The Best of Car Talk
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The Best of Car Talk
America's funniest auto mechanics take calls from weary car owners all over the country, and crack wise while they diagnose Dodges and dismiss Diahatsus. You don't have to know anything about cars to love this one hour weekly laugh fest.
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#2637: Meet the Staff
It’s not often we get a call from members of the Car Talk staff during the show. And you’d expect that call to be from our chauffeur Pickov Andropov o...
#2636: In Praise of Cleveland
Marian’s Ford pickup is bouncing all over Cleveland, so she had a local shop replace her shocks and… it’s still bouncing around Cleveland. Click and C...
#2635: Knock, Knock...
…”Who’s there?” Debra with her impossible knocking noise, that’s who. All we know is that it isn’t coming from the engine compartment. Wild guessing e...
#2634: Bug Bomb
The Brothers suggested Bob from Texas could rid his car of horseflies by using a ‘bug bomb’ to flood the passenger compartment with insecticide. Bob r...
#2633: Hacker Heaven
Larry’s 14-year-old kid wants the two of them to find an old car to rebuild so kiddo can drive it when he gets his license in a few years. What a grea...
#2632: Brilliant or Crazy
Rebecca’s Honda won’t go into reverse, but that may not be her biggest problem at the moment because Tommy can’t decide if Ray’s answer is clever or j...
#2631: The MechanXfiles
The 'Speed of Darkness', a 'laying on of hands' and paranormal activities in the Pentagon parking lot. This episode of the Best of Car Talk is definit...
#2630: Private Mag Lee Ozee!
Back in the days of compulsory military service here in the US, there was, for a brief time, a certain ‘Private Magliozzi’ struggling mightily to keep...
#2629: The Babysitter Tells All
Faith from Washington wants to make a trade: car advice in exchange for embarrassing tales from our wayward producer Dougie Berman’s childhood. It’s a...
#2628: Big Freshman on Campus
Missy’s son is going to be a freshman at Boston University -where Car Talk is produced- and he wants to buy a sweet new ride to improve his social sta...
#2627: Better to Die in a Fiery Crash
Jose is stuck on the horns of a dilemma -or is he? Whether to risk getting ripped off by a local repair shop or to die in a fiery crash. Click and Cla...
#2626: Rats!
This time, on 'Click and Clack’s Wild Kingdom’, Anna from Illinois encounters a rat in her Honda and we all lose our ever-lovin’ minds. It’s ‘Better A...
#2625: The Click and Clack Creed
What to do about the ‘mechanically-challenged’? Click and Clack used to run a do-it-yourself garage back in the day. And after rescuing a few hundred-...
#2624: How to Know if You Have a Cracked Head
Paula’s pickup truck may have a cracked head. Can two mechanics who definitely have cracked heads help her fix the problem? Find out on this episode o...
#2623: Virtual Dopeslaps
Jeannie thinks she’s doing right by her Oldsmobile and taking it in for regular service checks. But recently, the garage service manager tells her tha...
#2622: Starting from Stupid
Tony has a Saab story for us that involves losing coolant -and, possibly, brain cells, too. The fact that he called Click and Clack should indicate ho...
#2621: Worst Car of the Millenium
At the end of the last millenium there were plenty of motorheads proclaiming this Ferrari or that Maserati as the ‘Best Car Ever’, but only two guys w...
#2620: Hubby's Fuelishness
Whitney lives in the New Hampshire mountains with her cheapskate hubby who insists on driving the cars bone dry before refueling them. And while this...
#2619: Teens and Cars
Linda is a lovely lady from the land of nice; Minnesota. As lovely as she is, however, Linda has to contend with her three teenagers, one of whom wrec...
#2618: Who, What or How but Never All Three
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that position and momentum cannot simultaneously be known. Click and Clack’s uncertainty principle is that t...
#2617: Definitely Not OK
What’s worse: a screaming clutch, an oil leak, an engine fire or a Tommy Puzzler? You be the judge on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
#2616: Non-traditional Repair Materials
On past shows we’ve discussed repairs using a variety of ‘improvised’ materials such as underwear waistbands, road signs and extra virgin olive oil. A...
#2615: 'Relaxed Fit' Comes for Cars
Raconteur and friend of the show, Daniel Pinkwater has been on a lifelong quest for the perfect car. His is a quest not motivated by horsepower or des...
#2614: The Sludgehammer
Bernardo needs to get the crud out of his engine, but he can’t afford an expensive trip to his mechanic. Could a can of miracle goo from the auto part...
#2613: Plague-proofing Your Car
Rain is an aptly named woman from Florida who is currently battling at least two biblical plagues attempting to take over her Acura. Since Charlton He...
#2612: Monotasking
Leave it to a couple of mechanics to make the case for doing only one thing at a time. A defense of ‘Monotasking’ on this Episode of the Best of Car T...
#2611: Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Back in the day, local baseball hero for the Red Sox, Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee took some of his bonus money and bought himself an old BMW that he still has...
#2610: Runaway Inflation
Pete from Nashville is really worried about inflation. Not the kind that hurts your wallet, but the kind that takes your head off. He’s suffering from...
#2609: Rum Runner Jim
Jim is a rum distributor in Florida who’s having trouble with his boat engine. Probably needs to squeeze a few more horsepower out of it in order to e...
#2608: Where Engines Never Warm Up
A lot of cars don’t like operating in the cold of a normal winter and Matt and his Delorean are having a tough go of it… at the South Pole. ‘Penguin i...
#2607: House Call
David lives practically around the corner from The Good News Garage and he’s found a mechanic who not only has customers bring their cars to his house...
#2606: A Blended Car Family
Nan just married her new guy and moved into his house but her car isn’t welcome. Hubby has an Audi and ‘his baby’ -a Triumph TR6 taking up both spaces...
#2605: The Family That Parks Together
Al and his brother are about to come to blows… over parking. He wants to know if it’s possible to navigate into a parking space that you can’t back ou...
#2604: The Whoop Tube
Lee’s Lincoln Town Car feels like it wants to brake on it’s own when cruising down the highway. His mechanic decided that it’s a problem with the “Who...
#2603: Back to Nature
Holy ‘Mutual of Omaha’, Marlin Perkins! Spiders and Cats and cell phone calls from the top of a California Redwood on this episode of the Best of Car...
#2602: Lincoln Logs or a Lincoln Continental?
Charlotte and her husband have woven a tangled web, indeed. They just adopted four kids between 10 and 6 years old and the little darlings are getting...
#2601: Customer to Dealer Incentive
Leslie’s family was about to upgrade in more ways than one. They were on the prowl for a minivan when Leslie, 9 months pregnant, had a sudden, urgent...
#25104: Dang Skippy
A merry melange of motor maladies on this end of the year episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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#25103: Bryology Anyone?
Typically when arbiting marital car disputes, it helps to know what each spouse does for a living. Lawyers, for instance, are always right because law...
"What a Sled!" A Holiday Car Talk Bonus
Happy Holidays from the Best of Car Talk! We had our eye on a really ugly holiday sweater for you, but they didn’t have your size. Instead, we thought...