To be fair, that’s how a lot of manufacturers attach trim pieces. However, they tend to use high-quality bonding adhesive that is as strong as (or stronger than) welding. Not fucking Elmer’s Glue.
Hey every glue has a purpose. Elmer used to run the fastest races. Now elmer makes delicious Jello, fine wooden instruments and the very best whatever it is that little girl made for her daddy in kinder. Elmer, you’re the best!
I can imagine. Even still, a bit of proper prep work and actual panel bonding adhesive (with some form of adhesion promoter) on the reverse side would have gone a long way, I think. I’m not a body guy though, just pulling shit out of my ass.
They may have used the proper glue… that foot pedal recall, proper glue, but the workers had trouble installing it so they added soap to the pedal without properly vetting it and that fucked up the glue.
Something like that could have happened again
Edit: Just thinking of a made up stupid reason like the soap and thought it was funny…
E.g: We were supposed to use a size 3 glue applicator as per the asssembly spec, but it was causing some excess glue to come out along the edges as we placed the trim down and it was a lot of effort to properly wipe up on each vehicle, so we started using a size 2 applicator with less glue! 🤦
To be fair, that’s how a lot of manufacturers attach trim pieces. However, they tend to use high-quality bonding adhesive that is as strong as (or stronger than) welding. Not fucking Elmer’s Glue.
Elmo’s Glue 😂
Hey every glue has a purpose. Elmer used to run the fastest races. Now elmer makes delicious Jello, fine wooden instruments and the very best whatever it is that little girl made for her daddy in kinder. Elmer, you’re the best!
Gluing to stainless is a pretty big pita. So even good glue wouldn’t work great
I can imagine. Even still, a bit of proper prep work and actual panel bonding adhesive (with some form of adhesion promoter) on the reverse side would have gone a long way, I think. I’m not a body guy though, just pulling shit out of my ass.
They may have used the proper glue… that foot pedal recall, proper glue, but the workers had trouble installing it so they added soap to the pedal without properly vetting it and that fucked up the glue.
Something like that could have happened again
Edit: Just thinking of a made up stupid reason like the soap and thought it was funny…
E.g: We were supposed to use a size 3 glue applicator as per the asssembly spec, but it was causing some excess glue to come out along the edges as we placed the trim down and it was a lot of effort to properly wipe up on each vehicle, so we started using a size 2 applicator with less glue! 🤦
Yeah, it’s not that they used glue but that they used the wrong glue. Sounds like they’re replacing it with a different glue in the recall.