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Episode #1235
title: “A Truck By Any Other Name”
airdate: 2012-09-01
file sha512sum: 03249ba2f5fd...
Car Talk School of Medicine
“Things that you don’t want to hear during surgery”
TV repair
time: 2:11
Elisha from Baltimore, Maryland
Sound from dash/windshield region, sounds like mice tap-dancing in stilettos
Has to be moving
Minimum speed 50mph
Windshield moving around?
Windshield recall
Toilet plunger
time: 6:30
Steve in Charlotte, North Carolina
Sound like air being released, from behind the driver
Fuel pump binding up/seizing up?
Slight loss of power?
“Fuel pump is the only thing behind you in the car that moves, except for the wheels”
time: 9:50
Lucy in San Antonio, Texas
Burning oil
“Car is destined for the boneyard”
She’s looking at #car[Honda,Accord]
They advise 4-cylinder
Smaller and lighter cars
They’re both colorblind
time: 15:50
Break
Music
Ad
time: 17:38
Follow-up to Grammy
“Happy Birthday Grammy” cake
This is a follow-up: TODO: link to original
Story from Ireland
time: 20:44
Amy from Troy, NY
1989 Toyota Corolla wagon
Car Talk guys said most reliable car ever, but has hard time starting and chugs a lot
Never getting clean gas
“You have, unfortunately, one of the worst Corollas ever made”
Put filters in series
“Motor-vac”
time: 26:25
Zack Huntner from Toledo, Ohio
1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
Bought grandma’s car
Airbag falling out
Junkyard, buy whole new steering wheel?
time: 29:29
Maureen from Portland, Maine
1994 Volvo 940 wagon
Mechanic hit head on kayak rack, got stitches
How to apologize? Baked goods? Pie, cookies?
time: 34:25
Break
Music
time: 36:00
Puns from Andy Bell
time: 37:43
Charlie Zap/Zapolski from Lynn, Massachusetts
Makes fighter engines, F14, …
Son’s 1993 Ford Taurus
Starting car in cold, idle goes up and down, almost stalls
“Almost like a slow heartbeat”
After warms up, it’s gone
Faulty coolant temperature sensor? Idle air control?
time: 41:33
Elizabeth from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Can downshift only if she hasn’t been driving at high speeds
Pedal feels floppy under her foot
Clutch master cylinder
“The car’s 10 years old!” - so roughly 2012 makes sense
time: 46:09
Robert from Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
1990 Ford F-250 XLT
Male-named car but he’s always driven female-named
Referenced again in #1237
time: 51:15
Close credits
time: 53:07 says it’s episode #1235
iPhone app
Episodes which mention this one:
2012-09-15: #1237: “Vlad the Impala”
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