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Speaker 1: seventy five thousand miles. Now, so you know, now was

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Speaker 1: a certified used car. The ten was not was not.

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Speaker 1: So you know, that certified car thing comes comes into

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Speaker 1: play here. And I what I what I typically find

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Speaker 1: is they have a time limit. I think it's and

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Speaker 1: again it will vary. Three or four years old has

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Speaker 1: a chance of being certified, whereas that is a little older,

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Speaker 1: and they're looking for you to put a warrant on it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I see now it was I'm interested my GOALLEXTA, kiad

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Speaker 1: focus and then to three. But I know that the

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Speaker 1: KEYA they had that ten year, ten one hundred tho

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Speaker 1: miles warrantee. Is that transfer to another owner or do

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Speaker 1: I get less coverage? I that I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: my concern with the key of the you know, these

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Speaker 1: these almighty all covering warranties, if you read the fine print,

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Speaker 1: my experience has been, and I'll say it like that,

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Speaker 1: my experience has been that if you read the fine print,

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Speaker 1: it's all about, yes, we'll give you a ten year,

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Speaker 1: one thousand mile warranty, but the onus is on you

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Speaker 1: to prove maintenance. Oh so yeah, you got your best

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Speaker 1: to bring it to the dealer right, and you know

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Speaker 1: what about whether or not you had the maintenance right?

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Speaker 1: Which part of this is And you know, let's face it,

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Speaker 1: it's marketing. Kia wants kid of dealers to work on

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Speaker 1: the cars. And I get that that's what makes America

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Speaker 1: what it is. We're all entrepreneurs. But you know, if

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Speaker 1: if you're a good bookkeeper and you keep tracking your

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Speaker 1: records and you keep your invoices, you can go anywhere

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Speaker 1: you want. Now as far as does that does that transfer,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. So the next question would be, you know,

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Speaker 1: go out and find a three year old, four year

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Speaker 1: old Kia with sixty thousand miles on it, asked them,

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Speaker 1: is there any warranty coverage still left on this? Right?

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Speaker 1: That's what we'll probably do. And because we you know,

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Speaker 1: we've seen them as low as twenty five miles of

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Speaker 1: are you know it's got to be still under some

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Speaker 1: kind of warrant? Sure? Absolutely? And then I think I

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Speaker 1: think the new kind of warranty that I'm starting to

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Speaker 1: see used more and more in the last two years

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Speaker 1: is an electronics policy, and a lot of manufacturers are

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Speaker 1: putting you know, engines and transmissions with proper care and

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Speaker 1: maintenance will last a hundred thousand miles without even trying hard.

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Speaker 1: But the electronics are is where the money is now,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're they're that expensive item on the ticket,

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Speaker 1: and you can purchase just an electronics coverage. So you

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Speaker 1: might have a warranty policy that covers the engine or

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Speaker 1: the trans up to a hundred thousand miles, but you

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Speaker 1: might be able to purchase for whatever the dollars are

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Speaker 1: depending upon the car and electronics coverage. If if the

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Speaker 1: the h you know, dave the amount of electronics on

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Speaker 1: these cars, the h v A C control head goes

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Speaker 1: out on some ours. It's eleven to fix the heart,

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Speaker 1: you know, so it gets to be kind of expensive,

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Speaker 1: all right, sir, All right, well, thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: thank you, You're very welcome. You have a good rest

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Speaker 1: of the day, and thanks for tuning to sit down

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Speaker 1: there fort Worth, Texas way. I'm running any in the

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Speaker 1: and talk to Joe from Long Island, New York. Some

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Speaker 1: questions and comments about Camaro's Joe. Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: Hello Ron, how are you good? Joe? What's going on.

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Speaker 1: I was telling Harry that I um done to my

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Speaker 1: second childhood and back in the day, I had a

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Speaker 1: Chevy Camaro. And now you know, I'm looking to purchase

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Speaker 1: another car, but my funds are limited. Um, and I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about buying a third generation Camaro again, or

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Speaker 1: maybe a fourth generation because it's more, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: more recent and newer. Every day car Joe Row on

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Speaker 1: weekend car. Um just funny, Um, you know, sunny days

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Speaker 1: basically you know, Um, when I'm driving to work on

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Speaker 1: my own, is it is the car for you or

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Speaker 1: your kids? Oh? Um? I was thinking about the fix

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Speaker 1: ability factor, like I know the fourth gen cause are

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Speaker 1: more computerized, and that would be an increased expense in

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Speaker 1: fixing it. Yep. And um, you know you know, our

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Speaker 1: our second third gens the cheaper. Are your are your

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Speaker 1: kids of car driving age or they approaching that age? No,

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Speaker 1: they're young, they're little guys, have plenty of time. You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I favor the third gen over over

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Speaker 1: the fourth only because the cost factor, They're going to

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Speaker 1: be cheaper. And if your funds are low, you're you know,

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Speaker 1: And again depends on what really comes up, you know,

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Speaker 1: the market changes every day. You know, I would favor

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Speaker 1: the third gen first because they were produced from eight

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Speaker 1: one through nine two or ninety three, I forget exactly,

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Speaker 1: but there's there's there's so many more of them out

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Speaker 1: there that you know, numbers alone are just going to

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Speaker 1: drive the price down. And you know, it's also a

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Speaker 1: personal preference. Those third gen's, the early third gens were

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Speaker 1: much more mechanical cars. Then later on when they you know,

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Speaker 1: the the advent of the computer made them more and

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Speaker 1: more electronic, um, you know, as comparison. So right, that's

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Speaker 1: what that was my fear, you know, because not that

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Speaker 1: I'm a mechanic, but I wouldn't mind digging into you know,

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Speaker 1: older cars, but when the newer ones are more difficult, right,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's maybe it's a project. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's by a cheaper V six and replaced the V

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Speaker 1: six with an eight, And you know, build the car

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Speaker 1: your way, and you know, and it depends on what

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Speaker 1: your what your preferences. It's you've also got to be practical.

