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February 1, 2021 11:33 am

Drivers can face various automotive issues, including brake safety, electrical problems, and transmission issues. Maintaining a car's systems, such as the alternator and torque converter, is crucial to prevent problems. Understanding how to diagnose and address these issues can help ensure safe and reliable vehicle operation.

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Live from the Car Care Studios, it's the CNC Auto Show. With your personal on-air and online automotive service advisors, Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. So climb in, buckle up, and enjoy the ride on the CNC Auto Show. And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show, and we are here to share some information that will make your car, truck, or SUV safer, and to make it more dependable, to make it last longer, make you enjoy it more, and we just love giving that information. I'm Aaron Clements.

I'm John Ryan. And we are ready to answer those questions, and you now have the opportunity to have all of your automotive questions answered, and you'll gain some knowledge on certain items, such as automotive issues. John Ryan, from time to time, drivers have automotive issues, and it happens from time to time. Now, talking about it may store little things in the back of your mind so you'll know what to do when those automotive issues arise, because they're going to come up from time to time. Plus, we have the managing director and CEO of Case Seal International. My slop will be joining us during the second hour to tell us about the many ways that Case Seal can help you.

So, it looks like we have everything we need but you, and you can repair that by picking up the phone, dialing 800-224-9090 or 706-863-5800. Now, that's on Saturday mornings, 805 to 10 Eastern Time, and I want to remind you that you can also watch this show live at ccautoshow.com, or you can go over to Facebook at CNC Autoshow, and you can listen to us on Spotify also, different places. Okay, now, John Ryan, get this now, we do have a Tech Tip quiz.

Does that surprise you? We always have a Tech Tip quiz about this time. Okay, and someone is having the opportunity to win big, and this is your chance to win the CNC Autoshow Tech Tip quiz, and it will be a life changer.

And as a winner, you will win a prize package, and that includes the highly sought after, I answered, the Tech Tip quiz coffee mug, and that is to prove that you're a winner because it has the words, official Tech Tip quiz winner, wrote right there on the side. And here is the question, Madeline loves horses. She drove her 2018 Jeep Wrangler up to visit her horses that were on a farm in the mountains. She went nose down in a two-foot ditch, and she should have been able to just easily drive out of the ditch, but the engine cut off, and it wouldn't start back. She hooked up two horses up to the front of the Jeep, and they pulled her out of the ditch, and then the engine started.

What did letting the horses pull her out of the ditch, how did that make the Jeep start? And if you know the answer, you give us a call, and again, the number is 800-224-9090 or 706-863-5800, and we will go ahead and get started with automotive issues. And this will give someone an idea of a good automotive issue, and that would be a flat tire. A flat tire can be an automotive issue, and continuing to drive with a flat tire can not only damage your car. John Ryan, have you ever seen a piece of a tire fly off and hit it? Oh, have you ever seen one that a wiring harness was up in the wheel well, and when the tire... That's what I was going to say, it could definitely make one issue turn into multiple issues.

Yes, so you can tear some stuff up. So don't think you're going to continue to drive. One day we were at the shop, you could see the road from our shop. Some car rode by here, the joker must have been going 45 miles an hour. The tire gone! But anyway, if you run into that, slowly steer your car off the side of the road, cut your emergency flashers on, try not to make sharp turns as you're doing that, and get to a safe area and call for help.

That's right. Or if you really want to change your tire, if you do that, be very, very careful if you're doing that with traffic around. Okay, where are we going? Alright, let's go to Susan.

I think that's perfect. Susan, we appreciate your call, and what can we help you with today? Hello, Susan! Hi. Hello, Susan! I was calling in with your... Hey, how are you?

We are doing perfect. I was calling in with your question for the Jeep. Uh-huh. Well, hold on! Are you going to answer the Tech Tip quiz then? Yes. Susan, have you ever been on the stage? I have not.

Well, you're about to be, so hold still. Susan, you're now on stage, everyone's looking at you to answer today's Tech Tip quiz, and what is the answer? When you...the Jeep has something on it that when you... It's in a downward position at a certain point that it's going to cut off, but once it's up in position, it will restart.

It's like a safety...I don't know what the word is, but safety feature on the vehicle. Susan, the next question is, have you ever had the odd button? No. Susan, you have had the on-stage experience and the odd button within two or three minutes. That's amazing. Hey, Susan, we really appreciate you calling. Thank you very much. Okay, number to call.

