marlinspike

Is there anything like a zip tie except easy to remove (and cleaner looking would be nice)? I just put a scratch in the front of my right valve cover when the knife slipped...FML.

madsteez

wait,your going to zip tie a scratch on a valve cover?

Vanilla Face

you find zip ties hard to remove?

what are you using them for? and did you know they make some zip ties with a release button?

93celicaowner

i am so confused right now

marlinspike

I find the small ones hard to remove. The ones where you can't get a flathead in there so you end up using the tip of a knife, then when I invariably give up and try to cut the damn thing because the knife is already handy, the knife slips and I scratch the valve cover. I now want to replace all the micro zip-ties in my engine bay with something more mechanical (maybe some sort of tie that uses a screw like a hose-clamp does).

And no, I did not know that about the release button.

Vanilla Face

wtf do you have so many zip ties for?

marlinspike

These fucking Germans man, they have zip-tie locations all over this engine bay. They want everything to be zipped up nice und neat. They went so far as to put little zip tie mounting points in a few of the zip-tie spots so you're not just tying the cables together but tying them to a bolted on mount point.

If you include the ties that I'm currently missing because I cut them, I'd say my car has about 10-15 zip ties in the engine bay. IIRC, there's even a proprietary one that has a plug on the back of it that plugs into a hole in the engine bay.

iHeartTouge

this is better to remove zip ties than a knife. cant stab or scratch anything with these unless you're michael j fox

JETSWU87

who the fuck uses a knife to cut zipties.

get a pair of dykes and be done with it.

edit: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...s&sName=Pliers

i have a crimp tool i bought years ago that has a sharpe cutting edge on the end...it owns everything.

marlinspike

A man who is working on his car at night by the light of a 3AA led mini-maglite and doesn't want to walk across the parking lot and up 3 flights of stairs back to his apartment to get the rest of his tools