Then, it's down the street, to Belmont, Massachusetts, where reformed flower-child Patty's Civic is tapping an uneasy beat. Meanwhile, out in San Francisco, Steven's Nissan pick-up is sounding alarmingly like Sunday dinner at the Magliozzi house. Can Tom and Ray bring some quiet to these caller's lives?
Bored by weird car sounds? Up in New Hampshire, it's an olfactory conundrum: Amy's exhaust smells like bad fries from Coney Island. In our Call of the Week, we find the Twilight Zone. It's in Fort Collins, Colorado, where the odometer on Ian's girlfriend's Dodge Neon runs backwards. Listen in, as our hosts extricate him from a complex Einsteinian time warp.
Think you've had bad days? Lani had a fire in her Subaru's gas tank. And not a little one, either. Her chances for another conflagration, plus lots more. [Broadcast Date: April 21, 2007]
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