How to make Any Vehicle Last 300K, 400K, 600K Miles ( It's All Maintenance )

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And I have in my hand, right here, can you see that? The secret weapon that will make it happen.

Making it happener, with the car connection maintenance schedule.

And I was just thinking about it this morning, it came to my mind, it was, why don't you shoot a video for your YouTube channel on the car connection maintenance schedule?

Why didn't I think that? Anyhow, I digress.

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That's all I can say simply marvelous.

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Simply marvelous.

Yeah, so I'm going to carry on that just for my good friend, Willie Wolper.

All right, what about what else we got?

What else?

Let's find out whether it's not good right now down here.

No, it's snowing again.

It snowed last night.

It's snowing again this morning.

You can't even tell that we spent five and a half hours on the snowblower just this past Monday.

And it's only Thursday for Pete's sake.

Here's what we got going on in the Niagara region.

I don't know where you are.

Hopefully maybe you're in the sunshine somewhere.

Well, God bless you.

Take it all in because we're at right now snow forecasted in our area for the next hour.

Thank you very much.

And that looks really tasty.

It does not look really tasty.

We have today's...

Oh, they've just updated this because two hours ago, it didn't say there was snows coming,

but now we have 65% chance of snows overnight low of minus one high of a balmy 13 degrees.

And there's winds as well.

Winds are light today.

Very light.

How light?

I'm not sure.

Let's see if we can get that answer.

So we'll just get out of this for a minute and then we'll jump back in.

It's going to give us a...

It will.

Here we go.

Let's see what we have for wind today.

It's officially 11 degrees right now and snowing.

Wind is making it feel colder about minus three.

Cloudy conditions expected around 7am and today's temperature range is from minus one to 13 degrees

and it will feel like minus seven to six degrees.

Winds are moderate.

Whatever that means.

Well, at least we don't have to batten down the hatches.

We've had some winds here along south shores of Lake Erie, but I'll tell you, we got some snows.

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It looks like we're going to be doing some cleanup today because we had a big streamer come through twice yesterday.

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All right, today I promised to talk about how to make any vehicle last 300K, 400K, 600K.

And yes, yes, there is a Christmas.

No, that's something else, isn't it?

And so tomorrow, something you can look forward to, the true cost of owning an automobile in 2026.

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We're going to break that down for you.

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Now, I've talked about our car connection maintenance schedule that I created probably 10 years ago and then we shelved it.

They were flying out the door when we were on the FM station.

We're shipping them out all the time, but I'll tell you what, not only will my 30-day fuel savings tips put money back in your wallet,

so we're going to do that after Family Day in Ontario here, sort of the middle.

The middle kind of used to be around the 17th of February, but we'll find out.

Hey, let's just wake Siri up.

You know, I asked her if she likes Alexis, she said yes.

That's interesting.

Hey, Siri, are you with me?

What date is Family Day in Ontario?

Can we get, oh, there we go.

Thank you, such a sweetheart.

Get yourself something nice, okay?

February 16th, so we'll do the 30-day fuel savings challenge and that's where you have to do something because I don't drive your car.

Yeah, exactly.

But that's going to put money back in your pocket.

Okay, everything I have spoken to you about in the last 72 episodes, everything I've shown you so far on our YouTube channel,

which is all the basic vehicle ownership fundamentals.

No magic, no smoke, no fluff, just showing you where stuff is, how it works, how it breaks,

and how you can learn how to be more user-friendly, which will set you ahead and put more money back in your pocket.

That's the purpose of our YouTube channel.

That's the purpose of our podcast here on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon, all the major platforms.

Wherever you pull your podcast from, we're there.

Just type in the search bar, carconnectionworkshop, and you'll find us.

You can always go to our iHeartRadio library and pull the podcast from there as well.

Take them, use them.

Everything I've shown you and talked to you about that it's taken 31 years to do it on radio, doing a show once a week.

I'm doing a show for you six days a week.

I try to keep it around half an hour, but there's a reason why they call me motormouth.

Guys, I always have to buy them lunch.

What's the matter with these people?

Are they on medication?

If not, they should probably.

Our maintenance schedule, I had them revamped.

I think it was last year.

They're really nice now, really, really nice.

They've come a long way.

They're laminated.

