Stupid maintenance requirements
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Quisling said:
landrover discovery and Rangerover spppooorrrrtttaahhhhhhhh
You have to remove the body to change the turbo
What other bloody stupid things out there in fixing land?
lots im afraid - as the average joe got brighter and more able to some diy then it becomes a fight to stop him and get that car into a dealer for work...You have to remove the body to change the turbo
What other bloody stupid things out there in fixing land?
electric parking brakes requiring to be connected to a marque PC to enable it to be reset ? makes those rear pads or disc changes even more complicated.
Having to code anything onot your car, change a battery... need to code it... and the like.
Oh and my pet hate is headlights that need air intakes stripped out to get in and about them...
everything they can think on to force you to take it in for repair lol..
Quisling said:
landrover discovery and Rangerover spppooorrrrtttaahhhhhhhh
You have to remove the body to change the turbo
What other bloody stupid things out there in fixing land?
Nothing wrong with it when you actually look how it's done - the body-off procedure is quite straight-forward and leaves you masses of room to properly sort the engine out.You have to remove the body to change the turbo
What other bloody stupid things out there in fixing land?
In the end the job is probably quicker than if you tried to leave the body on and engineer a postbox fix like a lot of modern cars.
p.s. Spowwwttaaaaahhhh
On a minor level, the high level brake light on a Peugeot Partner van is held in place by two screws. Remove these and it just pulls away from the door.
Except it doesn't because then you have to break your finger and feed it in through a tiny access hole to lever off a plastic clip without snapping it.
Given that the two screws are doing a great job of holding the light assembly in place, the hidden clip is just Gallic sadism.
Except it doesn't because then you have to break your finger and feed it in through a tiny access hole to lever off a plastic clip without snapping it.
Given that the two screws are doing a great job of holding the light assembly in place, the hidden clip is just Gallic sadism.
Audi V8/V10 timing chains. For some reason they decided that the back of the engine was the best place for them, that they should be fearsomely complicated and that long life oil change intervals were a good idea.
One of the things I used to really like about my landcruisers was the absence of this sort of silliness. A cambelt change required no special tools whatsoever and took about 30 minutes on the driveway. Changing bulbs was just a matter of reaching in and swapping them over, about 30 seconds with no loss of skin or sense of humour whatsoever.
One of the things I used to really like about my landcruisers was the absence of this sort of silliness. A cambelt change required no special tools whatsoever and took about 30 minutes on the driveway. Changing bulbs was just a matter of reaching in and swapping them over, about 30 seconds with no loss of skin or sense of humour whatsoever.
ruggedscotty said:
lots im afraid - as the average joe got brighter and more able to some diy then it becomes a fight to stop him and get that car into a dealer for work...
I'd be amazed if designers have genuinely been tasked with making cars more difficult to perform home maintenance on.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff