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In this video I am working on a customer’s 2015 GMC Acadia that is having all sorts of issues with the data network. The dash goes blank, engine light, trac light, ABS and air bag light come on and the two blind spot lights on the mirror come on as well. Once I told her what the issue was she claims she just had them replaced! Something is fishy here folks.
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34 thoughts on “Customer Tells Me These Sensors Have Already Been Replaced!?

  1. Mr. O I agree with you I think we oughta go back to old school. The reason they’re bringing all this new stuff because people are texting and talking on the phone and they want the car to do what it’s supposed to do instead of them thinking what to do and you’re exactly rightif we went to old school we didn’t have phones back in the day. All we had do is drive thanks for it and I think you’re cool dude man.

  2. hey electronics is more interesting than nuts a bolts taking apart. most people can learn the mechanical but you get alot of cars from other shops because they can deal with can bus. thanks for what you do. working on mazda U 1900 code. my fault I hooked the battery wrong only for a minute . this stuff I don't know well so you help a quite a bit but only have a scanner no other except multimeter. plus test light hope I can find the problem. at 76 with only YouTube training.

  3. So I drive a 2003 highlander (because I do auto electrical work for a living along with mechanical work). So I know how to keep my cars on the road. My wife drives a 2013 crv and I refuse to use the backup camera. And!, it's a project just to calibrate the compass. I can read binary code, and decipher a good vs bad waveform, but have no idea how to set the clock on most modern cars. Lol

  4. The new Tundras have some pros and cons one thing I don't like is they are not manufacturing the V8 anymore and their turbocharged v6s I've also worked at a Toyota dealership and there have been a lot of issues with those engines having recalls but almost a year since I work for the dealership and it's possible they may have fixed the issues with the motors but that's just my opinion

  5. It would never even cross my mind to complain about air tools while watching an automotive channel. Battery tools arr great but in a shop thats set up well air tools can be just as convenient and often more powerful. Atleast more powerful without having to spend 4 times as much for the battery equivalent. Just my two cents, if the air tools bother you maybe watch some good old knitting videos and learn to make a quilt or something

  6. Eric, I have a 2012 Acadia and don't remember ever seeing "side object detecting" sensors replaced. Especially on an Acadia, so thanks for doing it again if I'm wrong. I have very recently read about the man that invented carbide lights for "horseless carriages' in 1896! Long way since then. One mandate I agreed with was to pad dash boards. In the late 60's, a neighbor kid had a real goose-egg on his forehead from smacking the dash. That was before seat belt mandates. Electronics that I really appreciate now are intermittent wipers and (regular) cruise control. Electrical troubleshooting or dragging knuckles; it's whatever you decide is great for me!

  7. And IF YOU WERE WRONG,you'll do the right thing.AND fix what it ACTUALLY turned out to be-like any other feller would do,,,,,LOL.Better to eat small coin than B-I-G C-O-I-N-S.

  8. Yes, some of those features do make lazier drivers. My 2024 RAM 2500 HD has the adaptive cruise. I have used it while hauling a trailer in city highway traffic just to help avoid the crazy drivers.

  9. Video's with Mrs. O are definitely more entertaining with the banter you two have! Any chance of sharing Mrs. O's Chili recipe? 🙂 Safety feature on vehicle I won't live without – backup camera. First experienced this in a 2010 Chevy Equinox. Had the vehicle for a very short time (1-2 weeks). Picking up groceries at local mega grocery store. Parking lot super busy. I'm looking all around me to make sure it's good to go, turn around in my seat to begin backing up. Out of the corner of my eye, in the tiny display on the rear-view mirror, a little kid is standing right behind my vehicle. His head was below my window, I couldn't have seen him without that camera. Imagine backing over a tot like that, I don't even want to think about it. Next vehicle I buy will have a heated steering wheel cuz I'm not as young as I used to be and I live in a very very very cold climate (northern Canada). Thanks for the video and your insights, Eric!

  10. My grandmother had a Buick with a straight 8 engine. She learned to drive the speed limit by the sound of the engine. One time, when her car was in the shop, she and my father took his car, which had a flathead V8, to go shopping and she kept winding that engine up until it made the noise that she was expecting. unfortunately the road was marked for 55 mph she was doing 105. Scared my father half to death. By the way she wouldn't allow him to drive she believed that he was not a good driver. It's not really that my dad's car was newer per se. It was just that it was different, and my grandmother had her own idiosyncrasies. Now, I love them both but I only ever drove with my father so I never got a chance to ride with her. Dad was pretty good at driving, but that was about 30 years difference.

  11. Yes, modern safety features and conveniences on cars today make meal. Worse driver make me not pay attention as much. Might be watching my phone a little more. Let's just get back to sticking rudder. Oh wait, that's flying a plane. Yeah.

  12. Well I have one of these 2024 vehicles that essentially are capable of driving themselves and I’ve disabled everything I can so I can take control. The things I can’t defeat drive me crazy, like audible alarms notifying me that a car is moving up beside me in the number 3 lane while I signal and move into the 2 lane. The collision avoidance is still a microsecond or two slower than my reaction time, but that audible rapid beep while I brake is great for increasing the Adrenalin surge. Lane assist is semi scary as it tries to follow breaks in the white fog line. I will say that the backup camera is nice as it allowed the automotive design folks to create blind spots that the cameras and backup alerts cover. I’m getting to the age that I might want all this stuff to drive me down to the piggly wiggly to get my malto meal and Folgers, but not yet.

  13. The problem is not the features. It is the COST of all that crap they put on there. Camera's, etc.

    Give me my old 1976 Ford LTD with the 460 that I had, but put an engine management system and injectors on it, and I'm good. 😊

  14. We're already seeing with cars about this age and older where you can "amputate" modules that bring the can down get the car back to a functional state either because the parts aren't available or they're cost prohibitive. I wonder how long before these vehicles refuse to function without all the modules it left the factory with present and online.

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