Paul needs help with the electric brakes on his cattle trailer. Click and Clack have lots of ideas but only one question for Paul: "How do electric brakes work, exactly?" Enlightenment ensues on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

Joy's Cadillac has been making a cute little noise for a while and she called Car Talk for a little reassurance that it wasn't anything major. Click and Clack, customer service professionals that they are, managed to administer last rites with a smile on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at...

On this episode of the Best of Car Talk, Dorothea wants to sue her mechanic. Now you might expect Click and Clack to stand up for a fellow professional, but instead they take a few swings at a profession even lower on the 'trustworthiness scale' than car mechanics: lawyers. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or...

Kathleen commutes 100 miles per day in her leased Chrysler and the excess mileage charges are going to clobber her when she returns the car in a few years. She wants to know how likely would it be for the odometer to suddenly stop working, and could Click and Clack explain in detail how that might happen? Will they or won't they? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access...

Leslie from Washington parked her crummy Chrysler K car on a hill one day only to return later and watch it rolling backwards and into a tree. She's sure that she had placed the car in park when she left it. Is there a mechanical explanation for this or did the ol' bucket of bolts decide on it's own to end it all? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800...

Of the two kinds of 'golf widows', Linda is the happy kind -more than willing to let her husband waste hours smacking a little ball around a field while she enjoys some time of her own. But Linda's quality time is threatened by hubby's golf cart acting up. Can Click and Clack the Golf(cart) Pros come to Linda's rescue? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than...

Dee from Freeport, Maine has a pickup truck that sounds like 'distressed ducks' as he chugs along. Can Click and Clack locate the ducks' nest hidden somewhere in Dee's truck or will he have to wait until they fly south for the winter? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at...

Sarah was just trying to keep hydrated with her oversized water bottle always by her side in her Saab. Somewhere along the way, the car developed it's own thirst, too and now Sarah has to pour water on it to get the lights to turn on. Find out if there's a happy ending to Sarah's Saab story on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you...

Marco's wife is harping about his shifting technique, Bill's bride wants him to get rid of his old Lincoln Town Car and Amy has alarm bells going off randomly in her Pontiac. You'd think that our hosts would need to stay pretty on point in order to give out good advice here, but you'd be wrong. Amazing feats of unfocused fancy on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800...

Pete is a private eye in OH staking out some ne'er do well at the local no-tell motel, but his Ford Aerostar isn't producing any heat. Can Click and Clack assist this investigation or will Pete continue to freeze his tucchus while watching all that hot motel room action? Check out the action right here on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes,...

Need a dent fixed and it's off to the autobody shop. Or if you've got transmission trouble, you go to a transmission shop, right? So when Tim from Roanoke realized that he had mayonnaise on his dipstick he naturally turned to the two car guys with the most condiments on their clothes and in their beards. Pass the ketchup and settle in for this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access...

JoAnna and her boyfriend are moving into their first teepee together. Like most first teepees, it's short on creature comforts. But for some reason, the lack of heat, insulation or windows doesn't bother JoAnna -it's the fact that there's no garage for her car that has her calling Click and Clack on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever...

Like Rita from Colorado, many of us have resorted to the 'Arthur Fonzarelli Method'(a precisely measured smack or kick) to 'persuade' an old car to work. But unlike Rita, most of us would only do that to our own cars. Find out how much jail time you get in Colorado for felony car abuse on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen...

We could have titled this show, "Happenings on Goat Hollow Road", where Ruth and her husband have clearly run out of things to talk about because they are now arguing over the proper way to jumpstart a dead car battery. Will Click and Clack's advice make the front page of the 'Goat Hollow Gazette'? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes,...

Dierdre's Volvo has some broken teeth on it's flywheel. Instead of just replacing it, her mechanic wants to fabricate and weld individual replacement teeth onto the damaged flywheel. Will this work, or is Dierdre's mechanic just a wannabe dentist masquerading as a mechanic? Pass the laughing gas and find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk...

Many great institutions are known for their mottos: Harvard has 'Veritas'(Truth). And MIT has 'Mens et Manus'(Mind and Hand). But Car Talk has them both bested with 'Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis'(Unencumbered by the Thought Process). Listen to our boys live and die by these powerful words on this(and every) episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes,...

Paul from Denver has an old Nissan that's slowly rusting away despite his attempts to keep it going. And he's smart enough to know that the rust is going to win eventually, but he just can't let go of it. This leads him to some strange choices when it comes to repairing the car. Find out how strange on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever...

Even though the first automotive seat warmer was patented back in 1951, Tommy assures us that his 'hibachi method' predates that. Gene from Pennsylvania has updated Tommy's idea, slightly, but will it pass Click and Clack's rigorous safety standards? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more...

It was only a matter of time before the Feds came after us. Was it the 'crash dummies widows and orphans fund' or 'save the skeets' that tipped them off? Click and Clack try offering car advice to longtime US Senator Tom Harkin in exchange for lighter sentences on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more...

Katherine called Click and Clack looking for deliverance from the unholy waters sloshing around in the front of her minister-husband's Mitsubishi. Can our 'men-of-the-cloth-rags' help, or will this require a higher power? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or...

Our boys didn't actually call a local dealership a bunch of dirty rats: quite the contrary. Click and Clack compliment and alienate throughout this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

Car Talk's Chief Researcher, Paul Murky occasionally helps Ray by checking out potential Puzzler questions. However, on this particular show Murky must have been in a bad mood because he sandbagged Ray something fierce. Enjoy the carnage on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk...

Click and Clack give up on mechanical diagnosis in favor of predictions. We predict a few laughs, some strange results and another installment of 'Stump the Chumps' on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

As bad decisions go, letting two car mechanics have their own show on NPR was 'questionable'. 'Crazy' was letting the folks calling-in with car problems back on to the show to tell everyone how good that advice was(or wasn't). The debut of 'Stump the Chumps' on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at...