My truck is a half breed as most American vehicles seem to be now... Some metric, and some SAE... Its irritating... It gave me an excuse to buy some more tools, so I live with it... Dodge has however taken it one step further in the arms race of annoying me...
I have to replace the multi-function switch that controls wipers, directionals, headlights, and wiper washer... It has been twitchy for years, and I'm finally going to do it myself since nobody seems to want to be paid to do it... (that should have been a big goddamn clue right there honestly...) Now, this should be a fairly straight forward operation. Pull the shrouds from around the steering column, unscrew the switch, disconnect the wiring harness, and reverse the process with the new switch...
So the first irritation is that they have buried the Torx drive screws that hold the shrouds on column so far in there that you can't get at them with a folding Torx set... Now that's just irritating, but I have a set at my shop, so I can wait until tomorrow to do the whole job right?... Yea... Ok, so I read further in the Haynes manual about this, and find that once you have managed to get a long enough Torx to pull the shroud off, they have decided that vandals will be stealing your pricey multi-function switch, so they attach it with Security Torx screws... Those bloody things with the pin in the center... Those fucking things they can charge an arm and a leg for because they're "secure"... Sadly, Haynes doesn't say what size security Torx I need, so I have to pull the thing apart (tomorrow) and then figure out what size security Torx I need, put it back together, and then go find the correct driver for that...
Did they honestly thing they were going to dissuade any but the most clueless vehicle stripper with this game?... Fuckers must have stock in the company that gets the licence royalties from the security Torx patent...
Posted by Backstage at December 20, 2006 04:04 PM | TrackBack