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I give that about a week after it comes out, before you can buy compatible socket wrenches on AliExpress.
Exactly, this whole article is stupid and I kinda like the little fasteners.
I'll buy a set of these screwdrivers for $10 and put them in my speciality tool drawer and call it a day.
No problems here.
You shouldn't have to?
From the standpoint of anybody reasonably handy, we all know we can buy tools. Any time I see a discarded or abused tool I'll salvage it just because I know I can grind or channel out the head to make custom drivers. That's not the problem.
It's that the company is going to use this as a play to illegally monopolize and stifle competition.
Yeah, like those security lug nuts. Guess what, guys?
We've had two vehicles come with them. I remove them the first time I have a wheel off for some reason.
I wouldn't say the security wheel nuts are entirely useless.
Although a set is only about $25 on Amazon, it does limit the pool of potential wheel thieves to serious professionals who are looking for something more valuable to justify buying and carrying multiple sets of these around.
What makes you think a wheel thief bought their tools?
Even if they didn't pay in money, they paid in time and effort.
Plus you gotta carry that shit around. Easier to justify a socket set than a pocketful of random lugnut keys.
I've got a set of 20-something security bits from there, all the anti interference stuff all in one place.
You could have gone to your local hardware store.
Possibly, but that would involve leaving the house.