AUTOMOTIVE HELL 2

And while I think of it, I can recall my first car. A Ford Mercury.  There wasn't much wrong with it. Though, several months later the regrooved tires fell apart while I was on the New Jersey Turnpike,  and it was only then I discovered the jack wasn't...well, there were three parts, but none of the parts fit one another.

First lesson: check the trunk and see what's missing..