Dumb car cosmetic modifications we've done.

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

I'm guilty of putting magenta under glow, and engine glow on three cars now. Most recently my Nissan GTR. I also put spinners on a used Volkswagen bug I had way back.

Also the double spoiler I put on the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII I had, that thing looked stupid as it gets...

Thank god I've got no photos of these dumb cosmetic mods.

Anyone else done the same?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Thread title is redundant because all cosmetic car modifications are dumb.

Now I'm going to sit here like the great moral authority that I am and judge everyone who posts in this thread because I've never so much as put a bumper sticker on my car.

Seriously though, car mods always look stupid to me. One of my neighbors put a spoiler on the roof of his car and I laugh about it every time I walk by.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Er...I once smashed the crap out of the passenger side wing on my old Ford Escort & tore off the bumper. I cut up an old polystyrene surfboard and gaffa taped it on as a replacement.

I then painted the polystyrene black so the police would be less likely to notice. Does that count as cosmetic modification?

 

[FirstNameLastName]

... I also put spinners on ...

There is absolutely no context in which spinners are an acceptable modification. None.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Thread title is redundant because all cosmetic car modifications are dumb.

Now I'm going to sit here like the great moral authority that I am and judge everyone who posts in this thread because I've never so much as put a bumper sticker on my car.

Tell that to the ground effects kit on my RX-7 that makes it look both sleeker and meaner, and still has the very real function of holding it to the ground like glue.

... I also put spinners on ...

There is absolutely no context in which spinners are an acceptable modification. None.

Yeah spinners are stupid but I was a stupid teen once who spent their whole savings on a quartet of spinners. Luckily I was able to trade them for a set of killer alloy rims later that let me put functional tires on them.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Thread title is redundant because all cosmetic car modifications are dumb.

Now I'm going to sit here like the great moral authority that I am and judge everyone who posts in this thread because I've never so much as put a bumper sticker on my car.

Tell that to the ground effects kit on my RX-7 that makes it look both sleeker and meaner, and still has the very real function of holding it to the ground like glue.

Do you live somewhere where you can actually take advantage of that (by which I mean drive at over 100 mph)? If not then it's still dumb no matter how functional considering you're never in a situation where its function would make a difference.

 

[FalloutJack]

Thread title is redundant because all cosmetic car modifications are dumb.

Now I'm going to sit here like the great moral authority that I am and judge everyone who posts in this thread because I've never so much as put a bumper sticker on my car.

Tell that to the ground effects kit on my RX-7 that makes it look both sleeker and meaner, and still has the very real function of holding it to the ground like glue.

Do you live somewhere where you can actually take advantage of that (by which I mean drive at over 100 mph)? If not then it's still dumb no matter how functional considering you're never in a situation where its function would make a difference.

Irrelevent. You just admitted that there is a case by which it can be not dumb. Ergo, your statement is false.

Moving on...erm...I don't have a car. Kind of awkward, really.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

My car now has a bra on it.

...It's a hell of a lot cheaper than fixing the cracked bumper/grill. D:

Aside from that? Some interior lighting that I thought looked cool. Spoiler: I was wrong.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

My car now has a bra on it.

...It's a hell of a lot cheaper than fixing the cracked bumper/grill. D:

Aside from that? Some interior lighting that I thought looked cool. Spoiler: I was wrong.

Wait, THAT'S WHAT A CAR BRA IS FOR?!

I had no idea. I just thought people put those on their cars because they were idiots and thought it looked good.

The world suddenly makes so much more sense.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Wait, THAT'S WHAT A CAR BRA IS FOR?!

I had no idea. I just thought people put those on their cars because they were idiots and thought it looked good.

The world suddenly makes so much more sense.

*cough*

If it's a choice between a $50 cosmetic thing that, honestly, doesn't look that bad and $700+ for a new bumper cover + paint + grill, then...well, my poor little Mazda did need a bit more support.

 

[Catfood220]

On one of my first cars, it was a Rover something or other, basically it was a piece of shit that for whatever reason wouldn't start most of the time. I decided that it would be cool to put some of those windscreen sprayers with the lights on them. Everyone I knew including my girlfriend at the time thought they were idiotic, they were probably right but I thought they looked cool.

For about 6 months before the Police who obviously had nothing better to do pulled me over and told me that I needed to take them of as they were illegal. That was annoying.

These days the biggest modification I've done to my car is some plastic skulls hanging from my rear view mirror.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Thread title is redundant because all cosmetic car modifications are dumb.

Now I'm going to sit here like the great moral authority that I am and judge everyone who posts in this thread because I've never so much as put a bumper sticker on my car.

Tell that to the ground effects kit on my RX-7 that makes it look both sleeker and meaner, and still has the very real function of holding it to the ground like glue.

Do you live somewhere where you can actually take advantage of that (by which I mean drive at over 100 mph)? If not then it's still dumb no matter how functional considering you're never in a situation where its function would make a difference.

My RX-7 is a hobby car for amateur track races. Mostly because it's fuel economy is just so terribly awful.

Still some cosmetic mods, like the body kits I buy, actually look nice. A lot of stock cars are so ugly, and a nice body kit usually fixes that.

 

[DanielBrown]

Well, I tried to replace the gear stick knob to a skull to personalise the car a bit(and skulls are kewl). I was able to move the original knob a bit before it got stuck and is now impossible to move. Afraid to use too much force since I'm clueless about cars and don't want to break anything. Been driving with the crooked knob for half a year now.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Gentleman. I didn't modify my first car to look like this myself but...

This is what I drove around in High School. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.315830-Redlins-EXTREME-30K-Review-The-Geobat]

You may commence the laughing.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Thread title is redundant because all cosmetic car modifications are dumb.

Now I'm going to sit here like the great moral authority that I am and judge everyone who posts in this thread because I've never so much as put a bumper sticker on my car.

Tell that to the ground effects kit on my RX-7 that makes it look both sleeker and meaner, and still has the very real function of holding it to the ground like glue.

Do you live somewhere where you can actually take advantage of that (by which I mean drive at over 100 mph)? If not then it's still dumb no matter how functional considering you're never in a situation where its function would make a difference.

My RX-7 is a hobby car for amateur track races. Mostly because it's fuel economy is just so terribly awful.

Still some cosmetic mods, like the body kits I buy, actually look nice. A lot of stock cars are so ugly, and a nice body kit usually fixes that.

Whenever I see someone with a body kit all I can think is that they didn't have the money to buy the car they wanted so they try to make up for it buy covering the car they have with cheap plastic crap.

But hey, if you do track racing then at least you have a reason for the mods. A lot of the people I know do them because they really like to pretend they do illegal street racing fast and furious style, and it's the douchiest thing in the world.

I've actually done a little bit of track driving. It's pretty fun, but I did it with cars that were specifically designed for racing.

 

[kris40k]

Also the double spoiler I put on the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII I had, that thing looked stupid as it gets...

Thank god I've got no photos of these dumb cosmetic mods.

Like this [http://wallpaper.pickywallpapers.com/widescreen/preview/lancer-evolution-ix-miev-double-spoiler.jpg] or like that [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_9j1xd_Fp94/Tx266aAnNsI/AAAAAAAAAQs/GYZPYOuT6wU/s1600/IMG_0982.JPG]?

Not that it really matters (I find both fugly), but just curious. I also do like some ground effects, on a case by case basis.