 You know, the online people are going to generate so much mail over this comment because everybody's going to write me and tell me, I got nine years out of my battery. Good, lucky you. The industry says, you know, listen, you're the guy stuck on the side of the road or in the parking lot at 2 o'clock in the morning when it won't start. You know, the industry says four to five years.  And AGM batteries, AGM batteries are a funny duck, right? They're a completely different type of battery in a sense. I've seen certain models gobble up batteries every three and a half years, and I've seen certain models go six years. But beyond six years, I'm putting a battery in it. And if I'm changing...  If I'm changing the battery in a vehicle and it has a separate start-stop battery, I'm doing that as well because that battery is generally the same material, and obviously it's the same age. So if one went, the other went. Batteries are a very complicated conversation to have these days. They really are. On a newer car, do you have to get start-stop now on a gas engine?  You don't have a choice. It'll depend on what the manufacturer is trying to achieve from emissions values. The reason there's start-stop, let me answer it this way. The reason there's start-stop is manufacturers are trying to hit a certain fuel economy.  Because how many cars they sell that get 40 miles to the gallon versus how many cars they sell that get 20 miles to the gallon, they get emissions credits and different compensation from the government because they're trying to clean up the environment. And that's really where all that start-stop technology came from. They're worried about emissions and gasoline.  There are ways to get around start-stop. There are some vehicles that come with a button that you can turn it off. If the vehicle has a fault code in it, the start-stop will not work in most experiences that I've had. If I get to a traffic light and I want to see if start-stop doesn't work, pop it into neutral. Just got to remember to hold your foot on the brake so the car doesn't roll. But sometimes popping it in neutral will take it away. I personally have an issue with start-stop real quick.  Because I just worry that on an older vehicle, the abuse I'm putting on the starter, how good is that battery? I don't want to find out, you know, late at night in a bad part of town, right, that my stop-start battery isn't working. You know, to me, I'd like to know once the car started, I'm coming home late at night, et cetera, I'm going to get there. Yeah. But shame on me. I try to think logically. Yeah.  And you know, I did an experiment, Ron, last year. I just bought a brand new car. I left it on. I didn't touch anything for six months. It said I saved a total of 0.97 gallons of gas. Well, listen, I can show you that the government's crazy.  All right? You know, it's, listen, move to New Jersey. Move to New Jersey and go get a vehicle titled in North Jersey. I had to travel an hour and five minutes a week ago to go get a vehicle titled, but the agency that does registration is six minutes from the house.  So, you know, but we're trying to clean up the environment and save gasoline. I want to know who makes up these things. Who thinks of this? Somebody that rides a bicycle, I bet. Yeah, even for the government, the post office would be out of business. Right. Exactly right. You wouldn't need it. Yeah. It's crazy. All right, sir. I got to run. Thanks for the info about the website, Tom. You have a great time. Get out to autobatteries.com, and that'll help you in the future, and you be well, and thanks for being part of the Car Doctor family.  I'm Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor, 855-560-9900. I'll return right after this.  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And I've been fighting a P0171 for, oh, I don't know, about eight or nine months. Right. And it's been off the road for a while just as I'm trying to diagnose and fix the darn thing.  And yeah, I've kind of gone through the service manual and I'm kind of stuck. I don't know where else to go. I've checked for vacuum leaks, exhaust leaks, and I've fixed a few of those. And it's still throwing the code. The vacuum leaks I fixed have brought the short-term fuel trim back.  Down at idle, which at first I thought that was, oh, hey, maybe that was the problem. But my long-term fuel trims driving and at idle and under load are stuck at 12.5 all the time. Okay. So it's always got high fuel trims. Are the fuel trims high at idle or even going down the road?  Both. The long-term is just pegged out at positive 12.5. At idle, they were low 20s consistently before I fixed the vacuum leaks. And then now they seem to be long-term stuck at 12.5 and short-term is anywhere from plus, I'd say plus 7 to plus 10. Okay. All the time. Okay. So have you tried making this richer? Do you have any propane?  