• pancakes@sh.itjust.works
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    5 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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      5 months 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 😭

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        5 months ago

        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.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, but the difference is that they made it so you need an extra socket or an alan wrench. I think you’d have made dumb decisions that were a little bit more deadly.