The Best of Car Talk

Laraine’s Acura is making a weird fricative noise that seems to be coming from impossible locations within the engine compartment. And Click & Clack have to resort to ditching their ‘nice guy’ personas in an attempt to make Laraine’s answers fit their desperate guesses on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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Heather’s Honda got stolen and shortly after it’s recovery she noticed that the car was infested with dozens of black widow spiders. Ugh! While you’re trying hard not to imagine the little critters crawling up YOUR pantleg while you drive, check out Click and Clack’s arachnophobic responses on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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Anne’s Subaru has fallen prey to several failures that exhibit a complex pattern of intricate and subtle symptoms that only a master mechanic with finely-tuned powers of concentration could ever possibly hope to diagnose over the phone. While we all wait for a master mechanic to show up, Click and Clack attempt to stay awake long enough to give it a shot on this episode of the B...

Alison is still madly in love with her hubby of two years, but she’s just plain mad about the fact that everytime they kiss in her car she gets an electric shock. Which has to go: hubby or the car? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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The “Good Things” Lady meets “Thing One and Thing Two”, as the Doyenne of Domesticity, Martha Stewart brings her talents to this episode of the Best of Car Talk. 
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