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Why your $50,000 car might not last 100,000 miles · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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Well, this is Soap Box Friday.
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I'm gonna go on my soapbox about vehicles.
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And if you own a vehicle, you have got to listen to this episode.
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Uh that's probably all of us.
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And you know that for a long time I've talked about uh one of the biggest issues that I see is car manufacturers selling expensive junk.
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They wrap a turd and wrapping paper, and they have all these bells and whistles, and they're like, oh, look how great this vehicle is.
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I mean, it looks nice.
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The new vehicles, most of them look nice, but they're expensive piles of junk, and some of them hundred plus thousand piles of junk.
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And I guess at the end of the day, um my message is let these companies fail.
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We've got to stop propping up these companies, both the consumers and the government, and uh we've got to let them fail because these companies, and it's sad, they used to build really good cars, and they've turned to total junk.
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So there was an article that caught my attention, and it just uh just published, I believe, yesterday.
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Um Ford recalls more than 83,000 vehicles over headlight engine valve issues.
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All right, uh that caught my attention, and here's why.
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Ford is repeatedly in the news, and I I had to look this up to make sure that this wasn't my imagination.
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Uh, and it's not.
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I looked it up.
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Ford has spent a record amount of numb numbers, uh, a record amount of money, and has had a record amount of numbers of recalls just last year.
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It's like every year their vehicles get worse and worse.
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The quality is crap, total garbage.
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And I know the die hard loyalists are gonna be like, well, my vehicle has you know 200,000 miles, and I I never had a problem.
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That's not the norm.
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That's the exception to the rule.
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The vast majority of owners of major uh the the major manufacturers are having massive issues.
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I mean, uh I'm not talking just issues, so this isn't like uh a matter of, well, you know, I I have a car that I have problems with.
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These are life altering issues.
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Now, people put a lot, actually, too much.
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Uh, they put too much money, too much of their income, they overextend themselves because we're told that's the American dream, right?
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To have a car, at least one car for every family member, and people buy into that, and they overextend themselves.
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How do we know this?
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Well, um, the recalls just last year, or not recalls, the um uh repos repossessions reached a staggering three million vehicles in the United States.
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Three million vehicles were repossessed.
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People are overextending themselves, and I hate to say this, you know, it's easy to point fingers at people, but a lot of this is not their fault.
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A lot of this is people buy cars thinking that they're getting a dependable car, and next thing they're having eight, twelve, twenty thousand dollar repairs, and I'm not exaggerating.
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I mean, some of these repairs are as expensive or more expensive than the vehicle than what it's worth.
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It's absolute insanity.
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So, yeah, we're not talking like little light issues, headlight issue.
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Uh, I'll read about that.
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That one's uh kind of interesting.
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So the headlights end up, it's it's these stupid headlights that they uh they pivot as you as you turn the steering wheel.
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And they just overload these vehicles with so much crap, unnecessary stuff that it sounds nice.
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Oh, well, you know, you know, and they talk all fancy.
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Well, the headlights, they they curve as you're going around the curve, and they you know, because light can't bend, so what do we do?
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We bend the the uh the headlight fixture, and then you can see around the turn.
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Folks, it's a gimmick.
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It's it's so unnecessary.
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But anyway, the Ford, in all their brilliance, they have the headlights pointing the wrong direction.
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So as you go into a right turn, the headlights point to the left.
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Making it.
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I mean, I'm not making this up.
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It makes the road completely dark.
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Uh it it it's dangerous.
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Engine valve issues.
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That's not a cheap issue.
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That's not a cheap issue to fix for the manufacturer or if a car is out of warranty for the owner.
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So Ford recalled more than 83,000 vehicles in two separate actions due to issues that could increase the risk of crash, federal regulator said.
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The first recall effects 35,000 772 model year 2025 and 2026 explorer SUVs.
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And the dynamic bending light feature.
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See, see what I mean?
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See how fancy they make it sound.
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Oh, the dynamic light bending feature.
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I need that.
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You can have it.
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A motor.
