[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 61-63

When I run into something like that I want to string up the engineer or whomever was responsible for designing it. Now why would some damn fool decide to bury a fuse at the bottom of a fuse box where you can't see it?

Originally Posted by Cliff R

When I run into things like this I want to put the engineers nuts in a shop vise who came up with that crap!

Oof. Tough crowd.

I wouldn't dream of "white knighting" the guy responsible for this design, but in all seriousness there are a lot of constraints that we hobbyist can't imagine.

Maybe he was forced to re-use a design from a different model, or earlier version of this model, to save on piece cost and tooling investment.

Maybe there was a layered build in the assembly plant that required installing the bottom portion of the fuse box first and the top part later, in order to avoid relocating heavy equipment ("monuments") in the assembly plant.

Just a couple examples off the top of my head. It is way different designing for a thousand or tens of thousands of vehicles (or, in my day, a million a year) than it is for just one.

K