# Rolls Royces with locked hoods?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 28, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolls-royces-with-locked-hoods/171774 "2003-04-28T21:03:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolls-royces-with-locked-hoods/171774/13 "2003-05-01T08:12:28Z")

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[This](http://autozine.kyul.net/html/Audi1.htm) is the first site that Google threw up, and here is what they say:

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> Most special is not the engines but the engine compartment, which is sealed and provides no bonnet. Audi claims the engine is free of servicing for every 30,000 km, so access to the engine compartment is just needed at the aftersales workshop. Nevertheless, to enable refilling of oil and water, the pseudo grille, which is a black plastic cover with the 4-ring logo, can be opened to do that.

I tend to think that Audi woudn’t have gone to the trouble of sealing the A2’s bonnet, if at the end of the day, the customer could simply open it up whenever he pleased. That’d be just a huge waste of engineering, a poor waste of the customer’s time and energy, and even Audi’s money (think of all the marketing that sealed bonnet had).

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