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It's just one more thing to break.
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It's tied into the computer.
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It's just so much stuff that they're loading these vehicles down with.
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So much unnecessary technology, and they're junk.
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Absolutely.
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The affected vehicles have an incorrect headlamp control module, software calibration that results in the right headlight turning in the opposite direction of a vehicle.
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Sounds safe to me.
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Why don't we go a step further?
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Why don't we just uh shut the headlights off?
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Let's just glitch them out.
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And uh, you know, I've driven I've driven uh GM vehicles that were the glitchiest.
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I mean, literally nothing electronic worked on those things.
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I've had headlights short out, I've had it's the um, oh, what's the control module?
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I've replaced like three of them basically every 10,000 miles they go out.
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It's that uh control module under the dashboard.
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Any of you that have uh an older GM, you'll know what I'm talking about, but it controls the uh the vents inside your vehicle, and so it'll sit there and it'll it'll clack really loud, and it's like dot dot sounds like somebody's beaten your windshield out.
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First time it went off, it scared the living daylights out of me.
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I about crashed because it caught me off guard.
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I was like, what in the world is that?
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And those those modules are total junk, and they're like way up under the dashboard.
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I replaced it myself, but what a pain in the butt.
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It's just uh total garbage.
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I mean, these vehicles are junk.
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And people are people are paying a fortune.
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I mean, uh, what's what's the average cost of a vehicle now?
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Uh here we are.
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As of early 2026, the average transaction price, ATP for a new vehicle in the United States is hovering just under or around, you ready for this?
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49,000 to 50 plus thousand.
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That's average.
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The average trans, you're buying a 50,000, and good luck finding a decent vehicle for 50,000.
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They're junk.
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You're paying for a $50,000 piece of junk that is constantly breaking down.
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And I'm gonna get into the specifics.
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I mean, I'm talking major engine problems, transmission problems, major problems.
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And by the way, here's uh the dirty little secret, they're not fixing them.
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The manufacturers are not actually fixing them.
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And how this is even legal is 100% beyond me.
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What they're doing is because they're so computerized, they uh they install software and
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That tricks the transmission in the engines into thinking that they're actually working properly when they're not.
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Oh, yeah.
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This is the kind of shady stuff that GM is involved in.
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Um here.
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Let's start with the transmission while I brought it up.
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GM 10 speed automatic transmission recall fix.
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Band-aid or reliable.
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This was written in September, uh, September of 2025, so very recent.
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The GM 10 speed automatic transmission transmission fix recall saga has entered a new stage with a new fix on the way, yet the controversy isn't over.
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This fix includes changes to the valve body unit, the brains of the transmission, incorporating three new components.
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A new plate, a valve, a new bigger spring, meant to finally solve the rear wheel lockup issue at higher speeds.
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Literally, these things, you you can look them up.
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You can look up the videos, and the rear wheels literally lock up.
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I mean, nothing says quality like having your wheels lock up at highway speeds at 75, 80 miles an hour.
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So how do they fix it?
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What's their fix?
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Well, you would think that they would engineer a decent transmission.
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After all, they used to.
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They used to have great transmissions.
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And especially the Allison transmission, and that's the transmission that's in question.
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In fact, this transmission is an Allison licensed transmission.
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And it's a validated transmission, but it's not an Allison engineered transmission, and that's the difference.
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I've driven Allison Transmissions.
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Allison transmissions are like they really have a reputation for being indestructible.
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They're good transmissions.
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But uh, yeah, they wanted to work around and make things cheaper, and they're paying a price for it.
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In fact, the customers are the ones paying the price for it.
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So if you think this is bad, it gets worse.
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The problem first flagged in November 2024 prompted a recall affecting both 1500 and HD Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra, and several GM SUVs.
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The failures have left commercial operators and private owners without drivable vehicles, sometimes for weeks at a time.
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Oh, it gets worse.
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This issue is more prominent in diesel powered trucks and SUVs due to the amount of twerk and loads that they're often towing.
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Folks, we're talking about 80 to 11,000 trucks.
