Date:         Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:04:21 -0400
Reply-To:     ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         ed donnen <spliced.surprise@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      bumpers
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Bumpers!  There I said it, sorry about the language. Bumpers!  I said
it again.  I think VW had two bumper engineers, let us say, Herr
Metric-Rhetoric for the front bumper, and Herr Lyric-Satiric for the
back bumper.  Now these two fellows, although quite fine engineers in
their own right, nerveless never consulted each other.  Perhaps there
was a problem between them, let us say the beautiful Fraulein
Buxom-Euphoric.  The rivalry between our two engineers was renown
throughout the VW design community, much to the distress of the
management.  An example:  To remove the front bumper all you have to
do is remove the bolts clearly visible on the bumper and you have
access to the end cap nut.  Nut plates hold the front bumper on.  Not
so with the rear bumper.  Herr Lyric-Satiric must have been mightily
vexed that day, because now I have to remove the bumper frame from the
body under the car to get to the bumper to get to the end caps.  I
think a few tack welds judicially placed will turn the loose nuts into
nut plates.  Anyone see a problem with this idea?  Not you, Herr
Lyric-Satiric, I’ve been a victim to your work already.

Ed, N VA, with an idea