well welcome back to the Steve Robshaw today we're gonna have a little bit of fun and it's gonna be
fun about me I'd like to just share a nice little story that happened to me and my f150 first of
all I just like to say that yeah now I couldn't figure out what was wrong in this truck guys like
I mean not even close I got years and years and years of experience of being a youtube trained
technician with my good buddy hair scanner downer and guys this one here I was completely lost and
I'm gonna tell you exactly what happened and how yeah guys there's a big difference between being
a youtube trained technician and actually being a real technician and most of my training has
all been mainly with scanner Danner and scanner Danner pre-meal and guys there's there's lots of
great technicians out there on YouTube but I'm going to tell you something in my own personal
opinion I haven't got a clue you know compared to what these guys actually know you have to be in
the automotive field and practice it daily to get a good grasp and there's one thing that scanner
Danner always says and guys it used to drive me crazy but he's right variables there's always
variables so you know sometimes you really can't get a hard and a fast answer a yes or no to some
things because yes there's a lot of variables when it comes to automotive repair so I'm gonna start
off at the beginning here I'm gonna make this as fast as I can I'm over at princess auto and I go
in there and do some shopping and I have a buddy of mine that comes up to my camp and he's also a
Ford technician and I meet him over there I see him there so I'm talking to him a little bit and
I do a little bit of shopping I come back out I'll go to start my truck starts up it'll flare-up shut
off flare up shut off and that's all it would do now if I put my foot on the pedal all the way down
yeah it would it would start up horrible misfire would not run properly nothing at all so I see
my buddy and I call him over and I said like this trucks not starting so he goes over I go and I got
my little scandal this an obd to scan tool it's not a factory scandal just a regular just a cheapy
no codes nothing on the - absolutely nothing it checks all perfect so I said that's illogical I
mean you know there's got to be something wrong with this truck so he follows up his buddies at
the dealership the dealership was open that day and they come over and they brought the factory
scan tool with them and they're inside the truck within I would say guys no more than two minutes
they had the truck running now the first thing my my friends buddy did was that came over was
we got the truck running he pulled the the MAF sensor off disconnected it in the truck died and
I'm not too sure exactly what that was all about plugged it back in started the truck up and it ran
the same horrible we barely keep running so he had enough time to go on there and take a look
that I lost my crank sensor pit he said you have to have a crank sensor relearn so we did the crank
sensor relearn and he had asked me he said did you change the battery on this any time soon or
you touch the battery or anything like that and I told him I says yeah I changed the battery and he
goes well that might have done it and I go what's after that I put in a battery saver you know like
to you know keep the memory live and everything else and he goes well that doesn't always work
and that's the first time I ever heard about how that doesn't always work sometimes you can lose
your keepalive memory in some modules and that's the first time I have ever heard of that before
but he is run into that more than once so get the truck started and relearned the crank and
the truck runs like I dream I Drive around the parking lot and meanwhile I had phone CA and
the guy had showed up and I said look the truck seems to be working fine now I don't need you
so I cancelled the you know the towing service so mom away home I get about maybe a block away from
my house and I make a right-hand turn and the truck just shuts off except this time it does
not start off it doesn't do nothing so pull out my buddy again he said lucky to get it towed to the
dr we'll take a look at it on Monday so that's exactly what happened it went in there and they
looked it over and guys they spent I believe he said about maybe a half an hour on it and said it
needed new mass sensor so I'm thinking a new map sensor how come there was no codes on this right
how is that possible truck and run that bad no code no nothing he said well you don't always get
a code and I said I've been watching YouTube for a long time and I'm thinking he goes whoa don't get
me started on this YouTube stuff I don't want it here fault here two guys I tell you what this guy
is pretty sharp and he said you don't always get a code you know for everything that you're gonna you
know run into I'm not exactly too sure what the problem was I couldn't understand half the stuff
he was talking about but the MAF sensor apparently corrupted another circuit and that was the whole
reason behind this and you not gonna always get a code so you know like in my mind I'm thinking
okay I can try and figure this out myself and but I had no codes I had nowhere to go I had no
idea what was going on and guys a professional is the guy that you know works on these all day long
he knows what's going on and for me a youtube technician just didn't quite cut it I mean I
think I have to you know up my game a bit there and learn a little bit more about circuit design
and variables there's always these variables guys so yeah my battery change that I did on my vehicle
it may have started this this whole thing off but you know what I changed that battery and this
didn't happen till three days later and I had driven the truck back and forth and around and
that kind of stuff and he went on about something to do with Drive cycles and all this kind of stuff
and how it might not have affected the vehicle at first I had no idea what he was talking about tell
you the truth and a lot of times when you're watching an automotive channel and you really
don't understand what's going on guys there's a lot more to it than you know then we try to figure
out not here - as this being a viewer and it is actually an just an awesome trade if you're good
and that's the problem like guys I failed just terrifically just like you couldn't have failed
worse on this and when I first said wow I don't know I've been watching a lot of YouTube bits
for a long time and I'm thinking there should be a code come up on this thing right and the first
thing buddy said what I had enough of this YouTube I don't want to hear about YouTube guys they have
they have people coming in to the dealer all the time telling them how to fix their vehicles
because they watched YouTube and this guy fixed it a certain way and it solved this problem and they
actually have people come in and say I want you to change this sensor how much does it cost and
they will change it and the vehicle still doesn't run and now they're mad because the guy on YouTube
said it fixed it and he spent all this money and it didn't fix it and that's the problem so I mean
be careful what you're doing on YouTube watching youtube videos you know the guys that are teaching
on YouTube are just phenomenal but you cannot expect to transfer all that data that you're
gonna read you know on YouTube or watch somebody do something and say it's going to apply to every
situation that you see and in my particular situation I was convinced that this vehicle
should have thrown a code for something and when a vehicle doesn't throw a code and give you any
direction at all that's where a real professional comes in and that's where the guys you know like I
promote on my channel it could be Ivan or Keith or Eric all or Robinson Auto scanner Danner could be
you know Jim the car got all kinds of these people are the pros and there's no way I want to ever say
that anybody on YouTube who's just strictly like a do-it-yourselfer guys we are nowhere close to
being you know their level and yeah a little bit of humility comes in a long way that day as yeah
guys when I mentioned YouTube you went right off and you know I really don't blame them you know
because you can only learn so much but you have to actually get out there get your hands dirty
and get into it so I just thought I'd chair this a little bit of an experience that I've had and guys
who put the new MAF sensor in the truck runs like a dream and I think it's just terrific that I've
got friends that you know I can call up and get these things all sorted out for me and I wish I
could understand exactly what he was saying what was wrong with it but I don't have the training
guys and it is tough so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel
before her you're welcome to subscribe come back again guys and let's have some more fun Cheers
you