So - I had a hour or so set aside to replace the knock sensor on my 182. I'd done it before (years ago) and was all calm in setting about it.
What my brain must have forgotten in those intervening years, was to question which whore of Satan arse at Renault, decided to place the sensor
directly below where one of the cross-members to the block is located? I mean, give it a few mm access for sockets to get a purchase around the main body of the knock sensor itself. But no, we is French - it's Friday afternoon and we haz fromage and du vin to get to.
Stupid, stupid lazy arse design. More so because I've got nothing to hand that can get that sensor off. So I either buy some fancy goose-necked spanner to access it - or get a good 30min labour charge at a garage to do it for me, just because some design engineer decided to have a frontal lobotomy with common sense - all those years ago.
s**t happens and I normally calm down quickly when things go wrong. But I simply cannot abide poor design - I mean just look at the below. Space EVERYWHERE to keep the two components apart and yet still they butt them together like this.
Utter wankmops....
