Car mods that make you irrationally angry?

Stallingrad

Maybe I'm just a crank but there are some car mods you see around that either make me laugh, or just get angry, not sure why but top of the (rather long) list for me is this:



Why? It looks rubbish, rubbish!!

Ilik Urgee

M3 mirrors on anything that's not.
The retro fitted shark fin.

Jesus wept.

keithclancy

• Self done crappy window tinting with bubbles all over it.
• Rattly chinese clip on stuff for the dash (Non OEM Cup holders,sat nav mounts, notepad holders)
• Stupid looking bodykits that look like they came out of an airfix kit.
• Massive spoilers that do nothing other than hinder opening the boot properly.
• Clip on exhaust things that only make the exhaust louder
• eBay "chips" that are just a resistor and a few wires
• "No Fear" stickers
• Alloys with the wrong profile tyres so that they scrape off the wheel arches going over any sort of bump.

Think that's me done

Anan1

M packs on four cylinder diesel BMWs. Sad.

Stallingrad

Fake carbon roof or bonnet wraps. Do they think we are idiots! :mad:

Tabnabs

German style plates.

conor2469

van aaken stickers... Anything 'Felt spec for that matter.

guttenberg

Them stupid eyelashes some people stick on their beetle/yaris etc headlights. Looks soo tacky.

maceocc2

OSI wrote: »

Anything rebadged as something it's not.

ie RS4 1.9 TDis. GTI 1.4 Golfs. M3 318s etc etc.

Actually seen an S4 1.9TDI Quattro the other day, double exhaust lowered suspension and a big cloud of smoke. Most annoying thing about it was they had triangle tyres all round

jca

Those bloody hid headlamp bulbs. They give out less light than standard halogen bulbs!!

jca

guttenberg wrote: »

Them stupid eyelashes some people stick on their beetle/yaris etc headlights. Looks soo tacky.

They're just a bit of fun.

shedweller

jca wrote: »

Those bloody hid headlamp bulbs. They give out less light than standard halogen bulbs!!

My retinas say otherwise!!

MarkR

HID's in reflector headlamps.

Anan1

MarkR wrote: »

HID's in reflector headlamps.

Oddly enough, my car has these from the factory.

ba_barabus

Spoilers fitted to car bonnets

Cee-Jay-Cee

'Neverbeen' stickers. The people that put them on cars should be banned instantly from driving because anyone that retarded cannot possibly have the skills required to drive safely on the roads.

Air/fuel ratio, voltage and vacuum gauges on the dash.

Cheap crappy universal back boxes welded onto cars that don't fit properly and pointing down/sideways.

But the one that deserves a punch in the face is tinted windscreens with the lower 12inches left clear. Oh how I would never get tired punching the **** that do that!

Ronnie Beck

**** blue ebay headlamps and coooooooo. Stupidly loud exhausts that distract you when driving. Otherwise each to their own.

jca

shedweller wrote: »

My retinas say otherwise!!

Ever get stuck behind one of the muppets? No light makes it to the road.

MetzgerMeister

> Stupidly low "sun visor" strips on windscreens

> 48" mercedes alloys on a Passat/A4

> Plumes of dirty, black smoke from exhausts

> Cooooooooooooospastics

> CB aerials

> Cars so low that antidepressants wouldn't bring them up

> Those huge-ass mud flaps and the sides of the car STILL filthy!

> Rattle-can exhausts a la those that were huge in the days of the Honda Civic/Celtic Tiger/Fast and Furious days

> Those sh!te cars with so much money poured into them that make you ask "why?" while trying to resist the urge to rip out your thigh bone so you can beat the owner with it.

Renegade Mechanic

Spinner hubcaps....

HandsomeDan

Honda Civic with window open & scrote gawking out at you - no mods required.

shedweller

jca wrote: »

Ever get stuck behind one of the muppets? No light makes it to the road.

Thats the thing. All the light is going up in the air, not on the road!

Zcott

Those tiny wheels with bizarre profiles that stick way out. Usually seen on Lupos.

Eric Cartman

flip up (normally ripspeed) dvd players in cars that have double din slots.

dgt

Merc wheels on Passats

Those sh*thole chinese steering wheels

Bodykitted cars not lowered

Ill suited bodykits

Ill suited wheels

Tuning, race tuned or any other sh*te sticker of that nature on the rear window

Those ghey tyrbo bagdes

"All about looks not performance" brigade

C*nts of german plates, a disease

Stick on tail pipes



I guess one would say most visual aftermarket stuff.... I do like a well felted effort mind you :pac:

MetzgerMeister

This new fad of Stickerbombing.

conzy

Cars "slammed" to the point that you cant see the sidewall of the tyre.

Chimaera

Anan1 wrote: »

Oddly enough, my car has these from the factory.

If the reflector is designed for use with a HID capsule it's fine. The issue with HIDs in reflector housings designed for halogen bulbs is that the focus is wrong for them so the light gets scattered everywhere.

