Replacement of car parts

Place: Festival parking lot, Shelton WA

Design problem: GMC Jimmy cars have a plastic grill on the front of the car. A rock can easily fly up and chip or break portions of the grill leaving the car looking bad. Cost of repair is $24 for the letter. But cost of shop labor time to repair is $80. It turns out that replacing the letter requires dismantling the entire front of the car (because the pins holding the letter go far back in), and it requires special screw drivers which most people don't have.

Potential solutions: Make emblem letters that are cheap and dismantle from the front of the car; mold the emblem into the front grill so it can't fall out; use standard parts so people can fix their own cars; allow access to the front grill from inside the engine compartment so repairs can easily be made; lastly make it easy to replace all small parts on the car should something happen to them.