That NVH bracket is worse than a boat anchor, at least an anchor has some use.
I think that might be very true indeed!
The comment about spinning threaded inserts sounds very familiar too; I've replaced or tightened most of them on my car, generally seems to be one or two each time I need to get into "somewhere else" so even small jobs seem to grow into multi-hour epics. I find that a decent selection of malt whisky helps soften the blow after each session in the garage.
