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Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
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The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.

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[–] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I am not a mechanic and can't fix cars, but I have found the same to be true for just jumping a car with jumper cables.

Where is my battery on my 08 Toyota Corolla? Right there. I can see it.

Where is the battery in the 19 Honda pilot? Under some bullshit, have no idea where it is without a YouTube video and even then you need baby hands to fit through the junk and reach it without taking anything out.

Where is the battery in the 19 Toyota hybrid? I think it's under the trunk?? I don't know because by this point I had given up and just called a tow truck and purchased a portable jumper for my 08 Toyota I was trying to jump with those two vehicles from my family.

I'm not buying a new car until it rots out from under me.