Mods that annoy you

matt100 said:
My pet hate is a car trying to look like something it isn't, for example there's a focus tdci I used to see pretty much every day on the M25 near the A3.. it's got a full Focus ST bodykit on, a proper one, well done and well painted.

And it's sat on tdci suspension with one teeny exhaust not lined up with the kit and obviously the gash interior.

Who are you trying to fool? You've spent a fortune on making your car worse?!

I don't really care about camber/lowering/exhausts and all that, each to their own but when you're trying to make something look like it's not.. why? Anyone who doesn't care won't care and anyone who knows anything about what you're trying to make it look like will spot it a mile away (like me with the ST, I've had 2.. I can spot fakes a mile away, in fact they stick out to me)
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I enjoy it the other way around though when a car looks like a cooking model but has the fun bits underneath (e.g. the Focus TDCI that runs ST running gear etc on pistonheads)

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Wanted to do it for a while with my old Cinquecento turbo with black unpainted bumpers etc but couldn't bring myself to effectively make it look worse than a stock car :D
 
Freefaller said:
I do think slammed look, looks daft as does extreme camber and extreme tyre stretch - but I can't say I will point and laugh, but I will probably roll my eyes, and purposely not look at the car at all.
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You probably should, odds are they cant handle the road very well what with having a tiny contact patch thanks to those stretched tyres and stupid camber.

Remember seeing a rover25 being the epitome of bad modding, scaffolding pipe for the exhaust, presumably using bump stops instead of actual suspension, steelies and a pile of reek.

The thing was squirming its way down a straight relatively decent tarmac road barely able to exceed 30 presumably because the driver couldnt control it beyond that. For reference even the boat esque handling and nonexistent power of a bubble shape micra could have smoked this guy on that road.

I really dont get it, modding cars should be taking a good car and making it better, not taking a crap car and making it worse.

Even those crazy motorbike engine swaps for smart cars are at least making the car better.
 
Private number plates that try to spell out the owners name with the use of no spaces and/or coloured screw covers. The result being a reg that makes no sense to anyone, including the owner once they put it on their car and realise it was a terrible idea.
Also; private plates on £6k RR and RRS.
 
GhostWKD said:
I enjoy it the other way around though when a car looks like a cooking model but has the fun bits underneath (e.g. the Focus TDCI that runs ST running gear etc on pistonheads)

Wanted to do it for a while with my old Cinquecento turbo with black unpainted bumpers etc but couldn't bring myself to effectively make it look worse than a stock car :D
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Yes, this! The same goes with that TTRS engined Yeti.
 
panthro said:
Private number plates that try to spell out the owners name with the use of no spaces and/or coloured screw covers. The result being a reg that makes no sense to anyone, including the owner once they put it on their car and realise it was a terrible idea.
Also; private plates on £6k RR and RRS.
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Ha my plate spells my surname just with a 7 instead of an F. Is that bad? No screws, not sure about spacing.
 
matt100 said:
My pet hate is a car trying to look like something it isn't, for example there's a focus tdci I used to see pretty much every day on the M25 near the A3.. it's got a full Focus ST bodykit on, a proper one, well done and well painted.

And it's sat on tdci suspension with one teeny exhaust not lined up with the kit and obviously the gash interior.

Who are you trying to fool? You've spent a fortune on making your car worse?!

I don't really care about camber/lowering/exhausts and all that, each to their own but when you're trying to make something look like it's not.. why? Anyone who doesn't care won't care and anyone who knows anything about what you're trying to make it look like will spot it a mile away (like me with the ST, I've had 2.. I can spot fakes a mile away, in fact they stick out to me)
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Its not a newer one is it, i know ford have released an st-line so bottom of the range cars can have a bodykit fitted.
 
Acme said:
Meh. Don't mind them. :p
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Neither do i but you gotta keep in mind that only way to be accepted at ocuk is to drive a bog standard car lol. Anything out of normal is pushing your luck! Anything old and rusty? You're walking fire lol.
 
grudas said:
Neither do i but you gotta keep in mind that only way to be accepted at ocuk is to drive a bog standard car lol. Anything out of normal is pushing your luck! Anything old and rusty? You're walking fire lol.
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What a load of rubbish. I doubt many of the popular cars in here are bog standard.
 
[TW]Fox said:
What a load of rubbish. I doubt many of the popular cars in here are bog standard.
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Well yes, modding expensive cars is acceptable as long as it's all power, handling etc but see someone put a silly set a of wheels on their 5k car and it quickly gets sent to mcds car park :) I'm a member of quite a few car related forums but ocuk is the worst when it comes to personalisation and people bashing other person's pride and joy, i get some cars are silly but i still don't see any point to hate on it. The silliest car to come out from this forum must be the turbotoasters lotus but he got all the bashing due to his attitude.

Acme gets his mentality questioned a lot too when it comes to spending money on an old car because you know, you could just buy a newer car that won't have those problems.
 
Aside from wind deflectors, I don't think I've actually ever modded a car in a way OcUK didn't approve of...

People even said the plastidipped and drift stitched splitter on the Celica was "an improvement" :p

Aside from that I only really do small things like OEM upgrades, numberplates, and partial de-badging... I've never changed wheels for aftermarket, lowered a car, or anything. :(
 
Acme said:
Aside from wind deflectors, I don't think I've actually ever modded a car in a way OcUK didn't approve of...

People even said the plastidipped and drift stitched splitter on the Celica was "an improvement" :p

Aside from that I only really do small things like OEM upgrades, numberplates, and partial de-badging... I've never changed wheels for aftermarket, lowered a car, or anything. :(
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Anything on the celica was an improvement :D I wonder what the car looks like now?

Not even aftermarket wheels.. jeez acme, I'm disappointed.
 
Not a 'mod' as such, but I don't understand the attraction of tyre dressings. Tyres aren't supposed to look like they're made of cheap shiny plastic.
 
theone8181 said:
Its not a newer one is it, i know ford have released an st-line so bottom of the range cars can have a bodykit fitted.
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Nope, a 57 plate.. irked me so much I had siri take a note of the plate so I could check it when I got to the office lol.. a silver ST on stilts :)
 
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