Eric O Is A Silver Bullet Cheating Machine!
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We also used-it to prove someone tinting a rear screen had damaged the heating element and also to prove a heated front screen was actually working (the owner swore it wasn't)
I'm also surprised there's a drain on a battery which is holding that much surface charge - every day is a school day sometimes.
I don't trust amp clamps for battery drains anymore tho - there's just too much stuff under a hood which interferes and they drift which leaves you chasing non-existant problems - it's a pain disconnecting batteries but I've wasted too much time with clamps to skip that step unless I know I'm looking for more than. 5 amp drains (which, let's be honest, aren't the hard ones to find)
Now if the Insignia (Buick Lacrosse in the US) in the workshop would just give-up it's sometimes I drain - sometimes I don't - catch me if you can bs I could relax for the weekend.
Date: 2023-03-17
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Honestly, it's not cheating unless you are using it as a crutch. Identifix/Technician Forums/Etc are all just tools. Does a 1, 000 Torque Wrench make a good technician? No. The tools don't make the technician. It's a resource, a little guide of 'this is something that's common so worth checking out'. Especially in the independent world where you are working on 5+ brands of cars, all with 6+ car lines, etc.
No technician is going to know 100% about every car that rolls in the bay. Hell, even as a Honda Technician at a dealership, I don't know 100% of every problems with Hondas by themselves! But we have access to Technician forums where people talk about and report problems theyve encountered and how it was fixed. It's just a tool to guide us down a path but it's our responsibility as technicians to test and verify to come to the same conclusion. Or as parents always say, 'Trust but Verify'.
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Honestly, it's not cheating unless you are using it as a crutch. Identifix/Technician Forums/Etc are all just tools. Does a 1, 000 Torque Wrench make a good technician? No. The tools don't make the technician. It's a resource, a little guide of 'this is something that's common so worth checking out'. Especially in the independent world where you are working on 5+ brands of cars, all with 6+ car lines, etc.
No technician is going to know 100% about every car that rolls in the bay. Hell, even as a Honda Technician at a dealership, I don't know 100% of every problems with Hondas by themselves! But we have access to Technician forums where people talk about and report problems theyve encountered and how it was fixed. It's just a tool to guide us down a path but it's our responsibility as technicians to test and verify to come to the same conclusion. Or as parents always say, 'Trust but Verify'.
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aniBlueRoseVamp
Actually I would not say it is cheating, but I would say it is more of a method to confirm one's own suspicions. As it is kind of like how back in the 1980's when dealing with an erratic idle, that was commonly a vacuum leak. And would have probably been the same thing in the 1990's if you was dealing with a TBI system, but if dealing with fuel injection it may be a faulty Idle Air control valve/Idle Air bypass valve. Yet it could also be a cracked carburetor gasket/TBI gasket, but now it could also be a cracked Idle Air Control Valve/Idle Air bypass valve gasket or some other kind of vacuum leak. So having stuff like that makes it easier to track down. Is it a cheat sheet? Yeah sorta. But it's more of a way to pass down knowledge to find more modern problems. I'd have killed to have access to that kind of info back in the 1980's when I was working in a full service gas station.
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Actually I would not say it is cheating, but I would say it is more of a method to confirm one's own suspicions. As it is kind of like how back in the 1980's when dealing with an erratic idle, that was commonly a vacuum leak. And would have probably been the same thing in the 1990's if you was dealing with a TBI system, but if dealing with fuel injection it may be a faulty Idle Air control valve/Idle Air bypass valve. Yet it could also be a cracked carburetor gasket/TBI gasket, but now it could also be a cracked Idle Air Control Valve/Idle Air bypass valve gasket or some other kind of vacuum leak. So having stuff like that makes it easier to track down. Is it a cheat sheet? Yeah sorta. But it's more of a way to pass down knowledge to find more modern problems. I'd have killed to have access to that kind of info back in the 1980's when I was working in a full service gas station.
