Well Designed Stuff is hard to find

[Zak33]

looks like we turned this totally into a HEXUS.babies thread again!

[IBM]

Lots of incentive to design good stuff for babies....so much money in the market.

Talking about Stokke....here's another piece of cracking design.



And you can even buy a kit to change the two end pieces into chairs once the kid's outgrown it.

[99Flake]

Going with the blister packs:

Bacon packaging with the plastic lift up tab so you can peel it open. Only thing is it doesn't EVER. Not once have I found this to work as it is too well attached meaning the knife has to come out. What is the point in putting it there if it serves no purpose?

Oh and litre cartons of juice with the stupid lift up foil underneath the plastic flap that always breaks. Same with milk bottles!

[iranu]

Some cars are designed so that you cannot replace the headlight bulbs and need a dealer to do it. The following two examples are from French manufacturers and French law states you can't drive a car without a headlight and iirc you need to carry spare bulbs too.

From Honest John Letters.

When I was 15, my father and I rebuilt a Morris Minor engine on the kitchen table (my mother was not amused) and in my 20s I helped a friend rebuild an E-type Jaguar (my mother was alarmed). I've been doing things to cars and upsetting my mother for more than 40 years, but last week I totally failed to change the headlight bulb on a Peugeot 206 and had to drive 15 miles to a mechanic. He had the grace to say they were quite difficult and I was reassured by the length of time it took him. Why is it so taxing to do a trivial but vital job?
A.M., via e-mail

# It isn't just Peugeot - it is virtually every manufacturer. This is a question I have been asking for years. Many European countries require drivers to carry a set of spare bulbs, but none compels manufacturers to make them easily replaceable.


From Honest John Forum

Noticed on Sunday the offside dipped beam not working on my 04 Megane Hatchback. Handbook says 'Restricted access. Use Main Dealer.' Phoned my usual Main Dealer in Oldham and was quoted £50 including labour and parts for replacing both bulbs.
Phoned an independent Renault specialist in Stockport (as HJ advises). Told one side takes 2 hours and the other 1 hour, labour charge is £40/hour and bulbs are £7.50 each. Total £135.
Going to France next week. Don't have the time or (apparently) small enough hands, and definitely not enough patience or big enough swear box according to SWMBO so Main Dealer gets £50. Job done in 35 minutes.
Three comments. Firstly independents are supposed to be cheaper, aren't they? It just shows always shop around. Secondly what do I do if an anti rosbeouf Gendarme stops me on a dark, wet and windy night, tells me I have a headlamp bulb not working and, a propos, I cannot drive the vehicle at night until it is fixed. Thirdly who on earth designed the system.
I am told other manufacturers, including Rover, require this under-the-wheelarch contortionist, small handed but long fingered, working blind technique. Come to think of it I do seem to remember one of the Renault technicians didn't half remind me of ET.