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My wife can hear me mutter under my breath three rooms away and on different floors, but a car noise - total deafness. If it starts when she turns the key - no problems there. I'm 50-60% deaf in my right ear and 25% in the left (thanks, US Army), but a car noise to me - it's like a ricer with booming bass.

The local Ford dealer - $105/hr (wait, that was 4 months ago )

Dave W my wife has the same selective car noise filter. Maybe it only comes in the spouse model?
I can get into one of our two cars and instantly identify a funcky noise. The last one was a terrible high pitched metal shreaking sound when ever you went over the slightest bump. She had been driving that car for weeks and never noticed it. I was stumped for about three days, when one day I finally figured it was coming from the passenger front wheel well. It was a valence sheet metal panel, that was hanging by it's last rivet, near the front shock absorber, when I found it. After the truck was fixed, she said, "hmm I never heard anything!"
Now if I was to mutter some snide comment say, in the garage, and she was within 50 feet, she'd nail me for it