The Most Unnecessarily Miserable Job...

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Has anyone tried changing the coolant hose(s) on a NA Miata?

See if you can guess if it is harder or easier on a factory turbo miata

Fuel filter is right behind a little access panel and is easy peasy though

[fastfredracing]

Originally Posted by Tobra

See if you can guess if it is harder or easier on a factory turbo miata

Fuel filter is right behind a little access panel and is easy peasy though

Is there really a place called Beavis motorsport ?

[wdfifteen]

I feel your pain. Manufacturers seem to design for build efficiency and to hell with repairability. It must be cheaper to pay the labor for warranty work and hope there isn't much of it until the warranty runs out.

[porsche356a]

Originally Posted by slow&rusty

I think we've all bee there a time or two in the past with vehicles we own or owned.

I was just thinking a few days ago how simple it is to work on my 1986 BMW 635 then the damn brake accumulator went out so I jinxed myself, it was a bear to remove and reinstall.

It has three large diameter hydraulic hard lines that thread into it, god forbid you round off one of those lines and ruin the end or you forget to install the rubber seal on the new accumulator. Access is new impossible even with the tiniest hands much less my giant paws.

You have to fight with wiring, the firewall, the strut tower and not damage a think along the way....no fun!

Hmmm. Just did this on my e28. Hour max. Removed the regulator, twisted the accumulator off by hand. Perhaps I was lucky? It wasn't leaking or failing, but since I didn't know when it was last changed, I changed it.

[porsche356a]

I did have to remove my after market strut brace...