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Craig
I'm not sure who would be upset that you used a data base of knowledge to repair a vehicle and save the customer money and you time. You are still making money moving vehicles along faster. You are also making a reputation of fast correct repairs and saving the customer money. That customer will tell others about your service which will get more customers than you can handle. There was an auto repair where I lived that had hundreds regular customers because he didn't rip people off. We had IBM here and when they began pulling out and transferring people he would get calls from former out of state customers telling him of a problem they were having with their car and if it sounded like the repair the mechanic recommended sounded right and if the cost was reasonable
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I'm not sure who would be upset that you used a data base of knowledge to repair a vehicle and save the customer money and you time. You are still making money moving vehicles along faster. You are also making a reputation of fast correct repairs and saving the customer money. That customer will tell others about your service which will get more customers than you can handle. There was an auto repair where I lived that had hundreds regular customers because he didn't rip people off. We had IBM here and when they began pulling out and transferring people he would get calls from former out of state customers telling him of a problem they were having with their car and if it sounded like the repair the mechanic recommended sounded right and if the cost was reasonable
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autos
This was perfect. Bought a 2013 Elantra a couple years ago and soon discovered battery would go dead if left more than 1 day without starting, found a draw of 340 mA and got an AGM battery so we could get 2 days without starting and not strand my son when he used it. I later traced to one circuit and on that circuit found an old remote starter that I had no FOBs for. I did pay my local Hyundai dealer to get it cleaned up but as a car owner I saved hundreds of dollars of trouble shooting time. I suspect that s why it got traded, but I got a good deal on a car that had low miles and came from the south with no rust,
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This was perfect. Bought a 2013 Elantra a couple years ago and soon discovered battery would go dead if left more than 1 day without starting, found a draw of 340 mA and got an AGM battery so we could get 2 days without starting and not strand my son when he used it. I later traced to one circuit and on that circuit found an old remote starter that I had no FOBs for. I did pay my local Hyundai dealer to get it cleaned up but as a car owner I saved hundreds of dollars of trouble shooting time. I suspect that s why it got traded, but I got a good deal on a car that had low miles and came from the south with no rust,
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David
OK OK It's time to give in and go to an Optometrist and get a real (a couple ) pair of glasses. It's going to take time to get used to wearing them all the time. Being a older person you're going to be stubborn about wearing them all the time. I started at eight years old so I'm the opposite I feel lost with out them. Also I can't see much without them. I bet you're having to concentrate hard to see. Doing that is giving you stress which leads to headaches and so on. For me I have to wear a large frame Don't buy them for fashion. Get one wire frame like aviators and an all plastic as big.
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OK OK It's time to give in and go to an Optometrist and get a real (a couple ) pair of glasses. It's going to take time to get used to wearing them all the time. Being a older person you're going to be stubborn about wearing them all the time. I started at eight years old so I'm the opposite I feel lost with out them. Also I can't see much without them. I bet you're having to concentrate hard to see. Doing that is giving you stress which leads to headaches and so on. For me I have to wear a large frame Don't buy them for fashion. Get one wire frame like aviators and an all plastic as big.
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David
i'm getting flashbacks now, friend of mine had a Honda accord with a parasitic draw on the same fuse, after days of head scratching I found it to be the door/window/keylesss entry module. I about called it on a bad module but then I had a thought an tried de-pinning some of the inputs to it, Turns out the drivers door lock switch had fallen off the lock when he used it and was sitting in the unlock position causing the module to never go to sleep as It was waiting for a lock actuator movement that never came.
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i'm getting flashbacks now, friend of mine had a Honda accord with a parasitic draw on the same fuse, after days of head scratching I found it to be the door/window/keylesss entry module. I about called it on a bad module but then I had a thought an tried de-pinning some of the inputs to it, Turns out the drivers door lock switch had fallen off the lock when he used it and was sitting in the unlock position causing the module to never go to sleep as It was waiting for a lock actuator movement that never came.
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Jordan
Also. You had said a short will blow a fuse. It will most certainly not always cause a blown fuse. Please be careful with that. Current can t flow without a path to ground Therefore whatever component is bad. Is shorted. I assume you meant a short in a wire. Just saying this because a lot of people follow you. Little stuff like this can make someone new really misunderstand how electricity works.
Think of a field winding shorted or a shorted alternator or starter with constant power.
