it and
find out. Yep, I don'tgot nothing else planned, so yeah,
it's gonna be perfect. You know. The one thing I noticed too on
EV Push, you know, everythingwas EV this, AV that and blah

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blah blah. We kind of talkedon this show more than a few times
about the the things that make moresense to at least us, because we've
had this conversation is electric hybrids andmaybe even if once they kind of get
the technology down and get the pricedown, that you're talking more hybrids hybrids,

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but gas hybrid or just straight ohhydrogen hydrogen is kind of what they're
working on too, and a lotof a lot of places are worthing.
DMG is kind of a thing thatI mean, you see it, but
it's not really taking off as fastas everything else. Now you got school
buses and big heavy equipment that aredoing great with it. Well, it's

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you don't really want to go towardsthat. I mean, it's great for
the for mud to use it becausethey've got plenty of it and it's just
coming in the tube like crazy,so why not use it? But the
BTUs off of that is so low. And same with propane. I mean,
the propane was there when the gasprices got high, but the BTUs

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off of gasoline are I can't rememberthe numbers right off the top of my
head, but there the gasoline BTUsthat that that gets you good mileagers are
high in protein and the propane andnatural gas are just way down there.
So I mean, if you gotyou know, pipeline full of it,
why not use it. But it'snot really getting you any kind of great

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mileage. You're just using what youhave in reserve. I took a motor
out of a truck last summer thatwas running on propane, and you know,
had this gigantic tank on the sideof it, and we had to
get it from this farm up innorthern Nebraska. And you know, I
got it running and everything, andby the time I got it on the
trailer, I could smell propane somethingfierce. And I'm looking at these spark

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plug wires that every animal in thecountry's been chewing on for a year.
Get me away from this vehicle.Look at this gas grill here that's about
to explode on me. A littlebit of boom and cooking steaks and you're
the steak. Is that what you'rethinking, Oh, yeah, I would
have been. I would have been. Yeah. So I guess the point
of what I was saying is thata lot of the evs and they're they're

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losing money like crazy. That themanufacturers are lose is you know, five
six ten thousand dollars per car.It's what they're losing on it that I
see a lot of bad on TVnow for electric hybrids. Yeah, it's
they weren't pushing that, but nowthey're pushing a lot because they I mean,
the electric hybrid prices are starting tocome down. They're still a little

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high, but I guess they're thesales have almost flip flopped. I don't
think I've ever seen a EV commerciallike a Tesla commercial or Rivian commercial.
It's because it's a cult kind ofthing. I mean, you you want
one of those, because you wantone of those, but you're you're having
a hard time making the payment fastenough to watch the depreciation fall away.

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It's the depreciation's falling quicker than whatyou can make payments on it. So
I don't know. It's a wildwild West of cars out there now.
So all right, well we're goingto take a quick break on the Mister
Mechanics Show. Five to five,eight eleven tens the numbers, and we'll
get back to our caller after that. See in a minute. So,
mister Mechanic Show is brought to youby you Cannon Service Center, professionally fixed

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right and fixed on time, twolocations, seventy ninths on Dodge and fiftieth
in Dodge in Omaha. I hadit checked and they told me, well,
we think your catalytic converter is goingbad because you're not driving many miles.
It'll go off for five months andthen it'll come back on for a

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month or maybe two, but thenit's back off again, and I'm just
wondering. Like I said, theychecked it and said it was the catalytic
converter, but I'm just not thatcertain about their diagnosis. Well, that

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must be the codes that are inthe computer. I'm getting a poo thirty
something like that. It's probably thecode you're getting. I don't recall what
they said. That number was,sure, okay, sure, it seems
kind of intermittent to be a catalyticconverter issue. Normally when we see those,
we can pinpoint it right away.You can turn that light off and

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it's going to come back on withintwo drive cycles. Especially, well,
they flipped it off for me.He said, this is probably what I
shouldn't be doing, but he did, and it drove for six months.
But I don't drive it on thehighway hardly at all. And we're thinking
that might be part of it.Certainly could be part of it. It's

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it's hard to say exactly you knowwhat it is. But if if there's
coding out for a catalytic converter code, then it's just not up to operating
like it should. Now there's otherthings that can contribute to that vacuum leak,
exhaust leak, fuel quality, yep, right in that you know.

