Under bonnet pic - new & used car adverts

[ingenieur]

Anyone else like me wanting to see an under-bonnet pic when looking at new and used car adverts?

Also... if it's an estate I want to see inside the boot.

[ingenieur]

defblade said:

Under bonnet pictures - yes, it's got an engine.
There's usually little to see in the way of problems on the top of an engine - oil follows gravity.
Too clean and what are they hiding? It's going to be dirty again soon anyway and it's not like you see it every day.
Normal and you're back to "yes, it's got an engine."
Utterly filthy and covered in oil and/or coolant stains... wellllllll, they're not going to put that one up on the advert, are they?

The stuff that I want to see around the engine bay (crash damage on the front, rusty chassis legs, changed wings, oil leaks, broken engine mounts, etc etc etc) mostly isn't going to show up on a photo of the whole bay, so on the whole I find them pretty pointless.

I like confirmation of which engine was installed. Sometimes cars which are outwardly similar with the same model name can have different engines. The seller not being aware of this doesn't mention it in the advert either.