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when I got in the car I noticed this
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right away most of you are probably
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seeing red flags already so guys in
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today's video we've got a brand new car
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to look at a brand new customer for me
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this is a 2017 Outback 2.5i limited and
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we don't know the service history of the
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car we've never seen this car before so
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we're going to do a full inspection
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front to back as a courtesy to this
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customer but we're going to address two
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main concerns that they have the first
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one you might see is going to be
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something dealing with the cooling
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system which is they think they might
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have a crack cylinder head or a head
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gasket issue based on uh someone saying
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they had a bunch of white smoke coming
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out of their tailpipe so we're going to
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diagnose and see if there's a head
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gasket concern with this car the second
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major concern was they were feeling like
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the car was holding back it wasn't
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accelerating the way it should and just
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felt sluggish so we're going to look
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into those two main concerns and do a
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full inspection on this car with that
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said let's go ahead and dive into
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it
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so guys when the customer brought me the
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car there were two main concerns one was
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a possible cracked cylinder head head
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gasket issue Etc the other was an issue
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where they felt like the car was holding
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back it wasn't accelerating like it was
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they thought maybe there was an issue
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with the CVT never underestimate a
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visual inspection when I got in the car
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I noticed this right away most of you
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are probably seeing red flags already
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double stack floor mats you never ever
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want to put a floor mat over a existing
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Factory floor mat that a recipe for
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disaster so no kind of belate whatsoever
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to the customer so many people don't
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realize this and how this is a safety
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issue but this is what I found I went on
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test drive of course to confirm the
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result but uh as I was driving it I knew
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exactly what the issue was it felt like
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the car wouldn't accelerate well the
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throttle response was low and it was due
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to this this secondary floor mat on top
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of the factory floor mat this is what
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happens they slide and they jam up under
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your pedals luckily it only jammed up
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under the gas pedal on this car which is
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dangerous nonetheless if you're trying
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to pull out in front of somebody or
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something like that and can't accelerate
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that's dangerous but the real danger
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comes in if it jams up behind your brake
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pedal and you cannot break that is not
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something you want to do I'm going to
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remove this and uh Shake all the sand
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and stuff out of it probably back out
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this and put it somewhere else if the
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customer wants to put it back in under
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my advisement not to that's on them but
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I won't have this in here after I've
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worked on it it's too much of a
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liability in case slid back under there
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and they had an issue and had an
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accident I'm not going to have that on
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me so I'm going to remove this correct
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that issue I slid it back during the
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test drive and confirmed that that was
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the issue that it was uh the floor mat
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hanging up not allowing the gas pedal to
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move freely but I just stuffed it back
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under here to show you guys exactly what
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it looked like when I found it so again
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never double stack floor mats it's
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extremely dangerous and this is the
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reason why because it'll slide on that
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other mat and get hung up under your gas
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pedal and your brake pedal and you don't
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want to lose your ability to stop the
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car so everything under the hood is
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pretty clean no oil leaks really visible
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from the top side which you'd expect for
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100,000 mile 2017 we got a little bit of
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corrosion and build up on the battery
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that needs to be cleaned up uh belt
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hoses everything looks pretty dagam good
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nothing is jumping out at me as anything
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concerning uh the belt is a little bit
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old but there isn't any cracking or
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fraying on it just the grooves are
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getting kind of deep and uh probably is
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the original belt uh these belts are
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pretty good at holding up to some
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mileage and some age from Subaru so I'll
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ask the customer if they know when the
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last time the belt was replaced and if
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they don't know I will put it on the
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list of recommendations looking at the
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PCV h hose and valve PCV hose is hard as
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a rock it would break if I took it off
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of there so definitely going to
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recommend a PCV valve and PCV hose have
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not pulled off the intake duck but I can
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just about guarantee you this car needs
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a throttle body cleaning I will take
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that off look at that put that on the
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list of uh Services advised other than
