{"id":357,"date":"2007-03-23T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-23T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T20:50:12","slug":"falling-apart-at-the-seams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"falling apart at the seams"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walked out to my car this morning to go to work to discover yet more evidence that my car’s warranty has expired. As some of you know, I had to grapple with a $700 bill for brake and rotor replacement a few months ago – and now this morning I was presented with a slightly more humorous physical representation of planned obsolescence.<\/p>\n

My left rear reflector bumper light had fallen out. There was no damage at all to the bumper – so I ruled out vandalism – and the light was not in the garage – so I can only assume it popped off when I went over some pothole or another some time recently. I ordered the $20 replacement part (seems like a stretch for a piece of cheap red plastic…) this morning. It looks like it is meant to just pop in place (and just as easily pop out apparently), so I hope I can install it myself.<\/p>\n

What is wrong with this picture?
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There should be a strip of red reflective plastic here…..
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I walked out to my car this morning to go to work to discover yet more evidence that my car’s warranty has expired. As some of you know, I had to grapple with a $700 bill for brake and rotor replacement a few months ago – and now this morning I was presented with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}