Looks like you’re kinda stuck stripping the door in that one spot (the adhesives tend to eat through the clearcoat and etch the basecoat), otherwise when you go to repaint you’ll be left with an outline where the decals used to be. The good thing is those are both relatively flat panels, so you could take a couple…

You go, girl!

I’m not gonna hate on her, but I’m am kind of salty.

Directly, yes. But, if you are a billion dollar manufacturing company and you want to poison the water supply of towns/cities or release harmful radiation/chemicals/emissions, go right ahead!

I see what she did there.  She didn’t.

Alternate headline: Dowel Movement Turns Cummins Engines to Shit

When I read your post, I am picturing you as a cat that likes to knock everything off of the coffee table, item by item. 

I’m resisting this with every fiber of my being... I’m a messy person (not dirty, just not organized) and seeing a super-tidy place makes me a bit anxious...like the place isn’t really lived in. Go ahead, people, judge me. Avert your eyes from my stack of books not in a bookshelf. Your disdain, feeds me.  Am I not…

Here’s a picture of the VAG (VW-Audi) canonical customer service position...

I work at a not for profit that relies on a resale shop to fund most of our programs. We are absolutely fucking THRILLED about this.

As a VW owner, it sounds like the same steps as replacing a headlight bulb.

Not everything is foreseen by engineers when a product is being developed. And this engine debuted on this truck in ‘88 - which means it was being engineered in ‘85 into ‘86 - waaaay before computer simulations of multiple hundred thousand miles were even dreamed of.

oh subaru

I like the meme ones.

Also, the “bitch clip” holding BMW manual shifter carriers to the transmission.  That one’s not actually bad with the right tool and a good understanding of what direction it needs to move in, but if you lack either of those you can be in for an hour of fiddling and cursing with no progress.

This just seems like such a gloriously obvious engineering fuckup in an otherwise excellent engine. How did no one ever stop and say “Hey, guys, maybe we should make this pin captive like every other pin in every single engine?”

I love when parts earn some type of nickname because they are so destructive or such a pain in the ass to get to/work on like the VR6 ‘Crack Pipe’ or the MR2 ‘Hose from Hell’.

Omelette you slide for that.

*don’t say it*