Spot welds would have been bad enough, but glue? I guess $100,000.00 doesn’t buy the kind of quality it used to. I just cannot fathom what kind of engineer figured that a flat metal panel under constant wind resistance would stay put during highway travel, or would remain in place during extreme temperature shifts, or the added weight of ice, or any number of other issues. Boggles the mind. Hell a few flush headed driven rivets would have been preferable to just glue/adhesive. More and more these things start to feel like bespoke jury rigged contraptions where folks paid a $60,000 premium for the name, and early 90’s polygonal design quirk. Heavy, limited range, and more delicate than expected. What they wanted was the Halo universe Warthog, and what they got was a papier mache golf cart. Reminiscent of the early years Jaguars, where all the wood trim, and body panels were individual to the car, and not 100% in any instance. So this isn’t a localized phenomenon with just the ugly truck, it happens all across the automobile industry. QC just isn’t really a thing nowadays.
Sunday is here, and my god is it ever cold. Woke up to a minus thirteen degrees Celcius. I’m tired of these lows, I want my sunshine and above zero temps! Damn it! We are currently trying to finish up the sap we have on the evaporator to make some more maple syrup. It’s a slow process, even with the added bonus of freezing off a lot of water, and doing reverse osmosis to filter out even more water, to start with a more concentrated sap in the boiling pan. Hours upon hours of rolling boil to make any headway whatsoever. Fun.
With any luck the further we get away from the first official day of spring, the better off we’ll be. Fingers crossed for no late in the year dumpings of snow. I would like to avoid any heavy accumulations of snow over an inch in depth. As that would put the roads, parks, and driveways right back to square one — again. Bah!
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