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Speaker 1: It's nice eyes with Dan Ray on dog you mazy

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Speaker 1: bond in some news radio.

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Speaker 2: That's right, it is nice sight with Dan Ray.

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Speaker 3: Bradley j in for Dan tonight and later on we're

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Speaker 3: going to have the King of Thanksgiving in here. I'll explain.

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Speaker 3: You're going to want to stick around and see who's

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Speaker 3: the king and why. Right now, we're really happy to

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Speaker 3: have Craig Fitzgerald, whom I call a car wise guide.

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Speaker 2: You like that I should have. Sounds like a good idea.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds King of Thanksgiving though, that's I could

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Speaker 4: claim that that's big, right, that is big?

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Speaker 3: So you are wise automotively. You're an automotive writer, having

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Speaker 3: written for Hemmings et cetera, and you work for now.

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Speaker 4: I work for DCI Marketing now in Milwaukee, and we

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Speaker 4: do a lot of work for Subaru and Kia GM,

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Speaker 2: So we're going to talk about some.

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Speaker 3: Of that sure later on. But the headline is, well,

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Speaker 3: a couple of headlines. One Black Friday and used cars?

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Speaker 3: Is there a Black Friday deal on used cars? Like

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Speaker 3: there is other stuff? And speaking of used cars, what

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Speaker 3: are the ten best used cars to buy? Today, So

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Speaker 3: there's a lot to a lot of information that is

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Speaker 3: pretty actionable there. First time me ask you, Craig, you're

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Speaker 3: always driving different cars, testing them out and riding about them.

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Speaker 2: What'd you drive in today? I drove I looked like

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Speaker 2: a Limo driver. Today.

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Speaker 4: I drove a Lincoln Navigator white as if it were

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Speaker 4: So I've actually the last few weeks I had that,

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Speaker 4: are to me, are equally fantastic. And they have Blue crews,

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Speaker 4: which I don't know if do you know about blue

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Speaker 3: It slows you down as you get behind somebody so

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Speaker 4: Of correct correct. Love that so much, isn't it great?

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Speaker 4: So blue cruise. What that does also is if you're

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Speaker 4: So that was the plan was for Boston be carbon

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Speaker 3: I guess a lot of employers have found that people

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Speaker 2: Estate developers want to have that happen. But there has to.

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Speaker 4: Be some solution to this, because it's impossible to get anywhere,

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Speaker 4: So like you know, between trains and parking and you know,

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Speaker 3: Well, folks, I'd like to have you join in now.

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Speaker 3: anything automotive, but we will be getting the information on

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Speaker 3: And you know the number I believe to call in

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Speaker 3: six one seven, two five thirty WBSY.

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Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: This is Nighttime with Dan Ray.

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Speaker 3: I'm Bradley for Dan tonight and we have Creakvist charge

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Speaker 3: with us Cara wise guy. He knows cars, and we're

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Speaker 3: going to talk about ten best used cars to buy

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Speaker 3: today as well as Black Friday opportunities. And the number

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Speaker 3: here is six one seven two ten thirty, and we'll

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Speaker 3: start with Alex and Millis. How's it going, Alex, let

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Speaker 5: There we go, Pappy.

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Speaker 6: Thanksgiving guys, How are you happy?

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving? To you?

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Speaker 6: Hi? Alex, Hey, how you doing? Maybe these are silly questions.

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Speaker 6: First off, I've never owned a domestic car. I've always

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Speaker 4: So again it's an it's the American Petroleum Institute. They

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Speaker 3: You know, Jay, I'm having issues with my screen here.

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Speaker 3: That's a pretty good question. I still don't really understand

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Speaker 4: Most of the big brands are going to be top

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Speaker 3: So turbosy force cylinder turbot tends to need a premium

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Speaker 4: Almost like you've asked me these questions enough and they

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Speaker 3: No, I don't tire questions because I have too many

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Speaker 1: If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS

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Speaker 3: This is Nightside Bradley for Dan with Craig Fitzgerald talking

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Speaker 3: car stuff, and we will get to the ten best

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Speaker 3: used cars to buy today and talk about Black Friday

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Speaker 3: car deals.

