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Mr Land Rover; who really thought it was a good idea to hide an oil filter up behind the exhaust manifold so you've no choice but to get burnt, or at least singe your arm hair removing it from a hot engine.
Mr Vauxhall; the V6 Omega, 28 hours book time to do head gaskets in the car? Asides the time seeming a bit optimistic, why did it all have to be so tightly wedged in?
Mr Audi; the S3, a very good job of packing all the components into a tiny space, but removing half the car to access the turbo (or even change the downpipe) what were you thinking?
Mr Mercedes; 12 spark plugs on the V6 Petrol E300, and all in line with the chassis rail of the car, requiring a degree of keyhole surgery to get the coils off, feed a couple of small extensions into the hole and long nose pliers to extract the plug from the hole once the socket and extensions have come out, and invariably been dropped at least once.
Mr Renault; an inner CV joint on Clio/Kangoo vans made up of 3 balls full of needle rollers which rely entirely on the cup they sit in on the inner part of the joint to stay together and explode into a million pieces as soon as one of the balls drops from the cup, what were you thinking? And whilst I'm on it, 6 Speed gearboxes in Trafic vans? Couldn't you have built them better?
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Mr Vauxhall; the V6 Omega, 28 hours book time to do head gaskets in the car? Asides the time seeming a bit optimistic, why did it all have to be so tightly wedged in? I'm glad I didn't know that when I did mine! I probably had half that time in actually doing the job, outside, in January whilst suffering from bronchitis. I could probably knock a couple of hours off that now I know how it all come apart. The moron who decided that running the wiring loom directly over the N/S spark plugs deserves a good kicking though.
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I want to know why there is a shark motif on the glove box side on my daily Corsa D?
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G A R'goyle
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Blowed a tire on my HYUNDAI Accent 98 saturday and no spare You sorry ecuse for living designer WHY 5 X 13" rims boltpattern 4/114,3 et 46 hole 67,1 M 12x1,50 on a modern car? Shoed with 155 80 13 tires My neighbor has fatter wheels on his VW Lupo A weak memory says me that my old 63 Thomson caravan had this boltpattern to.............
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phil73
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As mentioned in another thread Ford OHC six as fitted to Falcons from EA onward. What fool put the alternator directly beneath the power steering pump so it can drown in leaking power steering oil Such a great idea that Toyota copied it for the 1UZ engines. About the only weak point, to be fair.
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Last Edit: Apr 5, 2018 15:57:23 GMT by phil73
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Messrs Park and Fry why did you put the heater hoses thru the sills and rear wings on the Imp?
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retired with too many projects!
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As mentioned in another thread Ford OHC six as fitted to Falcons from EA onward. What fool put the alternator directly beneath the power steering pump so it can drown in leaking power steering oil Such a great idea that Toyota copied it for the 1UZ engines. About the only weak point, to be fair. Such an incredibly sensible idea that VW did it on the breadvan Polo! Not having a PAS pump to leak, they arranged for the head gasket to leak at precisely the correct spot for all the oil to be caught by the alternator! Steve
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Davey
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Resident Tyre Nerd.
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Dearest BMW and your oh so wonderful new mini
What a great idea to make a turbo oil feed with rubber o rings which so love heat and oil.. And with much pressure spray oil all over the super heated turbo and engine causing much smoke and sometimes fire..
Then to top it off why don't you make it a downpipe off job to replace oh yes and we shall make the downpipe so close to the radiator that you either remove the front of the car or lacerate your arms.
Also knowing this is a common problem how about we don't rectify the problem but actually keep selling the same part so in 40000 miles it needs to be done again.
While on the subject of the new mini. Lets make the turbo sit so close to the bonnet that if driven enthusiastically it will literally melt the bonnet scoop and warp the bonnet and burn the unsuspecting owner who dares to try and open the bonnet to find out whats going on. This coupled with being so close to the rocker cover that the constant heating and cooling causes it to crack and leak yet more oil on the damned turbo!!!!
Hey at least when you've stopped the oil coming out you can refill it and put a new filter in the car, once you've removed the airbox and most of the wiring oh and bent some coolant pipes out of the way and acquired a 35mm shallow socket which you can just about fit by feel alone with the filter housing sitting at an angle which will allow you to clean all the oil of the gearbox and clutch workings once its spilled all its contents when it does finally come undone...
