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I'm so glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard show. You know our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

And in today's episode, I gotta do something that has been bugging me for a while. You know we track every person who

contacts us at our team-clark Consumer Action Center that's our free one-on-one

advice service and there is a trend that is

clear beyond measure. And that is the number one thing we're hearing about from people is problems with

used cars and used cars would always be in our top 10 or top 15 things we'd hear from people about.

And we have a database where we can see the trends month by month year by year what's going on and

something that emerged in the run-up of used- car prices in 21 till this moment, even though used car prices peaked in early

23 and have now fallen somewhere more than 27% since then, the damage was already done.

So month after month after month, the number one thing we're hearing from people is about nightmares with a used car that they

purchased and when I say car I mean any kind of pickup truck SUV whatever this is

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