Don’t know what car you’re driving but I think you’re just using the wrong size wrench/Allen key
Comment on everything actually important is already metric
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Mt 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?
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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 😭
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s usually cost. They have tooling for components that have probably been around decades. The cost of retooling just to change the fastener sizes may not be economically viable. Eventually these legacy components will be phased out and it will be 100% metric.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I especially hate the T series bolts
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
GM has been using all metric for years now.