Why is everyone afraid of the engine bay?

[HotdogThud]

That’s all fake. Nice Y pipe routing but the rest is plastic covers.

Right, i know it's all 'fake', but even underneath, it's still neat and tidy

Even other Ford's look better:

I guess to me it just implies a certain attention to detail from the manufacturer, and the 2.7's engine bay doesn't *feel* that way

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[stonerdoom]

For those of you who are car literate, does the 2.7 look like it will be accessible for designers and ultimately consumers to do easier, beginner-level mods or upgrades like an air intake, etc? That's the part that "scared" me. It seems so tight. Nothing else can fit and any changes will be a professional-level project.

 

[JDS]

Right, i know it's all 'fake', but even underneath, it's still neat and tidy

Even other Ford's look better:

I guess to me it just implies a certain attention to detail from the manufacturer, and the 2.7's engine bay doesn't *feel* that way

Agree - leave it to ze Germans. Neat, organized. Loved that 2.7 turbo.

 

[okbob]

Regardless if the consumer is a booger eating moron, someone still has to dig into the engine when sensor x or gasket y fails. Instead of charging 0.5hours labor to pop out the old and put a new one in, the owner will notice the change to 3.5hours labor and added charge of coolant that had to be dumped to remove the hosing out of the way.

Labor costs has nothing to do with "why is everyone afraid of the engine bay" in this thread. Everyone is focused on the appearance, and not what it will actually take to work on it, because 99.9% of 2021 bronco owners won't work on either the 2.3 or 2.7l themselves. Most won't change the oil themselves, let alone a sensor, alternator, etc. Those owners won't know that it used to take .5hours vs 3.5hours now, they just go along with it, what choice do they have lol?

 

[RedHotFuzz]

Complexity = increased probability of failure, reduced longevity, increased cost to repair.

I'd much prefer Bronco had a good-old-fashioned 5.0L. The twin-turbo setup is fear-inducing for a vehicle I plan to own until I die.

 

[vrtical]

The only newish car engine bay I work on

 

[RiverRat001]

compared to my smaller modern car...

Bronco vs sedan

Nice low-key flex. This is just my smaller sedan, nothing to see here...

*shows pic of chevy ss v8*

 

[ferbm]

Afraid? No
Disappointed: Yes

It looks like a forgotten detail.

On the other hand, it's so far away from a dealbreaker that it hardly seems worth talking about one way or the other. Yet here we are.. ...doing what we have come to love doing!

 

[BecauseMotor]

Afraid? No
Disappointed: Yes

It looks like a forgotten detail.

On the other hand, it's so far away from a dealbreaker that it hardly seems worth talking about one way or the other. Yet here we are.. ...doing what we have come to love doing!

Slow news day...

 

[Paul Gagnon]

I'm sure that a large proportion of the people complaining about the engine bay don't work on their own cars anyway.

 

[NCOBX]

I'm sure that a large proportion of the people complaining about the engine bay don't work on their own cars anyway.

I have to imagine it’s the opposite, the people that don’t have experience working on cars don’t know the difference.

Those that have changed an Alternator in autozone parking lot 5 hours from home know the difference.

 

[RedHotFuzz]

If you want to frighten yourself google a smog choked engine from the mid 70s. There were dozens of hoses running everywhere for no apparent reason.

My first car was a 1977 Camaro with the 350 V8. I learned to work on that car in high school auto shop. It was a gutless turd that couldn't spin the tires if its life depended on it, but the engine bay was fairly open and accessible. Of course that 12-foot-long hood helped.

I don't imagine high school auto shop students will be doing much work on twin-turbo V6's in 2021.

 

[RedHotFuzz]

I have to imagine it’s the opposite, the people that don’t have experience working on cars don’t know the difference.

Those that have changed an Alternator in autozone parking lot 5 hours from home know the difference.

Agreed. My first thought when I look at that mess is "Where is the fuel filter and how many days is it going to take me to replace it?"

 

[NCOBX]

Nice low-key flex. This is just my smaller sedan, nothing to see here...

*shows pic of chevy ss v8*

FWIW that is the messiest and most complicated engine bay of any vehicle I own.
My LQ4 is deadnuts simple
And the KA24E Frontier I was given is so simple I could nearly wrap my arms around the block unimpeded.
Etc

 

[Username_not_found]

My current vehicle has an engine bay that's about 0.01 cubic inches larger than the engine sitting in it. The Bronco engine does not scare me.

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