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Speaker 1: I've learned this the hard way too, as I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you have, Joe. It's how much spare time do you

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Speaker 1: have and how much time you're really gonna put in it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if I had to build the fifty

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Speaker 1: five all over again, well, if I had to build

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Speaker 1: the fifty five all over again, I build it with

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Speaker 1: my check book. Probably i'd go out and look because

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you know, it's the problem is you

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Speaker 1: just can't find it built the way you want. So

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Speaker 1: that's what makes you want to build the car and

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Speaker 1: put it together on your own. But you know, as

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Speaker 1: nice as those nights were at the shop after hours,

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Speaker 1: it was, it was three years. It took an awful

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Speaker 1: lot to make it the way I wanted it to be.

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Speaker 1: And um, you've got away there. Yeah, you know. I

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Speaker 1: mean you've got young kids, right, there's nothing like that

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Speaker 1: being home from once of those kids grow up, right,

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Speaker 1: So it's better to get something that I can just

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Speaker 1: buy and drive than to have to mess around with Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. And then and then you know what,

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Speaker 1: and the reason I asked about the age of your kids.

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Speaker 1: I think cars can be a real positive influence in

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Speaker 1: a young person's life. I really do. I think I

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Speaker 1: think cars fill a very big emotional need if they're

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Speaker 1: portrayed properly, and they helped teach people responsibility and and

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Speaker 1: a bunch of other things. And you know, if you

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Speaker 1: get the car and you put it together, you can

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Speaker 1: teach your kids how to wash it clean and take

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Speaker 1: pride in ownership. And um, I can almost guarantee if

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Speaker 1: they if they catch on the bug, they'll turn out

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Speaker 1: to be better people overall, if you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a big plus. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's a big place, all right. Joe, Hey, listen, send

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Speaker 1: us a picture when you buy something. Let us know

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Speaker 1: what you end up doing. Send me an email Ron

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Speaker 1: at Card Doctor show dot com, or send us a

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Speaker 1: message on our Facebook page. Run any in the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to see what you end up with. All right,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Joe, good luck to you and happy hunting. I'm

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Speaker 1: running any in the car Doctor. We are back right

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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back. We're on the knee of the

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Speaker 1: Card Doctor. Let's real quick get over and talk to

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Speaker 1: Frank in Congress, New York. Some questions about basic maintenance. Frank,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Card Doctor. Hey, how are you doing good?

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Speaker 1: I just I'll run and do jumped into the thro

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Speaker 1: the radio and quick and uh, just some basic things

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Speaker 1: that helps out that I find I got about five

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Speaker 1: cars between my son and my wife and a little lecture.

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Speaker 1: When we keep coquicly used for travel, I find a

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Speaker 1: change in the oil. Uh. Changing the air filter, cabin filter,

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Speaker 1: if you have one basic maintenance can go a long way.

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Speaker 1: But every time you know, you go to change the oil,

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Speaker 1: they talk about, you know, when should you change the oil?

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Speaker 1: Did every turnamount of mouth? Does it depend on the

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Speaker 1: year of the car? Uh? Does it? It's if the

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Speaker 1: car sits, does the you know? I I tell you, Frank,

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Speaker 1: this is how I've I've answered this question and I

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Speaker 1: don't mind answering it again at all. If you got

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Speaker 1: in the car in New Jersey, warmed it up and

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Speaker 1: drove to California fifty five and never shut it off

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Speaker 1: on a on a modern day car, something built in

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Speaker 1: the last five years and maybe even further back, that

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Speaker 1: oil would probably last eight to ten miles. It would

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Speaker 1: just stay that clean. It's it's a constant temperature, constant

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Speaker 1: load with no change. What what kills oil, and I'm

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Speaker 1: talking is synthetic. What kills oil is the stop and

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Speaker 1: go is the the the constant start and stop is

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Speaker 1: to shut it off. Cool down is the heat up

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Speaker 1: is the change and engine load, the change in how

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Speaker 1: that vehicle is used. So when I explained for an

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Speaker 1: oil drain interval, I'm talking general dynamics that are safe.

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Speaker 1: Most synthetics on the market today five to six thousand

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Speaker 1: miles and you're well within the limits of the filter,

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Speaker 1: and most well, don't think about that. Oil filters unless

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Speaker 1: it's a special heavy duty filter a better place and

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Speaker 1: you should be using a better piece anyway. Uh. In

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Speaker 1: terms of an oil filter, we don't talk about that.

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Speaker 1: A lot um you know, I got a call that

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Speaker 1: I got covered, I got two would explore that I

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Speaker 1: use I haven't you know, I'll put the cover on

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Speaker 1: it and it will fit and I might take you

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Speaker 1: for I use it for long trip. Uh. I would

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Speaker 1: probably be using synthetic in that Frank, and I'd be

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Speaker 1: changing the oil every six months, regardless of how much

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Speaker 1: I drive it, because that synthetic is going to be

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Speaker 1: susceptible to condensation and it's gonna break down over time

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Speaker 1: and it becomes an issue. And the fact is that

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Speaker 1: two thousand one explore what are you better off changing

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Speaker 1: the oil or an engine or an engine component? Something

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Speaker 1: to think about. Always go for the pocket book. I'm

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Speaker 1: running any in the car. Doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless see U