Car mods no one seems to do any more

[Stickyfinger]

Levin said:

What about sun strips running along the top of the windscreen? It's not entirely in the spirit of the thread as I see plenty of cars locally with it done, but does anyone else in the UK do it?

Most cars have tint in that area now don't they ?

[techguyone]

Unless its applied externally, I don't know how you'd do it, a lot of cars have all sorts of gubbins up there, I've got some sort of black dotted stuff, the mirror & the auto lights, wipers thing, would be a nightmare to get past all that.

[wildcat45]

Yipper said:

Saw a UK car with yellow headlights in the Cotswolds today. Think it was a Renault. Like the French ones you used to see often in France in the 1930s to 2000s. Something like this.

http://www.french-cars-in-america.com/why-did-fran...

Often worn as a badge of honor back in the U.K. In the '70s by folks who drove to what they used to call The Continent for their holidays. Seen in tandem with a GB sticker with a Townsend Thorresen or Sealink logo on the bottom.

[rohrl]

wildcat45 said:

Yipper said:

Saw a UK car with yellow headlights in the Cotswolds today. Think it was a Renault. Like the French ones you used to see often in France in the 1930s to 2000s. Something like this.

http://www.french-cars-in-america.com/why-did-fran...

Often worn as a badge of honor back in the U.K. In the '70s by folks who drove to what they used to call The Continent for their holidays. Seen in tandem with a GB sticker with a Townsend Thorresen or Sealink logo on the bottom.

My father used to paint the headlamps yellow every year on our car with some stuff you could buy in Halfords, as well as cutting out and sticking on the black triangles.

[Stickyfinger]

Designed Yellow bulbs or special yellow glass is good/better in poor conditions. The "paint" does not have the same effect but used to be a legal requirement if travelling to France. Beam blockers still are if your headlamps cannot be reset to a LHD pattern.

[Mammasaid]

techguyone said:

Unless its applied externally, I don't know how you'd do it, a lot of cars have all sorts of gubbins up there, I've got some sort of black dotted stuff, the mirror & the auto lights, wipers thing, would be a nightmare to get past all that.

http://jalopnik.com/heres-what-those-little-dots-a...

[hondafanatic]

STILLJOE said:

Morningside said:

Looking at that reminded me of the twin headlight conversion to some Fords.
Always looked wrong to me.

ah, the good old morrette headlamp conversion

also anodised metal gearknob and matching doorlock pins.
corner splitters and laguna splitters
M3 style mirrors

The list above is DeFacto minimum requirements to get yourself into the second half of Max Power.

[GC8]

AdamIndy said:

TSW venoms!

I have a friend who recently fitted these to his Impreza as Winter wheels. Some random stranger left him a note on his windscreen the other day saying: What's with the TSW Venoms So!!! 90's

lolz

[techguyone]

Mammasaid said:

techguyone said:

Unless its applied externally, I don't know how you'd do it, a lot of cars have all sorts of gubbins up there, I've got some sort of black dotted stuff, the mirror & the auto lights, wipers thing, would be a nightmare to get past all that.

http://jalopnik.com/heres-what-those-little-dots-a...

Thanks for that, was quite informative

[DoctorX]

ambuletz said:

been ages since ive seen a car with eyelids, don't think I ever really see them on modern cars so it was very weird when i saw it on this.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

The new Civic Type R looks like it has eyelids:

http://jalopnik.com/get-ready-to-finally-see-the-p...

[wildcat45]

rohrl said:

My father used to paint the headlamps yellow every year on our car with some stuff you could buy in Halfords, as well as cutting out and sticking on the black triangles.

I often worndered how long that would last on a Volvo of the era with headlight wipers? We used to paint our bike lights yellow and ride round our street on the wring side of the road pretending to be French. (Look I was a weird 7 year old.)

I recall our Chrysler Horizon handbook had instructions on how to
Apply the black deflectors.

