Smh 6 shops 😒

He knows how to use the “scope”.

@@thewishmastur I will try to learn picoscope.😁

@@johntran1831 …haha

Is always best to replace sensors with OEM parts, avoid Chinese cheap parts...🤔

This is the takeaway for sure 👍

NPR?

@@nickmalone3143 "No Parts Required" (not National Public Radio)

@@nickmalone3143 no parts replaced

There are parts better than OEM parts

Agree with you completely. And yet people still think they can save a few bucks by buying cheap Chinese crap causing all kinds of weird problems.

Even the Blend Door Is not cheap if you have to pull the dash apart twice at 8-12 hour labor because it broke again prematurely

I miss read "blender" and I still agreed 100% 😄

And fuel pumps. Fuel pressures can vary wildly with some of that cheap stuff

@@pilskadden I did that with fuel injectors once when I was rebuilding my first motor. Let just say I got it right the second time

He fired the parts cannon at it first though... coils and wires.

Thats my shop. Im just starting to learn this stuff. I had my Autel for a week at this point. The parts were brought to me from the owner. I learned a very valuable lesson on aftermarket parts that day. Previous shops gutted the cats put on new exhaust that was leaking replaced all the o2 sensors. Plugs and coils. Fuel pump and injectors. They told me $2000 so far and its not fixed. This is not the first time Ive got a car from another shop that was messed up and the parts cannon was fired at it. Im learning and ran into this same situation a few weeks later. $1000 in repairs and it was still not fixed. 45 min later I had figured it out. I dont know how these places stay in bussiness. O yea I do they dont fix stuff and still get paid. I will call Ivan again if it gets out of my control. I want stuff fixed right on customers stuff.

@@bryansnewandused was a pleasure to work with you Bryan and diagnose the Captiva! Isn't it ironic that the same people who can pay $2000 in unneeded repairs say they can't afford an OEM sensor because it's too expensive? I don't get it 🤔

@@bryansnewandused They stay on the business because nobody can not say directly how bad is their business. For people I have only 1 suggestion, use only 1 repair shop and only 1 mechanic. That way you can blame only 1 shop and 1 mechanic if something is f-up.

@@bryansnewandused , Awesome that you're learning this stuff! Hope to see you again in future videos!

LMAO, I had the same thought. He face was like WTF, are you kidding me!

Was definitely cool to catch it on live data... Only happened once during the test drive!

It's common for folks to overlook the "NEW" part (assuming it's good), and carry on with a scorched Earth parts replacement fiasco. Good thing this guy had enough sense to call PHAD before burning the town.

This mechanic replaced the coils and plugs before calling Ivan. That must have cost the customer a pretty penny.

@@paulstaf I think the customer brought the parts... Probably the same AMRXUTS brand 🤣

I was ready for something more drastic haha

Rock Auto sells both cheap and OEM quality parts.

I only buy OEM parts for GM & yet they are still from China. Hopefully they are made to GM standards. Seems all parts these days are from somewhere else but USA. Part of the Global Platform. Just changed a sensor in the transfer case motor on my GMC. Bought AC Delco. Part & it was from Germany. You never know anymore where the part comes from including the dealer. Guy at the Chevy Dealer told me they rip off the label when it mentions China

It’s crazy. A high quality sensor would cost $40 shipped from online or prob $80 locally. 6 shops and bringing in an expert to diagnose cost $$$$$$$.

GIGO: garbage in, garbage out

Agree modern engines run in low 200s for emissions reasons. Had a new thermostat/housing replaced in May on my car he used aftermarket. Was like thermostat stuck open , would not warm up , esp. in cold weather. Focus T-stat supposed to open @ 197F ! Car was like 170F. I bought the Ford T-stat and he did a no-charge replacement , and NOW it warms up and runs low 200s like it should. My degas bottle is like 21PSI for a reason. Low-speed fans come on at 233 , and like 242 hi-speed. That is NORMAL. I figure I was wasting gas/running rich all those months. NEVER AFTERMARKET !

