Problem understanding this following paragraph

"Is your problem really a bad tank of gas, or does your car need timing or perhaps new distributor points? Or is your problem a living situation that makes you overly dependent upon a car? Problem statements are often liberally laced with answers. The answers may be well thought out or poorly conceived. They may be right or wrong. A problem statement to an architect such as "put a latch on that door between the kitchen and the dining room so that the door can be opened exteremely easily" implies that the answer to kitchen/dining room access is a door, rather than no door, a redefinition of space, or a redefinition of the food preparation/eating function."

The sentence in bold does not make any sense to me. Because any answer is supposed to be against a question, but what does 'answer to ... access' mean? Also what does 'redefinition ... function'? What and how is redefinition taking place? Besides what is the meaning of the first sentence 'car need timing or perhaps distributor points'? How the whole thing elaborate on the point 'Problem statements are often liberally laced with answers'?