Looking at the engine of the 3.8 L Genesis, look at how messy the engine bay looks.. And what's up with the aluminum intake?
Does Hyundai use covers on their engines, because Lexus is good in making use of COVERS. Take the covers off and then talk. You seem superficial. To me, don't judge a book by its cover.
Does Hyundai use covers on their engines, because Lexus is good in making use of COVERS. Take the covers off and then talk. You seem superficial. To me, don't judge a book by its cover.
They do, the Genesis sedan covers up like the Lexus LS does and unfortunately everybody is starting to do this. I find the plastic covers to be pretty hideous and pointless. When I look at an engine I expect to see metal, not plastic.
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They do, the Genesis sedan covers up like the Lexus LS does and unfortunately everybody is starting to do this. I find the plastic covers to be pretty hideous and pointless. When I look at an engine I expect to see metal, not plastic.
same here. the only plastic cover i want is an underbelly cover, which is not for looks.
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I'd say most mainstream cars these days the engine bay will look "hideous." But in reality the average person doesn't care or notice. Only us car nuts. But as mentioned for halo cars they are an exception or sports cars. Of course not all have nice engine bays but that is subjective. But it seems even on high performance cars most of the engine bay is covered to give that "clean" and aerodynamic look or something like that. Even Porsche from what I've seen at the auto show majority is covered up (yes I was looking in the back "trunk"). Then again there's probably not much to see considering where the engine is positioned (at least on some Porsche's).
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I'd say most mainstream cars these days the engine bay will look "hideous." But in reality the average person doesn't care or notice. Only us car nuts. But as mentioned for halo cars they are an exception or sports cars. Of course not all have nice engine bays but that is subjective. But it seems even on high performance cars most of the engine bay is covered to give that "clean" and aerodynamic look or something like that. Even Porsche from what I've seen at the auto show majority is covered up (yes I was looking in the back "trunk"). Then again there's probably not much to see considering where the engine is positioned (at least on some Porsche's).
I find the worst thing about these covers is how discouraging it becomes to actually do your own maintenance. Trying to get to the coolant bottle on a Nissan Maxima requires removing two covers one of which is pretty flimsy and easily broken, guess how I know? Heck there are even covers for the battery, one day I accidentally left the switch for the rear taillights on(silly Subaru feature) and my car ran out of charge. The closest car was a 2012 Malibu so I pulled one to jump my car with...it took me 15 minutes to remove the stupid cover for the battery made worse because it was dark. That pissed me off so much when this should've taken me 5 seconds.
The reality is yes some people attempt to never look under the hood, but there are times when you have to. Putting stupid covers on everything has actually made things worse. Instead of opening the hood and easily finding everything in visible sight, now its a guessing game especially in the dark when its difficult to read the stupid plastic...if they printed anything which they sometimes don't.
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I suppose its something that goes back to the muscle car era when all the manufacturers would paint their engines. Ford had blue, GM was orange, Chrysler had blue as well. But back then engines were also dirt simple and wonderfully inefficient. In fact covering them in pretty paint colors only made them more inefficient since it kept a lot of engine heat from escaping. Invariably a few years down the road your once pretty blue engine looked like crap because it was covered in grease or rust or both. I personally don't mind the way that modern engines look. They look like engines, which is what they are. I don't need some pretty little engine cover with the name of the car painted on it. It just gets in the way when you need to work on your car, holds engine heat closer to the engine and overall nobody cares.
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I suppose its something that goes back to the muscle car era when all the manufacturers would paint their engines. Ford had blue, GM was orange, Chrysler had blue as well. But back then engines were also dirt simple and wonderfully inefficient. In fact covering them in pretty paint colors only made them more inefficient since it kept a lot of engine heat from escaping. Invariably a few years down the road your once pretty blue engine looked like crap because it was covered in grease or rust or both. I personally don't mind the way that modern engines look. They look like engines, which is what they are. I don't need some pretty little engine cover with the name of the car painted on it. It just gets in the way when you need to work on your car, holds engine heat closer to the engine and overall nobody cares.
I find the worst thing about these covers is how discouraging it becomes to actually do your own maintenance. Trying to get to the coolant bottle on a Nissan Maxima requires removing two covers one of which is pretty flimsy and easily broken, guess how I know? Heck there are even covers for the battery, one day I accidentally left the switch for the rear taillights on(silly Subaru feature) and my car ran out of charge. The closest car was a 2012 Malibu so I pulled one to jump my car with...it took me 15 minutes to remove the stupid cover for the battery made worse because it was dark. That pissed me off so much when this should've taken me 5 seconds.
The reality is yes some people attempt to never look under the hood, but there are times when you have to. Putting stupid covers on everything has actually made things worse. Instead of opening the hood and easily finding everything in visible sight, now its a guessing game especially in the dark when its difficult to read the stupid plastic...if they printed anything which they sometimes don't.
The trade off is that you don't have to do maintenance as often on many of these new cars compared to cars of the past, Spark plugs every 60K or 5 Years? 100K coolant? Even if the owner does not wait that long to do these tasks the service interval to do them is longer than it was before.
The trade off is that you don't have to do maintenance as often on many of these new cars compared to cars of the past, Spark plugs every 60K or 5 Years? 100K coolant? Even if the owner does not wait that long to do these tasks the service interval to do them is longer than it was before.
Trade off? So when you put a cover on an engine, you don't have to do maintenance? That's comedy fodder.
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