zing.

 

I hate them, i noticed that there on my dads bmw too, what a pain in the ass. Also the cheap ass jack its got fell down and tore the side skirt when i was doing his brakes. luckily, had the rim underneath the car which held it up till my bud brought his own jack.

 

they would be alot better if the wheel would stayin place while youre trying to put them in.

 

I don't have a problem with mine. Both my Audi and Volvo have a small little bolt that keeps the disk and the hub from misaligning. Take that thing out, and its a bitch to put on.

I think that the reason they made it that way is because of its simplicity to mount the rim back on.

Just lift the rim, and slap it on. The rims hub, mates with the cars hub and you dont even have to hold it up anymore. With one hand you hold a bolt, and the other hand spins the rim untill you match your holes... viola.

No muscle was used to mount the rim, beside lifting it to the hub. Easy as cake. German engineering is one of the best in the world. If its there then, it has a purpose.

I just wish they could get a grip on their electrical jobs...

 

It's just how they've designed it, and its probably always how they've done it. I'm sure they'd look at fords and chevys and be like, why the hell do they have lug nuts, and not bolts.

Samething with engines, in the seventies, we've always had v8's, japanese cars mainly had like inline 4cyl, they probably wonder why we had heavy ass cars with inefficient motors.

 

true true always my main gripe with German cars

 

I have yet to understand why people say german cars are so well engineered...

 

No, we had heavy ass cars with powerful (not inefficient) motors. Because gas was like less than a quarter a gallon. We had plenty of highways to drive on, plenty of iron to make these big ass cars, and plenty of money to buy them.
In the 50's and 60's Japan was still recovering from WWII and had to use it's money and resources sparingly. They didnn't have big, long interstates (no need for big fast cars), they didn't have lots of iron and steel (cars were small and light) They didn't have lots of money (cars were cheaply built and inexpensive.)
Bottom line, gas crunch hits in the 70's...people look for cheap 4 bangers that are inexpenisve to buy, and good on gas and discover Hondas and Toyotas.

So, it wasn't a matter of preference for Japan (they loved American cars) they just built what they could, and cars evolved from there. Thanks in large part to OPEC.

 

yeah remind me to meet up with you when I strip my first stud so I can give you a high five

 

last time I checked german cars are full of bizzare assbackwards designs, eletrical problem prone, and expensive as fuck to fix.

and before anyone says "oh vat zee fuck you know a boot zee muthaland uv zee germany mullet boi?!?!"

my dad owned a porsche, first car I've ever seen burn to the ground