Last episode of car talk just started

http://www.npr.org/about-npr/487608540/nprs-best-of-car-talk-to-end-production-in-2017

I know that show grates on a lot of people, and I can understand it. But I've always enjoyed it, and will miss it.

The end was surely coming soon, though, since Tom passed away and it's been all reruns for some time now.

Maybe I didn't listen enough but the handful of shows I caught they didn't seem to give much more than pretty generic answers to callers problems. And the incessant laughing and giggling seemed out of place.

Listening to Paul Brand's Auto Talk show for years probably had me spoiled.

I enjoyed Car Talk for many years, but mostly narcissistically as i would guess the answer and then wait for them to goofball their way around to it. Sometimes i disagreed with their radio diagnoses, which also added something to my listening. I suppose if I wasn't armchair meckanicking along with the show it wouldn't have been as interesting. If you're listening because you're trying to learn something you'd probably spend a lot of time feeling impatient. I enjoyed their banter for the most part and thought it was a really unique  show. 

It was always more of a "two guys goofing around" show than a "car" show. I enjoyed it as such. Makes me kind of sad that it's gone.

I was a long haul truck driver and listened to plenty episodes over the years but I have to be honest, I didn't like the show. They weren't nearly funny enough to be considered a comedy show and weren't accurate enough in their suggestions to be considered an informative auto repair show. I remember one guy calling in complaining that his new Range Rover cooling fan would hit the radiator when he was going through deep water and the guys suggested he fashion a rod that could be shoved into the fan that would stop it spinning when the guy was crossing a river. They laughed hard at their own "joke" but at no time were actually funny and certainly didn't offer good advice like, as an example, changing to an electric fan and putting it on a switch. If you want to hear a funny and helpful automotive show, listen to CarCast podcast with Adam Carolla. https://www.podcastone.com/CarCast

loosecannon said:

They laughed hard at their own "joke" but at no time were actually funny and certainly didn't offer good advice like, as an example, changing to an electric fan and putting it on a switch.

Good example. That seemed to be the theme I heard when I listened. Almost Beavis and Butthead like in a way. I'm sure they didn't mean to laugh at callers (?) problems but their attempts at humor turned me away quickly. And as said often no solid options or alternatives for the people who took the time to call (and likely had to wait on hold for a long time) into the show.

Wow.  According to wikipedia, the show started production in 1977.  That's an impressive run by any measure. 

I "discovered" Car Talk in the late 1980's, and I enjoyed the heck out of it for years.  I would make an effort to catch it every Saturday morning.  Eventually, life's demands pushed it out of my schedule, but I would still catch it once in a while.  I wouldn't find every bit they did to be all that funny, but then comedy is like that.   Still enjoyed it.  They will be missed.

I hated the show. Family members would call me up with car problems wanting me to diagnose it. Then after I do I would get “but car talk said”.  Then half an hour of explaining why they were wrong and they would still want me to do what the car talk fix was.  About the only good that came from it was I refuse to fix cars for those family members now.