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Originally Posted by mallrat
I'd be happy if they could handle making stuff slightly better laid out, rather than slightly worse, each year. The example that springs to my mind is the large cable harness going from the battery box area to the starter area passing way too close to the transmission fluid check plug on late model semi-trucks. Used to cross the framerail about a foot further back, one year they decided to move it forward so that it passed within an inch of the check plug making it a real pain for anyone trying to perform maintenance. Still plenty of room in the previous location, nothing in the way to cause the change, the engineers just know they'll never have to work on it so they may as well jerk around the consumer. Many other examples, that's just the one that popped up in my head.
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Someone benefited from the decision to change that design.
Now let us ask ourselves
who benefited, or
how they benefited from changing it.
Who pays? Who benefits?