Man I feel you - those dumb engineering decisions that have been around for so long. I had to open a fuel tank to replace a fuel pump once which I’m sure some engineer was like ‘well it’s all fuel stuff so what’s the problem’ and that makes sense until the pump goes out and someone has to go in and replace it. I did replace it in my driveway but that was a real BS job and I did also decide then and there I wasn’t going to do my own work anymore, which I’m sure the dealerships are/were quite happy about.
Yeah to be fair when I was in my late teens I also had access to a full shop. Neighbors owned it, so if it was my mom, they’d take care of her. If it was me I was told to stop bothering them because I knew where the tools were and how to note it for inventory.
So now I’ve got a local shop I trust, I don’t have to deal with it, and they do the kind of clean work I would do myself. Works out for the best.
Man I feel you - those dumb engineering decisions that have been around for so long. I had to open a fuel tank to replace a fuel pump once which I’m sure some engineer was like ‘well it’s all fuel stuff so what’s the problem’ and that makes sense until the pump goes out and someone has to go in and replace it. I did replace it in my driveway but that was a real BS job and I did also decide then and there I wasn’t going to do my own work anymore, which I’m sure the dealerships are/were quite happy about.
Yeah to be fair when I was in my late teens I also had access to a full shop. Neighbors owned it, so if it was my mom, they’d take care of her. If it was me I was told to stop bothering them because I knew where the tools were and how to note it for inventory.
So now I’ve got a local shop I trust, I don’t have to deal with it, and they do the kind of clean work I would do myself. Works out for the best.