Do You Need to Warm Up Your Car? Plus, a Teeny, Glorious Car Hack

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tucked into your car’s dashboard is a tiny arrow that points to the side of the car with the gas tank cap. Who came up with it? ELT tracks down the inventor of this tiny, brilliant car hack. Plus, do you really need to warm up your car? Guests: Automobile aficionado Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik; gas tank-indicator arrow inventor Jim Moylan. Thanks to caller Jonathan, the listeners who shared their car-spiracies, and the car experts who answered our questions. Have a tiny but important invention you want to know more about? Tell us who belongs on ELT’s Bulletin Board of Glory™. Email us at elt@gimletmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Later in the show, do you need to let your car warm up or not? Up first today,
0:07.2	E.L.T. listener Jonathan reached out to our helpline about a tiny triangle.
0:15.0	He thinks deserves some recognition.
0:19.9	It's like it's smaller than the nail on my pinky finger.
0:20.8	It's just a triangle really,
0:22.4	but it's really helpful. This triangle that John. pink
0:24.0	it's just a triangle really but it's really helpful. This triangle that Jonathan is calling about
0:26.2	it has a sort of life hacker YouTube following.
0:29.8	It's one that I actually only just discovered. I just learned the secret that I actually only just discovered.
0:33.2	I just learned this secret that I wish I knew forever.
0:36.7	I don't know why this isn't just something that everybody knows but it's so helpful.
0:40.7	The arrow and the gas gauge points you what... The gas tank indicator arrow in your
0:47.0	car. If you've never seen it, look at the gas gauge. You'll see probably a fuel pump icon and
0:52.0	next to it there's an arrow or a triangle and it is pointing to the side of your car that the gas tank is on.
0:58.0	Mind-boggling I never knew.
1:01.0	But the inventor has never been acknowledged and E.L.T listener Jonathan will not stand for it.
1:07.2	I just hoping you can give some credit to whoever came up with this small but
1:11.0	great invention.
1:17.0	Challenge accepted. Here to help us on our quest to find the never credited inventor of the little arrow is
1:22.0	Jason Torchinsky.
1:23.0	I have a bunch of cars, a 1990 Nissan-Pow, a 1973
1:27.0	VW Beetle, 73 Reliance Simitar.
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