MArvane
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- Feb 2, 2004
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"Back to the bolt. I don't fault the dealer if the dealer is being charged $6.66 + shipping. I blame Mahindra for not using a standard, readily available bolt in their design. Yes, I understand sometimes higher specs are needed. Not so in this case."
That, Bob, is the $64,000,000 question. If it was in fact a standard bolt to heck with them and buy it out of a bin at your local hardware. Perhaps they figure if you are lazy enough to buy a standard bolt from them they will tag you with a lazy tax. If it was a specially designed bolt, then why?
Back in another life I owned a Porsche. I blew a gearbox and in the process cracked the transmission housing. I almost died when they quoted me the cost of a replacement housing. I figured it was aluminum and I was going to weld it up and remachine it. Then I found out it was MAGNESIUM!!! Why? To get a 25% weight savings over aluminum Porsche sourced a part that cost multiples of what it would have been in aluminum! OK for racing, but way over the line in my book for a street machine. Their engineering philosophy and me parted company. Wish I could say the rationale was as sophisticated for M&M, but I have seen my share of bogus "engineering" on my 4500. It very well may have been........that's the way we've always done it.........who knows. I've worked with many OEMs and engineers, both here and abroad, and if you could be a fly on the wall, you would c**p.
That, Bob, is the $64,000,000 question. If it was in fact a standard bolt to heck with them and buy it out of a bin at your local hardware. Perhaps they figure if you are lazy enough to buy a standard bolt from them they will tag you with a lazy tax. If it was a specially designed bolt, then why?
Back in another life I owned a Porsche. I blew a gearbox and in the process cracked the transmission housing. I almost died when they quoted me the cost of a replacement housing. I figured it was aluminum and I was going to weld it up and remachine it. Then I found out it was MAGNESIUM!!! Why? To get a 25% weight savings over aluminum Porsche sourced a part that cost multiples of what it would have been in aluminum! OK for racing, but way over the line in my book for a street machine. Their engineering philosophy and me parted company. Wish I could say the rationale was as sophisticated for M&M, but I have seen my share of bogus "engineering" on my 4500. It very well may have been........that's the way we've always done it.........who knows. I've worked with many OEMs and engineers, both here and abroad, and if you could be a fly on the wall, you would c**p.
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