224-800-224-9090, 706-863-5800, Saturday mornings, 805-10. Where are we going? Let's go to Lois. That is perfect. Lois, welcome to the C&C Auto Show, and what can we help you with?

I'm going to try the Tech Tip quiz as well. John Ryan, do you think we should put her up there? Yeah. Okay, help her up. Lois, we do have you on stage, and we are ready. Everyone's watching. I mean, this is huge.

And today is today. What is the answer to the Tech Tip quiz? All right, when she was low on fuel and when she went in the ditch, it wasn't level enough for the fuel to crank it.

And when Lois pulled her out, it changed the level of the fuel, what was left in the bottom of the tank, and it was enough to make it good, make it crank. We're going to need to run that past our judges, because they know everything. See, they don't tell me anything around here. Okay. Wait. Thank you.

You are exactly right. She had very little fuel in the tank, and when the nose of the jeep dipped down, all of the gas went away from the pickup tube, from the tank, so it wouldn't start. And when the jeep was level again, the fuel in the tank moved back to the pickup tube, and the jeep started, and she went back to the barn and put some gas in her jeep and all is well.

And the tip is to keep roughly at least an eighth to a quarter of a tank of gas in the car, so that in case something like that happens, you'll still have some under the gas tank thing. So, you are absolutely correct, and we appreciate you answering the Tech Tip quiz. We're going to put you on hold, and they're going to get some vital, I mean vital information from you. I got a question first. Oh, we would love for you to do that. And what we may do, we may listen to the question so that we can ponder it while you're on hold.

What's the question? Alright, the question is, I have a 2013 Nissan Altima, and my heater fan will not work. And the heater only works when it's in one mode, and that's in the middle position. It's on the floor, it won't heat, and on defrost it won't heat.

It'll only heat when it's blowing, when you've got it in that one position. Sounds good. Well, we're going to put all that information together. We're going to put you on hold just for a second or two, and we have a lot more tips that we would love to answer. And we'll be right back with Lowe's as soon as we return with the CNC Auto Show. As we navigate the COVID-19 crisis, O'Reilly Auto Parts is dedicated to serving you. We've been deemed an essential business, so our doors will stay open.

We encourage you to buy online, then pick up curbside. Together, we're committed to getting through this. Let's head back down to the car care studio with Airman Clements and John Ryan Mooney. The CNC Auto Show is brought to you in part by Dorman Products and their latest OE fix intake manifold featuring thicker material and extra bearings. This Dorman OE fix intake manifold has been completely reengineered for greater durability. Drive to DormanProducts.com for more information. And welcome back to the CNC Auto Show. We have Lowe's on the line with a question.

She was also an official Tech Tip Quiz winner. So the question that she had had to do with a 2013 Nissan Altima and the mode doors or the system would blow out into the wrong area. Lowe's, is that correct? Yes. All right, Lowe's, what you could do is like if it's only blowing out at the dash, you could take your shoes off and hold your feet up. Yeah. You'd have to trust cruise control.

I said you'd have to trust your cruise control, though. Yep, I do. So just to be sure, the blower motor is blowing like as far as the force of air, it's always there. It just, like you said, it doesn't seem to be going to the right positions. Is that correct?

Yeah. Does it seem to blow hot in all those positions or it just simply won't go to it at all? It doesn't blow except in that, I mean, it doesn't heat.

Right. It doesn't blow, period. The fan will not come on. Okay. Even if you've got it on one, two, three, four, five, you don't hear or feel the fan.

Okay. So chances are it might just be a simple, not a simple problem, a simpler problem if just the blower motor's not turning on. Of course, it's not going to send air through the vents at all. So, you know, once you repaired that issue, chances are it will go through the proper positions as far as defrost, dash, and then floor. Okay. Because you don't have any airflow going in it.

Right. Somebody told me to play around the pocket on the passenger side and see if something had gotten clogged. Los, what you can do in technical terms, what the technicians usually say is sometimes when it's not working.

Now, we normally check the voltage in the ground going to it first so we can do some diagnostics. But what you can do, what they do after they've done all this high-tech diagnostic work, they whap it. Now, some people call it whacking it. Others call it whap it. But you can do either one and just do that. And sometimes if a motor is kind of stuck to where the armature's not quite moving, that whack or whap, whichever one you do. Excites it. Yeah, it does.

