metric tools - kinda dumb question

[Ti Kan]

Cody Forbes <cody at craincorporated.com> wrote:
> Not only Import cars, but a lot of US built cars have switched to metric.
> Chevy uses metric in recent years, as does Ford, and I bet others have
> followed suit.

JShadzi at aol.com writes:
> I think this has more to do with the fact that more and more "American" cars 
> are engineered and manufactured by Japanese companies than anything else, and 
> now there's Damlier/Christler, etc.

American cars have started using some metric fasteners even in the
1980s.  I had a college beater car, a POS Pontiac Sunbird that had a
mishmash mixture of SAE and metric stuff on it.  It was a royal pain to
work on because you never know whether you're really using the right
sized tool for any job, unless you have the service manual (and even
that is not helpful in many cases).

-Ti
2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
1984 5000S turbo
1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
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