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rev up your
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engines St to Scotty first thanks for
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all you do I have an 07 F-150 V6 it has
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a rear main seal leak but it leaks
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slowly and drives fine is it worth the
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fix I've been using for years at205
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resal like Albert Thomas the number 205
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and then the word resal company Chicago
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called ATP products yeah automatic
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transmission products you can put that
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sealer if it's your Engine Seal that's
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leaking you can put it in the engine oil
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if it's a transmission seal you can put
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in a transmission the stuff is amazing I
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have seen it stopping leaks on Mir seals
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for decades it's amazing stuff and it's
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just a polymer it mixes with the oil
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that you have so it doesn't hurt
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anything there's no solid pieces that'll
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clog stuff up give it a try I've seen it
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work miracles cuz in order to fix it if
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it's a rear main steal your engine the
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easiest way is to pull the whole
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transmission off and then replace the
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rear main seal of the Eng and put the
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transmission back on which is an
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expensive job because you can also do it
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by pulling the engine but it's a lot
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more expensive to pull the engine off
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than it is to get the transmission off
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to replace the seal but try the at 205
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resale it stuff's amazing I've seen it
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stop those leaks and then if it was your
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engine oil that's leaking every time you
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change the oil just add a bottle in it
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it'll keep it from leaking Pablo Rosado
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said Scotty I followed your advice
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instead of replacing my 05 Corolla
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paying more than $600 a month for
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another car I kept it in 2021 now it has
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298,000 Mi and my debts are only 326
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bucks or repairs yeah you know it's
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amazing how well those things were made
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in 2005 now Toy's quality seems to be
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going down a little bit lately but I
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would say probably 2005 2006 was a
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height of Corolla Dum that they seem to
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last forever I've got a 2007 Matrix
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which is basically a Toyota Corolla with
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a different body style made in Cambridge
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Ontario and it's got 112,000 Mi on it it
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still runs like a clock doesn't run any
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different than it did when it was new so
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yeah they can last an awful long time
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the art of today says Scotty my 2000
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Toyota burned oil now it died is it
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worth to rebuild the engine all right
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here's the thing in 2000 Toyota made
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great cars the problem with an engine is
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hardly anybody knows how to correctly
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rebuild engines anymore hardly anyone
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and so you might pay to get your engine
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rebuilt and they'll do a crampy job then
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what do you do if you can find a place
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that has good reputation for selling
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already remanufactured engines you get
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one of those and then you give them your
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old engine as a core that's better than
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having somebody trying to rebuild yours
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cuz the true Rebuilders that really
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remanufacture them they might get 10
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engines as cores and they might make
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five engines out of those some of the
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parts are good and they can use them
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over some of them they still got to buy
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piston rings and stuff but if you got
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one engine that's all worn out needs all
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the new Pirates it would cost so much
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money to rebuild it no one would want to
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pay that that's why the Rebuilders can
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get away with it they get a bunch of
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engines and they'll make less out of all
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those engines by reusing the good parts
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throwing the bad parts away and then
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only buying the parts they have to buy D
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Su Scotti what's your thoughts on a
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Cadillac 4.6 North V8 I heard they had
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head gasket problems yeah they had head
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gasket problems they were very complex
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fast engin a racing design and when they
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ran they ran like scalded Apes but they
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had problems with blowing the head G and
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it's not like you got a four-cylinder
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Toyota engine and a guy like me could do
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a head gask in probably 3 4 hours those
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things you're talking multi multi multi
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thousand repair to do a head gas get on
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one of those I don't advise buying one
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of those things especially used one with
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high mileage you're gambling with
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dynamite and one of those things
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backyard Adventures I got a 2013 Honda
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Fit fading paint on the hood in the top
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of the roof it's okay to have the roof
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and Hood properly repainted at a good
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shot well you could you know if you want
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it's very hard to match paint perfectly
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and what that car is 11 years old but
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since it's the hood and the roof and the
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trunk probably too right that's the top
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and you don't really see the top when
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you see the side so a good paint sh
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store could do that realize though if
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it's faded away they're going to have to
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strip it down to the bare metal and then
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repaint that stuff just don't have them
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you know buff it off and then paint over
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it because it'll Fade Away really fast
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you got to go all the way to the bare
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metal and repaint it it's a relatively
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expensive proposition to do correctly J
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M say Scotty I got a Kia Spectra when
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the AC is on the RPM goes up and down
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when a car idles for 45 seconds do you
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know why okay now if it doesn't idle up
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and down when you don't have the AC on
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but you turn the AC on and it idles up
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and down you got a problem with the AC
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idler system when you turn your AC on
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there is a switch on your throttle
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that's supposed to idle it up a little
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higher to compensate for the drag of the
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AC compressor or so then the engine will
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idle at about the same speed as if you
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have the AC off a lot of times those go
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bad but the other thing is you might be
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low in refrigerant because if you start
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up a car and turn the AC on if the auto
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goes up and down and up and down it can
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be because the compressor is turning
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itself on and off and on and off and
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that's what happens when you're low on
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refrigerant computer sensors see what
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the pressure of the AC is and if it's
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low on refrigerant it can start to suck
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the low side into a vacuum into negative
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pressure so then it turns it off off and
