I too have done this. Other than watching a football game now and then I haven’t turned on my tv in about 10 years.I watch Pine Hollow and South Main Auto on TH-cam.
If you got internet with you obviously do look to online streaming sites or IPTV, you can get a subscription for like $5 a month sometimes more sometimes the less depending on the one you find lots of free trials too and you can have every single channel there is including all the movie channels. I can help more if you're interested or point you in the right direction
Interesting solution that only Ivan would know. I like how professional mechanic shops call Ivan for his diagnosis. Must give him a great feeling to be trusted by people who are professionals themselves.
I had a neighbor that was having problems with his wife's car. It was running really bad, and after a couple days he determined it needed a valve job. He removed the head and took it to a machine shop. When he got everything back together and it was still running really bad, he asked me to look it over. It took me 2 minutes to find a disconnected vacuum line. I reconnected it and the engine ran fine. He could have saved a bunch of money if he had asked me to look it over at the very beginning.
Great diagnosis. as a person who owned a 2011 Chrysler 300 with a 3.6 L V6 I can tell you that Chrysler engines are very dependent on the oxygen sensor to run properly. I had a spark plug seal fail and drop oil into oxygen sensor in one of the banks and foul the sensor, and it caused my car to run like utter garbage and cause misfires in that whole bank. Ended up having to replace the sensor with a new one and the car ran like great again.
@@Fedex52738 I made the unintentional mistake of getting some of my undercoating formula on one on a Ram , once. After the time it took to diagnose and buy the new sensor , I lost out on that job, but learned a good lesson.
A shop that can't diagnose a simple O2 failure, and a customer that doesn't want to fix their vehicle. Ominous start to 2025! I'm kinda scared to go outside! LOL
Ivan has already addressed this in an earlier comment. They are a body shop and to get Ivan in is to get a guaranteed diagnosis. Quicker and cheaper when vehicle diagnosis is not your specialty.
There is usually one reason they are family doctors. In medical school you apply for specialty training it's called matching. It's based on many things. If you don't get matched you become a family doc. I call my Hopkins/Mayo trained wife a doctors doc. Many of her patients are doctors. Not getting matched is usually not good for a career. Sure some docs choose family medicine but for many it wasn't a choice. When choosing a doctor training matters. Educate yourself when searching for a doctor. See where they trained. For instance if you see Caribbean training they couldn't get into a U.S. school. Doesn't mean they aren't a good doc but I wouldn't see that person.
@ That’s good information, Thanks. In my area, We are flooded with the Caribbean type family practitioners, along with too many automotive rip off repair shops. I put them in the same boat. I changed my family “doctor” a couple years ago, mainly for the convenient location, right next to our Harbor Freight, and the name of the “ business” actually is “for your health”. I found that to be humorous after my first talk with the doc. Typical questions like tobacco and alcohol use, and not one single question regarding diet, which in my opinion should be the most important question. He initially convinced me to get on a mild BP prescription and said everything else looked great, except the cholesterol numbers were just a bit higher than normal, but nothing to be concerned about. Very next appointment 6 months later, he was very concerned and wanted me get more meds for that! I politely declined and told him If I needed anything else I would let Him know. And through natural remedies and a moderate bit of walking , tossed the BP meds. I’m 65, fit, and drug free. I think I’m doing alright.
Solution works for driving but the check engine light on with newer dodges disables the remote start which sucks in the winter time. Change the sensors.
I'm glad you went to gen OBD2 to verify data. I've seen many aftermarket scan tools provide erroneous data pids that I cannot explain that obviously make no sense. Imagine the parts cannon that could be fired just going off that 1 fuel trim pid?
A nice little "fix" there Ivan, at least that strategy coding is implemented in this case so you could get away with it. Unlike your 2024 Christmas special, that sent you parts hunting.
no kidding take care of things especially what you physically see. clean them cables it can mess the ecm up wierd things can happen liker false codes ive even seen these go into limp mode over things like that
It will run, but it won't pass emissions test if the customer's state requires it. Hopefully it was just done and doesn't need it for the rest of the year. Or even better, maybe the customer's city/county doesn't require smog check annually.
For us non-mechanics I wish once in a while you would take some time to teach us. Example, at the beginning, you said oh look it’s heating up fine. OK what was the date point in terms of voltage that you knew it was heating? Towards the end, you explained you unplugged the oxygen sensor and it’s at 1.27 V really why is that? Is 1.2v unplugged ox sensor the bias voltage? Again wish once ina while you would rake just a couple minutes to explain.
