Don't feel bad... Two weeks before the accident happened with the nissan I just replaced the alternator which was 220 dollars, and the front tires were less than two months old. My truck was a loss also. I had just done all the gaskets on it, trans was rebuilt and had less than 10,000 on it, upper and lower ball joints ,tie rod ends etc. Basically everything was redone due to its age. Pissed me off big time because that truck belonged to my dad and when he passed away I got the truck. It had the 300 straight 6 in it plus it had 4.10 gears.