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The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A classic Car Talk diagnosis is derived from our hosts' intimate knowledge of modern automotive systems and their failure points, plus a healthy dose of finger-crossing in the hopes that the caller doesn't add that one last detail that flushes an otherwise elegant diagnosis right down the tubes. Listen as Click and Clack circle the bowl on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
0:10.0	I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be
0:14.8	singular and I will say but it is.
0:17.5	The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us clicking
0:43.4	Clark to Tappert Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the not-so-quick
0:47.2	oil change place here at Kartar Plaza. Now consumer reports in their
0:50.9	latest issue that in July has found with regards to changing your
0:54.7	Royal, if you're planning on keeping your car for no more than say 60,000 miles, you can do whatever
0:59.7	you want.
1:00.7	Well, I mean, this is not a surprising finding as far as I'm concerned.
1:05.0	But what they did is they took a whole bunch of New York taxi cabs,
1:08.0	took 75 taxi cabs, and they took their engines out and rebuilt them.
1:12.0	Right. And then they reinstall the engines out and rebuilt them. Right.
1:13.0	And then they reinstall the engines and they weighed and measured all the critical parts.
1:17.0	And then they went and had these cars driven and they did the recommended oil.
1:20.6	As only a New York cabby can drive him and then they tore
1:25.3	them down afterwards and measured all these critical factors and looked also for
1:29.0	sludge and varnish deposits and all that and their conclusion was that there wasn't a heck of a lot of difference.
1:34.0	Well, actually they did several things.
1:35.8	One is some of the cars they changed the oil every 3,000 miles, and some every 6,000 miles,
1:41.7	and they used 5 or 8 different oils and the conclusion was
1:46.4	including some synthetics including synthetics and including our pals it's
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