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Old Dec 6, 2021 | 06:23 PM
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Curiosity - any ideas?

Check out this effect after a light snow. any ideas?

At first thought a kid or wife was having fun but it was too symmetric. Car had not been driven for a day so shouldn’t be from heat. This is a 250 and my neighbour has a 350 and I happened to see his about 5 min later and it had the same effect.
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Isn't that great. I took pictures of mine the first time I saw it also. I thought it looked like a robot face. I wonder if someone at MB thought of it or was it just random?
Likely the snow was falling as the temperature dropped below the freezing point. There was enough residual warmth to partially melt the snow.
Have a look at the hood liner and the engine and you'll see how the pattern was formed.

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Warmer areas where the bottom layer of sheetmetal is glued to the top layer?
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