I'm going to share that with you.

How I created this maintenance schedule is how you can get to 300, 400, 600,000 kilometers.

Here's the kicker.

You've got to follow the maintenance schedule.

Just like when you go to the dentist.

That's a bad example for me right now.

But anyways, I don't want to digress on that one.

But you know that stupid COVID campaign thing?

I couldn't get to my dentist for like three years.

Yeah, it's cost me now, baby.

My dentist was in cold New York.

Near the ski resort.

Very nice.

I don't ski.

I slide.

Anyways, if you follow this maintenance schedule,

and the maintenance schedule I'm holding in my hands right now,

I'm going to shoot a video on it.

I'm going to talk to Skippy about that today.

We'll do a YouTube video on our car connection maintenance schedule next week,

and then we'll schedule it to be posted.

And I will let you know on this show when that video drops,

so that you can go and look at it.

It's super simple, but it's not.

It's all laid out for you already.

You don't have to think about a thing.

Just check the box.

That's it.

And hang it up where it's not behind a closet door or under the staircase,

where you're never going to see it.

You post it because you're going to learn fleet maintenance.

Fleet maintenance is going to do a number of things for you.

Number one, put money back in your pocket.

Number two, you're not going to have to do home to work, home to work,

home to work, home to work, get off the wheel, lick the little ball,

get a pellet, jump back on, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run,

get off, lick the little ball, get a pellet, jump back on,

and get stuck like a lot of people in the never, never, never plan.

You never own, really own an automobile.

Your car broke all the time.

How do I know that?

Well, almost five decades of listening to, watching,

trying to be as sympathetic and empathetic as possible,

but when you treat a donkey like it's a very bad donkey,

it's probably not going to move no matter what you say or do.

So in other words, if you just always keep treating your vehicle

like it's just a disposable pair of pants, bad thing, diapers, that's it,

disposable diapers, you're stuck in the vortex of the never, never plan.

Never without a car payment and never ending expenses.

You're not only paying for it and paying interest

and you're not paying attention to the maintenance.

By the time you make the last payment, there's sweet bugger all left

and now you got to go get another one.

Finance up to the freaking ears.

Does it sound familiar?

Because I'm only repeating back what I heard from my customers

at my shop on the Hamilton Mountain.

And we had 500 steady clients on this maintenance schedule.

It's laminated.

It's environmentally safe.

It's environmentally friendly.

You follow the list of things that need to be done

and it tells you when to do them.

So the description, mileage or increment.

And then a calendar, January through December.

Your starting mileage and your ending mileage.

And if your vehicle is equipped with a timing belt,

you're going to fill in the mileage when that should be done.

And here's what I tell everyone to avoid catastrophic engine damage.

If your timing belt should be in your vehicles equipped with one.

And it's easy to tell.

And I'll show you that in the shop as well.

Maybe we'll just do one outside in the freezing cold

and come back with frostbite.

But at least we'll have a video on it.

How do you tell it's easy?

You look at the front of the engine.

If there's a plastic cover there, timing belt.

If you look at another engine, it's flat like a pancake

where the drive belts are.

Everything's metal. There's no plastic cover there.

It's got to change.

All right. It's that simple really.

Anyone can do it.

Any age group.

And that goes for all our videos.

I don't want any excuses on the YouTube channel.

I put so much there for you to learn.

It's like you're in the shop with me

and you're my apprentice.

Everything in simple terms.

Basic fundamentals.

Explaining what it is, where it is, how it works, how it breaks.

And if you knew just a little bit more about your vehicle

and about those components,

then you'd gain a lot more knowledge and respect.

And you'll save money every single time.

And money will come back to your pocket.

So, first of all, I think what I'm going to do here is

I'm going to read the instructions to you

that you get in the kit

so that you can get a better understanding how simple it is.

So, seniors, I R1.

This is simple.

My pops is 89.

He texts, he has a smartphone.

He goes on the computer.

I think he's addicted to Timu.

I'm just saying, yeah.

Anyhow, he's 89.

He still drives, got his faculties.

Hallelujah for that.

And he's still got his independence.

So, no excuses.

Pops is, he used to be brutal on cars.

But now, you know what,

since he retired many, many years ago,

he's really thorough with the maintenance.

Thanks to me, I hope.