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Speaker 2: First, we go to Anne in Day. Hi. How are

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Speaker 2: you hi?

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Speaker 1: Anne?

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Speaker 2: How are you hi? What can we do for you?

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Speaker 7: Amy?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 7: Oh good, I'm happy. Thanksgiving number one. I don't know

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Speaker 7: I guess my question is do you think it's better

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, what's your what's your budget look like? Now

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Speaker 4: you don't have to tell me like you know, crazy

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Speaker 7: My budget is fifteen thousand.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So so I've told people this before. You only

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: So the nice thing about the dealerships is they will

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Speaker 2: But if that car for sale is a good car,

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Speaker 4: You know, it makes a big difference if it is so,

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Speaker 4: I would definitely bring that to somebody and have them

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Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter how bigger dealership, as long as

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Speaker 2: Are and you know, but you got to know what

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Speaker 7: I find that. Unfortunately, at my budget, I'm you know,

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Speaker 4: you know. But you know, fifteen grand is kind of

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Speaker 2: Going to look at is going to have over one

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Speaker 7: Drive a niss On right now and it's got one

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Speaker 4: Right, So so what what model Nissan? It's a rogue okay,

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Speaker 7: I couldn't said one hundred and eighty thousand miles and

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Speaker 4: To start yeah, you know, it's things start getting up

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, twelve yeah, yeah, so.

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Speaker 4: You've gotten your money's worth out of it, you know.

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Speaker 4: money than you might spend on a Honda or a Toyota.

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Speaker 4: So you might start looking in that in that direction.

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Speaker 7: I will, and I appreciate your advice. My thing is,

445
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Speaker 7: I don't want to go back to a car like

446
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Speaker 7: I don't want to go back to being feeling like

447
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Speaker 7: it's sitting on the ground anymore.

448
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Speaker 2: X five is five because it's kind of tall. Yep. Yeah,

449
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Speaker 2: that's about.

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Speaker 4: The size of what you're driving now. So the Rogue

451
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Speaker 4: kind of fits in between the c X three and

452
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Speaker 4: the c X five a little bit. It competes with

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Speaker 4: the c X three. The c X three is is

454
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Speaker 4: kind of small. So Bradley owns a c X five

455
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Speaker 4: and it's been very happy with it. You know, they're

456
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Speaker 4: uh and you sit up you know high, you know,

457
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Speaker 4: just like you wouldn't any other crossover. So I mean,

458
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Speaker 4: I I'd suggest taking a look at one of those

459
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Speaker 4: for sure.

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Speaker 7: Okay, right, well, I thank you so much for your

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Speaker 7: time and your advice.

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Speaker 3: Certainly, thanks and six any other automotive questions for us

463
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Speaker 3: here on WBZ. Let's get into the you know, top

464
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Speaker 3: ten lists. Yep, you said four of them on the

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Speaker 3: list of miles is that makes me please?

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Speaker 2: It? It?

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Speaker 4: It was surprising to me because I was like, I

468
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Speaker 4: looked at the list and I was you had mentioned

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Speaker 4: it to me, you know, do you want to talk

470
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Speaker 4: about this?

471
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Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, sure, thinking.

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Speaker 4: In my head it's going to be the it's like

473
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Speaker 4: the greatest hits, you know, like it's going to be

474
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Speaker 4: all Toyota and all Honda, and that's going to be

475
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Speaker 4: boring to talk about. But four of those vehicles were

476
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Speaker 4: mas the X three made the list or I'm sorry, uh,

477
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Speaker 4: Maz the six made the list for under ten grand Wow,

478
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 4: which is a that Maz the six is a really

479
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 4: nice car and you can buy it from you know,

480
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Speaker 4: sort of the barebones version to the more performance oriented version,

481
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Speaker 4: just the way you wouldn't in a you know, Honda Cord.

482
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 4: But that's a really nice car for the money.

483
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Speaker 2: And you know, if you can.

