..especially if any of your offspring-units would know what a carburetor is. Whether you would trust them to fix one is another matter...;-)
I suppose if I were asked, “Was the object that fell on your foot a child, a pot lid, or a carburetor?” I could identify the carburetor as the one it wasn’t.
Anoreth took Auto Tech at community college, but this sounds awfully technical. Maybe she knows someone, though.