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And they're junk.
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They're literally junk.
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To address the problem, GM introduced a new Gen 3 valve body for light duty trucks and later for HD trucks.
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Uh it uses checkballs or boost balls.
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This was changed in 2019.
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Excuse me.
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And uh even these are they're not working properly.
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Uh, it's just so crazy.
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It gets worse.
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Like just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worse.
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The problem is the new valve body GM introduced.
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This is the new uh check valve body that they introduced.
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The new valve body GM introduced has caused an issue where the system could try to shift to a lower gear very rapidly at high speeds, and the transmission decides why not both gears.
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This causes the rear wheels to lock up at high speeds.
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That's crazy.
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And the transmission.
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Um transmission literally locks up.
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So GM developed a band-aid fix, initially forcing the truck into limp mode when this happens.
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Limp mode, I used to drive uh I drove truck and I had trucks that would go into limp mode, and it's so stinking annoying.
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It it essentially cuts the power back where your truck can top out at about 45 miles an hour.
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It reduces the speed, it reduces the horsepower, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I mean, when it goes into limp mode, it's game over.
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So it forces the owner to pull over, drive at a slow speed, so you're driving up the shoulder of the highway.
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If you're on the interstate, it's very dangerous.
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But I guess that's GM's alternative to having the wheels lock up.
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Then the owner would have to wait for a replacement part, and this could drag on for months as the the drive.com detailed for one U.S.
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Air Force member.
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And I've heard stories.
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I've heard stories from friends of mine who've waited months and haven't gotten a solution.
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Can you imagine making payments on an 80 to 100,000 truck that's literally useless?
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That's terrible.
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And this is just the transmission problem.
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Uh, GM has a major engine problem.
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Major engine problems in virtually all of their trucks now.
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There they are garbage on wheels.
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It's a trash bin on wheels.
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A very expensive one.
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So uh yeah, they keep coming up with these fixes, and it's like every fix makes it worse.
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So here's a quote.
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Uh it's stuff that obviously doesn't make a difference.
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But if you're not a transmission engineer, you would have no idea.
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So the separator plate is General Motors uh giving them a high five, in my opinion.
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That's right.
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They're not even utilizing transmission engineers, they're just they're they're figuring out software.
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You know, they're turning to the software engineers, and they're like, hey, how do we basically how do we put a band-aid on this and uh cross our fingers and hope this problem just goes away?
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It's a terrible way to do business, but uh yeah, I have a slogan.
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These cars are literally bankrupting people.
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I mean, people it really does get me upset because people need vehicles, right?
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You you have to have them.
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You have to have transportation to get to and from work to bring your kids to all their ball games and all their activities after school activities to and from school a lot of the times.
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You have to have a dependable vehicle.
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And these cars are total junk, and they're they're charging people.
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It wouldn't be that bad if it was like a Yugo, you know, where like you already know it's a piece of junk when you buy it and it's dirt cheap.
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But these vehicles are so expensive.
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They're very overpriced for what they are, and a lot of the main manufacturers are in very big trouble.
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You know, uh, car sales have already slowed way down.
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Uh signs are kind of pointing towards at least possibly a mild recession.
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You know, the economy's resilient, but uh that's one of the first things it goes is people stop buying cars.
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And right now, the manufacturers, it's kind of kind of going to be a repeat of 2008.
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Remember when President Obama was bailing out all the major car companies and forcing them to close.
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The government literally came in and told them which dealerships they had to close.
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Then they did the whole cash for clunkers, trying to try to entice people to buy brand new vehicles, yeah.
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Take your quote unquote clunker in, even if it's in good working order, you can take it in, and they would uh put you know, pour sand and shards of glass down the down the oil pan and junk the motor.
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I mean, it was absolutely crazy.
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And what that did is it superficially drove the price of used vehicles way up, and it forced people to buy brand new, and uh, you know, now we're right back in a worse position than we were in 2008.
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So GM has a major, major, major, major problem on its hands, and this is only one manufacturer.
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I'm not just picking on GM.