484
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Speaker 4: Convince you, like I, I am a car person, like

485
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Speaker 4: I am not a crossover suv person. So if I

486
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Speaker 4: was going to buy a car, that would certainly be

487
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Speaker 4: on the list of things that I'd be interested.

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Speaker 2: What's your beef with crossovers. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's just like I just don't want to look at that.

490
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Speaker 4: I don't want to look like everybody else.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like I maybe seventy of the vehicles were a crossovers.

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Speaker 2: Right right.

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Speaker 4: And I don't need I don't need a lot of

495
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Speaker 4: cargo volume. I need a trunk, I need a back seat.

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Speaker 4: It's not like I need a you know, a vehicle

497
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Speaker 4: like that to drive around. And I do like cars

498
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Speaker 4: that drive like cars. I like the ability to take

499
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Speaker 4: a corner and and you know, put some gusto, you know,

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Speaker 4: and and crossovers don't do that particularly well. They're okay,

501
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 4: but and they're all based on cars, but they all

502
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,239
Speaker 4: sit up higher, and as a result, they don't have

503
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Speaker 4: the handling prowess to the car.

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Speaker 3: Don't tell me if this is a problem with me

505
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Speaker 3: or a problem with vehicles. I know now with the

506
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Speaker 3: tech and such that being able to see through the

507
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 3: back window is not as important as it was. But

508
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Speaker 3: so many back seats have headrests that block the window.

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Speaker 3: There may be eighty percent. I take the head rests.

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Speaker 4: Off right right what they're required to be there, you

511
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Speaker 4: know when when the car is built and it's it's

512
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 4: an unintended consequence of making that requirement that you can't

513
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Speaker 4: see out the back window anymore. So Volvo in Mercedes

514
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Speaker 4: years ago, when you bought one of their vehicles that

515
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Speaker 4: had head rests in it, there was a button on

516
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Speaker 4: the dash that you pushed and those head rusts would

517
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Speaker 4: fold down so that you could see right out the

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Speaker 4: back one.

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Speaker 3: Every time I go somewhere, I have to take off

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Speaker 3: the seat covered thing on the head rest, pull it

521
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Speaker 3: off right so I can see right, and then put

522
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Speaker 3: them back when I I don't drive that much. So

523
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Speaker 3: then you go up in white mountains and back.

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Speaker 4: There's a number of things like there's the requirement for

525
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Speaker 4: the headrest, there's a requirement for roof strength when they

526
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Speaker 4: do rollover tests, and that is dependent on the size

527
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Speaker 4: of the the B and C pillars.

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Speaker 3: So I'm really am thankful for that rule because every

529
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Speaker 3: time I roll the vehicle over.

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Speaker 2: Those times tho you've rolled over, Yeah, well the one just.

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Speaker 4: Flip back and just drive away, just keep going, So

532
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Speaker 4: you know, I get it, I understand why. But it

533
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 4: also makes it really hard to see out of these things,

534
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Speaker 4: and it makes things like backup cameras and side view

535
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Speaker 4: cameras a necessity now, which again, like I don't really

536
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Speaker 4: like that, you know, because those things are bound to

537
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Speaker 4: break at some point or another. You're bound to not

538
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Speaker 4: be able to see out the camera. If it's snowing

539
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Speaker 4: or you know, the road salt or whatever, it's going

540
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Speaker 4: to distort that view and you're not going to be

541
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Speaker 4: able to see out the back. So I would prefer

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Speaker 4: to be able to actually see out the windows. Another

543
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Speaker 4: reason I drive oldering, and it was the anther thing.

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Speaker 3: I saw a post you posted on LinkedIn where Craig

545
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 3: can be reached, and it was about the difference between

546
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Speaker 3: the type of headlights and the heat that generate in

547
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Speaker 3: snow and why one might be better than the other.

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Speaker 4: Right, So everything comes with an led headlight now and

549
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 4: people complain about it.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about this before.

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00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 4: You know, LEDs are much brighter factory LEDs that come

552
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 4: from the automotive manufacturer. They're not blindingly bright, right, it's

553
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 4: the aftermarket LEDs that are the problem. But the issue

554
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 4: that you run into here in the wintertime is that

555
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: LED headlamps generate no heat. You can you can touch

556
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 4: the bulb and there's no heat coming.

