DMala |
Sleep is overrated
|
|
|
Reged: 05/09/05
|
Posts: 3989
|
Loc: Waltham, MA
|
|
Send PM
|
|
Re: The better question is why I need both standard and metric sockets to work on GM vehicles. <nt>
07/22/13 06:02 AM
|
|
|
> > The better question is why I need both standard and metric sockets to work on GM > vehicles. > > I think for a while, all domestic cars were like that. No recent cars that I have > worked on have any inch size fasteners that I know of.
I always assumed it was because parts are sourced all over the world, so the made-in-USA parts used imperial, while the stuff made elsewhere used metric. It seems like American businesses, at least, are finally giving in and just going metric.
|
|