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The Best of Car Talk

#2399: A Few Bad Leasing Strategies

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Kathleen commutes 100 miles per day in her leased Chrysler and the excess mileage charges are going to clobber her when she returns the car in a few years. She wants to know how likely would it be for the odometer to suddenly stop working, and could Click and Clack explain in detail how that might happen? Will they or won't they? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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And you want to do your part to help NPR, you can go to the Car Talk Plus channel at Apple or go to

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plus dot nper.org slash car talk. That's plus dot nper

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dot org slash car talk. Hello and welcome to Caratalk on National Public Radio with us clicking Clack the Tappock Brothers and we're broadcasting this week

1:13.2

from the Mother's Day Pavilion here at Car Talk Plaza. This is the week in which

1:17.9

we Americans celebrate our mothers. Where we honor the woman who gave each of us life who brought us into this world.

1:25.4

Yeah and then proceeded to annoy the hell out of us from that point.

1:28.4

No, we're just kidding that's not true.

1:30.6

Actually I was wondering what did you do to honor your mother this year?

1:33.9

Did like, did you get her a present for mother's thing?

1:35.9

Well, I think I found the perfect gift.

1:38.1

What?

1:39.1

As always. What'd you get?

1:40.1

Well, I got her one of those gold lifetime filters for her shop vac.

1:44.0

You know, the truth is I was going to get her that myself,

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