re: My wife’s ac in her car just crapped out

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I’ve seen videos on YouTube of mechanics who are quitting because the newer cars are harder to work on and not made well like past vehicles.

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“Engineers” are putting some parts that were real easy to work on in weird places that require too much disassembly to justify the replacement.

For example spark plugs, one row could be real easy to get to while the other row might require you to disassemble half the engine to get to the plugs.

Then so are wearable parts swaps that are getting needlessly complicated. I was watching a video on swapping the brake pads on an newer F150, you needed to break out the computer to bleed the brakes after you changed the pads. In another video, manufacturers started using plastic oil pans in some trucks. Another video even showed a stupid location for an oil filter which was above a suspension bar meaning oil would leak every where each time you changed it.

Mercedes takes the oil change to a new level with no plug. You just need a suction line to get all the old oil out, the filter is on top so that changing looks easy, and then you pump in new oil.