Actually it took a green flag breakdown cover engineer over 45 minutes and a 5th gear presenter under 1 minute, so what was that about? Well it was an episode of 5th gear talking about a Renault Megane, where it is almost impossible to change a headlight bulb, to the point it recommends you use a dealer to do.
They invited a Green Flag breakdown cover man to do an experiment, where the engineer would get to change the light bulb in the Megane, but the presenter would do the same job on a VW. The results were conclusive, that it just so hard to change the light bulb on the Megane. Quotes for a dealer to do so were up to £250 and more, but in fairness did start from around £30 + vat for one hours labour, as it requires removing certain parts off the car. But who wants to pay £40 to by the time you ad VAT and the price of the light bulb, as who would pay the £250 or so, it is just a silly design.
In the end, the breakdown cover engineer need not have been embarrassed as it clearly is bad design, but you can’t help thinking if it took a trained breakdown cover engineer over 45 minutes to do this job, how long would it take a member of the public, or in fact can it be done at all.
Their argument was the design was this way to achieve its 5 star safety award, but this was quickly crushed as the VW, had the same safety rating. The Green Flag breakdown engineer was a good sport and probably knew the outcome before he started, this was a good example of keeping us infirmed, keep up the good work