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Uh, I'm just pointing out that this is a very, very deep, this is a cultural issue within the manufacturing in the United States.
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It's a cultural issue that says, let's just throw band-aids on things and you know, we're gonna sell them complete garbage, and uh hope that brand loyalty keep keeps bringing them back.
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Well, I got news for people.
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I got news for these manufacturers.
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People are gonna leave these brands forever, and they probably should.
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So I was talking about GM with their transmission problem, and they keep doing these little band-aid fixes, which are not fixes at all.
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All it's doing is it's masking the major issue.
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These transmissions are garbage.
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I want to read a little bit here.
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Uh, this is pickup truck talk.com.
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Independent transmission specialist Nate Valentin from Next Gen Drivetrain has been vocal in criticizing GM's design, calling it flawed compared to Ford's version of the co-developed gearbox.
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Nate said uh the kit that they believe, or so they claim is going to fix uh this problem is a separator plate, a valve and a spring.
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So let's break them down one by one.
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So the plate, the only thing they didn't uh they did, I've seen this separator plate before because we've built a lot of 2025 valve bodies, and it's currently in use.
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The separator plate is not one ounce more reliable than the one that was in it before.
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All they did was change some of the whole dimensions.
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That's crazy to me.
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So here's a transmission expert saying the only thing that GM did is they changed the plate, and that separator plate is garbage, it's literally no different.
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They just changed a couple hole dimensions, it's literally no no different, it doesn't solve the problem.
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So he also believes a spring and the aluminum plate does nothing to address the core issue either.
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Uh the oil leaks out, it doesn't allow the inboard side of the nose of the valve to fully close.
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So the truck, usually in fifth gear, can't shift, and then it goes into limp mode.
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So it only makes it to fifth gear out of 10 and it goes into limp mode.
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And this is happening a lot.
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I mean, by the tens of thousands.
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Absolutely crazy.
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Um here we go.
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Here's here's his solution.
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On the one hand, Valentin has been tearing apart GM's valve bodies and re-engineering them since COVID.
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He has his solution with a lifetime guarantee and has become a go-to source of parts for frustrated owners, tired of waiting for a GM replacement part to arrive.
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However, he spares no expense.
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And his valve body, okay.
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So here's an independent guy.
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You can get a part from an independent guy who's not even a GM uh uh engineer.
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Listen to what his valve body price is.
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Now he guarantees it for life, but his valve body just for the valve body is priced at $3,500.
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That's just for the part.
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Not covered by GM, not covered by warranty.
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Um crazy.
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Absolutely.
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GM's automatic transmission upper control valve body replacement part is priced in the hundreds of dollars.
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And it's it is covered under warranty.
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Um people are gonna opt.
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What do you think they're gonna opt for?
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Owners are opting for the free one, the one that GM's putting out that's garbage.
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Free labor, free valve, uh the valve plate, and they're putting it in, and the transmissions are still blowing up.
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And what GM is hoping happens is that people kind of ride the warranty out and that these things hold together until until the warranty's up at 60,000 miles, and then they could care less if these things blow, which they will.
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Crazy.
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This is crazy.
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Or owners could opt.
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Now, keep in mind, this is on 80 to 100,000 trucks, or they could opt to buy uh uh an expensive valve body for 3500 that actually does work, but then you have labor in the thousands of dollars.
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So for a transmission rebuild, you're probably looking at in the ballpark.
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My guess is in the ballpark of seven to seven to ten thousand on a brand new truck on a brand new truck.
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Uh how does this even happen?
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All right, what about the engines?
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GM has a major engine problem.
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Here's another article.
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Uh this was published just a few months ago.
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GM's V8 engine fix gives owners two bad choices.
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Lawsuit alleges.
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In April, General Motors issued a massive recall for problems with its L87 6.2 liter V8 truck engines.
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Nearly 600,000 Chevy Silver Auto, Tahoe, and Suburban GMC UConn and Sierra, Cadillac Escalade vehicles from 2021 to 24 were affected with tens of thousands of those trucks expected to need a brand new engine.
