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Olly. · Oct 13th, 2006, 01:51 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by SamHarrison (original)

FOR A START.. why create weak points in the bonnet by cutting two great big holes in it so that the lights can be left in the body work...why did they do that.. IDIOTS

Apparently its because although it looks very cool with the headlights going up on the bonnet its very expensive to produce. Also when you slam your bonnet down it was mis-aligning headlights all the time, meaning dealers were re-aligning headlights a lot.

Oct 13th, 2006, 01:51 PM	#12
Olly. Overboosting..... Join Date: Sep 2003 Local Time: 08:57 AM Posts: 3,406 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by SamHarrison (original) FOR A START.. why create weak points in the bonnet by cutting two great big holes in it so that the lights can be left in the body work...why did they do that.. IDIOTS Apparently its because although it looks very cool with the headlights going up on the bonnet its very expensive to produce. Also when you slam your bonnet down it was mis-aligning headlights all the time, meaning dealers were re-aligning headlights a lot.