Car Talk #1646: Fitness Fails, Smelly Cars, and Bird Poop Mysteries
Car TalkSeptember 30, 202152 min17,219 views
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- 🏋️ A man recounts his week of personal training with Tanya, an aerobics instructor and model, detailing the extreme physical toll.
- 😩 By day three, he experienced severe muscle pain, difficulty with basic movements like brushing teeth, and accidental parking lot mishaps.
- 💥 Day five brought intense body pain, leading him to declare his hatred for Tanya and the entire fitness experience.
- 💪 Another caller shares a similar experience of being pushed too hard by his wife at the gym, resulting in five days of intense soreness.
Automotive Odors and Electrical Issues
- 🚗 Sheila in Virginia describes a persistent smell from her Nissan Maxima, initially like rotten eggs or burnt dry cleaning, later identified as a slight electrical or synthetic odor.
- 💨 The smell is more noticeable on longer trips, possibly related to a recently replaced muffler, but its location is unclear.
- 💡 The hosts suggest the smell might be from the exhaust system melting undercoating or carpeting due to improper installation or lack of heat shielding.
- 💡 Laura Rose from Vermont experienced truck issues after switching from premium to regular unleaded gasoline, which the hosts attribute to a bad distributor cap, not the fuel change.
Curious Car Conundrums
- 🐦 Ross in Seattle questions the effect of car color on bird droppings, noting his white Acura attracts significantly more than his previous dark green one.
- 🤔 The hosts and caller speculate on potential reasons, including infrared signals or involuntary bird behavior, deeming it a mystery.
- ⚡ Ethan from Montana shares his experience of his Chevy Blazer being struck by lightning, causing electronic damage that was repaired.
- 🗣️ He questions whether to disclose the lightning strike to potential buyers, with the hosts suggesting it could be a unique selling point.
Vintage Car Quirks and Puzzlers
- 🔧 Marty from St. Louis describes a dangerous but effective method of starting a 1936 Auburn by using a shop vac on the exhaust pipe to draw fuel through the engine.
- ⚠️ The hosts warn of the extreme danger of this method due to the risk of explosion from gasoline vapors igniting in the shop vac's motor.
- 🕰️ A puzzler is presented involving drawing two lines on a clock face to divide it into sections with equal sums of numbers.
- 🏆 The solution involves specific line placements to create three sections, each summing to 26, with Suzanne Howie identified as a winner for her correct answer.
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Car MaintenanceAutomotive RepairCar SmellsFitnessPersonal TrainingCar ColorBird BehaviorLightning StrikeVintage CarsEngine StartingPuzzlersClock PuzzlesGasolineDistributor CapExhaust System
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