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How do you have that many pieces of garbage make it across the assembly line?
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They had to have known that there was a problem, and they just kept pumping them out and pumping them out.
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It's crazy to me.
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You know, rather than stop production and say, we better figure this out.
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Houston, we have a problem.
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Somebody or a series of somebody were like, eh, screw it.
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Just keep pumping them out.
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Not our problem.
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I can't imagine.
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So a lot of these engines, they say it's not because the engines could fail, or even because of the delays in getting trucks repaired.
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It's because once the recall has been completed, the big V8 powered trucks won't get the fuel economy their buyers expect.
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So they take engines that have a major problem.
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These V8s are junk.
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They're garbage.
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I've heard mechanics talk about it.
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I've watched plenty of videos.
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These engines are total garbage.
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Literal garbage.
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So they have this recall.
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And the fix, once they come back from the recall, are getting horrific fuel mileage.
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And owners are not happy with it.
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And I can't blame them.
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Because they're 420 horsepower, they require premium gasoline.
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And they have an EPA fuel economy estimates as low as 14 miles per gallon.
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That's crazy.
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14 miles per gallon.
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You have to buy premium gas.
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93 octane.
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You can't put 87 octane in it.
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And that gas is expensive.
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So here we go.
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Um it gets worse for GM.
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The defect with the engines is in the connecting rods and or the crankshaft.
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There's a manufacturing defect, which GM didn't elaborate on that can cause the engines to fail suddenly and in some cases catastrophically.
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That's wild.
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In NHTSA recall documents, GM said that it had investigated 28,102 incidents potentially related to failures.
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There were 12 potentially related alleged crashes and 12 potentially related alleged injuries in the U.S., GM said.
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And 42 potentially related allegations of fire.
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The fix is an engine inspection.
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If the truck needs a new engine, it will get one.
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If the engine is still okay, GM will change the oil grade and update the oil fill cap and owner's manual to match.
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Do you hear the fix?
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That will just put a different weight oil in it.
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It'll be fine.
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These V8 engines, like most new gas engines, left the factory with zero W20 engine oil.
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Their recall fix changes the zero W that to zero W40 oil.
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So it's a thicker oil at operating temperature.
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You know, uh to keep the heat down a little bit inside the engine.
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I can tell you this is not this is not a fix.
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This is not a fix.
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Absolutely crazy.
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Uh GM's not alone.
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I mean, they've got a big big problem.
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As I mentioned, Ford, they have this um major, major problem.
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Major problem with theirs.
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83,000 vehicles in two separate actions due to issues that could increase the risk of crash.
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Again, we have the headlamp control module, which uh turns the headlight in the wrong direction when you're going around a curve.
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But then there's a major engine problem.
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Um they're gonna do software, a software fix.
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That's real promising.
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Uh to fix the headlight control module.
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So apparently that's a software issue to begin with.
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That's why I don't like all this computerized stuff.
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You know, give me the old car, give me a manual transmission.
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That's what they ought to do, but they don't make them anymore.
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It's getting nearly impossible to get a manual transmission.
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Everything's automatic and the automatics are junk, they're garbage.
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In a separate action, Ford is recalling 47,804 vehicles due to issues with the engine gas recirculation, EGR valve that could lead to a loss of power, most likely at low speeds, which Ford said increases the risk of a crash.
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Yeah, you think you go to pull out at a stoplight or a stop sign.
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You pull out in front of traffic thinking you're gonna be able to accelerate and pukes out, you get nothing.
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The recall affects certain year model uh 2025 Ranger, Mustang, Maverick, Explorer, Escape, Bronco, Bronco Sport, Lincoln Nautilus, and Corsair vehicles with 1.5 liter, 2.0 liter or 2.3 liter engines.
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On and on it goes.
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I mean, I have I have a whole list.
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I'm just getting warmed up here.
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Millions of Hyundai and Kia vehicles built between 2011 and 2022 were manufactured without standard engine immobilizers.
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Uh they can be hot wired.
