Quick Bits

[Hellion]

Ok, subject shift: Why do young people think it's cool for their vehicles to backfire? What's the deal with that?

My deal is with the current trend of super loud NASCAR mufflers. Gone are the days of a nice glass-pack burble, these things are raucous to the extreme. I understand why (knuckle-dragging neanderthals) but HOW?

 

[Edwin Spangler]

To put it simply, its literally monkey see monkey do. I would occasionally ask my son the same thing.

 

[Grizzlymi]

It's annoying, but I remember being an annoying dumba$$ when I was young. The retarded extremely loud sound systems I had. Would rattle house windows with the bass. Grew out of that in my mid twenty's and would just put a nice sounding system with a 10" inch sub in. No more rattling shyt.

But I never had a backfiring rice burner crackling annoying exhaust.

 

[Kartorbust]

Guess I can't upload a video. Working on a 2018 Grand Chrokee, 3.6L V6, had two DTCs P0456 small evap leak detected and P0440 General Evap failure. We'll the purge line under the engine cover was broken because, let's put a piece of plastic on an engine that will break down overtime from vibrations and high heat, as well as cold cycles. So got that replaced, no big deal. Did the PCM Evap verification test, and it failed. Well turns out because this vehicle has spent a good time driving on gravel roads, the ESIM and ESIM vapor filter have ingested quite a bit of dust.

So I told my advisor and he had me wait until a senior tech came in and had him verify it all with me. He agreed. So ordered the parts for it. Well advisor was mad for whatever reason and its like, this is why I said fix the purge line and continue diagnosis. He's mad because the MOPAR ESIM is like $314. That senior tech and I looked it up online, you can get that ESIM same P/N for like $20. That's how much markup dealers put on stuff. Customer price, $164.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

And if you deleted that entire system of crap the engine would not care. Computer might freak out but that's a different story

 

[Kartorbust]

And if you deleted that entire system of crap the engine would not care. Computer might freak out but that's a different story

Or what you can do is, you can turn it into a flea. A harmless little flea. Then you put that flea into a box, and you put that box into another box and mail it to yourself. Then when it gets there you SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!

In all seriousness though, working on modern vehicles is such a physical and mental drain. Add in working with advisors and managers that just don't care and have to suck up to the customers, I see why techs are leaving in droves.

 

[Whitetrashrocker]

Wife's 06 escape decided it didnt want to "go to sleep". Wake up in the morning to a dead battery. Took it to 2 dealerships. They said nothing wrong. I said then why do I get a dead battery every morning. They had no answer.

Took it to a buddy that runs a good shop. He has all the top end diagnostic computers. He sat with me and went through everything. I was amazed at what his computers were digging into. But still couldn't find the issue.

Even after sitting for the 33 minutes for it to "go to sleep" it still sat awake. It shut down some but still had a few amps drawing. He had no answer but was kind enough to print me a full schematic from the all data.

I poured over that for the next few weeks. Testing, un plugging stuff, you know the drill.

Finally found it in the SJB or BCM. A timer IC chip failed. I opened the module only to find many, double layer SMD boards. Nothing I could do.

Found a used SJB and had to go back to the dealer so they could flash it in.

They gave me a hard time cause "I didnt know what I was talking about" they had run a full diagnosis with no problems.

I told them to just flash the module in.
I had the panels removed and all they had to do was swap the harness plug.

Guess what. I fixed the problem.
Only took like 6 months.

 

[Kartorbust]

Wife's 06 escape decided it didnt want to "go to sleep". Wake up in the morning to a dead battery. Took it to 2 dealerships. They said nothing wrong. I said then why do I get a dead battery every morning. They had no answer.

Took it to a buddy that runs a good shop. He has all the top end diagnostic computers. He sat with me and went through everything. I was amazed at what his computers were digging into. But still couldn't find the issue.

Even after sitting for the 33 minutes for it to "go to sleep" it still sat awake. It shut down some but still had a few amps drawing. He had no answer but was kind enough to print me a full schematic from the all data.

I poured over that for the next few weeks. Testing, un plugging stuff, you know the drill.

Finally found it in the SJB or BCM. A timer IC chip failed. I opened the module only to find many, double layer SMD boards. Nothing I could do.

Found a used SJB and had to go back to the dealer so they could flash it in.

They gave me a hard time cause "I didnt know what I was talking about" they had run a full diagnosis with no problems.

I told them to just flash the module in.
I had the panels removed and all they had to do was swap the harness plug.

Guess what. I fixed the problem.
Only took like 6 months.

Advisors are just complete morons most of the time and get paid twice as much as we techs do. Now I probably would not have found that draw, but would have known there was a draw with a multi-meter on the battery.

Doesn't really surprise me an old module went bad after 20+ years. But still, they probably had only done a few things and was like, no idea. NEXT!

We have like 5 or 6 advisors at my dealer, there is maybe a single semi-functioning brain cell between the lot of them, and that thing is fighting for 3rd place.

 

[Denny]

Advisors are just complete morons most of the time and get paid twice as much as we techs do. Now I probably would not have found that draw, but would have known there was a draw with a multi-meter on the battery.

Doesn't really surprise me an old module went bad after 20+ years. But still, they probably had only done a few things and was like, no idea. NEXT!

We have like 5 or 6 advisors at my dealer, there is maybe a single semi-functioning brain cell between the lot of them, and that thing is fighting for 3rd place.

And that’s why I left the dealership life behind in 1995 after 11 years of bullship.