And then all of a sudden it'll start working. That's going to mess up again. He said to spell the words for her.

Oh, whap is W-A-P, whack is W-A-K. It's very simple. Yeah. And you can do that. Okay. I got you. So either one, it depends on what type of equipment that you have.

Okay. But if you're using your hand, it's more of a whap. My husband calls those, he uses those terms on biscuit, can biscuits. Yeah, exactly. Whap biscuit, because you whap it on the counter.

That's right. All right. But if you do that and it works, then you know what's wrong. Take that same can of biscuits and hit the blower motor and see what happens. Okay, will do.

All right. Now, is there, could it be a fuse issue? I mean, does a fuse work on either one?

Yeah, it definitely is possible because of course it does send power and ground to it. I'll say somewhat uncommon though, there's a little resistor that pretty much changes the voltage going to the blower motor. And that's obviously what steps up the speed from one, two, three, four, that kind of thing. And what normally happens is that resistor has pretty much no voltage coming out of it going to the blower motor. And unfortunately, it's normally because the blower motor has been pulling too many amps. So typically they're replaced in a pair or as a kit. You'd get a new blower motor and a blower motor resistor. But the most important thing is actually getting it diagnosed to make sure that power is going to the resistor and not the blower motor. Yeah, if it's a fuse or the resistor whacking a weapon, it's not going to do any good.

You can even smash it. Yeah, you can do whatever you want to do with those. Okay. All right. Well, I appreciate the answer then. All right.

Hey, well, thank you very much. And the number to call 706-863-5800. If you do have a question about your car, truck or SUV, you give us a call. And that is 800-224-9090 or 706-863-5800.

Saturday mornings, 805 to 10. John Ryan, another automotive issue that happens from time to time. What would you recommend doing if a car, let's say you're riding down the road, fairly good traffic, interstate, car cuts off, boom. And we're actually moving? Yeah, you're driving.

You're going down the road, 65 miles an hour. So probably first thing, check mirrors, see what's around you and obviously try and get off the shoulder as fast as possible. But don't, you know, try and use the brakes sparingly, as crazy as that sounds, because the more you use the brakes, the more and more of the booster reserve you use. Before long, the brakes will definitely become very firm.

So really just kind of be aware of your surroundings. If it does stall off, of course, shuts off. Many vehicles, of course, obviously still steer just fine, especially at speed. The steering will be a little stiffer, but of course you want to just kind of take a look at what's around you and try and get off to the side of the road, preferably the right-hand side. And then, of course, obviously turn your flashers on and see what's going on. And on most roads, you're absolutely fine. Now, if you're on something like 285 and traffic's all around you and it's really, there's no way to get over to the side, the best thing is to say your prayers. Well, I guess the first thing I would say is definitely at the time you notice that it's off, put the flashers on regardless of where you are. Yeah, that's a great suggestion. Cut the flashers on and then start easing over. Maybe even flares out the sunroof if you have them.

Yeah! But you don't want that to happen. But that was a great point that you mentioned about the brakes, because you only get so many power assists. Yeah, I'd say two full power assist stops. Yeah, once you drain that booster out, then the brake pedal's going to be very hard and it's going to make the situation harder.

And as long as you move in, the steering's going to be a little bit better. Okay, let's grab a cup of coffee at the next exit and just wait right here in the car and we will be right back. And if it's Saturday morning between 805 and 10, you can be dialing 800-224-9090. We'll be right back after these messages.

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And remember, don't just seal it, K-Seal it. And if you do have a question about your car, truck, or SUV, you give us a call. That number 800-224-9090. Or you could call 706-8635-800. That's on Saturday mornings, 805 to 10 Eastern time. You can watch us live at ccautoshow.com or on Facebook, either one. We'll mention another item that could be an issue as you were driving.

And John Ryan, give me an idea of what you think could be done. If you're riding down the road and a car is slowing down and you find that you have no brakes. Emergency brake. Emergency brake. That's true.

It is. That's why it's always good to know where your emergency brake is. An emergency brake will stop a car. Of course, you would definitely not recommend either standing on the pedal as fast as possible or pulling the handle as fast as possible because it will actually stop the car. I mean, it's not going to stop like normal brakes, but if you kind of grab it and ease forward, ease forward, it will definitely slow it down. Now, if the scenario was the car in front of you slammed on the brakes, there's no option there.

