I have NEVER had hand-crank windows go bad on any car that I owned, nor on any work truck that I was assigned to drive. I’m not saying that it can’t happen, but I’ve never seen it happen.
Cranks themselves don’t go bad, but sometimes (after many years)…crap gets inside the door and gums up the tracks - which need to be cleaned (sometime replaced).
+1 - If you feel you bought a vehicle that will require an extended warranty, then you made a bad purchase. Buy a more reliable vehicle. I’ve saved THOUSANDS of dollars over the years by NOT buying extended warranties. I’ll NEVER buy one.
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I had the knob come off the crank. I just bought a universal fit crank from the HELP rack at an auto parts store. It didn’t quite match the other window cranks, but it was close enough for me.(I really don’t care if my socks match, either).
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Mrs. T would not be happy with you if you went out of the house with mismatched socks.
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@old_mopar_guy When one sock in a pair gets a hole and is uncomfortable to wear, I throw it away, but save the good sock. Then, if the same thing happens with another pair of socks, I still have a pair of socks to wear even if they don’t match. I wear white work socks much of the time. The socks are of different brands, but that isn’t noticeable. Just this morning as I was getting dressed, one sock had a hole in the toe. I threw it away and had a spare sock of a different brand in the drawer. With both socks being white, Mrs. Triedaq didn’t notice the difference.
Getting back to cars, some of today’s features are really helpful in this pandemic. We can’t go into our public library. We request a book online. We drive up to a designated parking area at the library. I use the Bluetooth connection between my smartphone and the van’s infotainment system. I speak the phone number and when the phone is answered in the library, I give my library card number and other info. The library worker brings the requested book to my van, I press the button to roll down the rear window and the book is dropped onto the seat.
Our old dog has been having more frequent veterinarian appointments. I am not allowed to go inside the veterinary clinic. I pull into the designated area, make the call through the Bluetooth. The veterinarian’s assistant comes out and I press the button to open the sliding door. The assistant helps the dog out of the second seat and they walk into the clinic. When the appointment is over, I receive a call from the veterinarian about the dog, then the receptionist comes on with the charges and I give my credit card information. As the assistant comes out with my dog, I push the button to open the sliding door, she helps the dog onto the seat and fastens his safety harness and I then close the door. I don’t have to leave the driver’s seat.
There are some modern conveniences I really like in vehicles.
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For every day use, I have all the same socks so I never have to match them. Just pick out two and they are all the same. No sorting from the dryer etc.
I had the displeasure of working for an absolute despot for a while who liked to do near daily reaming out of his supervisors for one reason or another. About a half hour and you were free to go. Dead now and a number of us are still considering visiting his grave after eating water melon. At any rate two of us were comparing notes and he tells me just when his meeting was starting to rev up, he said: “Bob, is that one brown sock and one black sock you have on?” Meeting ended shortly after. I still laugh when I think about it after 30 years. What a way to defuse a tyrant.
My dad worked in the ship yard during the war. I was told the story by his buddy that in 1944 when my sister was born which was the first of us, he got so flustered that he showed up at the hospital with one dress shoe and one Red Wing work boot on.
Let him cast the first stone I guess, but funny anyway.
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@bing It would be better to have seven pairs of socks where each pair is a different color. Do not match up the socks. Stir up the 14 socks in the drawer, put on a blindfold, and draw out two socks. What is the probability you will wear matching socks that day?
I can’t help myself … 
Great Mystery Of Life
Do missing socks get lonely
When disappeared without a trace?
Do orphaned socks lonely mourn
No longer paired, as becomes the case
When mates go missing? Are both forlorn?
To keep it car related, the car gas and brake pedals work the same whether I’m wearing matched socks, unmatched socks, or sandals. 
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@Marnet We have dating services that match couples using computer programs. It seems to me that it would be more productive to have a computer program to match socks.
That’s too close to having a bluetooth connected fridge leaving shopping lists on the phone. 
I’ll stick with the computers running the car so I can hot foot it down the road. 
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I have seen many dead in he road run over by a car while trying to make a great escape
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Oh boy. I’m too tired today to even try and calculate that but it would be an interesting experiment. I’ve got at least 7 pair all the same so maybe I’ll just put a brown and black label on them for entertainment to try it out.
To keep it car related, when I went down to buy my annual Girl Scout cookies, I noticed gas had gone up one cent from yesterday to $2.66.
By all means, keep buying Girl Scout cookies. They’re great and support a great group. When they are out of season, take a trip to Aldi and buy the Benton’s versions. They are every bit as good as the GS cookies, and are about one fifth the price. Fabulous bargain.
Amazing how many shoes I’ve seen in the road over the years. Not surprisingly, most I’ve seen seem to have been tossed out school bus windows. 
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Me thinks the Professor is playing a statistical trick on us and snickering a little. Being an experiential type, I just couldn’t help to simulate the issue with pieces of paper instead of socks. So since 7, I picked 4 pair of simulated black socks and 3 pair of simulated brown socks. Then I simulated randomly picking two for a simulated 7 days. Of course assuming that the socks would not be washed in between, on the 7th day just one set would be left.
At any rate I don’t know why but there were precisely 3 days out of 7 that had matching socks. I’m not going to try it again but I think a similar result would happen. I don’t know what the hey would happen if all of the socks were different colors like red, blue, green, etc. but I suspect the Professor knows. I’m still a believer in random clusters though.
pssst: In case you’re wondering, with one pair each of black, brown, red, yellow, green, blue and tan, there are no matches. You’d look like a clown every day.
Would that be 7 factorial?
Consider 7 pairs of socks, 7 different colors.
You pick one sock. Thirteen socks are left.
The chance of you picking the other sock of the same color is 1 in 13.
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@circuitsmith nailed it.
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@Triedaq @circuitsmith That’s why we pay him so much. The thing is if on day one you pick at random a blue sock and a red sock, you have zero chance in future days of ever getting a blue or red sock match.
That’s why I just have them all the same color but I have to buy 10 pair at a time.
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