a startling for me i.e.
 

All my life I have been around japanese, german and one or two english vehicles, In all of them I did find a few odd ball pieces that were headscratchers like the hinges on any japanese car or the like nothing very odd, except for using a steel mesh as a trans filter and retailing it for 50 dollars :confused::mad:

I recently saw an old GM product it was some pontiac sedan with a 3.8 V6 engine, It was at a shop where a new freind of mine has started to work, it was opened up because the factory coolant had actually ate through some "plastic" gaskets :eek:... What????? how does that get approved to fill...:confused: It also made some nice pin holes in the welch plugs too.

Am I looking at things through wrong glasses? because my nissan dealer also gets pissed off if I try to argue logic.

Some manufacturers like to engineer weak points in their product to enable them to make money off of replacement parts.