Wouldn't have time to make that decision. Right. But it does depend on what style because some, of course, have a pump to set brake pedal for the emergency brake. Of course, some have a hand lever.

Some have another style like Toyota uses. Just knowing where it is and, of course, matter of fact, you could try it on a road that obviously doesn't have that much traffic on it just to kind of get a feel for it in the event that something like that happens. And probably the first thing you want to do also is panic. Yeah.

That's probably a good thing. I mean, maybe not unlock the door and get out, but... No. You want to try to stay as calm as you can and try to make those decisions because if you panic, you might forget where the emergency brake is. That's why I say go ahead and learn where it is. Try it a time or two. Yeah, get out in the parking lot.

That's one way. Again, it depends on what type braking design a vehicle has, but one way we check for brake pulsation to decide if it's in the front or the rear is many times apply the parking brake instead of the regular brakes. And, of course, if it does, depending on what design it has, if it does have a pulsation when you pull the parking brake up, of course, obviously, that would indicate the rear. You know when I said try the brakes out, something popped in my head.

We're going to go to the cars right after this. And I shouldn't even say this, but this was many, many, many years ago, but we had a tow truck driver that was doing something in a parking lot. And, I mean, this was a huge parking lot. It had one light pole in the whole parking lot. And what did he do? He hit the one light pole. Why do I feel like that's a story from your own mind? No, it wasn't me. It must have been a half mile between light poles and the joker hits one.

I actually know somebody that totaled their car in Walmart parking lot by hitting one of those. True story. True story. Okay, where are we going? Let's go to Cheeks. Hey, Mr. Cheeks.

Or Cheeks. I'm not sure which way, but what would you do if you were riding down the road and your brakes went out? Try to stop the emergency brakes.

Try to put it in reverse, which would kill the transmission. Yeah, it would. Sounds like a good idea.

Yeah, that wouldn't be good. What can we help you with today? I'd like to find out if y'all work on Mercedes. Yes, sir.

Yeah, we do. What you got going on with it? What type problem? If I got an SL550, I bought it new, it's a 2002-2007, and I just don't want to use people that I usually service with, Mercedes people. And it only has 52,000 miles. I might drive it now 40 to 60 miles a month. Oh, wow.

Less than 1,000 miles a year. Yeah. But anyway... So you just need normal service work on that. Brake light. Okay. And it also, for some reason, when you put the water in your windshield wiper thing, it just loses out, and it's just coming out right behind the front headlight. So I think it's a little washer that washes your, a wiper that wipes your light. I think that's the problem, and that's the two things I need to check and have done.

We can definitely help you out with that. Absolutely. Not many cars going down the road have a washer for their headlights, but Mercedes does.

Well, after all this, it's a SL550. Yeah. You know what I found out with expensive cars, too, and this is Lexus, many of the high-end Nissans, Cadillacs, is, as the years have gone by, is those high-end people that buy those don't like to see an engine. Oh, that's true. So they put plastic all over the top of it to make it, where when you open the hood, it looks beautiful. Yep. Which the engines are still beautiful.

I like to see the engine because it's so beautiful, but they're like a nice plastic look to it. That's right. Jinks, we appreciate that call very much, and yes, we do, and we would love to. And where is your closest place to Lightfoot School? Ooh, I'd recommend going to ccautomotive.com. We have a new website that that joker will tell you exactly the best location. And with a push of a button, you can not only pick your location, then push appointment, if you want to make an appointment, or you can just drop by, and then push the button right there with your thumb. All this is done with your thumb and get directions to the shop.

So it does everything just right there. But that would probably be shop, too, though. That would be? Langford?

No, that would be you. Okay. Oh, that would be downtown then, yeah. You're kind of right in between there, but either way, I would hit that black site. Well, I can check it out, and y'all have a nice day. Thank you. Oh, you have a fantastic day, too, and we appreciate that phone call.

Number to call is 706-8635-5800 or 800-224-9090. Where are we heading? Let's go over to Ralph.

Hey, Ralph, welcome to the CNC Auto Show, and what can we help you with? Well, I'm going to help y'all out with something. Beautiful.

I love it. That's what we need. This is normally when we get sued. We don't have malpractice insurance, so if you tried something that didn't work, I'm sorry.

That's all we can say. Don't worry. I'm not going to sue you.