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So, I don't think it's adriving issue. I mean, if the
engine's running, I mean it's goingto be an engine issue. I mean,
because you don't drive on the highway, isn't going to affect it at
all. All that thing's got todo is work. Yeah. The manufacturers
have kind of put in that safeguardthat whether you're idling it all the time
around in town or just driving iton the highway, the lights shouldn't come
on if everything meets its parameters.Yeah, so I agree with you,

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Kyle. It it's got a exhaustleak, intake leak, maybe even fuel
quality. Do you I'm sure yourun a fair amount of ethanol through this
as most people do that or areyou running okay? All right, well
dry this. I mean, ifyou don't drive it that much, drive
that tank out and switch over topremium. Yeah, put a tank premium
in there, no ethanol. Yeah, how you're octane? Yeah, just

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put straight down what it does,no ethanol and then drive that for however
long you would think it would takefor this light to come back on.
So if you fill up a tankfull of premium. What do you figure
that's going to take you a monthto go through? Probably I don't fill
up very all that way. Solet's do a let's do a three month

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test. Start, run out whatyou have, Let's fill it full of
premium, and then let's do fillit up three times and see if your
light comes back on. So it'sit's an easy quick thing for you to
do, and you're able to changefuel quality a little bit and see if
it goes away. So a lotof well, it's running great. I

(29:49):
mean I've never heard or failed athing. I used to being drag racing,
so I understand those uh an enginerunning smoothly and everything. But sure,
it's just running so good that I'mreally confused by what was going on.
But you say vacuum leak and fuelquality. Well, so a vacuum

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leak will cause it to run youknow, rich or more fuel, and
more fuel throws the computer off andit's trying to compensate. And if it
just runs rich at that particular time, then it's then the converter has to
work harder, and it just itjust cascades down the list of trying to
work harder and make things go outexhaustly. What you're doing is pulling raw

(30:34):
oxygen up backwards through the catalytic converter. It mixes with what's coming down and
causes the the readings to go whacky, and when it does that, then
the computer can't figure out whether itshould go lean or rich, and then
things start happening again. It cascadesto the point where the light comes on,

(30:55):
so you back and forth right rightright. So everything in a car
it has certain parameters to run through. So that catalytic converter's got to be
from parameter A to parameter B,and it's got to stay within there to
satisfy what the computer wants. Ifit's just barely out on either side,
your light comes on, and justas soon as everything's met like it wants

(31:17):
it, then your light goes offbecause it goes back into parameters and everything
works that way. It's a coolanttemperature sensor, air temperature sensor. Everything
that has electronics hooked to it asa certain parameter it wants to be through
and if if it's not there,here's a big one that that really happens

(31:37):
is a thermostat. On all newcars oh god, if the thermostat doesn't
warm. If it's a two hundredand seven degree thermostat, let's say,
and it doesn't warm up past onehundred and eighty, it's going to hit
the check engine light and turn iton, because first of all, you're
using way more fuel, and secondof all, the computer says, I
want you at one ninety five totwo oh seven. If you're not there,

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my light's coming on and it's goingto stay on till you get it
fixed. So I think you're justI think you're just right on the edge
of the parameter. And that's whyI say change in fuel would should push
it back down into that particular parametersthat you want and stays out and for

(32:21):
the amount that you drive it lextraand gonna hurt the premium and it makes
a car better. Yeah, yeah, that's what I would do. That's
what I would do if it wasmy car, just to kind of you
know, quick easy, don't haveto pay for tests, just got to
pay a little bit more for thegas. Well, it's just a great
automobile with very few miles on it. Really, I I don't want to

(32:43):
get rid of it, certainly,No, they're great cars, great engines.
They really ride smooth. Yeah,they're great cars all the way,
all the way around. Well,I do appreciate you guys information. Thank
you so much. Absolutely appreciate thecall. Yeah, it's just kind of
weird, Kyle. It is justsometimes you things like that that make me

(33:07):
miss obed one. You never wouldhave got those cat codes. You never
would have got the thermostat codes.Gosh, I mean it would save me
hours a week and evapp testing.Well, the parameters were between one and
one hundred, oh yeah, insteadof you know, one and twenty five.
Yeah, you fry the computer witha short and solid before you'd ever
get a check engine right out ofthe thing. And that's what that's what

(33:30):
that's what brought the the the toleranceis down. And like I say,
it used to be from like oneto one hundred. Now it used to
be one to twenty five. Wehad to bring the emission controls, brought
them parameters away really close. ButI will notice that that if a manufacturer
does have a problem with the checkengine, like coming on a on a
on a particular code and they can'tget it off, we'll find a technically,

(33:54):
we'll find it an update up date. All you're doing is opening that
window. Yep, you're opening thatwindow. That's what you're doing. Now
we're going from negative ten to positivethirty. Yeah, forty, and we
opened that update it and miraculously we'vechanged no parts. But the light's gone
out. Yeah. It suffers alittle bit on them for the cafe mileage.

(34:17):
You know, they're polluting a littlebit more. But as long as
a passive mission, we're good togo. As long as there was somebody
somewhere that just been a big checkmark and said that's okay, X,
you can go do that. Wecan't do that. That's not fair.
We should be able to dial thingsin. We used to be able to.

(34:37):
Yeah, we used to. Youcould change anything you wanted. Yeah,
not no more. Took all thefun out of that fun.