Totally agree with you on that. Just spent an hour trying to work out how to get it out without breaking the side panel. It’s like a bunch of crazy BMW engineers were drunk, and decided to play a trick on us. “Lets put a tiny body bound rivet in a place where it’s hard to see and get at”. Thank goodness JVB is still on the job.
Cheers,
Bill
I can assure you no automotive engineer / planner is crazy or drunk. You need to understand how moderns assembly process's work... Time is everything - Everything is planned around
assembly and that is the key.
You dont plan to disassemble a car or bike, you plan for assembly - the quicker you can assemble something the more time you save & the more units you can build - on average each
assembly step. In a modern car or bike factory is around 20 seconds, so if you can drop 5 seconds out of an assembly process step, that's a big chunk of time your saving to build a car or
bike. (5 secs form each assembly step, can save over 2.7 hours of time) Some steps take longer, but the priority is time
Also when a lot of components are built into a car or a bike, there built early on in the assembly process. so lots of other components are built over the top. - Again built to assemble
So while you think something is odd or why did they do that - from the brief there given - they did what they were asked to do.
Thats why repair times are so long now
A Passat cambelt is fitted in 2 minutes during the assembly phase but over 7 hours labour to change it due to how much of the car has to be removed for access
Nissan use 1 size fixing for all the door panels on a Primera - that way the person assembling the door panel cant pick up the wrong fixing and have to loose time looking for the right one
When i did some work for a tier one supplier, we were packing repair kits - we were shown how to build and fill the kits using both hands one, two, three, four, as opposed to the one, one
,one, one pick method . You build twice as much in the same amount of time