Here's the instructions for our maintenance schedule kit.

When I say it's not complicated,

that's where I'm going here.

It's not complicated.

I believe in the term kiss.

Keep it super simple.

Otherwise, everyone, guess what?

You get lazy, you get complacent.

It's like, well, honey,

do you think I look fat in this?

I think I just heard a blue jay.

Yeah, don't answer that.

That's a loaded question, guys.

That'll get you killed, or at least injured.

I should lose 30 pounds.

Okay, how are you going to do it?

You can't have a brisk sit.

You've got to have a plan, a maintenance plan,

on how you're going to get rid of that 30 pounds

that you want to get rid of.

And then you've got to do it.

That's the mindset.

There always has to be a battle to get to the victory.

And that's what I love about car shows.

I love car shows to talk to the vehicle owners

and hear the backstory.

The labor of love that at the end game,

all of us want to go and, you know,

get a chin plate because you're going to drool

when you see some of these vehicles.

But when you look at, I love the fellas

and the fellas that create a library,

a photo album, and they lay it out

so you can see the pictures and go,

oh, my, that was nasty.

And you look at it, and Alan, you go,

it's thinking gorgeous.

How did it get there?

It wasn't by itself,

and that's the point I'm trying to make here.

You buy a piece of equipment,

and I like to use the bulldozer.

Why?

Because it's a piece of equipment

that only makes you money when it's working.

Sound familiar?

Your car, the one that's paid off,

is making you money every time you turn the key

if you maintain it.

It's priceless.

It absolutely is.

It's not costing you interest

and principal payments every month.

It's yours.

It's your bulldozer.

If your bulldozer is not working

or it's broken down,

do you have the money to go and get another bulldozer

this afternoon?

You go, holy smokes, I didn't know they were worth that.

I love this old bulldozer.

I'm going to fix it up.

Yeah, I'm going to love on it.

I'm going to take care of it.

Exactly.

Because you don't have the money to go and just go,

oh, well, you know, it's an old bulldozer.

I'll just go get another one.

You guys, man, no, I think I'm just falling in love

with my old bulldozer.

And then you want to fix it up.

But that bulldozer only makes you money

when it's on the dirt moving the earth's crust.

But if it's broken,

you get called out to a job.

You go, well, I got to fix my bulldozer before it can come.

Well, I'll just call somebody else.

Are you getting it?

You got to treat your car the same way.

I also like to use the helicopter analogy.

If we all drove helicopters,

a lot of us would not be here today.

Right?

Because the service lights been on for months

and you're at 12,000 feet

and the service light can't come back on

because it's already on

and the aircraft is not behaving very nice.

And you're quite a ways off the ground.

How well would you maintain your helicopter?

That's a good question, isn't it?

It's a very good question.

How well would you want to maintain

your personal helicopter that takes you to and from work?

Would you go, oh, yeah, you know,

the lights been on for a couple days.

It should be just fine.

Yeah, yeah, of course.

Sure, well, so here we go.

Let's jump in.

Here's the instructions you receive

with your car connection maintenance schedule kit.

These things I've made them so cheap

I'm almost giving them away.

And the reason being is

what I have in my hand

will put a lot of money back in your pocket,

will keep your car running

as long as you want to keep it,

as long as you're following the maintenance schedule.

Okay, instructions.

Write your starting mileage in the space provided.

Number two,

make a note of when your timing belt is due

in the space provided.

And we just talked about that.

Easy to Google it.

I just did it on the 2008 Nissan Rogue

and every thought about that

doesn't have a timing belt or a chain.

I looked it up.

So then you put your mileage in,

find out when it's to be changed.

If it says change it at 80,

no, you're not.

You're going to change it at 70.

Why?

Because you do not want to test

that timing belt.

How far can I go before it breaks?

Because if you have an interference engine

that means when the timing belt breaks

the pistons smash the engine

to keep it simple.

Yeah, the pistons

dance with the valves

in the solar head and the engine gets totally destroyed.

It's done, period.

Over.

Yep, she's singing again.

If it's a non-interference

then when the timing belt breaks

pistons stop, valves stop

where they are and the pistons

do not hit the valves

and smash the engine.

It's just better to do it at 10

because I know you folks

well if it says 80

we can probably push that to 110.

