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    Hey Car Guys

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Screwball said:

    This fits here.

    A buddy of mine told me today he took his car to the dealer for routine maintenance. Oil change, tire rotation, inspection, the normal X you pay for the checkup. They couldn't get his tires off without ruining the lugnuts so they had to replace them. $322 for those fine little puppies - all 20 of them I think - if it has 5 nuts per wheel. That's a quick $16 buck a nut. 

    That's ****ing NUTS! Pun intended. 🙂

    An automotive lugnut is made by cold forming a round piece of steel by force and spit them out by the hundreds or thousands per hour. Probably cost the car companies pennies each. They ship in bins by truck from satellite suppliers to the automakers. And sometimes they do a secondary operation.

    What is happening here; marketing decided they need really nice chrome lugnuts to look pretty, so they stamped a chrome plated cover over the cold formed nut since it's grey and ugly. Over time, the cover expands, and the guy in the dealership can't get a socket and air wrench on the lugnuts to get them off.

    Really dumb idea, but they did it anyway.

    Another case where marketing overruled sound design and engineering and the customer eats the cost of their greed, stupidity, or both.

     

    They call that the ultimate "upsell". He probably had one bad lugnut. The advisor is paid moslty on commission and said to himself "The worst the customer can say is no." He made $20 and the tech pulled $100 and the dealer gets the rest. COG was probably $10

    Random Baseball Posts

    in Detroit Tigers

    Posted

    40 minutes ago, NorthWoods said:

    Thanks for that, but what's the method for making them show rather thna just the link?

    After you paste the link hit ener and it usually populates the tweet. I use google chrome, may be different for other platforms.

    NBA Info - April 2026

    in Detroit Pistons

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Betrayer said:

    Cade and Luka both got approved for their Extraordinary Circumstances Challenges. Both are eligible for awards.

    Well look at that! If Luka was not involved would Cade get the waiver?

    2026 NBA Playoffs

    in Detroit Pistons

    Posted

    6 hours ago, buddha said:

    lamelo ball has to be one of the more unlikeable players in the league.

    2-16 from 3?  intentionally hurts the other team's best player?  totally selfish and stupid player.  immensely physically talented but just a **** and a dumbass.

     

     

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    NBA Info - April 2026

    in Detroit Pistons

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Deleterious said:

     

    It makes sense that Det merch is low. I took my son to Allen Park Rally House a few weeks ago to let him pick out some Pistons gear for his birthday. They had the smallest little Pistons section. I think Central Michigan had a larger area of gear.

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