557
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 2: Out of it. That's how does use much electricity or

558
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 2: advice right? Correct? Most of the electricity uses waste it

559
00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: off in heat. Correct.

560
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Speaker 4: So when it snows, it's not a waste, it's right exactly.

561
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 4: So it melts, it melts the ice and snow off

562
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 4: of the headlight cover when you run a halogen bulb

563
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 4: in there, because the halogen bulbs created a tremendous amount

564
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 4: of heat. But again, this is one of those unintended consequences.

565
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 4: If you're driving down four ninety five and it's freezing rain,

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00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 4: you're eventually going to be looking through headlights that look

567
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 4: like you have cataracts, right, you can't. It literally builds

568
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 4: up and the light won't go through it. So I've

569
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 4: had to pull over and scrape the headlights off on

570
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 4: some of these vehicles because they just don't get warm enough.

571
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 3: Another example of tech having glitches, as the adaptive cruise

572
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 3: control lens can get covered with snow.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, you shouldn't be using them anyway, as

574
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 4: in the bad weather like the so you know a

575
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 4: lot until we get Lieder, which everybody tells you it's keep,

576
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 4: it's it's coming, it's coming, We're going to get it.

577
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 4: We're not going to get it for the next twenty years.

578
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 4: Light R is actually a sort of a radar system

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00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 4: that actually uses a radar to monitor around the vehicle,

580
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 4: so it sees regardless of the weather conditions. Right now,

581
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 4: you're you're dependent on line of sight, so there are

582
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Speaker 4: cameras in the car that are monitoring the vehicles in

583
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 4: front of you, and as snow starts to build up

584
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 4: on the windshield, it just blocks the view of those

585
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 4: things and all of your light lights on the dash

586
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 4: come on to tell you, you know, you can't use

587
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 4: any of these features.

588
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: But folks give us a shout. Six one seven.

589
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Speaker 3: I haven't asked an automotive question of Craig Fitzgerald, who

590
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 3: knows what's up when it comes to cars and you

591
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 3: can ask any question, especially one that's looking for a

592
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 3: recommendation on what the best used cars are to buy

593
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: right now the Consumer Reports Top ten used car list.

594
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Speaker 3: And I have some other questions, and any general questions

595
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 3: are fine, and industry questions are good too. I'm gonna

596
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Speaker 3: ask about tariffs and if the political situation in addition

597
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 3: to tariffs, if there's something about the uncertainty in our

598
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 3: political system that might increase prices or affect the automotive industry.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on.

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Speaker 1: WBZ it's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZZ, Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio.

602
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: Onward with Craig Fitzgerald, Carr Guy. Any automotive questions.

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00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 3: This is the time not just about new cars, but

604
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Speaker 3: also is your car making a funny noise? How do

605
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 3: you know when it's sound to get rid of your car?

606
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 3: What about winter maintenance? What about how to deal with tires?

607
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 3: I'm a tire fanatic. Six one, seven, four, ten thirty

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Speaker 3: is our number. We'd love you to join us. Happy Thanksgiving,

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00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 3: It's good to be with the WBZ family. Now let's

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Speaker 3: get into the Black Friday thing. Are there deals on

611
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 3: Black Friday for cars just like anything else? Or and

612
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 3: now are they real deals or is it smoke and mirrors.

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Speaker 4: So it's less of a Black Friday deal than it's

614
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 4: they're coming to the end of the year and they're

615
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Speaker 4: looking to sell as many vehicles as they possibly can move.

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Speaker 4: And this has been a kind of a down year

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Speaker 4: for the automotive industry. Like we're off pretty much every

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00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 4: month in terms of the number.

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Speaker 2: Of vehicles sold.

