Modern cars are rubbish - awful jobs

[Volksy]

On most new cars, its probably easier to remove the whole headlight to change the bulb.

[Station]

If you have big hands (which I don't thankfully) this is an impossible task. I believe the Bravo/Bravas were the same...

Yeah, my dad has a Brava, he's been trying to change the o/s bulb for the past few months. You just can't do it. What a pathetic oversight.

[AXrescuer]

If you have big hands (which I don't thankfully) this is an impossible task. I believe the Bravo/Bravas were the same...

Yeah, my dad has a Brava, he's been trying to change the o/s bulb for the past few months. You just can't do it. What a pathetic oversight.

Don't these have to have the engine removed to do the cam belts?

[Station]

I didn't know that. I did know they go through camshafts. Standard fair, no frills car, if it broke he'd just scrap it.

[Volksy]

Don't these have to have the engine removed to do the cam belts?

Only the 2.0 20v 5 Pot, and then you dont have to remove it, its just very very tight for access

[Guest]

On the flipside, changing wiper blades on the Citroen is a piece of piss.Which is a relief, frankly.

[Richard]

On the flipside, changing wiper blades on the Citroen is a piece of piss.

Have you got new wiper blades for the Citroen? You kept that quiet! I was tearing my hair out trying to do it on the C5. I had to look up on the internet how to do it.

[Albert Ross]

I have a 2006 Focus, and when servicing it, I had cause to replace the pollen filter....Glove box out, fuse box out......but. You have to get behind the fuse box to get to the M8 fastener............but you can't get to it unless you've removed the fuse box. Catch22! But I did change it in the end. No need for another until 2 years away.

[Richard]

Does the Focus have a second fuse box cleverly concealed behind the main one? The Transit does. The handbook hints at it but doesn't give any indication of how to access it.

[Barry Cade]

Whole front end apart to replace a mk1/mk2 Mundaneo clutch? Heard mutterings about the need to get special alignment tools when putting it all back together again...

Not as bad as its made out to be, did one on a W rwg 2.0 the other day, and it was no probs.. only gets messy if the subframe captive nuts break loose...Put a headlamp bulb in an Audi TT the other day too... SEVENTY QUID for the bulb!!

[Guest]

Whole front end apart to replace a mk1/mk2 Mundaneo clutch? Heard mutterings about the need to get special alignment tools when putting it all back together again...

Put a headlamp bulb in an Audi TT the other day too... SEVENTY QUID for the bulb!!

WHAT?!!

[AnthonyG]

Xenons I take it - don't those new audis have a row of LEDS or something?

[Barry Cade]

Was a Xenon type bulb, but really nothing fancy...

[pogweasel]

Here's a good one. Just been trying to change a lower arm bush on my mates' 90's Polo (6N?)Easy enough job, yes? Just undo all the stuff, whip the arm out, press out bush, press in new one, right? Er, not quite!The offside one is so contrived that you can't get a socket on the nut at the front of the arm because the sump is in the way. You've actually got to move the whole engine forward to get to the nut (and obv move it all forward again to get it done up again) Hilarity. Whose bright idea was that? :lol:Twenty minute job took more like an hour & twenty. Still, it's done now, so hopefully MoT man will be happy on the retest this afternoon.