You'll probably sue me, though. You were talking about how they caught part of the brake issue, and it reminded me of something about putting on the brakes, and I'm going to do this. I haven't done it yet, but I want a mid-'80s Chevrolet one-ton truck with a 454 engine, and I'm going to well-rail ride iron all the way around it. So instead of hitting the brake, I'm going to hit the accelerator. Yeah. That would do it. Oh, and that way if the brakes went out, you just hit the accelerator, and don't worry about it. Exactly. Yeah. That would definitely be a solution.

Yeah, that would solve the issue, but you're absolutely right. You may need an attorney after that. Probably before. Yeah, maybe before. I'd go and put them on retainer before you do that.

I'd go ahead and put them in the passenger seat. I just wanted, like I told the gentleman that answered the phone, I said I wanted to tickle your funny bone. I think I did a good job.

Yeah, you did. Oh, and we appreciate that very much. I want to give a thumbs up for Anthony there that answers those phones. He's a wonderful person.

He does an outstanding job. So, Anthony, if you're listening, and here's what's a little bit wild. He's answering the phone, what about 10 miles from us? Probably every bit of it.

Yeah, somewhere around 10 miles from us. And we're here inside the shop doing this. And we do this, it goes back to the station, mixes, comes back here, and then I don't know what it does.

It does something. He normally has about four or five phones in his hand. Yeah, he does. Yeah, he's always going strong. And then we have Mason here. Mason Rogers is working the board here that does some outstanding stuff. He's actually sleeping there.

Yes, he is. Okay, watch us live or pass shows on Facebook. Don't hold that car question inside. Give us a call at 706-224-9090. I'm sorry, that's 800-224-9090. And as soon as we return, we'll be talking with Earl and a couple others.

We'll be right back. Welcome back to more of the CNC Auto Show with Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. And if you have a question about your car, truck or SUV, you give us a call at 800-224-9090. Or 706-863-5800 Saturday mornings, 805 to 10 Eastern time.

You can also watch the show at ccautoshow.com. And who will we be talking to? We're going to Earl.

Fantastic. Hello, Earl. We really appreciate you giving us a call on the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Hey, good morning. How are y'all?

All right, we are doing great. What I've got is a 2008 GMC Yukon with a 5.3 vortex. Got two issues on electrical and I believe one on the transmission. The first, the electrical, the electric door locks, they're kind of working immediately. And the other one, the cruise control doesn't work.

The rear view mirrors don't fold in. The voltage gauge, sometimes it'll show below 14 and most of the time it shows above 14. And that's it for the electrical... I did a little research on... I'm sorry, go ahead. That's the only issues with the electrical system?

Well, the other one was the transmission where it felt like you're running over rumble strips when you're slowing down to come to a stop. Okay. All right, we can cover that one after the electrical system then.

So you did some research and what did you find? Well, a lot of stuff on the internet talks about ground connections. And so I went through, I've actually replaced the battery, replaced the battery's negative cable to the block and I've cleaned several grounds, reattached them and it doesn't seem to really help.

Gotcha. How often does the problem happen? Well, the rear view mirror won't fold in at all. The door locks, it's probably every day. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. It's just... And when they do work, is it just one door or all four?

Five on that one. When they do work, it don't work. Yeah, so you said it doesn't work. So say if you walked up to it and you clicked your remote entry, would it only not unlock a specific door or none of them work at all? But what's weird, most of the time it's the back doors, both rear doors. Then sometimes it's the front passenger. It has never actually done the driver door. Okay.

Because that will kind of isolate it to more of... So that means that the key is... Of course, the fob is seeing or sending a signal, it's picking the signal up and it's understanding that you want to get into the vehicle, so of course it's doing its job. What we see a lot of times is actuators, which are obviously individual parts that are in each door. And you're right. As a matter of fact, I have a Tahoe and the passenger rear door does it randomly.

I don't know. It just picks when it wants to work and when it doesn't. And you're right. It feels like, okay, well none of the vehicle unlocked, but of course all the other doors did. And it's just a little 12-volt motor that of course is designed to obviously pull the rod or the actuator that locks and unlocks the actual latch. So it wouldn't be uncommon to have to replace those because it does sound like at least the keyless function is working. It's just inside the doors, it's not. Yeah, I have replaced the battery in the bob too to make sure that it would get in good juice.