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I think they're the number one vehicles that get stolen.
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They can easily be hot wired, uh, which led to an explosion in thefts.
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So again, they issued a band-aid fix.
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They tried to solve the physical hardware problem with a software update, but thieves figure out how to bypass the software, forcing the companies to finally offer physical hardware fixes, which were zinc reinforced ignition cylinders.
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Uh, on top of a 200 million dollar consumer class action settlement, they just reached another 9 million multi-state settlement in December, just a couple months ago with 35 attorneys general.
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Major insurance companies began refusing to issue new policies for certain Hyundai and Kia models.
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Uh there are fire risks, melting fuel tanks, Hyundai and Kiev historically struggled with engine fire risks.
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November 2025, they recalled over 335,000 popular sedan, Hyundai Sonata and Kia K5.
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This is wild to me.
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I've never seen anything like it.
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Uh the EVs are junk.
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EV power loss and software glitches.
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Everybody was on the EV bandwagon.
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You you gotta go electric.
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And they're garbage.
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Catching fire, losing power, not charging, on and on.
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Uh, we need to make cars good again.
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Maybe President Trump should get on that.
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Make cars good again, make cars great again.
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Make cars great again.
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I want to get that bumper sticker.
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I want to get t-shirts.
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I want to I want to pay for billboards.
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I want this message out there.
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Make cars great again.
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Americans are fed up.
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Americans are tired of it.
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And a lot of these car companies, I believe, are going to start failing.
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And they should.
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When you build garbage, when all these recalls slip past, and the warranty department is well aware of these issues.
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And I know.
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I've I've read plenty of reports on this.
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They know and they continue to kick these cars out for months and months and months.
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And they deny the problem in warranty department.
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They, you know, they brush.
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Customers off, and they say, well, maybe, you know, maybe you're just imagining that there's a problem.
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Like they really gaslight the customers.
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And it's just crazy when you're paying $50,000 on average in America for a new car, and they're complete garbage.
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Cars catching on fire.
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Uh, the GDI engine that Kia and Hyundai puts out is total garbage.
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Uh, it's been known to be garbage.
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You cannot rebuild those engines.
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Uh, there's not a mechanic in the nation who's going to attempt to rebuild one of those engines.
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You cannot rebuild them.
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And so when there are problems, and there will be problems with them.
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The solution is you get a new engine or get a new car.
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And uh Kia extended their warranty.
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I think Hyundai did too, and that was their band-aid solution.
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Well, let's milk a few more miles out of the warranty.
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And what that tells me is that they're crossing their fingers, hoping that most of these cars make it past the uh when the warranty is up at 120,000 miles.
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Now that sounds like a great warranty, but if your car craps out at 130,000 miles, I don't think that's that good.
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That's not impressive.
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So those engines are using oil, they're seizing up, they have valve problems where they have that they knock real loud, just on and on and on, catching fire.
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They're garbage.
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They literally are garbage.
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So here's an article.
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Uh, this was very recently.
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This is just in December.
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American consumers lose patience with high car prices.
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For years it has seemed no sticker price was too high for American car buyers.
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Even as average new car prices approached 50,000 this year, dealers fretted more over depleted inventories than losing customers to sticker shock.
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Those days are coming to an end, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Increasingly, stretched consumers are starting to draw the line on what they will pay for a new car, according to dealers, analyst, and industry data.
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Car buyers are downsizing, buying used vehicles, taking on longer car loans, and holding out for deals.
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People are asking, how can I afford this?
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Said Robert Robert Peltier, who owns car dealerships in East Texas.
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He said traffic, while still solid has slowed at his dealerships, and more customers are gravitating toward less costly cars, such as the pint-sized Chevy tracks.
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There are people who are in debt and living paycheck to paycheck.
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Exactly right.
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For the for the U.S.
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auto industry, 2025 was supposed to be a banner year fueled by tax cuts and deregulatory wave.
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Yeah, that was the promise, right?
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Trump touted that.
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Oh my goodness, like, you know, we're gonna deregulate the car industry, and people are gonna be buying cars like crazy.
