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I’ll be blunt, this is one of those typical over-engineered, over thought-out items that really don’t add much value, but what will cost an enormous amount of money to replace when it fails. And, mechanical parts like these—exposed to the elements and extreme heat from the engine bay—will almost always break soon and break often.
Even more troublesome, a failure of this item where it is stuck close could cause catastrophic overheating if it happens to fail during a long road trip, for example. Is there a manual way to force open the shutters? Will a failure throw a check engine light?
A lot of people—faced with the prospect of replacing these—will likely opt for the X5M grill, that is just wide open instead of spending what is probably a lot more money for the same gimmicky grill. I would.
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