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you'd have to be crazy to buy these
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Toyota Tundra and Lexus variants right
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now I'm going to quickly show you which
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ones to avoid also Toyota's hiring 350
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employees at the Alabama plan to ramp up
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engine production and fix all these
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recalled engines it's crazy is Toyota
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really thinking that they're going to
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swap 100,000 engines but more on that in
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a minute and if engine failures aren't
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enough to make you at least pause buying
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until
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2025 check out all these other problems
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people are having with these Tundras
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this poor guy needed a transmission and
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here's another transmission failure odd
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they said they're on back order H looks
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like he found a handful of other people
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maybe eight that had the same issue more
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transmission failures this guy you can
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see it revving up and it's just not
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going anywhere this guy has a massive
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leak in his transmission this guy has a
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leaking rear differential at 1400 Mi
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alternators dying at 10,000 Mi and more
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dead alternators this one has carpet
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liner that's cut way too low near the
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pedals and then a zip tie that's just
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loose on a brand new truck Grill shutter
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malfunctions front grill finish wearing
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off headlights peeling radio knobs
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busting off more broken radio knobs seat
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plastic cracking another one and another
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one spray and Bedliners aren't holding
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up as expected sunroofs are leaking
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there's huge gaps in the windows right
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by the seal and apparently some people
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are having to pay on their own to fix
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this wind noise problem with the weather
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stripping looks like dashes are rattling
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and Headliners are having problems
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cricket sounds coming from your a pillar
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and this poor guy this is the second
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time his truck has been three quarts low
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on oil the first time he thought it was
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maybe just the dealer not putting in
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enough oil and the second time he
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realized well it's just burning oil and
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another dead Tundra and another Dead one
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just 11 hours ago but don't worry it's
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only 1% so real quick let's go through
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the models you shouldn't buy don't buy
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any new or used 2022 through 2024 Tundra
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just don't do it until 2025 uh if you
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sub up I will keep on this issue and let
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you guys know when I think this
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problem's gone it is not gone yet stay
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away from the Lexus LX I would even hold
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off on the GX for now at least 6 to 12
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months just to make sure there aren't
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any engine failures stay away from the
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Toyota sequa that includes new and used
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ones real quick for those of you who
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don't know Toyota issued a recall on
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98,6 Toyota Tundras and then over I
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think it was over 100,000 Vehicles total
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that are included in this recall if you
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include Lexus and the seoa and others
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I'll put a link in the description you
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can watch my other videos to get details
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on that that's why Toyota's probably
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hiring 350 new employees this recall
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came out on May 30th then Toyota
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announced on June 5th that they're going
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to add 350 new jobs to the engine plant
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this is the same engine plant where they
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build these engines for the tundra AOA
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and everything else the official job
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posting on Toyota's site was actually
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one day after the recall coincidence
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maybe not so I guess the good news is
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you might get some brand new fresh
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employee that has zero experience
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building an engine when yours needs a
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new short block but hey at least they
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won't be on back order that does beg the
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question though because this is a safety
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recall is Toyota actually planning to
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replace all 100,000 engines like
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proactively and not wait for them to
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fail
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that would be insane the math on that is
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crazy given the alleged repair cost of
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about $30,000 per vehicle that would
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cost Toyota over $3 billion to replace
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these engines proactively if you include
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the labor at the dealership on top of
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that they're planning to pay these new
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employees 23 to $34 an hour they've got
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401K paid time off and there are two
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things that are bothering me about this
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recall the first thing is I'm having a
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hard time believing that it's debris in
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the engine causing this this has been
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going on for 2022 2023 and 2024's you're
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telling me that in Japan and the United
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States for Lexus in both areas and the
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tundra in America in Alabama you're
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telling me that in both locations across
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the world debris was getting in the
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engine it could be a cast problem and if
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it was a cast problem and both locations
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were getting the same cast maybe that's
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where the problem came in but it's
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really tough to believe that it's just
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in engine debris after reading this
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recall the second thing is hybrids are
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left out of it and we're going to look
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at that right now they say other Toyota
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or Lexus Vehicles sold in the US are not
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equipped with this engine or have a
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different v35a engine configuration with
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different pressure on the main bearings
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oh the hybrid maybe some of these
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vehicles equipped with different engine
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configurations have a hybrid powertrain
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system if an engine failure occurs on a
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hybrid vehicle the vehicle continues to
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have some Motive Power for limited
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distances so what they're saying is if
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you've got a hybrid and your engine
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fails it's not really a safety issue
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because you still have Motive Power and
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you can get off the road and get out of
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the way I think that's the way I'm
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reading this this is exactly why I would
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not buy any of these cars brand new or
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used for at least a year to see how this
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plays out if we start seeing more 2024's
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die that's after they are aware of the
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engine debris problem then I think we
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might have an engineering problem or
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something wrong with just fundamentally
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how the engine is operating and just the
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longevity of the engine I honestly can't
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imagine Toyota just swapping every one
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of these engines out of working Vehicles
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they came out and admitted that they
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have this problem and there's a recall
