When I met my missus, her car was making bad bearing noises up front. I told her she needed to get that fixed right away. A month or so later she asked me to take her car for new tires about 15-20 miles away. I drove her car out there and back thinking it would leave me stuck some where in between. I made it but wouldn't let her drive it until I fixed it. That sound gives me bad memories when I was about 20 in the middle of a snow storm about 30 miles away from home.