To remove the door panel, I need 2 small eye glass screwdrivers, a large phillips head screwdriver, a small phillips head screwdriver, a torx bit driver and a flat blade screwdriver. On my old '91, '97 and '95 Maximas, all I needed was a medium sized phillips and a flat blade. My previously limited selection of metric tools was enough to do everything I needed...brakes, tune-up stuff and most easy repairs.
The wood bezel around the the gauge cluster requires a phillips head and torx head...though all the screw threads are all the same. Why make one stupid screw different? Why do the rear brakes require standard, metric and torx bits to work on (I have yet to see what the front needs)? For many things, there's little to no extra room for anything...little space for fingers and tools and I've said many many times to myself "How the hell do I get to THAT?" I've read about the water pump on the 4.9 and if or when I need that replaced, someone else will get the chance to undo the mix of way too many bolts and screws.
This is the most obnoxious car to work on out of any car I've ever owned...I hope my '06 Grand Prix is not put together like this. The fact that people were going to have to work on this car after it left the assembly line doesn't appear to have been on the designer's and engineer's radar. It's the kind of car that, after working on it like I have today, I sit here and crave beer...like a 12-pack.
The wood bezel around the the gauge cluster requires a phillips head and torx head...though all the screw threads are all the same. Why make one stupid screw different? Why do the rear brakes require standard, metric and torx bits to work on (I have yet to see what the front needs)? For many things, there's little to no extra room for anything...little space for fingers and tools and I've said many many times to myself "How the hell do I get to THAT?" I've read about the water pump on the 4.9 and if or when I need that replaced, someone else will get the chance to undo the mix of way too many bolts and screws.
This is the most obnoxious car to work on out of any car I've ever owned...I hope my '06 Grand Prix is not put together like this. The fact that people were going to have to work on this car after it left the assembly line doesn't appear to have been on the designer's and engineer's radar. It's the kind of car that, after working on it like I have today, I sit here and crave beer...like a 12-pack.
