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Episode #1240
title: “The Forget-A-Key”
airdate: 2012-10-06
The When-In-Rome Department
#season[Columbus Day]
Growing up Italian
Note: this might be the first post-Car Talk rerun episode! They said they’d start reruns in October
(TODO: if so, link to where all these segments came from)
time: 3:02
Barb from St. Louis, Missouri
Ray has the same car
Sitting still can’t shift through gears, including if car off
“Thats the best answer you could have given”
just save you 500
more!
Answer isn’t inside transmission
Instead shift linkage
time: 6:25
José from Chicago, Illinois
Valve covers and cam shaft covers same. leaking
Also from MIT
valve cover gaskets?
Girlfriend has year-old #car[Scion]
time: 11:15
Sarah from Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska #season[summer]s and #season[winter]s
1995 Toyota T100 pickup truck
Heater randomly works or doesn’t
time: 15:57
Break
Music
Ad
time: 13:35
Answer to last week’s puzzler (#1239)
D-Day
Frenchmen in the inky shadows
Consulted with Dr. Paul Vinger to find out i this was another bogus puzzler
Old men had cataracts surgery - removed lens - see UV light
Winner Derrick Tickle
time: 21:58
Christine rom Indianapolis, Indiana
#car[Toyota,Camry]
“Working great, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the car.”
“Of course not.”
1976 Dodge Aspen is the opposite: always a problem
Keeps locking keys in the car
Medical student
time: 27:00
Shawn from Greenwich, Connecticut
Come to a stop abruptly, car begins to vibrate
From Washington
East coast/west coast drivers
Disc rotors are warped (brakes)
Need dial indicator to diagnose
time: 30:40
Julie from Sunnyside, Queens, NYC
Just moved from Boston
#ca[Honda]
#car[Hyundai]
De-fog need to turn on A/C. What do people do with no A/C?
time: 34:05
Break
Music
#car[35:32]
New #puzzler
4 matchsticks in a square
Make 16 right angles
time: 37:20
Ed in Johnson City, Tennessee
1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo
“Pings” high-test gas, “if you put regular gas in it it sounds like a machine gun”
“Every now and then it belches out blue smoke, makes you think you’re in Los Angeles”
“Oil pressure gauge fluctuates quite a bit”
After drive, oil pressure drops from 50 to 30 lb
Excessively high engine operating termperature?
time: 42:45
Judy from Evanston, Illinois
She and husband agreed on everying, got #car[Toyota,Corolla]
Light color vs. dark color
White safer?
Tom and Ray are colorblind
time: 46:38
Dickie from New Iberia, Louisiana
TODO: Link to previous episode
1991 Lexus
Steering column
“If I’d’a known growing old was this much fun I’d’a done it a long time ago”
time: 51:00
Close credits
Episodes which mention this one:
2012-10-13: #1241: “The Shrink-Wrapped Land Rover”
