| Ashikabi |
07-02-2016 06:39 PM |
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Originally Posted by extrashaky
(Post 2695559)
Give it time.
Nonsense. Rivets are easy to remove. You just drill them out. It's at least as fast as removing screws, with the added bonus that you can remove them and replace them as many times as you need without enlarging the holes or stripping out threads.
The only reason anybody is questioning the use of rivets is that they have never used them. It's like someone insisting on using an axe to cut down a tree because they've never used a chain saw and think it would take too long.
Well, again, it's not permanent. But even if it were, you're talking about drilling holes in your center console before you even pick up the rivet gun. You're already making a permanent change that can't be rolled back. I don't see how that's any less "unwise" than going ahead and completing the installation properly.
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I've drilled rivets before. It doesn't always go well. And how long should I give it? 5 years? 10? Pretty sure I will find time in the next decade to snug up a couple screws. My arm rest came with screws, most people have a driver of some variety. Not everyone has a rivet tool or rivets. Therefore using rivets for something a screw can do 99.9% just as well, could add cost and time to the project. Also, when drilling rivets, the bottom portion falls of and will become lost beneath the console and rattle around unless otherwise gathered... which could require removal of the console. Also, while drilling there is a small chance of damaging the arm rest/console if you aren't very careful. Obviously this is far more work than tightening a couple screws. I'm not saying rivets are wrong, I'm saying screws are a perfectly viable option if rivets are undesirable because of the aforementioned cost, uncertainty of using a new tool, or any other reason. Toyota felt screws should hold on my arm rest sufficiently, and I'm sure they considered rivets. So I'm not going to go out of my way to discard their screws and buy a new tool and fasteners(of which I'll use very few), just to do the job .1% better |