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Well, it turns out people aren't fools.
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They don't want to buy garbage.
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They can strip away the emissions regulatory garbage.
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And people still don't want to buy vehicles that are going to crap out after 20,000 miles, and they don't want to pay $50,000 just for the vehicle, and then the cost of repairs on top of that.
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Constant repairs.
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So, yeah, it's really interesting.
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And uh, I think the American people are finally getting smart, finally getting smart to this and realizing we've been conned for a really long time by these car manufacturers.
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I mean, they're absolute monstrosities, and people are done with it, and I think that's a good thing.
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You know, it sounds like I'm just uh using this as a time to gripe and complain, but I really honestly, honest to goodness, I see this all as a good thing.
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Let the manufacturers fail, make cars great again.
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There was a day when cars were really decent, Ford, GM, uh, even Dodge, they all used to put decent vehicles out.
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And now the amount of electrical issues, uh, just on and on and on.
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It's just mounting, mounting major issues, transmission issues, engine issues, fire issues, software issues, hardware issues, suspension issues, brake issues, brakes failing.
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The list goes on and on and on.
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I'm just uh I'm reading through a list here.
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I literally didn't even scratch the surface with this list.
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This is a never-ending list of problems, and it's getting worse, it's not getting better.
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And I'm I am a big big proponent because I happen to like investing.
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I like to keep my dollars and put my dollars to work.
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I don't like to give them to con companies that build complete garbage and gaslight their customers when they're paying 50 to 100 grand for a vehicle, and then they gaslight them and tell them, well, there's no problem with your car.
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I'd rather not give money to them.
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I'd rather buy a decent vehicle, run it until the wheels fall off, sometimes literally, and uh take that money and and and invest it.
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At the end of the day, uh who cares what you drive.
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And I know people can argue with that, and that's fine.
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That's people have a right to buy whatever they want.
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And if people want something that looks nice, I'm certainly not going to judge.
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I think it's great.
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I think it's fantastic, but at the end of the day, these are depreciating quickly, depreciating pieces of metal that will wind up in a landfill one day.
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It just happens that the major car manufacturers have put that on steroids and they've sped up that process, and these things are winding up in the junkyard a whole lot sooner than anybody ever anticipated.
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And it's hurting Americans, and that's where I get defensive.
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I want to defend the people who are putting their hard-earned money.
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I mean, people work hard.
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It takes a long time to pay off $50,000.
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On average, cars are $50,000.
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It takes a long time to work that off.
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So I would rather see somebody enjoy something that's reliable, something that's fun, fun to drive, looks good.
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You know, might have a few bells and whistles, but but it's dependable.
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At the bottom, you know, the bottom line at the end of the day, it's dependable.
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I have a vehicle right now with 207,000 miles on it.
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And it drives like it's brand new, and I'm not exaggerating.
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It's it drives so so well.
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And I'll keep that at least until it has 300,000 miles, at least.
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And I've done that with every single one of my vehicles.
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But I refuse.
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I refuse to buy these cars that are just complete garbage, that people know they're garbage.
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Do your homework.
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That's my plea to everybody who's listening.
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You know, that's that's the hidden lightness in this, is that these companies are gonna pay a price for this.
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They're not gonna get away with this forever.
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The American people are gonna figure this out.
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They already are.
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Toyota still puts really really good quality cars out there.
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Now they've had their own recalls, every manufacturer does, and that's gonna happen.
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It happens with anything that's manufactured.
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I'm not saying that uh a car should be recall free and that there should never be any problems.
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It's there's always gonna be problems, but you can tell a very big difference in build quality.
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I've seen cars off of the lot that have had big gaps, like a big the hood was completely crooked.
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There are big gaps between the hood and the fender on one side and tight on the other side, paint flaws, just basic stuff that you're like, did they literally just slap this together?
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I mean, we can do better than that.
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I'm all about made in America, but if our quality is good.
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Yeah, that's the president's plea is we're gonna make everything made in America.
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Make America great again.
