#2470: The God of Thermostats

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Max needs help keeping his junker going in Hawaii. John has to tell his Honda mechanic in the most tactful way possible that he's incompetent and Jill and her Ford have to rely on the oracles 'Clickus' and 'Clackus' to appeal to the God of thermostats on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	Truth, independence, fairness, transparency, respect, excellence.
0:07.0	This is NPR. The Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us
0:34.5	click and clack the Tappett Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the
0:37.6	laboratories of murky research here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:41.8	Yes, because we have, as some people may know,
0:46.0	some murky research.
0:47.0	As some people may know, on our website,
0:49.4	Car Talk.com, we had a survey, and we have some of the results.
0:55.0	And nine out of ten users said they hated it.
0:57.0	No, I mean we got some interesting stuff.
1:00.0	I mean we got the I just wanted to mention that this stuff is up on the website right now get out
1:06.3	Surprised me too
1:08.4	Here's some interesting things
1:10.7	percentage who have children by make of car.
1:14.0	Do you know that owners are drivers of Plymouth
1:18.0	are more likely to have kids than any other vehicle?
1:21.0	Well, I'm not surprised by that statistic whatsoever.
1:25.0	Well, you'll be surprised later.
1:27.0	Wow, I mean, you can actually...
1:29.0	Well, Plymouth has always been considered the cheaper of the Chrysler cars so people who were concerned with
1:34.6	value yeah would buy a Plymouth well you might have right you might if that's the case
1:39.4	you might have an interesting theory having to do with I always have a
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