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Also. You had said a short will blow a fuse. It will most certainly not always cause a blown fuse. Please be careful with that. Current can t flow without a path to ground Therefore whatever component is bad. Is shorted. I assume you meant a short in a wire. Just saying this because a lot of people follow you. Little stuff like this can make someone new really misunderstand how electricity works.
Think of a field winding shorted or a shorted alternator or starter with constant power.
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Ralph
Non-automotive comment: Nice to see the VitaMix blender and BigBerkey water filter in your kitchen (just like mine. My BB is a couple years old and I had to make my own sight glass to keep from overfilling it when I go to bed since it would leak all over. They sure goofed up on THAT design. Shoulda asked you first. You would have told them that the lower tank needs to completely enclose the upper one. Common sense is becoming a rare thing these days.
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Non-automotive comment: Nice to see the VitaMix blender and BigBerkey water filter in your kitchen (just like mine. My BB is a couple years old and I had to make my own sight glass to keep from overfilling it when I go to bed since it would leak all over. They sure goofed up on THAT design. Shoulda asked you first. You would have told them that the lower tank needs to completely enclose the upper one. Common sense is becoming a rare thing these days.
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CrabmanSteve
It's not a silver bullet. Collective information and solution gathering is the greatest thing of our age for better or worse.
I'd argue the good outweighs the bad.
I've always wondered how small stuff like this is billed, flat-rate or hourly?
I'm in an entirely different industry so I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground for how mechanics bill with the exception of book-time.
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It's not a silver bullet. Collective information and solution gathering is the greatest thing of our age for better or worse.
I'd argue the good outweighs the bad.
I've always wondered how small stuff like this is billed, flat-rate or hourly?
I'm in an entirely different industry so I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground for how mechanics bill with the exception of book-time.
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Slavik
Hi Eric! Been watching your videos a lot. I like your content and learn a lot. I m tech myself in Benz dealer. We have Audi dealer next door and they had a car with battery draw, tech left maintainer on it overnight to safe the battery and what ever was killing battery overheated and car started on fire. Please DO NOT leave battery connected overnight as you can have same problem.
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Hi Eric! Been watching your videos a lot. I like your content and learn a lot. I m tech myself in Benz dealer. We have Audi dealer next door and they had a car with battery draw, tech left maintainer on it overnight to safe the battery and what ever was killing battery overheated and car started on fire. Please DO NOT leave battery connected overnight as you can have same problem.
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Mike
I noticed Identifix has a seven day free trial. I'll keep that in my hip pocket for when I really need it. If I was still working as a mechanic you can bet I'd have the full subscription. Cheating is when you don't fix something but still charge the customer. Identifix just allowed you to bypass two miles of hidden wire and get right to the problem. I'll take that any day!
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I noticed Identifix has a seven day free trial. I'll keep that in my hip pocket for when I really need it. If I was still working as a mechanic you can bet I'd have the full subscription. Cheating is when you don't fix something but still charge the customer. Identifix just allowed you to bypass two miles of hidden wire and get right to the problem. I'll take that any day!
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Edward
Almost All the posters of those silver bullets have probably seen a South Main Auto video and picked up some valuable Eric O wisdom. You're probably due several (or several thousand) silver bullets. Your use of the silver bullet didnt lead to the parts cannon, it merely directed your focus to a likely area of investigation. No cheating involved!
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Almost All the posters of those silver bullets have probably seen a South Main Auto video and picked up some valuable Eric O wisdom. You're probably due several (or several thousand) silver bullets. Your use of the silver bullet didnt lead to the parts cannon, it merely directed your focus to a likely area of investigation. No cheating involved!
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murphymb
I wonder if Edison would have felt he cheated if he had seen the experiments for an incandescent light performed by the guy in Europe, probably would have cut his attempts from over 2000 to around 1000. Not cheating to utilize the information available, though one might consider it foolish to duplicate effort needlessly.
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I wonder if Edison would have felt he cheated if he had seen the experiments for an incandescent light performed by the guy in Europe, probably would have cut his attempts from over 2000 to around 1000. Not cheating to utilize the information available, though one might consider it foolish to duplicate effort needlessly.
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