Thread: Another Case of Production Design not Communicating with Mainenance Design

Originally Posted by 3toes

Hand a Mercedes where to change the front bulbs you had to take off the front wheel then remove plastic trim under car then reach up and through all the bits of engine to remove another cover. Then retract bulb extract hand with bulb and then back in again with new bulb and put it all back together again. Bulbs needed regular replacement.

Had it done by the Mercedes dealer once as part of a service. When picked up noticed a bulb sitting at the bottom of the head light. Rattling around in the it would destroy the silver reflective coating. When commented that was not right they said had dropped when changing and could not fetch it out would need a new head light assembly if wanted it fixed. Think really they were hoping I would not notice. Suggested they feed a length of nylon rope in with sticky tape on end to retrieve. Would have thought I was Einstein from their reactions. In a way lucky for me they had already written up the invoice and this was done afterwards so did not end up paying for the extra hour to fix

Or design wise try adjusting the head lights of a Renault from right had drive to left hand drive. Normally you put some stickers on the lights so they do not dazzle on coming traffic. Not perfect but does the job. Now the designers thought this could be done better if there was a lever you could push to change the headlight aim from right to left. Unfortunately when implemented it was a 2 hour job to push the lever due to the amount of car that had to be dismantled to reach the lever and then the same again to put it back afterwards

In bloodycredible 3T.


Bloke on another UK forum posted where to replace a bulb on his near ROVER Car he had to dismantle the front end as well. I honestly thought it was a Windup until I started to read of your experiences.


No idea how MAZDA have handled it but I guess I'll find out one day. Ah GOOGLE is my friend.