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then when the pressure builds back up
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the switch sees his pressure turns it
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back on so it keeps turning it on and
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off which will make the idle go up and
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down so look at that too shadow man says
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Scotty how long do you think my 07 ridg
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line can last it currently has 160,000
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mil all right those are wellmade I've
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seen him with 260,000 mies here's the
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thing it is a V6 engine and for some
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weird reason Honda is still building V6
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engines with rubber timing belts that
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have interference engines so that if the
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belt breaks the Pistons hit the valves
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Bend the engine and goodbye engine so if
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I were you if you've never changed the
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timing belt in the water pump you got
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160 do that now and it might easily go
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another 160,000 or even more they're
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wellmade vehicle especially back in ' 06
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Honda's had some problems lately with
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some of their manufacturing stuff but
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back in 06 this is one of the top cars
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they made I asked this I got an 09
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Pontiac G6 2.4 later with a random
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misfire but it happened so rarely I
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can't find out I did the spark bugs and
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and it happens every 6 months or so
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158,000 mi any idea okay random mvar can
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be one of the biggest stinkers to figure
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out because of course it's random and if
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it happens once every six months I
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wouldn't even worry about it I mean get
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some of my friend Bernie ATS fuel
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injector cleaner just Google Bernie
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Albuquerque New Mexico ATS cleaner buy a
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bottle put it in the tank could be a
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fuel injector is a little dirty and then
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it doesn't spray right in the M vires
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you change the spark plug so yeah it's
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not the spark plug
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it could be an ignition coil starting to
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go out but if it was an ignition coil
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then eventually you would get the code
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for that coil you'd get like p301 which
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would be misfire cylinder number one
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then you know the number one ignition
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coil was starting to go bad I wouldn't
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worry about it when it's at random right
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but once you get that code quick have a
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guy like me look at the misfire data and
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if you re look at the misfire data with
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our fancy scan tool we might see o look
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cylinder number one has had 36 misfires
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and all the rest are zero so then you
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change the coil and pray it was the coil
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and not something inside the engine that
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was causing a misfire James C said my
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cousin really wants to use BMW 328i for
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his first car I know their money pits
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when they age do you have some advice
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for them yes if you want to learn A Life
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Lesson go ahead and buy it then you
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learn from experience that they are
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money pitch and you'll throw a bunch of
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your money into The Money Pit the only
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way people learn in the real world is by
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experience
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and there's no better experience than
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screwing up something poorly doing a big
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mistake like buying one of those because
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the mistakes I made in my life I still
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remember them and I make a point of not
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repeating them right and it's true that
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hey if you do something right all the
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time everything good always happens one
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you're not going to have much fun CU
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nothing bad happened to you and you got
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to experience the bad to really
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experience The Good the eyes and the low
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right so maybe he should buy it he'll
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have a money P then he'll learn A Life
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Lesson it's like stuff I learned years
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ago I learned don't put your money in
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the stock market they a bunch of crooks
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and I lost some money but I learned a
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great lesson what if I learned that
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lesson now when I'm 70 then I wouldn't
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have any money left right so you got to
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learn by experience Mr Garrison says
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Scotty have you ever been to Thailand no
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I haven't but my motorcycle has I have a
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Triumph Thruxton and it was made in
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Thailand a while back one of the big
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factories in England that made triumphs
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burnt to the ground so they moved the
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factory for the twin engines twin
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cylinder engines to Thailand and they're
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10 times better than the ones the
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English were building I think it was
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like 12 English guys went there and now
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they have all the Ties working in the
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factory and I guess they got really good
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work ethic in Thailand it's the best
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motorcycle I ever had it just runs and
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runs sounds great looks great and it
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doesn't break down like the ones made in
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England I've never personally been there
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I mean it looks beautiful right I don't
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have the time to travel out there I'm
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too busy helping everybody with a car
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problems the police in Phoenix Arizona
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pulled over a Jaguar for driving
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erratically only to find out nobody was
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driving the car it was a driverless wayo
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taxi that happened to be a jaguar or as
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the snob say
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jaguar now the policeman chased down the
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vehicle supposedly it drove into
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oncoming traffic ran a red light and
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freaked out and when he goes to arrest
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the guy there's nobody there it's a
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self-driving taxi and yes they're not
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ready for Prime Time by any stretch of
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the imagination what's it going to take
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one's going to have to run over and kill
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a baby or something before they do
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something about this you know these
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things are not ready for prime time they
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can't deal with all the people driving
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and walking across the street and dogs
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running around they can't deal with that
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stuff but they keep pushing it because
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these stupid companies like wayo have
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spent billions of dollars trying to get
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driverless taxis going why the taxi
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drivers pay tax they have a business you
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can talk to them when you're riding in
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them or Uber right real humans you can
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interact with them they got lives you
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can learn something what you're going to
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ride around in a robot taxi what's it
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going to tell you you know it can't even
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drive
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right so if you never want to miss
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another one of my new car repair videos
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remember to ring that Bell
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