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that nothing else really jumping out on
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the top side here so we're going to go
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ahead and pull out a spark plug jump in
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here and uh see if we got any oil on the
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uh coil packs any kind of leakage from
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the spark plug tube seals and uh look at
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the state of the spark plugs I believe
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they bought the car at 60 70,000 mies
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and haven't done any major Services
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since then but apparently the dealer
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they bought it from did the 60,000 Mi
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service so we're just going off of their
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word on that so check the coolant
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coolant is a little low customer stated
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three they think that they have a
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cracked head or a head gasket issue is
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because they've had to add some coolant
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and they did see some white smoke out
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the tailpipe I don't know if they were
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just seeing regular condensation
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starting it on a cold day or a humid day
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or if it was really like churning out a
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ton of white smoke like it was drinking
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coolant uh there's no contamination
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cross contamination I've seen between
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the oil and the coolant nothing really
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scuzzy looking in the uh Reservoir or
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under the cap nothing in the oil that's
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alarming so just going to go ahead and
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uh skip the
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uh cylinder leakage test and we'll just
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put a l spill free funnel in here run
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the car up the temp and see if we got
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any bubbling in the radiator should be
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pretty conclusive there all right guys
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so we've got a little bit more pulled
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apart in the engine bay a little bit
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more probing than a normal inspection uh
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noted we have a dirty air filter going
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to recommend replacement of of the
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engine air filter went ahead and pulled
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out one of the spark plugs we had oil
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all over the end of the coil I'll put a
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picture in of that we had oil sitting at
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the edge of the bar for the spark plug
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pull spark plug out oil on the spark
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plug oil on the spark plug
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socket uh here's a quick look at that
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spark plug try to put in some steel
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pitch is a little bit closer uh check
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the Gap not too worn down so they're
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probably replaced at 60,000 mies or
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around about uh we're at 113,000 Mi now
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so uh we're closing in on another 60,000
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Mi so might go ahead and recommend these
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ngks uh to be replaced uh might as well
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if we're going to go ahead and pull
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apart the uh pull the coils out and do
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the cam cover reseal here because those
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spark plug tube seals are leaking might
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as well do it all at once save on the
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labor just throw in the parts for those
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spark plugs uh but other than that we're
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going to put this back together continue
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our inspection on the car and uh get
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underneath see if we see any oil leaks
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from the cam carriers timing chain uh
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cover all that kind of stuff and there's
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our confirmation on throttle body
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needing to be clean we got a ridge of
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carbon right there on the outside of the
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butterfly all right guys check on the
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cabin air filter I'm assuming it's going
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to be bad from that pine needle already
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see and yeah she's pretty bad going to
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advise cabin air filter replacement all
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right guys now we're doing our visual
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inspection underneath the front of the
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car looking at the bottom of the engine
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it is pren it is dry no leaks no nothing
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perfect exactly what you want to see cam
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carriers dries a bone nothing at the
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head gasket line just perfect exactly
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what you want to see under here no
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issues with with the engine no issues
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with the front differential transmission
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everything's bone dry no leakage we do
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have some uh vegetation and a little bit
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of mud but uh we live out in the country
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so it's expected everything looks great
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with the ball joint uh CD axle tie rod
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in uh sway bar in links but I'll Jack It
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Up and Shake the tires make sure there's
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nothing going on there during the test
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drive I did notice that one or both of
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the rear wheel bearings are making noise
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uh we'll try to figure out exactly which
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side it is whether it's passenger side
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or driver side but other than that
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everything's looking great on this car
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which you'd expect if it only have
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13,000 mil on it there shouldn't be any
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leaks or any issues going on under here
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so let's go ahead and get into the back
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and see if we can see
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anything uh you know out of place back
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there yeah these uh front brake pads are
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getting really really low uh very much
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near the end of life so we'll be
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recommending front brakes as well all
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right guys onto the rear of the vehicle
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and everything looks great back here no
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rust no corrosion the exhaust system is
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in great shape with no rust no leaking
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axle seals no torn boots on the CV
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axles all the Fasteners are tight no
