Television Squad Cars

This Adam 12 Episode 17 from Season 5 titled "The Beast" sounds entertaining enough:

Malloy and Reed are given a different police car which has 300 miles to go until retirement, and also inherit the problems—the car suddenly surges power, the glove compartment door constantly drops on Reed's knees, the water hose breaks while they are sneaking up on a prowler suspect who it turns out used to live there, a busted taillight prevents them from writing a ticket to a citizen whose car had the same problem, the distributor cap fails when trying to respond to another call, and finally, after capturing a suspect in a pursuit, the car's emergency brake fails and the unmanned car runs into a tree. Another call regarding warehouse activity (for the first time in eight years) results in the capture of a some burglary suspects. Marty Ingels and Donna Douglas guest star.