Originally Posted by SteveS

For decades, Ivory Soap sold on the slogan "99-44/100th % pure" ... if we were to apply that standard to automobiles, there is no surprise whatever that one encounters a few problems ... in fact, the greater surprise is that one does not encounter MORE ...

There is some debate over the number of individual parts contained in an average car with some estimates as low as 10,000 and some as many as double that ... for the purposes of this discussion, let's split the difference and say 15,0000 ...

If your car is as pure as Ivory Soap, 14,916 of those parts are not a problem .... leaving 84 that are ... even one-tenth of that leaves you with 8 or 9 problems to deal with ...

I don't care what car you drive ... you ARE going to have some problems to deal with ...