Badly modified cars thread Mk2

[ajprice]

Mr Red Barron said:

Was never the best looking car in the first place but...........

https://www.gumtree.com/p/porsche/porsche-cayenne-...

[AstonZagato]

ajprice said:

Mr Red Barron said:

Was never the best looking car in the first place but...........

https://www.gumtree.com/p/porsche/porsche-cayenne-...

I think that's better looking than the original thing #notaCayennefan

[ManOpener]

xRIEx said:

darren9 said:

King Herald said:

ManOpener said:

Probably been mentioned many times, but what is this thing about fitting undersized tyres to over-wide rims? Is it supposed to look cool???? Or handle better?? Or can they not afford the correct tyres after spunking out the cash for the wheels????

Isn't it something to do with being able to get the car as low as possible with the widest wheels as possible? So then tyres aren't fouling the arches when the car is hella aired out.

What I heard is it came from drifting, a trapezoidal profile to the tyre makes the tread more stable or predictable when breaking traction. Or something.

I don't know if it predates the drifting scene, but a small amount of sidewall stretch isn't uncommon in various forms of motorsport AFAIK. The examples above really do take it to a dangerous, and often illegal, extreme. Once the tyre is no longer properly seated on the bead, it becomes an idiotic fashion statement, like facial tattoos but more likely to kill other people around you.

The fashion at the moment seems to be a combination of air suspension, stretch and quite aggressive resting camber to get the wheel arch to sit between the edge of the wheel and the tyre, as you can see above (getting as low as possible without tucking the wheel into the arch, which isn't usually possible on most cars without cutting chunks out of the chassis as these days the metal behind the rear arch liners is usually structural, as are chasiss legs etc which often need to be notched to allow clearance to get that low).

I have no idea why anyone would want to do this. Some people are a bit weird.

Edited by ManOpener on Monday 18th July 13:09

[Steve93]

ManOpener said:

xRIEx said:

darren9 said:

King Herald said:

ManOpener said:

Probably been mentioned many times, but what is this thing about fitting undersized tyres to over-wide rims? Is it supposed to look cool???? Or handle better?? Or can they not afford the correct tyres after spunking out the cash for the wheels????

Isn't it something to do with being able to get the car as low as possible with the widest wheels as possible? So then tyres aren't fouling the arches when the car is hella aired out.

What I heard is it came from drifting, a trapezoidal profile to the tyre makes the tread more stable or predictable when breaking traction. Or something.

I don't know if it predates the drifting scene, but a small amount of sidewall stretch isn't uncommon in various forms of motorsport AFAIK. The examples above really do take it to a dangerous, and often illegal, extreme. Once the tyre is no longer properly seated on the bead, it becomes an idiotic fashion statement, like facial tattoos but more likely to kill other people around you.

The fashion at the moment seems to be a combination of air suspension, stretch and quite aggressive resting camber to get the wheel arch to sit between the edge of the wheel and the tyre, as you can see above. I have no idea why anyone would want to do this.

I genuinely thought it was people not being able to afford the correct tyre size after buying expensive wheels, just the same as the old fad of driving around in a golf with a rusty bonnet...I thought they'd had a slight off and couldn't afford to have the bonnet painted.

[Vitorio]

Steve93 said:

I genuinely thought it was people not being able to afford the correct tyre size after buying expensive wheels, just the same as the old fad of driving around in a golf with a rusty bonnet...I thought they'd had a slight off and couldn't afford to have the bonnet painted.

Which somehow also turned into a trend of people deliberately rusting out their bonnets on purpose..

car people are weird..

[kayzee]

My car really isn't all that low (see profile) and I have a tiny bit of stretch on my tyres, and they catch all the bloody time, and that's with 4.5° of camber! Next time I'll definitely get a smaller profile tyre... or yeah, I could raise the coilovers but where's the fun in that?

[King Herald]

Steve93 said:

I genuinely thought it was people not being able to afford the correct tyre size after buying expensive wheels, just the same as the old fad of driving around in a golf with a rusty bonnet...I thought they'd had a slight off and couldn't afford to have the bonnet painted.

And I've heard it is incredibly hard to actually get tyres to seal when you inflate them the first time, as the rubber is inches from the rim sealing surface. It is not easy with standard size tyres, but with this silly set up......

[shakotan]

King Herald said:

Steve93 said:

I genuinely thought it was people not being able to afford the correct tyre size after buying expensive wheels, just the same as the old fad of driving around in a golf with a rusty bonnet...I thought they'd had a slight off and couldn't afford to have the bonnet painted.

And I've heard it is incredibly hard to actually get tyres to seal when you inflate them the first time, as the rubber is inches from the rim sealing surface. It is not easy with standard size tyres, but with this silly set up......

Professionals use a bead blaster, but it's common to use the flammable liquid and lighter trick, ala the Top Gear Polar Challenge when they needed to reseat one of the Hilux tyres.

Bead Blaster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkSZrDg7ZOg

Hairspray and Fire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNn0IxLFMfY

Top Gear Polar Challenge (skip to 1:15) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGsE17d_VYs

[bigvanfan]

Mr Red Barron said:

Was never the best looking car in the first place but...........

https://www.gumtree.com/p/porsche/porsche-cayenne-...

Poor thing has just seen itself in a mirror

[ajprice]

A DIY Ka 'convertible' sent to the scrapyard in the sky by South Yorkshire Police https://www.instagram.com/p/BIFfoE3DeSP/

[rohrl]

ajprice said:

...sent to the scrapyard in the sky...

Probably just a scrapyard on the ground I should think.

[anonymous-user]

ajprice said:

A DIY Ka 'convertible' sent to the scrapyard in the sky by South Yorkshire Police https://www.instagram.com/p/BIFfoE3DeSP/

I want one
I think it was taken off the road for no tax / insurance rather than having no roof, plenty of minis and other cars have their roof chopped off and are not scrapped

[AlexRS2782]

AVV EM said:

ajprice said:

A DIY Ka 'convertible' sent to the scrapyard in the sky by South Yorkshire Police https://www.instagram.com/p/BIFfoE3DeSP/

I want one
I think it was taken off the road for no tax / insurance rather than having no roof, plenty of minis and other cars have their roof chopped off and are not scrapped

Probably, but by the looks of the state of the rear in that picture, there's no way that was roadworthy anyway further to the DIY roof chop it was given.

[Bluedot]

ajprice said:

A DIY Ka 'convertible' sent to the scrapyard in the sky by South Yorkshire Police

Sheesh, look at the lethal edges on it !
They must have used a can opener to cut the roof off.

[Speed 3]

Bluedot said:

Sheesh, look at the lethal edges on it !
They must have used a can opener to cut the roof off.

It's a prop from the new ClarksonMayHammond show

[AJXX1]

Mr Red Barron said:

Was never the best looking car in the first place but...........

https://www.gumtree.com/p/porsche/porsche-cayenne-...

Do we really need dual foglights on each side? WTF is with the hole's as well? Looks like it was triple foglights at one stage and then they fell out!

Awful.

[budgie smuggler]

AJXX1 said:

Do we really need dual foglights on each side? WTF is with the hole's as well? Looks like it was triple foglights at one stage and then they fell out!

Awful.

Twin cold air intakes obviously because obviously those THREE FECKING MASSIVE GRILLES directly above them aren't enough.

[Stickyfinger]

oh dear

[uncle tez]

18 year old me would have give anything for that, especially if it was white. How times have changed.

[carlove]

Not seen a saxo like this for a while.