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for it are they just going to replace
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all these engines that they figure
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that's cheaper than the lawyers feasting
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on them I don't know let me know what
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you think in the comments and instead of
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just complaining about Toyota in this
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video I'm going to give you alternatives
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on vehicles to buy instead of these new
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vehicles that are completely failing my
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first recommendation instead of buying
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this brand new tundra either wait until
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2025 revisit the issue or if you
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absolutely need a truck now buy one of
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these used ones please just do yourself
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a favor these were insanely reliable you
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can get any of them really from like
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2010 to 2021 and you just can't go wrong
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it had the 57 V8 and throw in an Android
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stereo if it doesn't have carplay you'll
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be good to go the same thing goes for
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the Toyota Sequoia they all have the
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Seal of Awesome on car complaints and
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almost no problems I personally own one
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of these vehicles they're probably a
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third the cost of this new Sequoia other
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than the the tech being a little
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outdated again pop in another stereo and
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you're good to go and another
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alternative to the tundra the Nissan
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Titan they're still making that with the
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5.6 L V8 super reliable engine people
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don't have a lot of problems with these
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they're not turboed and um yeah they're
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they're great people don't like Nissan
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but don't hate on Nissan you can hate on
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the cvts and the cars as much as you
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want but their trucks are awesome
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they're solid and for the Lexus variants
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well if you're in the market for a new
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$90,000 Lexus and you don't want an
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engine failure I'd say just wait a year
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I mean there's
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probably no reason you need to buy a
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$90,000 vehicle right now and you have
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to have it right now but if you want to
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be a guinea pig be my guest and if
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you're looking for just a super reliable
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midsized SUV just get the old 4Runner
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this thing's made in Japan still it has
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no problems I mean sure they didn't
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change a lot of it and and maybe it
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feels a little dated but it's got a 4 L
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engine 5-speed automatic and it is just
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bulletproof if you want something to
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just drive drive drive change the oil
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drive drive drive that's the one you
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want to get for an SUV pretty much any
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4Runner from 2010 to 2024 going to be
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great and I just did a video on this uh
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uh couple days ago if you want a midsize
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truck super reliable you're worried
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about the new Tacoma turbo platform just
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go look at the frontier at least ow it
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to yourself to give it a test drive and
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see what you think naturally aspirated
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V6 tried andrue platform they didn't
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change a lot on it so great truck
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reliable and on top of all of these
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problems with new vehicles that I see
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every single day they're also tracking
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everything you do they sell it to a
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company called Lexus Nexus and other
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companies that aggregate data from your
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car and your driving habits and then
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they get the insurance companies get
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that information and they adjust your
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premiums so then you can't even switch
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insurance companies like let's say you
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had an driving at night uh between 12:00
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a.m. and 4: a.m. maybe you worked late
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at night and and then you came home to
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sleep during the day they're going to
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ding you on that that they deem as more
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risky driving behavior and they're going
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to raise your premiums even if that's
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just happens to be when you work do we
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really want these companies tracking
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everything about us this is directly
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from the Ford patent they're basically
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putting these systems in all vehicles
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and boats and anything else they can get
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their hands on that they can put these
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chips in and track our Behavior so it
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takes vehicle information effect on
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accident frequency all these all these
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different statistics from the vehicle
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itself then there's driver statistics
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your driver history the time of day you
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drive your location
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your behavior you know whether you
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accelerate fast or stop quickly funny
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how they build all these cars to have
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like double the power they used to have
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and all this stopping power but then if
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you use any of it they're going to send
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that up to the insurance companies so
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they can charge you more and then
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contextual data is like if you're
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driving consistently around accident
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hotspots even if you don't get in an
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accident well there you go they're going
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to they're going to ding you for driving
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around dangerous areas whether you drive
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in bad weather uh in high traffic areas
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and then they put all that together and
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build this risk model about you and then
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you have a score so that they can most
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likely charge you more the whole purpose
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is to charge you more as if Insurance
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hasn't gone up enough in the last couple
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years give me a break all that being
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said there is actually a benefit to
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buying cars that are like pre 2019 or 18
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you'll have to research the manufacturer
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a lot of Manufacturers are doing this
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it's not just Ford GM most of them are
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tracking this data they're going to sell
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it to one of these data aggregators let
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me know what you think in the comments
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do you think Toyota's actually going to
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replace all of these engines proactively
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that would that would be cool I mean it
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would be a neat gesture from Toyota but
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it also would mean that everybody's
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Carfax would have a replaced engine on
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it and the resale value would plummet
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for all the 2022 to 24s that were
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affected so curious to see what you guys
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think about that I'm kind of torn like
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in some ways it would be really cool if
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they replace the engine for all these
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people proactively on the other hand I
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can't see them doing it it just seems
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unlikely it's such a huge cost and
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there's probably the likelihood that a
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lot of them don't need to be replaced so
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and share this with someone if you think
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it was worth it thanks for watching till
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next time
