Frank, I hope you don't think I was teasing you about that{I wasn't} I just remember your car posts from CU in the whiny zone.You have the worst luck with cars. And I salute you for trying to learn more about them.
No, no, sir.
I figured you were teasing, but in the good-natured way.
The deal is, I don't think I have "bad luck" with motor vehicles--especially since it seems every time something really bad happens, it turns out to be minor.
Like the time a guy told me I had a cracked engine block--and it took a $4.70 repair (parts and labor, really, I kid you not) to fix the problem.
I don't think that's bad luck at all.
It's just that, I suppose, this is the first time in my life that I've been driving around (the past six years), and something happens, and ooops, there's no one around, just myself. All other times, plenty of people were around, and problem solved.
It's a quite different life, driving around where there are more miles per vehicle, than vehicles per mile.