[wildcat45]

Stickyfinger said:

Designed Yellow bulbs or special yellow glass is good/better in poor conditions. The "paint" does not have the same effect but used to be a legal requirement if travelling to France. Beam blockers still are if your headlamps cannot be reset to a LHD pattern.

In 1992 my mates new Renault 19 had them. He'd drive round with them on because they looked cool. Apparently.

[rohrl]

wildcat45 said:

rohrl said:

My father used to paint the headlamps yellow every year on our car with some stuff you could buy in Halfords, as well as cutting out and sticking on the black triangles.

I often worndered how long that would last on a Volvo of the era with headlight wipers? We used to paint our bike lights yellow and ride round our street on the wring side of the road pretending to be French. (Look I was a weird 7 year old.)

I recall our Chrysler Horizon handbook had instructions on how to
Apply the black deflectors.

My parents bought a Talbot Horizon (same car) specifically because being a French car it would be easy to find a garage to fix it in France when it inevitably broke down.

[Jimmy Recard]

wildcat45 said:

We used to paint our bike lights yellow and ride round our street on the wring side of the road pretending to be French. (Look I was a weird 7 year old.)

[ajprice]

DoctorX said:

The new Civic Type R looks like it has eyelids:

http://jalopnik.com/get-ready-to-finally-see-the-p...

The new Civic looks like it has eyelids and a few grilles from completely different cars on the front, but that's for another thread

[M3333]

rohrl said:

My parents bought a Talbot Horizon (same car) specifically because being a French car it would be easy to find a garage to fix it in France when it inevitably broke down.

I can see your parents logic. On a trip to France last year our Porsche Boxster suffered a failed coil pack and dumped me on the French motorway. Only approved government recovery firms can get you off the motorway and charge for the privilege. Luckily I had the sense (for once) to take out full RAC cover. Well the car was recovered to a little garage in the absolute depths of nowhere.

Little French man comes rushing out as it is taken off the recovery truck being all authoritarian. Flaps his clip board about and taps on the front bonnet signalling for me to open it 'ouvrir' he shouts. So I do 'ouvrir' where he stands looking very confused staring at our suitcases and dirty washing. Scratching his head he then marched to the rear of the car, looks at the boot then me and demands once again 'ouvrir' where I release the boot lock he opens it. Stood there scratching his head he then tuts and stomps off back to his office and shuts the door. We didnt see him again. Next thing I get is a call from the RAC politely informing me the car is 'spécialiste' and needs to go to a porsche dealer or Bosh specialist.

Daft thing is a coil pack in the UK is £40 and I could change it myself in 20 minutes. Stupidly I didn't take a spare. In the end the car was taken to a Bosch specialist who said duty of care in France is to replace all 8 coil packs and 8 spark plugs at a cost of €800. The RAC paid for our hotels and a hire car, couldn't recommend them enough but if you take a Porsche to France take a spare coil pack!!

[wildcat45]

rohrl said:

My parents bought a Talbot Horizon (same car) specifically because being a French car it would be easy to find a garage to fix it in France when it inevitably broke down.

Yes at a 9 year old I was gutted when our month old car became old with the change from T to V Reg, and to add insult to injury they changed the badges to Talbot.

Ours was an orange GLS which only broke down twice - when it was fairly new. It stayed within the family, (various folks who needed a car for a while) for 10 years. A reversing lorry rather than rust did for it finally.

[Trabi601]

wildcat45 said:

Ours was an orange GLS

With white bumpers?

[TheTwitcher]

Dashboards trimmed in the fur of dead Wombles...

[Matt-il77s]

Gunk said:

When Cassettes came along, no need to upgrade your precious 8 track player, just use one of these convenient subtle devices instead!

The modern equivalents from about 10 years ago when the iPod came about





^FM tuners which were illegal when they first appeared (something to do with broadcasting music without a licence), the law was then changed and Halfords started selling them