People need to stop buying BMWs, they seem to always be the first to introduce some new bullshit.
They also love making their cars extremely complicated, so maybe it’s better if people need to do some research before taking apart something they can’t reassemble.
I wonder how that got past the prior art. I mean Robocop referenced shooting yourself in the dick back in the 1980s.
Hooray, more tools to buy.
Sure wish we could just have a single standard shape and size.
How about standard hex in metric and be done with it?That’s why I bought a metric tap and die, anywhere I run into stupidity I can just re-thread and put a better bolt in.
My hero 🥹
Hex can strip, either square or star/torx
Stripping is almost always user error and i personally don’t like torx. But I’m down for any of them if made a singular a standard!
Maybe user error, but hex comes in both us and metric and the difference is often just tight enough to strip it or loose enough you can pound it in with a hammer. Torx only comes in 1 scale.
What do you personally take issue with?
That’s true.
I just dont like the feel of using them and I’ve also broken multiple of the small torx bits.
But realistically i don’t care what standard is chosen as long as there was one.
I’ve broken some cheap bits. Anything that costs more than “suspect” has impressed me.
I…
Like.
You don’t understand why? Really?
What combination of words in my comment could have possibly led you to the massive leap of an assumption that i dont understand why companies do this?
Go on, explain.Totally misread your comment, my bad.
Thought it said “I don’t know why…”
Leaving the comment for prosperity. Carry on.
It happens, no worries!
Literally not even a novel design and in my opinion, not patentable.
Didn’t Audi edit: try some similarly outrageous stunt about 25 years ago? Something like no user access to the engine compartment at all? As in go to the dealer to have them remove the front of your car and refill your washer fluid. I remember that went over like a limestone cloud and I don’t think they pulled the trigger on that design. Car people, where are you?
BMW is essentially the Apple of cars. Is has the same cult-like following too.
The BMW-driver stereotypes are real too.
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I knew exactly one BMW driver in my life, he was a marketing firm executive, looked like a character from Better Call Saul. I was in charge of marketing for a small company that I lied to about my qualifications and ended up a VP of marketing, so this guy comes roaring up one day and parks across two spaces in his BMW convertable, cigar in mouth, aviator shades, cheap suit and loud tie, he just always wanted to “make things happen.”
Absolute cartoon character. I have to say I kind of loved every interaction, it was like a recurring character on a sitcom.
Anyway, about all I remember was him complaining how hard it was to get the thing serviced and the wheels alone set him back the cost of another car.
I hated marketing, but I also hated the unemployment that followed when the housing market bubble burst and suddenly nobody had money anymore.
I’m sure a bored steel worker somewhere can crank out a bit in 10 minutes
Just another tool for the mechanic to stock. They’ll be on eBay and Amazon soon enough.
Having 8 million single use tools sure does get annoying and expensive…
I bet you’ll be able to source matching bits from Chinese sources not a week after the screws appear on the market.
Nobody learned anything from “Tamper Resistent” Torx.
BMW, in lieu developing electric cars that can compete with chinese brands, has found a different way of binding its customers to the brand…
No one ever asks about the company’s right to repair /s
Fuck em, but also a few measurements, plastic prototypes, and 1 shapeways order and you could have a custom stainless socket wrench bit to fit these. I’ve printed a custom shaped utility box key in 17-4 for less than $50.
classic bmw
if only our economy wasnt so dependent on this company
Fuck them then. The line in the sand has been drawn and we want to fix our shit without corporate intervention. I was always too poor to own one anyway.
Propriety screws can all be defeated with the right 2 part epoxy…?
What’s the point? Any person with a set of tools is not going to be stopped by having the wrong drill bit.
Even a bad idea like this has its loyal supporters who are fine with a car company making DIYers jump through hoops. Probably pay more for the luxury of not being able to do basic service on your own car.
I honestly was expected it to be lug nuts connected to the cloud that self-destructed if a code isn’t given in time. If you want people to buy your cars and take them to the dealer for servicing, then build better cars and have better service at decent prices. It’s common sense to anyone else.
Why not just weld that shit solid at this point ffs.