The fuel control strategy seems to be a very good one on this generation of chrysler corporations trucks. Wondering if its the same on the rest of the line. ?
How do you know it's the sensors and not the wiring or ECU circuit handling the bank 2 sensors? It looks odd to me that both sensors on the same bank go bad at the same time.
Only time my 1976 Dodge Royal monical ran ruff was I needed new spark plugs champion plugs go bad they get wet so I install a hot set of autol lite spark plugs no more problems the car would pass the emissions test every time it may of had over 300.000 miles when I junk the car out best $800.00 I spent
Hi Ivan, I love your videos and brilliant solutions. Can you recommend someone with skills like yours in or near New Jersey? My nephew has a VW Jetta, There's a system that sends air from a radiator fan to the cat on a cold start. All components test OK but system doesn't work and throws a code, failing NJ inspection. I wish you weren't so far away. There must be someone near us who is capable. Please help. Thank you, Uncle Steve
The money light has been on in my Tundra for 8 years. A 24 dollar scanner tells me the fuel trims are fine. (heater codes) If it starts flashing then it's time to get a little more serious.
Were the engineers asleep when they put the code together for this PCM? Why would it trust data from sensor inputs that erratic and then not attempt to prove the sensors are bad using a strategy and then use default values as if the sensors were unplugged. Other OE's do this. Seems to me someone was asleep behind the wheel at the coding desk of this PCM. This was ridiculous! C'mon Chrysler, what are you doing? Are you paying folks in India $9/hr to write your code like Boeing was with their aircraft that fell out of the sky recently?
This was a DIAGNOSIS and an IMPROVEMENT by unplugging a faulty component...Of course the Check Engine Light will stay ON, but the truck runs perfectly! I'm not the owner of the truck, so don't really care if they "half ass" anything or not haha
Not sure I agree it's running perfectly. How can it be running with the correct mixture since the mixture is no longer being measured? The computer is supplying a mixture that it hopes is correct for the conditions of temperature, load etc. The o2 sensors are there to tell it if it is right or wrong. I admit my experience is smallengines. They'll run fine a little rich which is why government removed adjustment from our carbs.
You have to be intelligent enough to understand what each part does and the effects. I don't have the second O2 sensors hooked up because they are damaged. They do absolutely nothing for engine control on my particular van. They are pointless except monitoring the cat performance.
How's SMA doing? Ever since Eric started the membership thing I haven't been watching as much. Actually I unsubscribed just so I wouldn't have to see the membership videos for days until they were released as public.
I click "not interested" when I see that. It probably reduces the TH-cam algorithmic recommendations for this channel but I'm definitely not interested in that showing up in my feed.
I'm disappointed that you would advocate for the O2 sensors to remain unplugged. That is unprofessional, you should have just said and advised the shop to replace the O2 sensors. The EPA looks for crap like this, how many of the diesel boys are getting busted for deleting the emission systems. I know of several repair facilities (auto) that monkeyed with the emission systems and have paid hefty fines: both the shop and technicians. You have a fan base of both experience and unexperienced viewers. What message are you sending to those who really don't understand the why we have the fuel management systems but it is ok to delete the emission system. your putting out the wrong message.
If the customer doesn't want to fix it it's up to them... Obviously he's going to say it needs the oxygen sensors, that's what he was paid to diagnose.
@@volvo09 Obviously the customer was concerned about CEL being on, and has the final decision to fix the vehicle. Ivan's job was to diagnose the problem then say replace the O2 sensors. To run the vehicle with the sensors disconnected to prove his theory is one thing, still the answer should give is "Replace the sensors, period.
Are you trying to make your videos longer by repeating yourself over and over again showing us the same thing 20 times in a row. Go back and watch how many times you say the same shit again and again. Bank 2 fuel trim I got the first time.
I don’t watch tv anymore and have cancelled cable 8 eight yeats ago. TH-cam automotive content like this is what I watch now.
I too have done this. Other than watching a football game now and then I haven’t turned on my tv in about 10 years.I watch Pine Hollow and South Main Auto on TH-cam.
If you got internet with you obviously do look to online streaming sites or IPTV, you can get a subscription for like $5 a month sometimes more sometimes the less depending on the one you find lots of free trials too and you can have every single channel there is including all the movie channels. I can help more if you're interested or point you in the right direction
Me too. That and METV. Gunsmoke is still unwoke.