Don't get me wrong i love this little car.. But jesus why!
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K11 Micra x3 - Mk3 astra - Seat Marbella - Mk6 Escort estate - B5 Passat - Alfa 156 estate - E36 compact Mk2 MR2 T-bar - E46 328i - Skoda Superb - Fiat seicento - 6n2 Polo - 6n polo 1.6 - Mk1 GS300 EU8 civic type S - MG ZT cdti - R56 MINI Cooper S - Audi A3 8p - Jaguar XF (X250) - FN2 Civic Type R - Mk2 2.0i Ford Focus
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300tdi, having to remove Power steering pulley to get to one bolt to remove the water pump..., would be a pretty quick and simple job otherwise,
also D1 having to partially unbolt the Rear Jump Seats, to be able to get access to change a rear lamp Bulb...,
Designer of the Evoque, new Discovery and Discovery Sport, Just why....,
oh and Plastic sill cover's whoever though this was wise well..., they hold Moisture causing some pretty serious corrosion that doesnt get picked up on mot's (L322 needing new inner & outer sill's and supports replacing for almost there entire length. think Jaguar X-Types are pretty notorius for this problem aswell)
Mercedes & Rust just why.., didnt they learn from there mistakes in the 60's.
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Rich
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also D1 having to partially unbolt the Rear Jump Seats, to be able to get access to change a rear lamp Bulb..., I never got this, I never had any issue changing the rear bulbs in these. Fold seat up halfway, reach in and change bulb..
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Vauxhall Vectra B - why use 2 inch torx bolts in the most inaccessible place to mount the front bumper when bolts half the length would suffice, and one with a hex head even more so? And on the subject of torx bolts, same car, same bolts to mount the seat in also with copious amount of thread lock? They very rarely come out without stripping the head or snapping the bit. Vauxhall do seem to love a torx bolt! Oh the fun I had swapping interiors in my old Corsa
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Scimitar SE5/a
Why didn't you make it 1" easier to get the ruddy spark plugs in and out at the back? The obstruction seems entirely gratuitous and without purpose.
Why did you bury a single-piece rear hatch hinge bracket across the roof? Why not have two independent hinges that can be bolted on/off?
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Apr 10, 2018 12:08:01 GMT
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Why did they design every muscle car that when you open the bonnet covered in rain it soaks everything on the bulkhead from coils to regulators.
Rover 75 ECU in the scuttle that blocks up at the slightest hint of a leaf and fills with water
MK2 Granada sun roofs that drain INTO the sills
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paul99
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Apr 10, 2018 12:51:18 GMT
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Vauxhall Vectra B - why use 2 inch torx bolts in the most inaccessible place to mount the front bumper when bolts half the length would suffice, and one with a hex head even more so? And on the subject of torx bolts, same car, same bolts to mount the seat in also with copious amount of thread lock? They very rarely come out without stripping the head or snapping the bit. Vauxhall do seem to love a torx bolt! Oh the fun I had swapping interiors in my old Corsa Don't they just. Mk1 Cavalier head bolts too. Just right to get gunked up with old oil, and then have to insert the drive by tapping with a mallet. After you've spent half an hour cursing that you've just bought the wrong size of clourse.....
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luckyseven
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Owning sneering dismissive pedantry since 1970
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Apr 10, 2018 12:57:17 GMT
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Why did they design every muscle car that when you open the bonnet covered in rain it soaks everything on the bulkhead from coils to regulators. Never mind that, what about the Mopar Scalping Hook*? The vicious spiked claw of solid steel that waits innocuously underneath the bonnet until you straighten up from whatever you were working on... then gouges your head right through the skull and into your living, quivering brain. Then the fiendish part comes into play... like a cat's claw, it only works one way so once it's wedged into your cerebellum there's no way to pull it out without causing more appalling pain. Unless of course, you instinctively flinch away from the sudden assault, which will probably rip the entire top of your head off like an out-take from Hostel, leaving you trashing about on the floor like a grotesque meat-puppet whose strings were just cut *in the UK we call them "bonnet latches"
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Ritchie
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Apr 10, 2018 13:12:29 GMT
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ford focus ... again. I really shouldn't have to wind the window up if I want to squirt (even a minute amount) screenwash , to save my right arm getting soggy!! They've obviously learned F-all, my new Mustang does exactly the same thing. It takes a few soggy arms before you start remembering to put the window up.
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