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The Best of Car Talk

#2575: The Mechanic's Decision Tree

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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How DO mechanics figure out what’s wrong with your car? You would hope that they’d start small and inexpensive and work their way up to the big stuff, but you’d be wrong. Listen to Click and Clack spend their customer’s money on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0

Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

0:05.4

RWJF is a national philanthropy, working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.

0:12.1

Learn more at RWJF.org.

0:34.8

Thank you. Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us,

0:36.2

Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

0:39.7

and we're broadcasting this week from the Amore Division.

0:44.0

When it's the moon hits your eye like a bear in the fire.

0:46.5

That said, you all right?

0:49.6

Dean Lotton was one of the best.

0:50.2

He was.

0:50.8

He was.

0:54.6

Anyway, I should mention here, as a public service for Valentine's Day this year,

0:59.8

we thought we would report on the status of the car talk personals. Yeah. You may know,

1:03.3

there's a, you may not know, but there's a personal section on our website where people advertise themselves vehicularly as if you were a car. Yeah. And this area of the site has

1:09.0

had quite a bit of success, as well as, of course, the usual

1:11.5

panoply of losers.

1:13.3

But today, we're focusing on the successes.

1:16.0

Anyway, it turns out, according to our cyber babes, that we've had, you ready for this,

1:20.4

eight reported marriages now based entirely on meetings that took place through the car

1:25.3

talk personal.

1:26.1

Yes, and all these people have either sent us photographs of the wedding, or they've all sent

1:31.3

us emails telling us, you know, how they met, how the relationship developed.

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