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So dumb that you couldn't even have imagine it.
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Nobody at Gizmodo has ever worked in the automotive industry. It's absolutely amazing how far automotive adhesives have come. I think many people would be shocked to learned how many parts on their car are "simply glued" together.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=automotive+adhesives&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
But it has to be the right adhesive for the material, then prepped and applied right. This clearly wasn't one of those things.
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Yeah, there's even STRUCTURAL adhesives. Like, not for body panels, but important joints for it to continue to successfully be called a car.