Jesus H Tittyfucking Christ. I just replaced the battery on my mom's 96 Corvette. On a normal car, build by humans (as opposed to blind retarded chimps with no face and hooks for hands), removing a battery is no more than 2-4 bolts. one on either side of the tie down, one on each post. not Corvettes, nooooo that would be much too easy. on the 96 Corvette, one must remove 8 bolts, (4 hex, 4 allen, 3 different sizes each, american and metric), AND 2 exterior body panels.

Just pulling the battery out took me literally an hour. It should have taken 45 minutes start to finish, including the trip to Advance.

This is exactly the type of shit that makes people hate American cars. They're just lazy and poorly thought out, and just all around inferior products. Yet, to some, it's unpatriotic to buy anything but American.

I will never understand people.

 

Congrats, you changed a battery in car designed in the 80's.

 

shitty, its just as hard to change on my G-Ma's olds silhouette... Maybe cause they both end in "ette"?

 

i used to hate it when people would come in for batteries w/those old gm cars w/the cross member and the windshield washer fluid reservoir on top of the battery. never had to change a corvette battery before though.

 

its not even about that. my car was designed in the 80's, but the difference is that when japanese engineers design something, 9 times out of 10 it's designed to be easier for the user, not nightmarish.

I've never found myself working on an American car and saying to myself "Wow, this was really well designed. I bet someone put a lot of time and effort into making my life simpler here." It's usually something along the lines of "What the fuck were these morons thinking?"

Case in point: the door ajar switch that I also just replaced. You're literally supposed to pull the entire door panel out and disassemble everything to do this job, but if GM had the forsight to just drill the hole in the door a quarter inch bigger, the switch would just slip right in and out. All the stupid little shit like that is what makes these cars complete pieces of shit.

 

GM, boop

 

Where should they have put the battery?

 

^ in the trunk, BMW has some under the back seat!

 

exactly.

 

Saying a corvette sucks because of its battery location is like saying Megan Fox isnt sexy because of her toe thumb.