The Best of Car Talk

Sarah was just trying to keep hydrated with her oversized water bottle always by her side in her Saab. Somewhere along the way, the car developed it's own thirst, too and now Sarah has to pour water on it to get the lights to turn on. Find out if there's a happy ending to Sarah's Saab story on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Marco's wife is harping about his shifting technique, Bill's bride wants him to get rid of his old Lincoln Town Car and Amy has alarm bells going off randomly in her Pontiac. You'd think that our hosts would need to stay pretty on point in order to give out good advice here, but you'd be wrong. Amazing feats of unfocused fancy on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Pete is a private eye in OH staking out some ne'er do well at the local no-tell motel, but his Ford Aerostar isn't producing any heat. Can Click and Clack assist this investigation or will Pete continue to freeze his tucchus while watching all that hot motel room action? Check out the action right here on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Need a dent fixed and it's off to the autobody shop. Or if you've got transmission trouble, you go to a transmission shop, right? So when Tim from Roanoke realized that he had mayonnaise on his dipstick he naturally turned to the two car guys with the most condiments on their clothes and in their beards. Pass the ketchup and settle in for this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

JoAnna and her boyfriend are moving into their first teepee together. Like most first teepees, it's short on creature comforts. But for some reason, the lack of heat, insulation or windows doesn't bother JoAnna -it's the fact that there's no garage for her car that has her calling Click and Clack on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Like Rita from Colorado, many of us have resorted to the 'Arthur Fonzarelli Method'(a precisely measured smack or kick) to 'persuade' an old car to work. But unlike Rita, most of us would only do that to our own cars. Find out how much jail time you get in Colorado for felony car abuse on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

We could have titled this show, "Happenings on Goat Hollow Road", where Ruth and her husband have clearly run out of things to talk about because they are now arguing over the proper way to jumpstart a dead car battery. Will Click and Clack's advice make the front page of the 'Goat Hollow Gazette'? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Dierdre's Volvo has some broken teeth on it's flywheel. Instead of just replacing it, her mechanic wants to fabricate and weld individual replacement teeth onto the damaged flywheel. Will this work, or is Dierdre's mechanic just a wannabe dentist masquerading as a mechanic? Pass the laughing gas and find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Many great institutions are known for their mottos: Harvard has 'Veritas'(Truth). And MIT has 'Mens et Manus'(Mind and Hand). But Car Talk has them both bested with 'Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis'(Unencumbered by the Thought Process). Listen to our boys live and die by these powerful words on this(and every) episode of the Best of Car Talk...

Paul from Denver has an old Nissan that's slowly rusting away despite his attempts to keep it going. And he's smart enough to know that the rust is going to win eventually, but he just can't let go of it. This leads him to some strange choices when it comes to repairing the car. Find out how strange on this episode of the Best of Car Talk...