#2308: Automotive Wallet Diagnostics

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Don't have enough money for the repairs that your car needs? That's ok, because Melanie's local shop has a repair job to match her budget. Her car's AC is leaking freon but that's $400 to fix. When Melanie balked, the service manager offered to unbend her radio antennae for $200 instead. Will Click and Clack offer to change her air freshener for $100 and get the job? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Card Talk, a national public radio with us clicking back to the
0:19.6	topic brothers.
0:20.6	We're broadcasting this week once again, game.
0:24.2	It's a game.
0:25.2	Yeah.
0:26.2	From the matchmaking division here at Card Talk Plaza.
0:28.2	We were about a month and a half ago, we got a call from a woman.
0:31.7	Where was she from?
0:32.7	Seattle, Spokane, one of those places.
0:34.7	Yeah, somewhere north of San Diego.
0:37.0	She wanted to advertise the car for sale on the classified section of her newspaper in
0:40.7	order to meet guys.
0:41.7	I remember her.
0:42.7	And she wanted to know what kind of a car would attract the kind of guy that she was looking
0:47.4	for.
0:48.4	And we told her the kind of list was a 1959 land rover.
0:51.4	I remember her.
0:53.4	I remember her.
0:54.4	And we heard from her actually recently and she actually met a guy.
0:57.6	Well, unfortunately, he's like Tennessee or something like that.
1:00.8	But he's a happier than get this.
1:02.4	I have this letter.
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