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The engine bay insulating blanket above the engine can look rather shabby over time. If you replace it with the OE service part its edge will develop cracks in as little as 20K miles. If the blanket in your car is not falling apart a good fix is to trim up the visible edge using a dry-wall edge cuff from your local DIY store. Simply cut a suitable length and fit it in place. If you want to get fancy you can fit it with the longer edge face up and use the buttons that hold the edge of the blanket in place to firmly tie it down.
In my case I just force-fitted it with the shorter edge face up and it seems to stay in place just fine. Once trimmed to size it can be painted flat black, as I did, or really any color including body matching color. Takes about five min. to fabricate with a total cost is just $8 or so including paint and it looks quite nice.

AOW162435

As long as the sound pad is not torn & drooping, your solution is a very clean and simple one.



Andreas

kjr914

For me the pictures are really tiny... Do you have a better resolution?

"Force-fitted" means you just pushed it on the edge and it held? I'd be concerned that, IF it ever comes off, it can fall into the belts and cause mayhem, since there is no fastener. I like the minimalism angle, however.

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Originally Posted by kjr914

For me the pictures are really tiny... Do you have a better resolution?

"Force-fitted" means you just pushed it on the edge and it held? I'd be concerned that, IF it ever comes off, it can fall into the belts and cause mayhem, since there is no fastener. I like the minimalism angle, however.

Images resized,
A dab or two of 3M trim adhesive or bath calk would likely nix the coming loose issue.

Andy :-)