I have to admit to running a set of HIDs in reflectors for a while (until one of the ballasts went tits up) and while the light output to the road was great, the amount of light scattered everywhere was huge (I could light up gantry signs almost directly above the car!) and that translates into glare for other road users. I use Osram Nightbreakers now and they're more than good enough.

There are some HID retrofit kits out there supposedly designed for use with halogen reflector headlamps but I haven't been able to get any reliable information on how well they work, and I don't have the money to find out for myself.

Regarding the main topic, I've mellowed out on my opinion of mods over the years I still think a lot of the things mentioned here are daft, but each to their own once they're not causing difficulty for other road users.

listermint

Unwarranted Quad exhausts.......

Yakuza

I misread the title as "motors mods that make you irrationally angry" and thought to myself "this thread won't last long!"

In addition to the above, fake bonnet scoops annoy the bejaysus out of me.

MetzgerMeister

conzy wrote: »

Cars "slammed" to the point that you cant see the sidewall of the tyre.

Damn right! It'd take a fair amount of jacking-up in order to apply Meguiars endurance tyre gel :pac:






Yes, jacking up, not jacking off for all you dirty minded apes!

166man

Hate seeing taxi's with Chinese rubber on them, really annoys me. It's a PSV vehicle first and foremost and a personal car second.

In the same way all Garda cars have premium brand tyres and so do buses, you don't see a Dublin bus on Wanli's do you? I think Taxi's should be the same.

serious3

TRD stickers and feckin dump valves on a diesel

Focus_sligo

"Sponsored by the credit union"
"Powered by the dole"

Hate seeing these stickers on young lads cars

dgt

Freuidian slip there again MM? :pac:

In contrast, I quite like the stupidly lowered look on some cars.....

MetzgerMeister

dgt wrote: »

Freuidian slip there again MM? :pac:

In contrast, I quite like the stupidly lowered look on some cars.....

Nope, just clarifying my post for the Freudian-minded

colm_mcm

Offset number plates unless theres a massive intercooler installed.

Or smoothed over rear tailgate with the numberplate screwed on to the bumper and a massey Ferguson style number plate light

German plates

Lexus lights

Chrome strip tape on lights

Chrome door posts

dgt

166man wrote: »

Hate seeing taxi's with Chinese rubber on them, really annoys me. It's a PSV vehicle first and foremost and a personal car second.

In the same way all Garda cars have premium brand tyres and so do buses, you don't see a Dublin bus on Wanli's do you? I think Taxi's should be the same.

I copped some trailers used in the df use wan-li. But the gpv's, ffr's and trucks either use michelin or bridgestone

gallag

German plates is as sad as it gets.

Tea 1000

Lowered anything that was once a decent car. Like the MX5. What sort of clown thinks he can out-do Mazda engineers who have come up with what is almost universally acclaimed as the best handling roadster in existence by adding some ebay suspension components and lowering the crap out of it?
And Baby-on-board signs. WTF? They serve no purpose only partially block your back windscreen. "Oh look, they have a baby on board... damn, I can't crash into it now... and I was looking forward to t-boning them at the next junction when they turned right."

KTRIC

Nürburgring stickers :rolleyes:

RangeR

"Faded" rear plates. By passing toll roads payments are we?

listermint

Non german plastic plates with dealer surrounds.


grrrr

MetzgerMeister

listermint wrote: »

Non german plastic plates with dealer surrounds.


grrrr

What about Non German plastic plates with German surrounds?? :cool:

Zcott

Badly added non-OEM DRLs.

Paddy@CIRL

conzy wrote: »

Cars "slammed" to the point that you cant see the sidewall of the tyre.

That car is running on air.

Dangerous modifications aside, I can never understand why people get so upset about what other people do to their cars. Shows unnatural levels of small mindedness and ignorance.

ednwireland

anything non- stock, looking for a car at the moment and the amount of cars with stupid slight modifications is amazing. if i'm buying a secondhand almost banger i want it to be as standard as possible. if someones d1cked around with a car i have no idea to what standard is been done.

keithsfleet

I've a ford puma sitting outside the house that I have no idea how it came in to my possession.

I was going to nct it and sell it but...
I'm now kind of thinking of doing to it what has been mentioned in this thread.

Only parts purchased on ebay and in Punchestown shall be used for extra vrooooom effect.
But mainly because I'm not willing to put much/any money into it.

yop

Any badges on cars that label it something it isn't and obviously it isn't!
2000's Jettas lowered and re-badged to a stupid level, lads passed by myself and missus one night at the cinema, I thought outloud and said "what the fk is that", windows down and one of the hoods replied "its a sports car you fat git". I had the MPS at the time and pointed and said "even that isn't a sports car and it wud make a fool of that tractor". I know I shudn't have taken the bait!
Cars with 6 small spot lights on the front bumper.

I'm old though, so stupid mods irk me easily!

keithclancy

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

That car is running on air.

Dangerous modifications aside, I can never understand why people get so upset about what other people do to their cars. Shows unnatural levels of small mindedness and ignorance.

What would you do if your neighbor painted a giant Union Jack on the front of their house?

Mc Love

Chrome where it shouldnt be (in fact make that cheap plastic looking chrome)