That's how you think.

I know it.

Because I've seen it and I've had to call

engines ago.

You should have been here in the shop

about 10,000 K

ago. We could have saved the engine.

Everything would have been just fine but the belt broke

the engine smashed.

What are we going to do now?

That's what I usually hear.

Well, what's this going to cost?

Well, you need another motor.

Oh, we don't have that kind of money.

There you go.

Now you're stuck.

We're still making payments on it.

That's an interesting

moment of fellowship when

Pops gets home, right?

Number three, attach the magnets

or the two-way tape

to the maintenance schedule.

You get to pick.

Both are provided.

Number four,

peel off the paper backing

on the marker holder and attach it

to any area of your maintenance

schedule.

Insert the dry-race marker

into the marker holder.

Number five,

decide which month

you wish to start

your maintenance schedule and proceed

down the list

marking each month as

necessary.

Number six,

when you're 12 months or over,

it's time to start again.

And so

you wipe it off.

What I tell people

to do is get your start

done at the top and then wipe it off.

So you're not going, oh, I

didn't mark that down on it.

So you want anything you need to transfer

to the top of the schedule.

Do that before you

erase the whole thing.

So that just all you're doing

is rotating the pattern.

What do you do when you get to the bottom?

Start again at the top.

Rotate the pattern.

It's that easy.

Post your schedule,

maintenance schedule

in the maintenance manager's office,

whoever that is in your household.

Honey, this needs to get done this month.

We got a book and appointment

for this car for this.

And I suggest

you can put multiple cars

on each of the maintenance schedules.

I would suggest

one for each vehicle.

And if you have sons and daughters at home

that have their own vehicle,

you want to teach them how

to do this now

while they're young.

And carry it on through their entire life.

They will not be car

broke.

And doing the home to work, home to work, home to work,

home to work, home to work,

for the rest of their life

making car payments.

Car payments.

I never buy new cars.

You know what I wait for?

I wait for someone that's bought something I like

and I tell them,

when you're ready to get rid of that,

come and see me first.

And I've bought a few vehicles like that.

Absolutely. From my customers when I had the shop.

And I sometimes

know somebody who's looking for one

and I'd say, well, I've got a customer

they're talking about getting rid of it.

I'll let them know. Give us first

rights.

And then I'll call you. And I set up

Mr. Matchmaker.

But it worked out for everybody.

You know, nobody got taken advantage of it.

It worked very, very well.

If you can buy a pre-owned vehicle

off someone you know

that takes care of their vehicle

like me.

I had a lady come.

I just mentioned to someone when I had my 98

Honda CRV.

That thing was fabulous.

That was the first time I ever had a Honda.

And it was

real-time all-wheel-drive.

That little Hummer was fabulous.

I put 239,000

miles. That was American

car on that. And I mentioned

to somebody

when I was looking for a Toyota FJ Cruiser

and they were way out of my price range

and I was like, I don't think this is going to happen.

Otherwise, you know Tony,

my certified financial planner said,

here's your budget. Don't call me for a single

dollar more.

Okay, I won't.

He goes, no, I'm serious. This is it. That's your budget.

You can get an FJ for this price

all in

done.

We're done.

But you got to get this much for your Honda.

And I go, okay.

So, all of a sudden my phone rings one evening.

Hey Nile, it's so-and-so.

I heard you're getting rid of your CRV.

Mine. She goes, mine.

I go, well, I haven't found what I'm

looking for. Where my husband and I are coming over.

We're going to leave you a deposit.

Come over.

You give me 3,500 bucks.

I'm like, it might be a year.

We don't care. We want that.

Yeah, that's ours.

We licked it.

I go, what?

Seriously?

She goes, please take the money.

We trust you. Hold on to it.

It's ours.

If it takes six months or a year, we're still good

with that. We want that.

And they did. They ended up with it.

It was like three months later. Bam.

Something came right out of the woodwork.

My producer at the time at ESPN found it

online in Canada.

He goes, Nile, you might want to take a look at this after

your show. And that's how I ended up with it.

And they got my 98 CRV

with 229 or 239,000 kilometers.

And I'd seen it on the road still.

It's still on the road.

How did that happen?

I know I took

excellent care of it.

I was hoping I could keep it.

