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Originally Posted by epbrown

A lot of cars were designed without consideration for owners working on them

The goal these days is to make it as cheap as possible to put the cars together without regard for working on them after the fact. So, what's the cheapest, easiest fastest way to get a car down the assembly line? That's, I believe, the real goal of manufacturers. If it needs to be worked on later, that's someone else's problem.