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Another reason to avoid the American car brands.
Buying a foreign brand isn't a guarantee of honest service. The worse dealer I ever, ever dealt with was a Toyota dealer.
Another reason to avoid the American car brands.
Engineers who design stuff like that should be taken out and shot.
Trust me, decisions like that are not made by a single engineer. Packaging design is like an automaker's Congress and it is where appeals are made and lost, deals and compromises are struck and sausage made. Everyone wants their piece of the turf and someone always loses.That's amazing, but I believe it. Friend of ours had a Prius and to replace a headlight bulb he had to take the bumper and fender off!
Engineers who design stuff like that should be taken out and shot.
Or "Engineers ........... should be taken out and shot."
Trust me, decisions like that are not made by a single engineer. Packaging design is like an automaker's Congress and it is where appeals are made and lost, deals and compromises are struck and sausage made. Everyone wants their piece of the turf and someone always loses.
That's amazing, but I believe it. Friend of ours had a Prius and to replace a headlight bulb he had to take the bumper and fender off!
Engineers who design stuff like that should be taken out and shot.
Trust me, decisions like that are not made by a single engineer. Packaging design is like an automaker's Congress and it is where appeals are made and lost, deals and compromises are struck and sausage made. Everyone wants their piece of the turf and someone always loses.
Ouch!
That's amazing, but I believe it. Friend of ours had a Prius and to replace a headlight bulb he had to take the bumper and fender off!
Engineers who design stuff like that should be taken out and shot.
Not necessarily. Sometimes engineers have to design around specs that they know are full of 'compromises'. They have no choice.
I'm sure that is the case. Nonetheless, I will never, ever, buy a Prius if the company is so incredibly sloppy so as to release a design that requires removing a fender and bumper just to replace a light bulb. I simply cannot envision any reason for something like that.
It tells me they don't care about the customer or his maintenance expenses. All they care about is selling the car.
That's amazing, but I believe it. Friend of ours had a Prius and to replace a headlight bulb he had to take the bumper and fender off!
Engineers who design stuff like that should be taken out and shot.
Walt34;1595222.... I will never said:Is that what the FSM specifies? Are the projectors isolated behind the fender?
I have to disassemble quite a bit sometimes on my MX5 for simple inexpensive parts (i.e. T-Stat), but that sounds like alot of trouble for a lamp.
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I've never seen collusion to send more work to the dealers. In my experience, it was always a struggle for the company to keep the dealers from blackening the company name, as well as to keep the dealers from hosing the company on bogus warranty charges. It is not a cozy relationship and it is hard to get rid of a bad dealer because of state laws that favor dealers.Sometimes, you have to wonder if complexity is not introduced on purpose so that people become dependent on the dealership for repairs. On my old Ford Tempo and Mazda Miata, simple repairs like changing the battery were super easy. They required no special tools or skills. On most modern cars, forget about it.
I've never seen collusion to send more work to the dealers. In my experience, it was always a struggle for the company to keep the dealers from blackening the company name, as well as to keep the dealers from hosing the company on bogus warranty charges. It is not a cozy relationship and it is hard to get rid of a bad dealer because of state laws that favor dealers.
Is that what the FSM specifies? Are the projectors isolated behind the fender?
I have to disassemble quite a bit sometimes on my MX5 for simple inexpensive parts (i.e. T-Stat), but that sounds like alot of trouble for a lamp.
Part of the problem is that IMO the car makers don't think the average car buyer cares about maintainability. I always check the *ease of maintenance* of any car before I buy it. ...
... - they put the fuel pump inside the gas tank so if the fuel pump goes bad you have to either raise the pickup bed or drop the fuel tank to get to it. They really, really, couldn't think of a better way than that? I doubt it.
Some will point out that the pump is cooled by the fuel surrounding it. Okay, why? They can't make an air-cooled fuel pump and put it outside the tank? I don't think so. It's stuff like that, that increases maintenance expenses that drives me nuts.
That's amazing, but I believe it. Friend of ours had a Prius and to replace a headlight bulb he had to take the bumper and fender off!
Engineers who design stuff like that should be taken out and shot.
fuel pump on my scoob is inside the tank
I'm actually getting a hp one put in next week so I can run e85
An hour or so of labor - even to change the fuel filter you have to drop the tank
VW does the same thing (in tank pump) as many auto manufacturers do these days, but installs an access plate in the top of the fuel tank under the rear seat for easy pump removal.