It's really hard to find collision repair parts that are any good. Chinese headlights and tail lights are especially poor quality and typically on older cars new OEM lights are not available

@@BigEightiesNewWave We had a Ford Thermostat installed in my fiancé's son's 2008 Ford Focus and we are still occasionally getting a code for low coolant temps. Not sure if the Thermostat is bad or there is a wiring/connector problem.

@@BigEightiesNewWave 195 to 210 I believe.

I hate to tell you, but the hospitals are the same way. Good luck finding a real Dr.

That would cost way more than an OEM sensor 😅

Enjoy! 😁

I love mine! Been using it over a year now, or close to it! 💪🏻

Definitely, i love Rte 30 from Latrobe to Breezewood! Far better ride than the turnpike or rte 22!

Looks like you need some punctuation marks. Here you go: ....,,,,!!!???. No thanks needed.

I'm amazed at how live data is underrated in diagnostic efficiency...

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics I just got and topdon artidiag 800 BT it’s a mid level scanner with no bi directional or coding But it does have live data It’s amazing how much you can watch with the live data And how much you can figure out from it.

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics To correctly interpret live data, you need to know how the whole system works; IN DETAIL. As you prove in many videos. At the dealers there are few people who understand how cars work.

Denso all the way!

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics YOU BET !!…I have used Bosch on other cars but not on my 01 which had the original AC Delco sensors installed…my local dealer said the downstreams were $115.00 a piece…Denso is it !!

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As a shop you don’t give people the option for cheap parts. It gets rid of the penny pincher clients as well

@@mph5896 Most shops will give you 2 options. If it’s a Dodge dealer, either Mopar or whatever after market they use. Maybe NAPA for example. But I agree, as a shop you should stick with the good parts you know. Saves all sorts of issues like this.

@@mph5896: I AGREE.

Sure did 👍

I call it like I see it 🤣

Yep, im an hour and 15 minutes east of there, Guy did good by me after a uniroyal tire exploded on my old car on my way to camp near Bedford, good prices too

We had to back it out of the shop...

Guess I should add to always disconnect the battery first before cleaning contacts. There could be live data wires and you really don't want to short something out inside the ECU! I think "check your connections first" should be some kind of rule tho. You'd be surprised how many times I've fixed computer problems just by changing out a cable, which probably could also have been cleaned with QD. Even slight differences in the alloys will cause contacts to corrode.

Yes, particularly since the fuel control will go into open loop at wide open throttle.

Harness is on the engine 😉

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics guess I was deluding myself that just maybe an aftermarket part might not have been the while fault. Maybe next time 😉

A 4 hour drive is much more pleasant than dealing with the parts cannon and comebacks haha

There is a pullup resistor on the ECU. The sensor ground the signal wire. A broken wire mean no ground, which due to the pullup resistor the signal goes up. A pullup resistor is a plain resistor that one side is connected to the signal input, while the other side is connected to a voltage source, usually the 5V reference. It is called a pullup because it 'pull' the voltage up to the power voltage. As a side note, you can have pulldown resistors too, which instead of a voltage source, it is connected to the ground, effectivelly pulling the signal down. As to why it read 1.25V and not 5V, it may have something to do with the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) that is actually only able to read 0-1.25V, or that the 1.25 goes to a 4x amplifier and the result is scalled down back to 0-1.25 in software. This is also common to gain in precision, as the ADC is only able to mesure down to a certain precision. For example, a standard arduino have a 10 bits ADC, which mean the signal is represented from 0 to 1023 (10 bits is 1024 possibility, so 0-1023), which mean that at 5V AREF each count is roughtly 5mV. A 1.25 signal would max out at 256 count instead of 1024 count, meaning you use only 1/4 of the range, thru have 1/4 of the precision. By amplifying the 1.25V by 4, you therefore bring it back to 1024 count, or full resolution/precision. As to what I mean by count, imagine that you have a 5 inch long ruler. Instead of having it in inch, you scribe 1024 lines on it. You then mesure your thing in lines and you can not go in between the lines, only integer lines. To mesure a small thing, you can enlarge it with a photocopier, then mesure the enlarged print with your ruler. Instead of fitting in the first 1/4 of the ruler, it now can fit in the full ruler. You can therefore take more precise mesurements, and then just math out the enlargement ratio to get the true mesurements.