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Right who would have thought I woulda needed an air chisel to do a H/C/I swap on a fresh 347, I swear I'm always needing tools I never thought I'd need at home that are at the shop. I believe some Audis have the torx drain plugs but I've had to chisel one out of an older porsche cayenne (good ol German over engineering) before so that was fun. But I never thought of doing that for the McGuard locks before that's a good idea lol, but I've also not run into many of them stripped out.
LOL you wouldn't think you would, but it's always the **** you don't think you need or don't think of at all, that you end up needing in the driveway. Dude I couldn't change my oil in my truck hardly the other day because (I bought it used) the g** damn filter was on so tight it seemed like it was put on with a impact. By the time I got it off it was a wadded up tin can.
The torx on german cars makes sense. As in whatever makes things the most f**** difficult and retarded, the germans are sure to do.
I do that to the mcguard locks when people lose their key, I've never seen one stripped. All other locks are soft enough that I can just go straight to hammering on them and they rotate. The mcguards are far harder metal and just wad up my bit.
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