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They’re downturned pipes with faux tips, reduces soot on bumper
Those tips are just for show. Ford made a change to some of their exhausts for the explorers when they released the exhaust smell in cabin recall. It moved the outlet to the bottom of the pipe instead of out of the tips. What you are seeing there is the wall of the actual exhaust pipe.
@Quill
Oh wow that kinda dumb.
lol the big stick of truth does not lie
Nothing, they are just fake tips, the real exhaust pipe bends down and points at the floor.
I remember someone asking about this back in 2021. If I remember correctly, it’s for two agreed-upon reasons.
1 - To prevent the exhaust tips from blackening from the soot these engines produce, a common complaint.
2 - For the 2011–2017 iterations, some consumers complained about exhaust fumes leaking into the cabin via the trunk. Exhaust tips pointing towards the grounds reduce this possibility.