Me too
Same here in the UK
Interesting solution that only Ivan would know. I like how professional mechanic shops call Ivan for his diagnosis. Must give him a great feeling to be trusted by people who are professionals themselves.
@@nickchannel5364 I’m thinking if they were masters of their domain, they wouldn’t need to contact Ivan. 👍😅
@@brianw8963they are a very good body shop! And very wise business model to call me for a guaranteed diagnosis to save time and money! 😊
@ That makes perfect sense. 👍
It's a short term solution. Bank 1 really needs new O2 sensors, or cat might get damaged.
@@brianw8963 why do people delete their comments? Then my reply makes no sense 🙄🤷🏼♂️
I had a neighbor that was having problems with his wife's car. It was running really bad, and after a couple days he determined it needed a valve job. He removed the head and took it to a machine shop. When he got everything back together and it was still running really bad, he asked me to look it over. It took me 2 minutes to find a disconnected vacuum line. I reconnected it and the engine ran fine. He could have saved a bunch of money if he had asked me to look it over at the very beginning.
Fueling calibration target at Chrysler was +5% with the O2's disconnected. I've been retired from there for 17 years so things may have changed.
Damn, I really wanted to see a truck run with 12,778% fuel increase. XD
@@farmermiyagi1338 🤣
it'd look like the batmobile with the jet flame shooting out the back :) about 30 seconds after your catalytics melted. but it would be cool to see!
Great diagnosis. as a person who owned a 2011 Chrysler 300 with a 3.6 L V6 I can tell you that Chrysler engines are very dependent on the oxygen sensor to run properly. I had a spark plug seal fail and drop oil into oxygen sensor in one of the banks and foul the sensor, and it caused my car to run like utter garbage and cause misfires in that whole bank. Ended up having to replace the sensor with a new one and the car ran like great again.
@@Fedex52738 I made the unintentional mistake of getting some of my undercoating formula on one on a Ram , once. After the time it took to diagnose and buy the new sensor , I lost out on that job, but learned a good lesson.
Even on the short and sweet ones there is a lesson to be learned, at least for me. Thank You Ivan! 👍👍🇺🇸
Excellent channel. Informative and educational. Learning to properly diagnose car problems requires experience and an excellent teacher.
A shop that can't diagnose a simple O2 failure, and a customer that doesn't want to fix their vehicle. Ominous start to 2025! I'm kinda scared to go outside! LOL
Most cant diagnose an o2 sensor, they just throw one and hope for the best.
Ivan has already addressed this in an earlier comment. They are a body shop and to get Ivan in is to get a guaranteed diagnosis. Quicker and cheaper when vehicle diagnosis is not your specialty.
Absolutely love the channel !!
Thanks Ivan !!
Loved the video. I always learn something Ivan. Thank you for sharing.
Fast diagnostic, Ivan! And the solution, quick and easy, whether customer replaces O2 sensors (maybe battery terminals too), or not 🙂
When the video title said NPR, I was expecting broken or shorted wires. Anyway, nice fuel trims to start things off. That was nuts.
even family doctors call in specialists when needed.
@@tomtke7351 Besides throwing the prescription cannon umpteen times, I think that’s all they do. 👍
There is usually one reason they are family doctors. In medical school you apply for specialty training it's called matching. It's based on many things. If you don't get matched you become a family doc. I call my Hopkins/Mayo trained wife a doctors doc. Many of her patients are doctors. Not getting matched is usually not good for a career. Sure some docs choose family medicine but for many it wasn't a choice.
When choosing a doctor training matters. Educate yourself when searching for a doctor. See where they trained. For instance if you see Caribbean training they couldn't get into a U.S. school. Doesn't mean they aren't a good doc but I wouldn't see that person.
@ That’s good information, Thanks. In my area, We are flooded with the Caribbean type family practitioners, along with too many automotive rip off repair shops. I put them in the same boat. I changed my family “doctor” a couple years ago, mainly for the convenient location, right next to our Harbor Freight, and the name of the “ business” actually is “for your health”. I found that to be humorous after my first talk with the doc. Typical questions like tobacco and alcohol use, and not one single question regarding diet, which in my opinion should be the most important question. He initially convinced me to get on a mild BP prescription and said everything else looked great, except the cholesterol numbers were just a bit higher than normal, but nothing to be concerned about. Very next appointment 6 months later, he was very concerned and wanted me get more meds for that! I politely declined and told him If I needed anything else I would let Him know. And through natural remedies and a moderate bit of walking , tossed the BP meds. I’m 65, fit, and drug free. I think I’m doing alright.
