At 02:41 PM 2/23/2009, BenT Syncro wrote:
>It is more like that the screws
>got loose with use vs. sloppy manufacturing assembly

It seems to me that VWAG made a systematic choice to avoid
lockwashers and head-locking devices of all kinds (are there some
Nylok-type nuts somewhere?).  In retrospect I think this was a flawed
choice.  I for sure found bunches of loose fastenings on Dutiful
Passage in places where no man had gone before me.  And I have an
eerie deja-vu feeling about that fouling-the-seat-track experience, I
think it must have happened to me at some point (my specific memories
of much of that period are shot-to-h*ll, unfortunately).

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