Pulsing Brakes
TOM: I'm afraid! I'm afraid to even venture a guess!
RAY: He asks him, "Did anyone have his hands on your lug nuts?"
TOM: He asks him one question, and from the answer to that question, he knows what's wrong with the guy's car.
RAY: Mmm.
TOM: Wow!
RAY: And the question he asks him is, "Do you wash the car immediately after returning from these long trips?"
TOM: Awww! Really?
RAY: And the fellow says, "As a matter of fact..."
TOM: "Before I get home..."
RAY: "As soon as I pull into the driveway, before I even loosen my tie, I've got the hose out, and I'm hosing the dirt off the car, and in doing so..."
TOM: "Ach! I'm warping the disc rotors!"
RAY: By hitting those hot rotors with ice-cold water...
TOM: With cold water.
RAY: On one side only.
TOM: Oh, man! One side only!
RAY: Well, he's hitting just the wheel side of the disc rotor. When you go through a puddle, you're immersing the whole disc rotor in the water.
TOM: Yeah.
RAY: And so you tend to equalize the forces. But when the thing is red hot, because you've been driving like crazy to get home to your sweetie...
TOM: Yeah.
RAY: At least pulling into the driveway and wash the car, and you put that ice-cold water on that red-hot disc brake...
TOM: On one side.
RAY: On one side of it, zzzzzzt! It's warped! And who's our winner this week?
TOM: Wow! Oh, boy! That's good! I mean, that's good, but we're going to get a lot mail.
RAY: Don't we always?
TOM: I'm just letting you know, you know. We do have a winner. The winner is Jessie Dornstreich.
RAY: Dornstreich.
TOM: From Philadelphia, PA.[ Car Talk Puzzler ]
