Had an ‘85 T-Bird, had some bolts metric, others SAE.
1970 Olds Cutlass , had chrome covers on the lug nuts, if the cover on the lug nut fell off, as I recall a metric socket was required.
Then there are the Ford two piece lug nuts that would swell.
BTW George, try this for your Corolla:
I hate it when manufacturers do this. In the computer world, you can blame Alienware. You HAVE to use their cooling solutions because the hole spacing and size on the motherboard is different than any others out there. Why didn’t they just stick to the same standards as everyone set forth by Intel, AMD, etc.?
I don’t hate Alienware but it is an expensive toy if you ask me.
I am sure non-operational cars are all around where they are banned behind fences, in garages, etc. This is unenforceable unless they are outside in plain view.
I wouldn’t buy a car with this design. That sounds terrible and I have heard of people paying lots of money in the past to have this done. Changing the brakes is as easy as an oil change on most cars.
About 15 years ago, while at an auto auction with a friend I purchased an early 1980’s Mercedes for $600.00 that had been driven a bit hard but was tight–drove it for another 10 years before scrapping. Just behind the Merc came a Cadillac which looked nearly pristine on the exterior and once my friend purchased the vehicle, the interior looked just as nice. A well-maintained automobile. His purchase price; $700.00. That was a steal. That is, until the starter went out. The starter was only about $250.00, but the labor was another $600.00 as it was inside the top of the engine–under the manifold. Then the alignment came, and some parts had worn. Another $800.00. At that point the car was sold. I remain a fan of simplicity.
In my township they’ve enforced it against garaged cars.
Nothing marked and the bad part is that if all of those brake components are in a pile on the table they all look similar. The differences between say left upper brake shoe and right are barely noticeable and the same goes for the 4 wheel cylinders.
If you held all 4 wheel cylinders in your hand you would swear they were all identical.
I can’t imagine the engineering, foundry, and machining costs involved in the production of 4 dissimilar wheel cylinders when one would have worked fine.
At least when Chrysler spent 50 grand back in the 60s to design the Roadrunner beep-beep horn there was a valid reason for it.
How can they enforce it if it can’t be seen?
They get a search warrant and go into the garage
If they can’t see it then that means someone has to report you for them to get a search warrant right?
Yes, they do.
I would NEVER report a neighbor for having a project car in their garage
I would never live in a neighborhood like that or any place with a HOA.
Neighborhoods can change in nature, depending on who moves out, and who replaces them. I have heard of “newbies” who protested against noise from nearby RR spur lines, even though the RR line predated the adjacent homes by 50 years or more. Those newbies never investigated the surrounding area sufficiently to determine if it met their very high standards 
, but now that they live there, they expect local conditions to change–based on their preferences.
Then, there are the folks who decide to buy a home adjacent to an expressway, and then demand that the State Dept of Transportation erect noise barriers near their home.
The bottom line is that some folks are just plain nosey and some are just born to complain about almost everything, and if folks like that buy a home in your neighborhood, things can change considerably–and not necessarily for the better.
That’s quite a complicated front brake configuration! Were the parts designed so it impossible to use the wrong part? Or could you accidentally install a wheel cylinder in the wrong location? . … My Ford truck’s front drum brakes only have one wheel cylinder per wheel, but it’s different right vs left. Two shoes per wheel, but same right vs left.
Coincidentally happen to be reading the section of the Car Guys vs Bean Counters book about the prior GM/Saab partnership. GM wanted parts standardization to take advantage of economy of scale but Saab didn’t according to author. Seems Saab won that argument.
Perhaps they did … in the short term.
When was the last time that Saab was able to launch a new car design–with or without GM?
If they had agreed to stop using somewhat bizarre technical designs, and if they had stopped resisting every standardization attempt from GM, they might have lasted for at least a few more years.
Horse trail farms subdivision, complained because of the smell of horses ! Wanted the farm to get rid of the horses.
And, of course, the Horse Farm predated the newcomers…
A search warrant for the “crime” of having an unregistered project car in an enclosed garage??? GTFOH. I would NEVER agree to live somewhere that allows police this type of authority when no actual crime has occurred. And it goes without saying that I would NEVER buy, own, or accept as a gift any real estate located in an HOA.
Sometimes that doesn’t matter. I used to drive by a pig farm on my way to work. A developer built a housing development nearby. The new residents tried to force the pig farmer to shut down because the smell was unbearable sometimes. The farmer won the suit, but the neighbors continued to sue him. He couldn’t afford the expense and had to sell the farm.
If you just wait a while things can change. We’re on the edge of town and across the highway and up the hill was a farm. Once or twice a year they would spread their manure. It was quite the strong order over at least a half mile of houses. I don’t know what they raised but it sure smelled like hogs. Time went on and the place was sold and now it’s just gentle crops. It only lasted for a few days but man was it ripe.
Not as bad as my brother in laws dad though. He had drug dealers next door. Got to the point where he just went over and asked the guy how much he wanted to sell the house. Bought it and tore it down. Made an offer he couldn’t refuse.
