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Originally Posted by c-bass
on the flip side of that coin I have stripped more torx bolts in the last 3 years that in the first 20 of me wrenching on Jap and US cars.
There's literally 3 stripped bolts on the wife's X that are preventing me from removing the bumpers.
Maybe you live somewhere that doesn't salt the roads or my regular technique of using a ratchet is not applicable to fancy euro fasteners  |
Ahhh, the salt may be the operative here. I could see how salt would completely flip the script on Torx fasteners. In the balmy Texas gulf coast the only cars that experience salt rot are ones that spend their entire like on the beach.