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Originally Posted by chapo
Wow, all these problems on a ten year old car.
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A design "problem" such as the installation of the spare tire "up-side-down" -- so that it requires complete removal in order to check the air pressure -- is not any age-related problem.
I wonder how many dozen people reviewed the design of the spare tire storage during the planning of the car, yet it never dawned on any of them that a simple design change would save people a lot of hassle.
And on something like the mirror switch -- less than two years since I replaced it and the switch fails again? There is a design problem there too.
My rant is just a response to the frustration I was feeling today -- overall, I'd have to admit that the car is holding up OK, but it still doesn't change the fact that a lot of people spent a lot of time "not thinking very hard" about design and durability issues when developing the car, but that is often the case with a lot of things produced these days.