Mods that annoy you

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Why are people driving around with oil coolers hanging off the bumper, I've seen it a lot on instagram and I've now seen one or two of the local cars running about with oil coolers bolted onto the bumper, why do people think this looks good and who came up with the great idea in the first place. I can forgive big intercoolers that don't fit under the bumper anymore, I'll even look the other way when it comes to stupid camber, given that it served a purpose with the drifters, but this just takes the mick. Its not like your driving a baja monster truck flat out through the dessert where cooling is critical, no your driving a knackered diesel golf to the local tesco carpark!

Anyway now that's off my chest what mods do others do to cars that just get under your skin?
 
That style goes way way back to Hakosuka GTRs, I guess there was some kind of issue with putting the cooler behind the valance because that's how they used to run them in race trim. The scene kids probably don't even know where it originates though.
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What they do is their choice, being their vehicle... so it's never the mods so much as what people do with said modded vehicles.
Loud exhaust? Excellent... until you spend the weekend driving up and down the road in 1st gear, revving the nuts off it.
20 HID headlights? Fine... until you drive around with them on.
5,000bhp remap? Cool... until you think that entitles you to drive like a knob and cut me off.

I occasionally help a mechanic friend out and the only other time mods actually annoy me is when they stuff something up and expect me to fix it, or the mod interferes with me fixing the rest of the car when it'd be a piece of cake unmodded.
 
Wind deflectors annoy me. Black wheels annoy me. "Because xxxxx" stickers make me furious. Soft toys hanging from towing eyes annoy me.

Basically most "scene" nonsense annoys me I think.


I kinda miss the 90s Max Power mods like enormous body kits, huge alloy wheels, garish paint jobs with matching interiors, and bad boy bonnets! They seemed less... Pretentious. Awful, but in a nostalgically lovable way.
 
I quite like the first picture... At least if it is functional that is!

I hate:

M/AMG/RS/etc badges which don't belong there
Wheels which do not suit the car at all (I know that is subjective to a certain degree, but you know what I mean)
Any body kits with the exception of factory options and subtle splitters etc
Tinted rear lights
Fly-eye headlights
Numberplates with stupid font
Incorrectly coloured headlight bulbs
HID's in reflector type headlights
Cars which are lowered so that the arch overlaps the tyre
Extreme camber
Excessive tyre stretch
Stickers which reference things which the car doesn't have, or which are tacky and not used ironically
Black wheels except in very specific car/wheel combinations
Halfords rear lights (you know the ones, Lexus lights and the like)
Poorly re-trimmed interiors / leather everything etc.
Chavtastic car audio incl custom plastic speaker enclosures etc
Air ride (though I sort of understand the fun in it)

If done in a certain way (doesn't work on all cars!) I don't mind:

Yellow tint lights
External oil coolers
Drift charms (but only on JDM drift type cars...)
And probably a few other things which would offend certain delicate nancies on these boards. :p

For example I really like the look of that E34 in the first image, which incorporates extreme lowering, tacked on arch flares, aftermarket wheels, tyre stretch, external oil cooler, yellow headlight, daft stickers, splitter, towing eye, etc...
 
HouR said:
Why are these so offensive? I run them on my Volvo and find them useful for some fresh air on the motorway without creating a blizzard in the cabin.
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I love them for both reasons. I like the practicality of being able to have the window down a bit in the wind/rain so I can hear the outside world (Its just a thing I like when I drive for some reason) and I like how they look as well.

Neither of my current cars have them though. The MX5 obviously has frameless doors and is a convertible so its a no-no, and the BMW's windows don't go up properly with them installed, and I don't want to strain the old motors.
 
HouR said:
Why are these so offensive? I run them on my Volvo and find them useful for some fresh air on the motorway without creating a blizzard in the cabin.
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Because they're so horrifically ugly they induce instant nausea in people who glance upon them :p
 
I just don't see the point in them if you have a modern car with air conditioning, and they look a bit crap. Having a window open on the motorway is the most annoying noisy thing :p
 
Acme said:
Black wheels except in very specific car/wheel combinations
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I've always found it strange how quite a few people are passionately against black alloys, etc. there are some cars it looks hideous but I generally don't get the hate on a lot of vehicles.
 
nothing in particular tbh! some mods are funny and totally joke-worthy but I couldn't care less what other people do to their cars :)


good example was this guy at a gyms car park in 1.2 corsa with a "turbo" whistle in his exhaust.. sounded ridiculous :D
 
I like the visors on my car. I wouldn't have bought one without them, they look a bit strange and naked without them.
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They are OEM fit though, like almost all JDM cars have on. Got to agree that those ebay stuffed into the window rubber ones look naff.
 
anything that's been done to a really terrible car, for example there's some fella near me has a suzuki tiny box thing that's been badly decked and has a scaffolding pipe for an exhaust.

any diesel tuned to reek badly- do these people not realise their coal rollin 306 d turbo has less power than a stock fabia?

any lowered car that's either been lowered badly (cut springs- i'm looking at you), or lowered beyond the realms of practicality- your decked corsa with tennis balls (i heard someone at my old tech actually did this) is not going to be fast and "because racecar" does not extend to "i need to take 50 minutes to go over a leaf", theres a nutter near me with a decked golf who parks on the street on a blind corner on the crest of a hill because he can't even make it up the section to his drive. i'm not against lowering, coilovers, or any legitimately performance related suspension mods.

badly finished mods- there's nothing more tragic than people who do the whole need for speed bodykit then can't afford to paint it and just leave it- if you're gonna do it then do it properly.

and finally stretched tyres- its stupid, dangerous, and makes you look like you've never heard the term coefficient of friction.
 
ttaskmaster said:
What they do is their choice, being their vehicle... so it's never the mods so much as what people do with said modded vehicles.
Loud exhaust? Excellent... until you spend the weekend driving up and down the road in 1st gear, revving the nuts off it.
20 HID headlights? Fine... until you drive around with them on.
5,000bhp remap? Cool... until you think that entitles you to drive like a knob and cut me off.
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Pretty accurate I think. There's a guy who lives further up our road, drives a modified MINI. Cooper. Nothing major, some suspension mods so it sits lower I think, and a modified exhaust. Usually, I wouldn't mind, but every single time he drives down the road, as it straightens up past our house, he floors it and it's ****ing loud, and intrusive. I don't generally have anything against exhaust mods, but if you know your car is loud, at least have the courtesy not to deliberately **** off your neighbours with it.

And I don't want to be a typical busy body, but it is a quiet residential road, and he's doing this right by the green opposite our house where there's often dog walkers and kids playing ball not far from the road. Actually tempted to knock on his door and ask him to save it for the open road.

Haggisman said:
Why is the first car wearing a monocle?
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Cannot unsee.
 
I hate the whole VW rat look/slammed onto sticking out wheels scene
And hate the whole Irmscher mod seen when chavs buy poverty spec diesel Vauxhall's then put all sorts of Opel/Irmscher tat all over it trying to make it look like a sports car.
Seen an Insignia the other day with a giant Irmscher badge on and 4 of those horrible square exhausts that they Produce stuck on the back to unlock all 140 ponies from his minicab engine
 
Aftermarket exhausts on generally any 4-pot turd of an engine. The only 4-pots that sound decent to me are imprezas (probably a couple others I'm missing). There usually just isn't anything 'there' to sound good. It's just a flat drone that goes to a gradually higher pitch.

Also lowering so the arches are past the top of the tyres like acme said.

Also bolt on arches. Just looks terrible to me like a proper Barry job.
 
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