It could be worse. You could own a Saab. The alternator recently failed on my daughter's 900SE Turbo. That should be easy, right? I might even break my long-standing rule of religiously not performing repairs on daily drivers. Well, it took me 5 minutes just to figure out where the alternator was. Off to the mechanic. He spent 5 1/2 hours. Wound up remvoing most of the front suspension and dropping it thru the bottom
Next time I have a 10-12 free hours, I'll write about the engineering virtues of the Saab convertible top mechanism .....