I had a Jeep CJ in which I installed 4 rear axles. One broke and I had it done at the dealership. I found that too expensive so the next time it broke I installed it myself. When that one broke I thought I had done something wrong so I had it done at the dealership. The next one I installed myself just to get it in good enough shape to sell.
I also had a Dodge K-Car. When the stop light turned green I stepped on the accelerator. The front bolts holding the seat in place broke. I found myself in the back seat going through a busy intersection. I ended up putting a Domino's Pizza dough tray in the back seat propped up against the head rest to hold it up. If someone had hit me in the rear it would have taken my head off. I guess I can't complain too much. The block cracked so I JB welded it and drove it for close to 50,000 miles. I'm not so sure if thats due to the quality of the K-Car or the quality of a healthy dollop of JB Weld.
"I also had a Dodge K-Car. When the stop light turned green I stepped on the accelerator. The front bolts holding the seat in place broke. I found myself in the back seat going through a busy intersection. I ended up putting a Domino's Pizza dough tray in the back seat propped up against the head rest to hold it up. "
My parents had a 1981 Reliant K Station Wagon. The driver's seat broke and my dad had to keep a box filled with styrofoam popcorn behind the seat to hold it up. (He used the cardboard box with popcorn because he thought that if he used anything heftier, it would kill him in an accident.) He was in an accident with the car and the cardboard gave way, the peanuts blew out and he was unhurt as a result of the cushioning and release whenthe seat collapsed; otherwise, if the seat had been stury and stayed in place, he would have been killed.