Three jobs today:
I grew up with cars where you could change the air filter with the flick of three clips, or undo a wingnut.
07 Fiesta petrol air filter: 2 10 mm bolts, three air pipes, 10 torx screws. Why?Oil filters were easy to see and usually required minimal tools, such as a single spanner or a pair of grips.
60 plate Kuga diesel: finding the filter was seriously difficult (it is on the front) then remove the oil filler pipe (I thought those went away years ago) then remove a plate (torx bolts) then you can push some wiring away and gain finger access to the top of the filter, then you realise that you need a cranked 27mm of some description, eventually you get a low profile socket on, plus a half inch square bit from a torque wrench, coupled with a half inch spanner you get it to move, eventually at a quarter turn a time it is loose, then you unbolt the alternator main power lead and voila, good grief, what a palaver.Every car used used std side lamp bulbs (two types)
Renault scenic: needs front side lamps: yet another new bulb type, two shops later I get 2 halogen 6w 9mm offset pin bulbs, much skinned knuckles and grief later they go in, one blows immediately, so back to gsf and get another. The vast range of bulbs now means that it is impractical for me to keep all the types that occur. One car shop tells me how the new 5008 has some new weirdo bulb in the indicators, not even vaguely simialar to anything pre-existing, why?
aaargh, rant over.