Strange Mud
Autocross Champion
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- Small Town CT
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- Assorted
has anyone ever used the glove box AC?
just wondering...
just wondering...
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Hood liner/insulation Mk7.5
- Thread starter ECJ215
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joesid
Go Kart Newbie
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- District of Columbia
Yeah! It's awesome. It actually works!
BravoMike
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Indianapolis
This means with the cost cutting on your car, you are effectively subsidizing the updates that the 2018 models got.
On another note, does this mean that I can now remove the insulation under the hood without worrying about my paint peeling? For those of you who remember, that is in reference to a thread that I don’t care to dig up right now.
southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
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- Somerville, MA
This means with the cost cutting on your car, you are effectively subsidizing the updates that the 2018 models got.
Except that I got $4k off MSRP + 0% APR. Glad to sacrifice some fake velvet and a glovebox lock for $4k anyday. Who am I subsidizing again?
At least I got my hood liner, overhead console illumination, full battery insulation and refrigerated glovebox
KevinC
Autocross Champion
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- '19 Golf R, '21 M2c
I live in the Sonoran desert - 30+ days over 110 last year. For people in climates like mine, it's a VERY nice little feature to have.
EDIT: make that "used to live" in the Sonoran desert, I'm now 3 hours to the southeast at altitude, enjoying considerable cooler temperatures, and exponentially more annual rainfall.
KevinC
Autocross Champion
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- '19 Golf R, '21 M2c
Are you really somehow equating a $4k discount to the removal of those items? I want some of whatever you're smoking!
Strange Mud
Autocross Champion
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- Small Town CT
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oh and thx to you guys I now know I don't have felt in my glove box.....ignorance was bliss Don't worry still pretty blissful
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Wrath And Tears
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Azusa, CA
- Car(s)
- 17 Sport, 99 E36
Yup, its just for noise insulation now a days. In the old days it served multiple purposes. Noise insulation, help protect the hood paint, and MBZ used a glue that would drop the hood pad on the engine to put out a fire (glue would weaken after getting exposed to the heat of open flames).
Back before most here were born, I think GM's plastic clips would melt.
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southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Somerville, MA
I'm not equating a $4k discount on the removal of those items. I'm making the value statement that I would gladly choose $4k cash for a 2017 lacking rain sensing wipers and LED tails over the 2018s with those features but at MSRP or slightly below. No one is getting $4k under MSRP on a base model 2018. Maybe I wasn't clear about that. Rain sensing wipers and LED tails aren't worth $4k in my book.
Wrath And Tears
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Azusa, CA
- Car(s)
- 17 Sport, 99 E36
Honestly that makes more sense / sounds a lot cheaper then using the glue. It's pretty cool to know other manufacturers were dropping hood pads to put out a fire as well.
cb1111
Newbie
- Location
- Virginia, USA
Up until the time that engines started having plastic covers, most vehicles sold in the US had an underhood pad that served two purposes - to keep heat from damaging the paint on the cars and to serve as a fire blanket - the pad was held on by a bunch of plastic "buttons" that melted easily.
The engine covers found on all cars these days serve both purposes so the pads are mostly redundant
ohsnapzombies1
Ready to race!
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- WA
Weird. I have a 7.5 autobahn and have the hoodliner.
gpomp
New member
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- Calgary, AB
I took the hood insulator off my 16 and put it on my 18 before I sold it.