Didn't know a ram Dodge computer was that smart. Ivan for the win !
That is a smart shop, they called you before sabotaging the vehicle.
Ivan, it would have been interesting to look at the O2 sensors on mode 6.
Ivan, I really enjoy your one episode videos the best.
Solution works for driving but the check engine light on with newer dodges disables the remote start which sucks in the winter time. Change the sensors.
I'm glad you went to gen OBD2 to verify data. I've seen many aftermarket scan tools provide erroneous data pids that I cannot explain that obviously make no sense. Imagine the parts cannon that could be fired just going off that 1 fuel trim pid?
Side note-NO Bosch O2 sensors for Chrysler.
Made in Japan
Been that way for 30 years that i know … they came with a warranty that OEM did not … so tried … no joy
Before you even start a diagnosis, ask the customer what parts were recently replaced, what were the brands and where did you source them.
@@jamespn this was a rare case where nothing was touched before I got there 😄
Ivan.....along with "Place Your Bets" and "No Parts Required".....Your next favorite saying is "Let's Take it For A Drive"..............
Coffee and PHAD, it’s going to be a good day 🫡🇺🇸
Ahhhh listen to that Hemi...how bout it Brett !!!!
Thanks for sharing
Gotta love the sound of a Dodge engine.
A nice little "fix" there Ivan, at least that strategy coding is implemented in this case so you could get away with it.
Unlike your 2024 Christmas special, that sent you parts hunting.
cant believe a "shop" could not figure that out...any of us that watch ivan or eric o know chrylser and 02 sensors are notorious...good job ivan
I thought I saw over 100,000 miles on the odometer.
Great diag and test Ivan! I hope the shop puts in OEM sensors.
Great job as always.
Thanks Ivan!
Ivan is like Doctor House!
Good Work!
Good strategy on chryslers part, i wonder what other manufacturers use this strategy? i can see the value in this test
Good morning all PHAD fans
Good evening
Good morning
Good morning
@@kerrylewis2581 Good morning! 😁
Ignore the trolls Ivan, we know you Rock!
Yeah! PHAD is a prime channel!
You rock Dude. 🪨
-30% fuel trim fuel saver option 😅
That thang gotta HEMI?
Anyone else remember those commercials?
@@xanderlander8989 What’s a Hemi? 👍
All good until you need inspection fine until something else needs to borrow the check engine light how will you know 😮
So the owner never noticed the battery terminals were in need of a good cleaning ? 😵
That was terrible.
Customer will take it to the shop and have them clean it.
no kidding take care of things especially what you physically see. clean them cables it can mess the ecm up wierd things can happen liker false codes ive even seen these go into limp mode over things like that
A cheap 2 dollar wire brush at walmart would help its in tool section or they even make terminal brushes in automotive either one will work
Right ! Lol ! @@Michael-B41
It will run, but it won't pass emissions test if the customer's state requires it. Hopefully it was just done and doesn't need it for the rest of the year. Or even better, maybe the customer's city/county doesn't require smog check annually.
Ten minutes of Ivan is better than no minutes of Ivan!
I'm curious about what the the sensors looks like. If they are covered with soot and other gunk or if they looks clean.
Good info
1:15 - 13000% ?! It runs rough because it's out of fuel. The Bank 2 side of the dual exhaust must've looked like a fire hose!
Thanks 👍
For us non-mechanics I wish once in a while you would take some time to teach us. Example, at the beginning, you said oh look it’s heating up fine. OK what was the date point in terms of voltage that you knew it was heating? Towards the end, you explained you unplugged the oxygen sensor and it’s at 1.27 V really why is that? Is 1.2v unplugged ox sensor the bias voltage? Again wish once ina while you would rake just a couple minutes to explain.
Seems like they threw in the towel pretty quick on this one
What ??? No seven-part story??? Were they only Xmas&NY specials???
It's nice to have a quickie every so often!
The fuel control strategy seems to be a very good one on this generation of chrysler corporations trucks.
Wondering if its the same on the rest of the line. ?
How do you know it's the sensors and not the wiring or ECU circuit handling the bank 2 sensors? It looks odd to me that both sensors on the same bank go bad at the same time.