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Everything's gonna be made in America.
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Okay, great.
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But don't sell us garbage.
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Don't you dare sell me something that I have to have to get to and from my job, to get my kids to and from school, to go on vacation, you name it.
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To work.
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Uh a lot of farmers.
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And uh all types of workers that use their vehicle as a work vehicle.
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Don't sell garbage.
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I think that's the line in the sand, and Americans need to stand up and just quit buying them.
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You know, find find a vehicle that's dependable.
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Do your homework.
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You know, I always do my homework now when I buy a car.
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I always do my homework.
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And I look for dependability.
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I look for reliability over a period of years.
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Uh my wife and I buy our vehicles used.
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We only bought one brand new vehicle ever, and that's the last one that we'll ever buy.
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That was when COVID prices, the cost of cars were super expensive for used cars, and it was actually the same price to buy a brand new vehicle as it would have been to buy one with 100,000 miles on it.
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Well, it would have been foolish to buy a car with 100,000 miles on it at the same price that we were buying a brand new car.
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So we bought the brand new car.
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I didn't like it.
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I don't like buying brand new cars, but we did it anyway.
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But when we buy a car, we do our homework and we look at the trajectory.
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We look at the history of that car over the past, you know, four or five years.
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What complaints have there been?
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What consumer complaints have there been?
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Uh, what recalls, if any, have there been, uh, what's the dependability factor?
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How do different car companies rate them?
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I watch YouTube videos.
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I literally do hours of homework before buying a car because it's a big purchase.
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Even used cars that we've bought for $10,000.
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You know, if I'm gonna be driving something for a couple hundred thousand miles, I'm gonna put it that's worth putting a few hours of research into.
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Yeah, I don't want to just walk on a lot and be like any meaning money mo, I want that one because it looks good.
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So my plea to you is do your homework and do not buy a poorly rated vehicle.
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Because it's gonna cost you.
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And I'm not talking about the sticker shock.
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I'm talking about in repairs, downtime.
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Manufacturers not getting rental cars for you.
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Believe it or not, that happens.
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Yeah, it happens often.
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They'll give you a rental for a week, and then after that, they say, well, that's all that we're gonna cover.
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You'll have to see if your insurance company will cover the rest.
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Well, insurance companies aren't gonna cover that.
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And so the customers, and you you heard the articles that I was reading.
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Some of these people are going months with their vehicles tied up, not working, brand new vehicles sitting at the dealerships.
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Months.
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And in the meantime, you're paying a mortgage on it still for a vehicle that you don't even have, and on top of that, you're paying for a rental car, hundreds of dollars a week.
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That's not acceptable.
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And they're gonna keep getting away with it unless the American people stand up to them and just stop buying them.
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You know, maybe that'll be the wake-up call for them to start making cars great again.
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We can do better than this.
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So many of these manufacturers, I've I've driven cars, I mean, my whole life.
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I've driven other people's cars.
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I worked on a farm.
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We had we had trucks that had hundreds of thousands of miles on them, uh no problem.
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If they could do that in the 90s, why can't they do it now?
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What's changed?
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What's the difference?
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Why are they so much more expensive now and they don't work?
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They literally fall apart at 10,000 miles.
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Like catastrophically fall apart.
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Something's got to give, and we the people have to stand up to it.
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We have to stand up, and if you don't like a vehicle, you are under zero obligation to purchase it.
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None, zero.
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We've got to get that out of our head that we have to buy it because if I don't buy this one, there's not gonna be another deal.
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Yes, there will be.
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But we need to make cars great again.
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I believe we can do it.
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I believe we will do it.
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I believe this will happen.
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Uh, it's gonna take time to turn the ship around.
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Uh, it's been years and years and years of car companies just um going to the wayside and really going downhill in their quality control.
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Uh, but I believe, I believe in America, I believe in American made vehicles.
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I believe in the major manufacturers.
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Uh, I think they just need a wake-up call, and maybe this is their wake-up call.
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Maybe this is the big wake-up call that they absolutely needed to make cars great again.
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