Headliner design

[Karlus]

It's amazing that not only is the electrical harness glued to the fiberglass in the truck, there is no easy disconnect without tearing the entire dash apart. Would have been so easy to just have a connector in the driver A pillar.

I am going to reattach the harness to the roof of the truck.

Amazing design!

 

[wjburken]

Most of the decisions on design, like what you are describing, is based on what will let them get a car assembled in the quickest and most cost effective manner possible. Down the road maintenance is secondary.

As a person who’s career has been to design stuff from snow truck equipment, test equipment and automated food packaging equipment, it is a constant compromise between functionality, robustness, cost of parts, cost of assembly and cost of maintaining. Regular day-to-day stuff, you spend some time to make it easy to do. The more infrequent something may need to be accessed, the less time you spend making it convenient.

That being said, I agree they have definitely complicated some stuff that used to be very simple like changing headlight bulbs on the nnbs generation of our vehicles. The instructions should not start out with “loosen lug nuts on wheel behind head light”.

 

[Rocket Man]

Just pull it off and reglue it to the headliner or roof, I don’t see the issue. The other harnesses are the same way but they use tie straps instead of glue. The only disconnects are where they attach to the components.

 

[Karlus]

Just pull it off and reglue it to the headliner or roof, I don’t see the issue. The other harnesses are the same way but they use tie straps instead of glue. The only disconnects are where they attach to the components.

Agree, I was just being a baby and wishing they had been a little more considerate