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Episode #1234
title: “I Spit On Your Volvo”
airdate: 2012-08-25
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Haunt(?) of a Dilemma Department
Sage advice
While on vacation wife bought a brand new #car[Chrysler,Town & Country] while husband was waiting in the liquor store
time: 3:55
Elisabeth from Ooltewah, Tennessee
Car sounds like a cow on a long road trip
Only when air conditioning is on
Only getting hot air
Air conditioning compreessor
time: 7:35
Bruce from Chicago, Illinois
Bought it from his brother
Rubbing sound when turning
12:40
May from Union Springs, Alabama
Car stuck in park
Has to shake the car or stomp the brake hard
Was rear-ended
time: 16:35
Break
Music
Ads
time: 17:43
Taking it with you when you go
Miser wants to be buried with his money
time: 20:18
Tim and Pam Cohn from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Husband and wife
#car[1987,Mazda] pickup
Crushed engine mount?
Car shaking on shooting trip
Driving on washboard road
Suggestion of punishment
time: 26:57
Heather from Arcata, California, with mechanic Helmut
From #1229
Fuel injector pump has sensors or solenoids, mis-wired
time: 34:18
Break
Music
time: 35:30
Tom Goodell
College students history writing
time: 40:45
John from Telluride, Colorado
Intermittently “misses” speed
Fuel leak
Can stop it by taking gas cap off
time: 46:25
Wendy from Washington, D.C.
Business grad student
Sitting in parents’ garage
Can she drive it from Wichita, Kansas to D.C.?
time: 50:37
#season[Summer]
Close credits
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