Only time my 1976 Dodge Royal monical ran ruff was I needed new spark plugs champion plugs go bad they get wet so I install a hot set of autol lite spark plugs no more problems the car would pass the emissions test every time it may of had over 300.000 miles when I junk the car out best $800.00 I spent
Hi Ivan, I love your videos and brilliant solutions. Can you recommend someone with skills like yours in or near New Jersey? My nephew has a VW Jetta, There's a system that sends air from a radiator fan to the cat on a cold start. All components test OK but system doesn't work and throws a code, failing NJ inspection. I wish you weren't so far away. There must be someone near us who is capable. Please help. Thank you, Uncle Steve
wbere is the topdon scan tool?
Exelent:)
The money light has been on in my Tundra for 8 years. A 24 dollar scanner tells me the fuel trims are fine. (heater codes) If it starts flashing then it's time to get a little more serious.
all 4? something trashed them. e85? junk gas ?
Called age
👊🏻 Got algorithm
DOA..... 😂
Wow!
Were the engineers asleep when they put the code together for this PCM? Why would it trust data from sensor inputs that erratic and then not attempt to prove the sensors are bad using a strategy and then use default values as if the sensors were unplugged. Other OE's do this. Seems to me someone was asleep behind the wheel at the coding desk of this PCM. This was ridiculous! C'mon Chrysler, what are you doing? Are you paying folks in India $9/hr to write your code like Boeing was with their aircraft that fell out of the sky recently?
Ivan, could you please advise which scantool you’re using on this one ? Autel ?
Looks like the Thinktool Platinum S10
If you live in a county that checks emissions during inspections that's not a fix. Sorry but I'm not into half assed repairs.
This was a DIAGNOSIS and an IMPROVEMENT by unplugging a faulty component...Of course the Check Engine Light will stay ON, but the truck runs perfectly!
I'm not the owner of the truck, so don't really care if they "half ass" anything or not haha
Not sure I agree it's running perfectly. How can it be running with the correct mixture since the mixture is no longer being measured? The computer is supplying a mixture that it hopes is correct for the conditions of temperature, load etc. The o2 sensors are there to tell it if it is right or wrong. I admit my experience is smallengines. They'll run fine a little rich which is why government removed adjustment from our carbs.
You have to be intelligent enough to understand what each part does and the effects. I don't have the second O2 sensors hooked up because they are damaged. They do absolutely nothing for engine control on my particular van. They are pointless except monitoring the cat performance.
How's SMA doing? Ever since Eric started the membership thing I haven't been watching as much. Actually I unsubscribed just so I wouldn't have to see the membership videos for days until they were released as public.
I click "not interested" when I see that. It probably reduces the TH-cam algorithmic recommendations for this channel but I'm definitely not interested in that showing up in my feed.
I'm disappointed that you would advocate for the O2 sensors to remain unplugged. That is unprofessional, you should have just said and advised the shop to replace the O2 sensors. The EPA looks for crap like this, how many of the diesel boys are getting busted for deleting the emission systems. I know of several repair facilities (auto) that monkeyed with the emission systems and have paid hefty fines: both the shop and technicians.
You have a fan base of both experience and unexperienced viewers. What message are you sending to those who really don't understand the why we have the fuel management systems but it is ok to delete the emission system. your putting out the wrong message.
If the customer doesn't want to fix it it's up to them... Obviously he's going to say it needs the oxygen sensors, that's what he was paid to diagnose.
Joe Biden commuting the sentence of 1500 criminals and death row inmates is the wrong message to me
Get real 🤔
@@volvo09 Obviously the customer was concerned about CEL being on, and has the final decision to fix the vehicle. Ivan's job was to diagnose the problem then say replace the O2 sensors. To run the vehicle with the sensors disconnected to prove his theory is one thing, still the answer should give is "Replace the sensors, period.
I drastically improved the performance and emissions on this truck by unplugging the faulty oxygen sensors 😜
Of course I recommended 4 new sensors! 😁👍
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnosticsI was in the business as an owner for 41 years, what you do to say , No Parts Required simply amazes me.
Are you trying to make your videos longer by repeating yourself over and over again showing us the same thing 20 times in a row.
Go back and watch how many times you say the same shit again and again. Bank 2 fuel trim I got the first time.
Geez, Scotty . . grab a cup of coffee. PHAD did a great job describing what he was seeing on the scanner.
You are a picky one....
Bank 2 fuel trim
The video was only 10 minutes long! 🤣🤣
I'm sure Barry saw the O2 sensor issue within 1 minute and bam he determined o2 sensor.
Now Barry can start a channel.
Icon confirmed!
Ivan has become a benchmark!
(Maybe I should ....?)