Wil's Rant

Well I manged to get the cover, shield, plate, plastic, whatever that covers the rad on my 99 Cavalier. Unfortunatley, to do so I have to break off all the little plastic rivets that hold it, Approx. $15.00 to replace. The dealership tells me that this is pretty mush par for the course for these clips. Hey Chevrolet, ever hear of sheet metal and sheet metal screws! Not to mention the fact that the hole exercise could be avoided by simply drilling two access holes so that one wouldn't have to remove this plate at all to change a bulb worth less than $ 1.00. Note: the access holes would give you access to the mounting bolts for the headlight assembly which also must be removed to change this stupid little bulb. Another fine example of automotive design and engineering gone horribly wrong.