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broken connectors on the electric uh
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rear calipers bushings all tight ball
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joint tight up there everything's
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good just letting you see I already
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checked it over before I started filming
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this clip
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differential bushings just you know
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everything's the way it should be based
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on mileage and the lack of service
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information going to advise a rear
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differential uh service a front
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differential service and a CVT fluid
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service so uh going to add those to the
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list we'll check the rear brakes and
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pretty much be wrapped up with this
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inspection so rear brake inspection on
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these is much easier through the wheel
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we're about 50% maybe 40% wear on the
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brake pad so not as bad as the front but
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uh still going to make note of that for
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the customer so we're going to go ahead
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now and put that L spill free funnel in
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the radiator run the car up to
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temperature and check for any bubbling
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to see if we have a head gasket issue or
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not all right guys so we've got the L
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Spiel free funnel installed we're going
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to run this car up to temperature and
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check for any bubbling in our cooling
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system so guys we've been running for
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quite a while now we're not quite up to
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full operational temperature but no
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bubbling whatsoever pretty much
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confirming there's no combustion gases
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getting into the cooling system we'll
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let the thermostat open and fully
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confirm that there's nothing going on
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here but I didn't think there was there
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was no issue with overheating or
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anything uh they just had to add a
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little bit of coolant into the reservoir
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sporadically which is kind of normal
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some of it evaporates off some of it
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just gets lost through time uh but again
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the main thing here is the f-s series
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engine doesn't have head gasket issues
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as a rule compared to the older Singler
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over head Cam and dual overhead cam
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naturally aspirated 2.5
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ejs and uh you know it's only got
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113,000 Mi I wouldn't expect to see any
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kind of head gasket issue without some
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kind of catastrophic failure of the
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cooling system like a blown radiator
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blowing right your hose running the car
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with no coolant and overheating it and
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cooking the head gaskets that's about
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the only place you'll see those head
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gaskets fail this new and this low of
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mileage especially on the f-s series
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engine so again we're going to let it
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get up the temperature but looks like
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we're AOK here looks like they just need
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some routine service and maintenance
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called up uh the front brakes rear
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brakes getting closed P of the hose some
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filters maybe a belt and uh Services of
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the front rear differential and the CVT
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fluid and they should be good to go
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aside from the spark plug tube seals and
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a set of plugs while we're in there so
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uh we'll get back to you confirmed 100%
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on this and we get it fully up to
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temperature but looks like this customer
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is in the clear and not going to have a
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huge repair bill for this 2017 Outback
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so guys we are up to operational
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temperature thermostat has opened and
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closed several times we're probably
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going to see see some bubbling now
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because the fluid is getting close to
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the boiling point but there hasn't been
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any bubbling anything going on otherwise
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with the cooling system pretty sure we
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can 100% confirm there are no head
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gasket issues on this car there isn't a
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cracked head on this car we're good to
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go again just wanted to confirm that
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with this test so one last service I'm
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going to put on the list is a cooling
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system service cuz it just occurred to
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me that with 113,000 Mi on this car and
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the fact that they probably haven't
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serviced the cooling system since they
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bought it uh this stuff is good but it's
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only good for 10 years or 100,000 mil
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according to Subaru 8 years 80,000 mi in
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my opinion and we're well past that so
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we need to do a cooling system service
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which is Flushing out the old coolant
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going ahead while we have the coolant
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drained out replacing the thermostat
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both of the thermostats the one for the
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CVT and the one for the engine and
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putting some new fresh Subaru super
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coolant in the cooling system so I'm
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going to put that down on the list of
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recommended services as well because we
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don't want to develop a head gasket
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issue due to neglect of our cooling
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system there you go guys thank you so
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much for watching hope you enjoyed the
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video I'll see you all in the next one
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with maybe some more videos on what
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services the customer decided to pick
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and do to this
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car
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come