I would still have it today.

But, you know, I had to go in order to make

the 07 FJ

thing happen.

And I'm glad that it did because it's really worked out.

But I follow my own

maintenance schedule. That's what I'm saying.

The FJ is going to be

a member of the 400,000

kilometer club this year.

And celebrate.

We're going to celebrate and make a cake.

I'll make a cake and everything because I bake.

And celebrate 400,000

K.

Then the next mile marker is going to be the

600,000 K mark.

Yeah.

You can do it.

If you follow the cake mix.

The maintenance schedule.

I designed it after

doing years and years of

fleet maintenance.

This allowed me

to not miss something

and get

the shop owner into trouble.

Because I missed something

on an inspection.

And that's when

we would do fleet maintenance

when whatever vehicle they brought us went back.

Somebody went over the whole

thing with the work order

to verify we didn't

miss something. That's what their job was.

To double check

that we

did not

miss something

when it was in the shop for service.

It wasn't just service.

We called that a full maintenance.

That means every nook

and cranny.

And if it sounds complicated

it's not when you

have a chart

that's easily laid out for you.

And I'm just going to give you some suggestions.

Because this is how you do it.

There is no other

way you're going to make it

to 300.

400.

600 if you treat your car

like a bad bad donkey.

You're never going to make it

and you're always going to be

car broke.

Change the mindset.

Grab hold of my coat tails.

I can't do this forever

this program but I'm

enjoying teaching people

if you're teachable. As my

prof would say when the student

is ready the teacher

will appear. This is money

in the bank.

Get off that treadmill.

You don't have to go

and buy a vehicle to impress people

that you don't even know

and you probably don't even like.

Who cares?

I

heard someone say I don't like driving older vehicles.

I do.

Well yours looks so good all the time.

I said yeah they're self

cleaning, self maintaining.

Get out of here.

No I'm just pulling your leg. No they're not.

You got to put the effort in.

You got to love on it.

You got to take care of it.

You have to look after

the present vehicle like you

can't get another one.

That's what you have to do.

As a matter of fact with the 07

FJ Cruiser.

If there are any for sale

they're usually really bad

or they want a lot of money for them

because they haven't made them since 15

and now they're extremely popular

and I get asked all the time

I go yeah so you offer me 25 grand

I can't even go and get one

for that. If there's one out there

that's not beat up because

there was no rhyme or reason. When I was looking

they were either really really beat up

or they were so good

and the price was

like brand new

off the showroom floor prices like

no I'm not giving you that.

No. Can't do it.

So

what you have to do

is get that mindset

this is the

last vehicle

I can buy.

This one right here.

You definitely got to have

something that's a value

to start with.

Yeah so if it's

I mean if it's a collector's piece

drive a mile go back collect a piece

that isn't going to work.

You've got to get something pre-owned

you know what

I buy vehicles 10 years old

and I don't care if it's got

300k

200k

I look at it and I go you know

how it made that mileage they looked after it

that's how they made it.

So that's how I buy the car

I look at it and go they got

230k on this thing look at it

it's like new

inside and out

that's how they got there

and then when I start looking at it

it's all been serviced

nothing's broken

nothing's undone fluids are good

tires are good they've

loved on it

and now they're ready to move into

something else.