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Speaker 4: So I would assume that you could probably do better

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Speaker 4: getting towards the end of December than you've had, you know,

622
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Speaker 4: in current in the last few years. You're probably better

623
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Speaker 4: off now. Like there were times in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three where I was telling the people like

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00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 4: if you can wait, wait because there's no deals to

626
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 4: be had out there. But it definitely feels like things

627
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 4: are starting to loosen up a little bit. The issue

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00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 4: is that the interest rates are high enough that it's

629
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 4: causing people some issues. You know, they don't want to

630
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 4: pay the interest rate. So that's the thing, is like

631
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 4: combining interest rates with a good deal, that's where you

632
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 4: want to you know, that's where you want to want

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00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 4: to be looking at. I'm not sure who's got any

634
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 4: great finance rates at the moment, but they're you're starting

635
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 4: to see some more rebates come online again.

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Speaker 2: Those essentially went away for for for a number of years.

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00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 3: So, so dealership wants to sell a car. Can you

638
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 3: walk in there and they have a price, can you go?

639
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 3: Can you say to them, you know, I know you're

640
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 3: not selling any cars.

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00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me a deal. I want to I want

642
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: this car, all right, I want to drive away.

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00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 3: I want to make a deal. I want to feel

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00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 3: good about the deal. So I want to drive this

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00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 3: car away. What can you do for me? And you

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00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 3: say that exactly right?

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00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean you know, you want to

648
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 4: know what their best what their best number is. And

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00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 4: a lot of people are doing that on the phone,

650
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 4: like they're calling ahead. They're like, hey, look, you know

651
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 4: I saw that you have this car that I want.

652
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 4: I am interested in this car. And just like Ann

653
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 4: from Worcester was talking about, she got financing time. So

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00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 4: she's all set to go like she's financed, she's a

655
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 4: she's a solid buyer. Now you may get in the

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Speaker 4: dealership and they say, hey, look, you know if you

657
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 4: finance with us, we can get you an even better deal.

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Speaker 4: I'd let them have that conversation with me for sure,

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Speaker 4: knowing that I still had in my pocket, I'm still

660
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Speaker 4: financed for fifteen grand.

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Speaker 3: Then, of course trying to make up that on giving

662
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Speaker 3: you a bad trade in You have to be aware, you.

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Speaker 2: Got to be aware of trade. And honestly, I don't

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Speaker 2: you know, the trade is a real convenience, but I

665
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Speaker 2: don't know why people do it like you.

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Speaker 3: You've lost half special You're a car guy. You know

667
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 3: you're used to putting stuff, selling him buying. Yeah, I guess,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I definitely am. I mean I would never

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Speaker 3: trade anything. I'd always sell it out.

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Speaker 2: How do you do?

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Speaker 4: You don't put it out on the lawn with a sign.

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Speaker 4: I would put it out on the lawn with this.

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00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 4: I've done it all I've got. I've put it out

674
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,959
Speaker 4: on the line with a sign. I put it up

675
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 4: on Facebook, Marketplace, I I've put things on auction sites.

676
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 4: What else have I done? Marketplace? Oh, I've gone to

677
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 4: like swap meets, you know sol cars there.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So what is it set a net gain from

679
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 3: that you would realize selling it yourself versus it's half

680
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 3: you've lost. You're losing half the money on the vehicle.

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Speaker 3: I don't care what kind of trade deal they want

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Speaker 3: to give you. You're losing half the money on a

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00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 3: trade at a dealership. That's solid advice, you know, like I,

684
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 3: what is that likely to mean?

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00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 2: Dollar amount? Just worth the hassle?

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00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 4: So so two thousand dollars yeah, right, that's what you got.

687
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 4: That's what you have to that's the math you.

688
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 3: Need to do for yourself. Is the convenience with two

689
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 3: thousand bucks?

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00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 4: Right, that's what it is, right, And for me it

691
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 4: always is. You take so much offering and saying I'll

692
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 4: give you a good example. My daughter, My daughter had

693
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 4: that the Wrangler that I was driving for a while. Right,

694
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 4: it was a two thousand and three. It was beat

695
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 4: up by the time she got done with it. She'd

696
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 4: driven it for three or four years. I got we

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00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 4: we sold that on Facebook marketplace to the second person

698
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 4: that came to looked at it. They gave her forty

699
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 4: five hundred dollars for it. That would have been maybe

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00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 4: one thousand dollars vehicle on a trade.

