I think oil filters are an excellent example. Does anyone in the business NOT know oil needs to be changed regularly? If you build a car, at some point it will be down at the quickie oil change being serviced by a couple of teenagers. Is there any point in making life difficult and more expensive for every single person involved at that point?
Seriously. Air filters get dirty. Batteries have a limited lifespan. I've long given up on heater cores. It's always seemed that it's a rare jewel of a car that doesn't start life as a heater core on an assembly line and the car is built around it and I understand they don't care about stuff like that. But jeez, special tools to change the oil? Really?
Lately my personal pet peeve is electrical connectors. Pretty sure really good, if not the best, electrical connectors have already been designed and implemented. But some design engineers need reasons to keep drawing a paycheck so they keep re-inventing that wheel. And not for the better. The ones impossible to remove after filling with dirt are favorite.
I've long believed that German engineers just hate mechanics and actually go out of their way to design things to be difficult to work on. It's the only thing I have been able to come up with to make sense of some of things they do.
Seriously. Air filters get dirty. Batteries have a limited lifespan. I've long given up on heater cores. It's always seemed that it's a rare jewel of a car that doesn't start life as a heater core on an assembly line and the car is built around it and I understand they don't care about stuff like that. But jeez, special tools to change the oil? Really?
Lately my personal pet peeve is electrical connectors. Pretty sure really good, if not the best, electrical connectors have already been designed and implemented. But some design engineers need reasons to keep drawing a paycheck so they keep re-inventing that wheel. And not for the better. The ones impossible to remove after filling with dirt are favorite.
I've long believed that German engineers just hate mechanics and actually go out of their way to design things to be difficult to work on. It's the only thing I have been able to come up with to make sense of some of things they do.
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