I hope you're grasping this

because it's a formula

that when you

work it and rotate the pattern

it puts a lot of money

back in your pocket

and you're not car broke

and then it

starts to get less and less

that you have to get on that hamster wheel

run run run

get off lick the ball get a pellet

jump back on run run run run run

run run run run get off lick the ball

get some water get a pellet

jump back on you don't like

you don't have to

do that

so here's the deal

I'm going to close this off

but I'm going to give you just a couple of examples

what is on so

again I will

talk to Skippy today we will

put a car connection

video together on our youtube channel

walking you through

the car connection maintenance schedule that I formulated

after

fleet maintenance

check oil level

level

tire pressure inspect lights and fluids

oil change

blue ball locks and hinges

inspect for

inspect or replace

oil filter brake inspection

tire rotation

and inspect the spare

belts and hoses

timing belt included

exhaust system

multi point inspection

there you go that's your six month mark

it's telling you you need a multi

point inspection

to stay ahead of the maintenance

curve so nothing gets away

from you and guess what that does

smaller repair bills

imagine that

you don't take the car and the guy goes

$37.50

$37.50 no

$3,750

for today

what

yeah

there's a lot of that going on

I got an invoice on my desk there

that the lady that donated

the 2008

Nissan Rogue to us

God bless her for that that's for sure

the bill

to fix everything up

was almost $2,800

and they missed

stuff big time

yeah and to get it through a safety

it was still a little bit more but we got it

done and it's done so

at six months it's now telling you

inspect every six months

multi point vehicle inspection

replace fuel filter

replace pollen filter

and it's giving you the time frame

right next to it every

six months

once yearly

minimum once a year

12 to 18 months thermostat

they don't last

forever

thermostats are a very busy little dude

and when they don't work you can burn your engine out

and your automatic transmission

so you get it out of there

before that happens

so we have that written down for you

12 to 18 months

automatic transmission service

22,000

kilometers or 12,000 miles

manual transmission service

22,000 kilometers

or 12,000 miles

that's going to take care of a very

expensive component for you

and it's telling you when to do it

when to do it

so that you're not stretching out your maintenance

and causing

your own damage

yeah and then you suffer

emulsion

damage and you don't want that

no

so I hope that shed

some light on things

because treating your vehicle

like it's

the last one

that you're going to be able to buy

but as I said

you've got to have something to work with

first

and doing so many

vehicle restorations

that you know I'll do a show on that

for the gals and the guys

that are into that

I've done so many I kind of burn myself out

I've got some still in storage

and they're in production

they've made it so far

and then I just kind of like

life is just too busy

to go there so we're wrapping

these things up and getting them done

but if you're looking

to do that kind of thing

you've got to get something

that you've got something good

to start with

if it's a total rust bucket

you know unless it's the rarest

vehicle on the planet

you're not going to rescue it

it's going to be a parts it's going to be a donor

that's what it's going to be

a parts harvest donor

because that's just way too much work

you go and find something else that's solid

you got something to work with

that's what you need for your daily driver

you've got to have first

a base

what is the base?

a vehicle that's solid

and worthy of putting some money into

and then just keeping it going

and maintaining it like it's the last

one you'll ever

be able to buy

period you know like people

you know at my age they start downsizing

and sometimes they'll go

you know we need downsize and I want to move

out into country somewhere where it's quieter

not so much traffic

you know that becomes

their forever home

right that's it for them

that's a step from

this was for the now

raising the family the kids were all gone

we don't need this much room

there's only the two of us

the kids show up once in a while

to be with us but they don't hang out for weeks

in days

we can use something smaller

in a place where we really want to be

and that's our forever home

that's how you got to look at that

vehicle that you have

it's solid

it's not rusted out and get on a program

and number one is

protect

at all cost

the vehicle from rusting out

anywhere

that's number one so that

you know that the vehicle is going

to be solid

structure wise

and the rest of it is all just

on the maintenance sheet you can keep it

as long as you want

that's it's that

simple and get out of the

never never plan

you're never without car payments

always paying principal and interest

and you never own the thing

and then by the time you pay it off

you've already got to replace it

because it's it's there's nothing

left of it

it needs what does it need

and here's what I have to tell people

they bring it in yeah let us know

what it needs now

okay call them

well what does it need

everything

what do you mean everything

everything somebody needs

to come down here so I can show you

yeah you need to

see all this it's important

you see it because it needs

everything

alright enough said on that I hope

you get something out of that

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city auto sales and leasing husband

wife team they are car guys

through and through

they sell no junk they carry

a decent inventory inside

so you can shop in the building

or on the lot

or you see one on the lot you like

I'm sure they'll bring it in the building

so you can walk around

it and have a good look at it

inside where it's warm this time of year

amen to that that's for sure

car shopping

in the freezing cold

no not for me

so

if you're looking to purchase

a vehicle and you got good

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they sell low mileage top

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that's how they've earned the title

greater Toronto area's premier

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you Earl is a car guy through and through

I've never seen

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it's amazing the quality

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was just talking to Tony yesterday

help me out with something that was just amazing

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they combine they have 50 years experiences

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you know how can we teach people

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How to make Any Vehicle Last 300K, 400K, 600K Miles ( It's All Maintenance )

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