Originally Posted by
nonsense
Curiously I'm a former automotive engineer; a colleague once commented to me that the ideal car component was something you could throw in the general direction of the car from two metres away, and it would fit right every time. There's an awful lot in a car which is designed as much for the 30 seconds it is being fitted as for the decade or two which follows.
a pity that only goes for the factory assembly and not for the maintenance after that!