Right. And that's the only other thing I thought about. If you just wanted to try to be sure that it's got plenty of voltage and you see your gauge, maybe cut all of your accessories off, rev the engine up a little bit, and if it works then and it didn't work before. But I'm like John Ryan, it sounds more like you just have some bad actuators on that part. Well, too, you were mentioning about the alternator, it sounds like most of the time it's above 14 and sometimes it'll actually come below 14. If you replace the battery cables on the negative side, did you happen to see on the positive side there's a clamp that's wrapped around it?

Did you see that? Yeah, I took the clamp off and when I replaced the battery and I cleaned all the terminals on that side and tightened them back up. The function of that clamp is to pretty much measure the load that is being requested from the battery. So that's a pretty smart charging system. It will actually fluctuate. As a matter of fact, there'll be times where it won't be charging at all. So that clamp is pretty much, you know, if you had your blower motor on, you know, as high as it would go, you were using the windows, the headlights were on, of course it would see a very high demand load so that system would actually fulfill the alternator and of course it'd be charging a little more than 14. And then once that battery reached that, you know, state that it should be at, it will actually start pulling the charging voltage away from it. So you will see that gauge fluctuate a little bit. I don't know that you'll have much problems with that. That's probably more normal operation unless it's like, you know, sweeping from 16 to 8.

I mean, you know, that kind of operation would definitely be erratic, but not necessarily what you're describing. And then you had a cruise control issue too, right? Yeah, cruise control and the mirrors not floating in on the doors on neither front door. Okay. And that one has the, it's got a right control for the mirror, a left control in the center, I believe, folds them in.

Don't you hold one of the buttons to fold them in? Yeah. Yeah. There's a button on the driver's side door panel. Right.

You just press it and it folds both of them in. I know that the codes, if there's a code store that can affect this cruise control, are any of those, can any of those affect the mirrors? Not the mirrors.

I didn't think that would. I definitely think that was my next question as far as the transmission and the cruise control. Is the check engine light on?

The check engine light is not on and I've checked it periodically with the reader that I have and I've actually taken a boat meter with me. And when I see it drop below 14, I've actually pulled over and checked the boat on the back of the alternator and it was showing below 12 boats. Right. And I've actually pulled over when it's showing good above 14 and it's reading like 13.6, 13.8.

Yeah. So it's actually doing what it says, I guess you would say. One thing that would be great to know on the alternator system is the scan tool. You'd have to have one that can actually read engine data, but there's a PID in there that's pretty much the duty cycle of the alternator. It'll actually have what it's commanding the alternator and as long as the voltage match the demand and the desired, of course that system would be functioning properly, which it does sound, because you know, you're not having any kind of starting issues or anything like that, right? The battery seems to maintain charge.

Yeah, it starts. Yeah, because all those electrical items, believe it or not, would still work even if they had, you know, 10 volts going to them. So yeah, I think we can rule out voltage on that for the issues you have. Now the cruise control, even though there's no codes in the system, there very well could be a pending code because that rumble that you described does sound like what we call torque converter shutter, very, very common in that particular transmission. And what it is is the torque converter is just not mating up. It should be one to one when it's of course in locked up or lock in converter.

And what happens is you're feeling that washboard feeling because of the torque converter slipping a little bit. If that transmission detects that slippage, it will put a pending code in there and has to fail it a bunch of times before it'll ever illuminate the light. But that will also turn off cruise control because it doesn't technically know the vehicle's speed because it actually has a slippage in the converter. And that may not be a code that'll show up under a... You'd have to have a pretty advanced level tool to diagnose that.

Yeah, it might be stored in your...a regular code reader might not pick that up. Okay, because I notice experimenting when I slow down, and it does it only when I'm slowing down slow, I've actually slowed down fast. I mean, come to a stop fast and it doesn't do it as much, but I've shifted up into neutral and it immediately goes away. So that's the...then that's the actual opposite of it. It's actually staying locked in then if it doesn't when you're slowing. I thought you were, you know, as you were climbing to 40, 45 miles an hour, it was doing it. But that...it's the same issue. It's just the opposite concern as far as it's staying locked in.

In some cases, doing a good transmission fluid exchange could be helpful on that, but I'd have the codes checked first. Yeah, we really need to ask for mileage and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, more... Hey, maybe... Maybe call back on the next hour. Yeah, exactly. And plus when we return, we'll be talking to Ed there, and so Ed either hold, if you would hold for us, and we'll be right back with you. And we are Tom Cox on E, and we'll be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show shortly.

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