Dangerously hot pipes in cabin. Beware!
I was driving my buddy around today (first time I actually had a passenger in the CX-5). He's a tall fellow (6ft something), and was stretching out since we were on an extended cruise, when he recoiled rapidly and yelled at me that my car had shocked him.
I was very confused and was like, well don't try to touch whatever you did before. When we arrived at our destination, we looked a little closer underneath the glove box and found that it wasn't that he'd been shocked, but that he touched a RIDICULOUSLY HOT tube that for some reason is present, unprotected, underneath the dash on the passenger side. Check out the red arrows on the attached photo.
I assume these are maybe part of the engine coolant system?? What I don't understand is why it's so easy to touch them. If you sit normally in the passenger seat and stretch out in any reasonable way for a taller person it's not difficult at all to come into contact with these tubes.
This frankly is dangerous. This tubing is really really reeeeally hot. You'll get burned bad if you touch them for even a full second.
Is my car missing some shielding that is present on anyone else's CX-5s? If no, be careful where passengers with bare feet place them under the dash. I'm definitely going to talk to my dealer about this one because it's just begging for someone to be seriously hurt.
I was driving my buddy around today (first time I actually had a passenger in the CX-5). He's a tall fellow (6ft something), and was stretching out since we were on an extended cruise, when he recoiled rapidly and yelled at me that my car had shocked him.
I was very confused and was like, well don't try to touch whatever you did before. When we arrived at our destination, we looked a little closer underneath the glove box and found that it wasn't that he'd been shocked, but that he touched a RIDICULOUSLY HOT tube that for some reason is present, unprotected, underneath the dash on the passenger side. Check out the red arrows on the attached photo.
I assume these are maybe part of the engine coolant system?? What I don't understand is why it's so easy to touch them. If you sit normally in the passenger seat and stretch out in any reasonable way for a taller person it's not difficult at all to come into contact with these tubes.
This frankly is dangerous. This tubing is really really reeeeally hot. You'll get burned bad if you touch them for even a full second.
Is my car missing some shielding that is present on anyone else's CX-5s? If no, be careful where passengers with bare feet place them under the dash. I'm definitely going to talk to my dealer about this one because it's just begging for someone to be seriously hurt.