I have, yeah, and immediately when I throw that in the intake, the trims come down. Okay, good. So that shows us DO2s are working, right? Yeah. It's able to respond. So sitting there at idle, warmed-up engine, have you looked at mass airflow grams per second? Yeah, I'm sitting at about 2.8. That's about right. That's about right. And then as you accelerate down the road, it increases, right?  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. And have you poked around with propane? For, like, looking for leaks, you mean? Yeah, just looking for a vacuum leak. I've smoke-tested. I bought a smoke machine off Amazon, and that's been great. That helped me find my other leaks. So now, when I go into the brake booster or another line, the only minor leak that I have is...  It's almost like it has a mechanical throttle body with a throttle cable. Right. And it's coming out. There's a bit of smoke coming out where the spring is on the throttle body. I don't know if it's the throttle body shaft seal, maybe. Okay. But I don't know if that's normal as the smoke machine builds up pressure, but that's the only spot I got smoke coming out in the intake. Well, and smoke's a great way to go and good initiative, right? I like your thinking. Mm-hmm.  So a smoke machine generates about a half a PSI in most cases, depends on what yours is. But a smoke machine test is only half the equation, all right? I'd still like to do it with propane. So what sort of propane setup do you have? Oh, it's just a generic camping, like, yeah, like a torch. Oh, okay. Tell you what, sit tight, Trevor. Let me pull over and take the pause. When we come back, we'll finish up. I'm Ron Ananian, The Car Doctor. We'll be back right after this.  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And you've probably got like the little crank on black knob that turns on and off, like if you're going to light it to do plumbing work or light up a camping lantern, that kind of a thing. Right. Okay. So somehow you've got to nick that on. You've got to attach a black rubber hose or some sort of rubber hose to that. And then on the other end of that rubber hose, I want you to get a small piece of steel brake line, 316ths.  And I want you to peen one end of that brake line down so it's just a point. So crush it flat. Typically what I'll do is I'll put it in a vice and I will peen it shut except for one little corner. I'm trying to make a pinpoint opening in the end of the brake line.  All right. Now, when I open up the propane and I'm going to open it up slow, realizing that if something backfires, I've got a hand grenade in my hand. Right. OK. The dangers of auto repair, brother. All right. And I'm going to use that pinpoint like a wand and I'm going to direct it at specific things. And I can control the flow with the knob. I don't have to turn on a full just a little bit of a flow. Right.  If you were to look at the O2 sensor by scan tool or voltmeter, whatever way you want to do it, can we agree that if you were able to get propane directly in that throttle shaft and it made a difference on how the O2 read, that it's making a difference on fuel trim?  It should, yeah. Yeah? Right? Fuel trim is fuel trim. I mean, it doesn't know where the fuel or the air is coming from. So, you know, I want you to do that. That's the whole purpose of propane. Propane is not just in that big globular. If we were going to do massive amounts of propane like that, we might as well use carb clean from the 70s. All right? Right. The idea is, you know, propane can make a very pinpoint accurate diagnostic tool. All right?  I want you to get a yellow notepad and just eliminate things. I want you to check fuel pressure, if you can. I've done that, yep. Good. You wrote down your results?  Yeah, it was one PSI at curb idle over the spec, so I figured that was good enough. Take a look at the maps. Take a look at the map sensor. Key on, engine off. You should see four to four and a half volts. Start it up. You should see a volt, volt and a half, something like that, but just be specific. Propane the throttle body. Just make sure there are no vacuum leaks elsewhere. Leave the brake booster disconnected.  All right? And then last, look around in the area of the O2 sensor. Any exhaust leaks, any exhaust leaks will skew that O2 and will contribute to a lean code. Do those things. Call me back. Until the next time, I'm Ron Ananyan, The Car Doctor. Good mechanics aren't expensive. They're priceless. See ya. And now, more of the best music, WTVQ.  I got you.  This is karma's gonna get you Gonna knock you off your feet Better recognize your brothers  Thank you.  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