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Speaker 3: So wow, So you had to decide one would have

702
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 3: to decide in this case, is it worth three thousand

703
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 3: dollars for the hassle of selling it myself? Yes, it

704
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 3: was totally worth it since it only would take what

705
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 3: really four or five hours to sell yourself.

706
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, so that's like five hundred bucks.

707
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 4: So here's here's what I did. I washed it, I

708
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 4: detailed it. It looked great.

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00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: Yes, it's almost worth paying two hundred totally totally a

710
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 3: hundred bucks again in detail, yep.

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00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 4: I took a ton of pictures. I must have taken

712
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 4: twenty pictures of it that I posted on the on

713
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 4: the marketplace ad.

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00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 2: People think if you take a lot of pictures, you're

715
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 2: proud of it. Yeah.

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00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And it also answers a lot of questions for them,

717
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 4: what's the interior look like? I can't tell you how

718
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 4: many cars I've looked at online with one picture like,

719
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna go look at that, so like

720
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 4: take the time to do that one picture in bad light? Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 4: And for me, it was totally worth it.

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Speaker 3: Jay, let's talk to Richard in Cambridge. We have a

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Speaker 3: couple of minuteshigh Richard, Ahi, Richard and Cambridge.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 5: We are I have an interesting problem that I'm trying

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00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 5: to get resolved. I have a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited

727
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 5: twenty twenty, which has had a problem in that the

728
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 5: car constantly dies. You parked the car, come back an

729
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 5: hour later, it's dead. And it's got a secondary problem

730
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 5: in which the hybrid has suddenly lost mileage. It's now

731
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 5: giving me miles per gallon in the twenties instead of

732
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 5: the forties. So there is now two tsbs out on

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00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 5: this particular issue. And I have taken this to Ford

734
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 5: deal and none of them will agree to fix the car.

735
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 5: And I've actually called Hyundi corporate and the very nice

736
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 5: lady on Deliver into the phone says, oh, that's not

737
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 5: my department. You'll have to call somebody else. And I said,

738
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 5: do I have a phone number? And she goes no.

739
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 5: So my question is how do I get this car

740
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 5: fixed under warranty the way it should be. There's about

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00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 5: fifty thousand miles on that's it.

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00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's got a ten year, one hundred thousand

743
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 4: mile powertrain warranty right right, So you know the it's

744
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 4: the it's the dealership's responsibility to it. Like you've brought

745
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 4: it to four dealers. What was the result from there?

746
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 4: They basically told you there was nothing wrong with it.

747
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:46,919
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, They put some little magic machine on the back

749
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 5: of the car and they go, oh, the numbers are

750
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 5: all okay, we can't do anything about it. And the

751
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 5: symptoms okay, the symptoms are exactly the same as our

752
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 5: lined in the TSB is that there's a battery drain

753
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 5: going on in the battery which requires replacement. And the

754
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 5: second one.

755
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 2: Is it the hybrid battery or the or the starting battery.

756
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 5: It's the twelve vote battery, which is lithium ion in

757
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 5: this car, which is placed inside the hybrid. Why they

758
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 5: did that, I have no idea, but that's where they

759
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 5: put it, and the dealer apparently doesn't want to bother

760
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 5: or fix it because whatever the reason, what we're going.

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Speaker 3: To do is to get to the news top of

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Speaker 3: the out break and everyone think about what the problem

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Speaker 3: might be, and Craig will address this problem at the

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Speaker 3: other side of this break. So that's something to look

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Speaker 3: forward to. Everybody think, hmm, what could it be and

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Speaker 3: see how close you can come. And we'll continue on

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Speaker 3: WBZ after this. It's great to be here with Craig

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Speaker 3: Fitzgerald's and we're going to have the King of Thanksgiving

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Speaker 3: later on. Think about who that might be. That's all

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Speaker 3: coming up here on WBZ News Radio ten thirty