Problems taking off your lugnuts?

[JDS968]

The NE US is the rust capital of the world. If rubber and plastic ever figure out how to rust, it will happen here first. Liquid road salt is a killer corrosion agent.

Rubber and plastic in Florida are like steel in New England. The heat and the sun together eat anything hydrocarbon based. Some of the BMWs were so bad that everything in the engine bay (which is ALL plastic now, if they figure out a way to make a plastic engine block, I swear they will) would just crumble to the touch or, worse, if you had to apply a tool to move or manipulate anything. I think it's all getting much, much worse now that everything has to be "green" and "environmentally friendly", they're removing all of the effective plasticizers from the plastics that keep them strong and flexible, so what little is left breaks down faster and more completely. The "benefit" is that all of the plastics in your car are biodegradable! The "problem" is that all of the plastics in your car will biodegrade while you're still trying to drive it!

Dude, haven't you figured out how to solve that issue by now?

Learn how to refuse work. I do from time to time. Let some other mechanic deal with that nightmare job that comes knocking on the bay door every now and then. It isn't worth the stress and aggravation.

he sounds like he works at a jaguar dealership. Not sure it would go over well refusing to work on what you sell.

Yeah it's a dealership and no, I'm not really in a position to refuse work on a regular basis.

 

[TheCarbideRat]

Yeh BMW had a problem with plastic a while ago too. Those 2002[car model from the 1970s] fuse box covers melted with one shot of brake cleaner, i worked on a 1986 635Csi last month where the CKP, Cspeed, and TDC sensor plugs had all disintegrated with a few other plugs on their way out [those orange ones near the fenders].

Hey BMW can you say STRUCTURAL FOAM or NOT? lol