• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Ayo the car thing is absolute bullshit.

    10mm bolt for the fuckin brake caliper but 3/8 for the fuckin slide bolts?

    Get the fuck outta here

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        7 months ago

        My last car was a 2012 ford fiesta. The lug nuts are 19mm. The caliper bolts were 10mm and the slide bolts were 3/8.

        The car before that was a 2001 cavalier. Not only did it have metric and standard bolts but the slide bolts were fuckin Allen heads.

        Like literally why?

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          7 months ago

          Probably because they were made by American car manufacturers and couldn’t make a logical or consistent design decision if their lives depended on it.

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            Like I’m not even an engineer and I’m just screaming about the dumbest decisions made by people who make more in a week than I make in a year 😭

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              The last one I ran into is that the Windshield Washer Fluid Reservoir in a Chevy Bolt is about 1/4 cup smaller than a standard 1 gallon jug of fluid. You could have expanded the diameter of the fill tube by less than 1/8 of an inch and fit that remaining 1/4 cup of fluid in there.