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2018 hood vents poor design

magnetticmadness

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So I took the hood vents off the wrap them in black and found that the actual intake vent is tiny compared to the rest of the piece. I’m a little bummed that they couldn’t have made it at least slightly more fictional lol. I highly doubt very much air if any really does flow through there. I’m thinking if DIYing it and cutting some of the plastic out to make it actually more functional so to speak.
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The 2015-2017's were pretty much the same way. So I removed the vents (and turn signals) and used an electric nibbler to cut out a much bigger area of the hood to actually make them useful and installed the Scott Drake vents that I painted to match the car. I cut out just enough that I can still put my stock vents back on if I would ever want to.
 

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Wow a lot of crap collects underneath there really soon.
 

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I took mine off to wrap also but I didn't see how the black grille part separated from the top as I wanted to get the edges of the vinyl sandwiched between the two, did you try it or did you wrap as is ?
 

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If their function is to vent heat and air pressure while ensuring that hood shake doesn't occur, then it would seem they are functional. I presume there's an engineering reason they are designed that way and with that size opening.
 

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Still more functional than the 15-17 vents.
 

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