Replaced one of the headlights in the ladies car again. There has to be something going on because these things are popping way too often. I feel like tracking down the jerk that thought having to drop the front bumper to change a headlight was a good idea and having a little chat.
But seriously, I know why they do this. It's so people can't work on their own cars and you have to take it to the stealership for every little thing and pay them $150 just to swap a headlight. They're making it hard for independent mechanics to even work on some of these cars. Screw them. Some of us can still turn a wrench and do it ourselves even as difficult as they make it.
One of the ladies friends had to take her Ford Escape in to get the alternator replaced. Cost her $800. I said she got ripped off until I looked online and saw that the alternator is buried under the motor and you have to remove the strut, engine mount, jack up the motor just to get to it.
They don't engineer them to last. They engineer them to be difficult to work on yourself and expensive to repair.