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Old Jun 27, 2020 | 06:54 PM
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A new low from MB - fake exhaust tips!

Yep, MB has sunk to a new low. The best or nothing, they must have chose the latter. The A-class has fake exhaust tips...they are closed off inside and the real exhaust dumps downward underneath the car. Pretty embarrassing for a car that averages around $40k or more. The 2020 CLA is the same. What a joke!

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Old Jun 28, 2020 | 12:19 PM
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Cutting cost crew 1 reason i think of that is aerodynamics under car to improve air flow
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Old Nov 2, 2020 | 02:25 PM
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I think it would look even worse if the fake tips were removed :P
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Old May 3, 2021 | 05:19 PM
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Old May 3, 2021 | 06:41 PM
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....and so is the new GLE. I wonder what the reason for this is. I don't think they are saving money. Maybe it's to keep people and small children from getting burned on the hot metal tips?
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Old Aug 7, 2021 | 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by E55Greasemonkey
....and so is the new GLE. I wonder what the reason for this is. I don't think they are saving money. Maybe it's to keep people and small children from getting burned on the hot metal tips?
Funny, that is exactly why I'm in the forum searching, we keep burning ourselves on our e450 wagon exhaust tips, was hoping there was some type of shroud out there available
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Old Aug 7, 2021 | 07:50 PM
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Funny, that is exactly why I'm in the forum searching, we keep burning ourselves on our e450 wagon exhaust tips, was hoping there was some type of shroud out there available
Crawl underneath and look at the muffler exit pipe. You may be able to have an exhaust shop cut off the muffler tips and weld on some "turn downs" to exit underneath the car, thus creating your own "fake exhaust tips!"
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Originally Posted by E55Greasemonkey
Crawl underneath and look at the muffler exit pipe. You may be able to have an exhaust shop cut off the muffler tips and weld on some "turn downs" to exit underneath the car, thus creating your own "fake exhaust tips!"
That's a really good idea actually. I'll have to take a look
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