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Pebble Time 2 has screws (lemmy.ca)
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The two halves of a disassembled Pebble Time 2 watch
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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (7 children)

My grandpa bought a 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale 25 years ago. He kept it up, and now it's mine. It was a top trim luxury car when it was new, and it has screws exposed on things like the A pillars. My 1993 Subaru Loyale also has exposed screws everywhere. It's so fucking nice, as compared to my newer vehicles where I break 17 plastic tabs off trying to remove the A pillar trim. It's asinine, exposed screws look dope.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Its corner-cutting to save assembly costs. Plastic tabs take sub-seconds to whack into place vs screws which take 20+ seconds each.

    Theyre saving ~$100 on your car assembly process and the end result is you have a vastly more annoying car to work on and repair for its entire lifetime. Its beyond annoying.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    My SO's car is a Ford (pretty reliable actually) and the first fix-it we did needed torx bits. Ugh, go out and get a set of those... come back and start again. I look around and they are everywhere. It might deter some, but to us it was a waste of time and a F-you to those of us who can fix our piles.

    Oh, and a special F-you to whomever designed the absolute useless (not making it up; it's a 4 inch hollow chunk or metal welded to the frame nothing bolts to, hides inside, or protects) protrusion blocking a wrench from the oil drain bolt. A pox on thee!

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    What's wrong with Torx? Better than phillips innit?

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Nothing wrong if you have the drivers, but if you find yourself in a pinch, they aren't prevalent like Philips or standard screwdrivers. A socket set is part of our emergency kit now.

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