2008 Buick Enclave CX: My Eyes! My Eyes!

Is it just me or the silver piece under the plasti-wood trim in front of the passenger is bulging?

linard, I thought that too when I looked at the picture. It looks like it's about to pop right off.
 
Ugh...the Enclave's interior isn't for me. I hate fake wood and the fact that the seats are fabric makes the wood seem all the more fake to me for some reason. And chrome should be on the outside of the car, not the inside.

" I hate fake wood "
 
Looks like they had to cut down a lot of fake trees for all of that :)

So much tacky looking light wood trim.
 
They could have at least used something more appealing, not too dark like the ugly stuff in the last gen Bu, but something attractive and modern.
 
They spent all the money on chrome and fake wood, and double pane windows. Ignoring the fact that bling bling wood and chrome isn't all that great in the interior(obviously).
The Edge has the outer vents lined with a satin finish instead of chrome just because of this. But the aluminum stuff doesn't work all that well either.

No, fake wood should be on the outside, too. Let's bring faux wood paneling back!

so is that actually popping out?

lol ewilfong.
 
I think an entire fake forest went into the interior of this thing.

My old VW Golf had similar chrome/shiny bits around the shifter, which regularly blinded me during driving. These are little things you think would become obviously problematic during the vehicles testing phase. Its not like it would be a huge deal to trade out the chrome trim for something else, would it?

This is why I don't understand people liking the G6's interior (like one of my best friends, who is a lover of almost all things GM).
 
In the Enclave's corner, we have nice materials overall but too much sparkly stuff (it really is unnecessary dressing...)
 
In the G6's corner, we have ALOT more chrome rings around all sorts of things on the dash and center console, but it's surrounded by really cheap plastics. Hideous.
 
I think that enclave looks really nice. Why don't they go to a brushed metal trim instead of a mirror-finish? That would keep it's current look, but reduce the glare produced. Right?
 
Joe

No big deal. Get some blue masking tape (comes off more easily and safely than the beige type), then apply a translucent, matte-finish spray to the offending reflective surfaces. Unless you want to be able to easily reverse the process, avoid the spray used in studios to prep subjects' glasses, as it wipes off too easily.

I've had mucho annoyances with sun glinting off chrome trim and screwing up vision, including chrome ringged knobs on newer versions of the Maxx, the HHR dash, and other USA cars I've looked at.
 
By comparison, Subaru and the Euros use mostly brushed trim, and buries the chrome inside the hooded instrument cluster. There are few annoying reflections that way.

the chrome interior piece around the shifter in my altima is guilty of blinding me sometimes. I don't think cars should have chrome bits on the inside, especially since they reflect sunlight into the driver's eyes, which could be dangerous.
 
I get enough reflection from my side mirrors when SUVs drive behind me, thanks.

Now try riding a chromed out Harley. That is real chrome, not plasti chrome and believe me, the reflections are far more intense. Eye wateringly painful.

Like the leg-burning exhaust pipes in the Mini, I don't understand how this form-over-function flaw survives product testing. I rented a Matrix for a few days and was blinded the entire time by chrome-ringed junk.

"Like the leg-burning exhaust pipes in the Mini"
 
How so????

http://66.160.188.111/roadtests/Comments/2024#cm
 
That's how.
 
Norsairius, if you think SUV's are bad in the mirrors, try being ahead of (or behind...or anywhere near, for that matter) this thing!!
 
http://media.funlol.com/content/img/chrome-bmw.jpg

You can thank Audi for all this shiny trim inside cars today. Metallic trim really should be kept to a minimum for glare reasons but since the media has lavished so much praise on Audi for such brightwork it is now quite common. There is a chrome rim around the shift gate on the Aura that reflects sunlight into your eye.

Is this blog entry for real?
  
You should spend more time concentrating on the road. How a glare from the shift surround, mounted on the center console between the seats, can be seen while driving and looking forward seems improbable. Do you constantly look down at the shifter while driving?
  
I can see where the trim on the dash could possibly be noticed, but to be enough to blind a driver also seems improbable.
  
My '06 Impala has fake chrome around, and on, the shifter. Additionally, chrome rings around the gauges, and some chrome on the Impala logo embedded in the dash in front of the passenger. Never an issue in 2yrs of ownership.
  
Now if the trim was actually popping off of the dash and physically poking you in the eyes then sure, that would be worth mentioning.

^ Are you foreal?
 
Nearly every piece of trim in that picture has glare, the excessive Fake wood, the excessive chrome, and last time I check the enclave had a different interior. And he did not say it only occurred when he looked at it, it was constant and so bad that it had to be covered.

The glare is overstated in those pictures, plain and simple. To expose the interior correctly with a sunny day outside (as above), the exterior is a bit washed out. Even then, the 'glare' spots aren't very bad. And for what it's worth, both of my past vehicles have chrome all over the interior. It's extremely rare to have glare reflected into my eyes, and pretty much NEVER enough to be a problem driving. I have worse issues driving west in the mornings and east in the evenings, putting the sun directly in my mirrors.

As much as glare off the dashboard makes me wince, seeing a picture of George Hamilton makes me wince more.
 
Does the brushed aluminum panels in the GMC Acadia reflect glare worse? Do they get hotter than other panels and burn?

"^ Are you foreal?
   
Nearly every piece of trim in that picture has glare, the excessive Fake wood, the excessive chrome, and last time I check the enclave had a different interior. And he did not say it only occurred when he looked at it, it was constant and so bad that it had to be covered."
  
  
The Impala interior also has the mass of fake wood trim just as the Enclave does. Nowhere in my post did I say the Impala had the same interior as the Enclave, merely that it also had chrome accents in similar locations.
  
The pictures do not demonstrate any glare issues that could be considered excessive enough to warrant covering.

The hell, I was in an EDGE SEL+ with the aluminum trim and it nearly blinded me when ever I glanced over to make a turn.
Clearly, the person that was driving noticed the glare, and it was distracting enough to have to cover it, you can't really be the judge of weather it was or wasn't because you weren't driving.
 
The Impala, and Enclave are very different, the dash layout, and windshield positioning have a lot to do with what sunlight enters the cabin and reflects off of certain things in the cabin.