What the hell were the designers at Chrysler thinking

plum crazy dart said
I'm pretty sure the designers sat around drinking one night and said lets have a contest to see who can come up with the most ridiculous place to put the battery and see if we can get the design approved. Have heard horror stories about the 200 and 300 series and intrepids, and sebrings. The spare tire location/design on a caravan is another great design :angry7:

WildCat said
Engineers should have to do some of the repairs or replace some parts in their stupid designs.

I always get the feeling that this is the intention! Sort of like "let's see you guys fix THIS at home in your driveway!" Difficult, time-consuming maintenance is something that the customer pays for.....at a dealer. Everybody gets those junk mail flyers sent to your house about $25 oil changes at the dealer, just to get some people into the service dep't. I think this is just another way to get more people in.