Automotive Tat
Discussion
Joey Deacon said:
Absolutely, you know they consider themselves "an enthusiast" and own a "drivers car" but spend their life driving around town making the car make machine gun noises on the over run and doing zero maintenance.
All of these are signs to walk away and find another car.
In my mind an enthusiast is someone, who when presented with £50 and a spare afternoon to work on a car would replace a worn bushing or do a fluid change and not someone who buys some vinyl strips from eBay and sticks them on his car.All of these are signs to walk away and find another car.
jamieduff1981 said:
I'm the furthest thing from a BMW fan, but what's the matter with the little black lip spoiler for the uninitiated?
It's completely pointless, probably adds about as much downforce as those car eyelashes mentioned above. In fairness BMW do actually sell tat like that under the banner of "Performance" parts. Kilkerran said:
I proudly sport a Nurburgring sticker on the back of my VW camper having used the van for last year's 24hr race...
... as a marshal.
Also on the throbber checklist:
- Bonnet bra CHECK
- Wind deflectors CHECK
- PH stickers CHECK
- Various carbon bits for added lightness CHECK
In my defence, without the added crap it's just another white van. Makes it easy to spot in a busy car park.
Looks like I’m on your throbber list with a PH smilie on my car ... as a marshal.
Also on the throbber checklist:
- Bonnet bra CHECK
- Wind deflectors CHECK
- PH stickers CHECK
- Various carbon bits for added lightness CHECK
In my defence, without the added crap it's just another white van. Makes it easy to spot in a busy car park.
car user said:
It's completely pointless, probably adds about as much downforce as those car eyelashes mentioned above. In fairness BMW do actually sell tat like that under the banner of "Performance" parts.
I take it it's verboten to add it just because one thinks it looks nice on an otherwise incredibly bland car?car user said:
Joey Deacon said:
Absolutely, you know they consider themselves "an enthusiast" and own a "drivers car" but spend their life driving around town making the car make machine gun noises on the over run and doing zero maintenance.
All of these are signs to walk away and find another car.
In my mind an enthusiast is someone, who when presented with £50 and a spare afternoon to work on a car would replace a worn bushing or do a fluid change and not someone who buys some vinyl strips from eBay and sticks them on his car.All of these are signs to walk away and find another car.
They don't treat their car as white goods, that should be applauded at least.
I reckon a great many people who are your kind of enthusiast as they've got older, started out as the other kind of enthusiast when they bought their first car or three. I know I did.
jamieduff1981 said:
I take it it's verboten to add it just because one thinks it looks nice on an otherwise incredibly bland car?
That's the reasoning behind all tat I think. Personally I think if you want a car that doesn't look bland you should buy something interesting to begin with.FNG said:
That's just a different kind of enthusiast. Not to your taste but they're still enthusiastic about their car, just in a different way to you.
They don't treat their car as white goods, that should be applauded at least.
I reckon a great many people who are your kind of enthusiast as they've got older, started out as the other kind of enthusiast when they bought their first car or three. I know I did.
I suppose a lot of genuine enthusiasts start with cosmetic things like wheels and detailing then gradually build more understanding for the mechanical aspect but a lot of tat mongers that I see seem to be more middle aged serial offenders and BMW owners are by far the worst for it. The template seems to be a small engined white BMW with black bumper extensions, spoiler and side skirts stuck on and some extra badges or vinyl. They don't treat their car as white goods, that should be applauded at least.
I reckon a great many people who are your kind of enthusiast as they've got older, started out as the other kind of enthusiast when they bought their first car or three. I know I did.
4D number plates is less brand specific but still almost exclusively German made.
car user said:
That's the reasoning behind all tat I think. Personally I think if you want a car that doesn't look bland you should buy something interesting to begin with.
Alas functional requirement as well as budget sometimes trumps that. Fortunately, nobody is bound by what you think, or there would be zero car enthusiasts since it's quite difficult to develop an interest in cars if your requirement and budget extends to a reliable reasonably priced hatchback rather than allowing you to go straight for a Maserati and someone has decreed that if you can't afford something "interesting" you shouldn't do anything at all to it 
I'd say the opposite. These cars are dull as ditchwater. There are hundreds of millions of them and they're all the same but slightly different sizes. Modify them. Do something - anything to sprinkle some sort of variety what would otherwise be an endless sea of leased generica.
You lot are a proper judgemental load of tossers who are really starting to make me question why I frequent PH. It used to be full of people who would appreciate that whatever you did to your car you did it because you loved your car, no matter what changes it was.
Now it seems to be that unless it’s an approved change then you’re marked as a throbber.
Stop it you a
holes.
Now it seems to be that unless it’s an approved change then you’re marked as a throbber.
Stop it you a
holes.ThunderSpook said:
You lot are a proper judgemental load of tossers who are really starting to make me question why I frequent PH. It used to be full of people who would appreciate that whatever you did to your car you did it because you loved your car, no matter what changes it was.
Now it seems to be that unless it’s an approved change then you’re marked as a throbber.
Stop it you aholes.
I wish I'd said my piece as succinctly as this!Now it seems to be that unless it’s an approved change then you’re marked as a throbber.
Stop it you a
holes.FNG said:
I wish I'd said my piece as succinctly as this!
Unfortunately sometimes the direct approach is the only thing people listen to when they’re so wrapped up in their world.I have done many of the things listed here in the past, as I suspect most people on PH have done, and can honestly say I have never died of shame.
Fink-Nottle said:
I'm rooting for the renaissance of the 1980s extra brake lights for the rear window.
The clientele was largely Audi 80-driving pensioners and Capri/Manta boy racers, but at some point they were bloody ubiquitous.
As per usual, the justification for this crap was "safety". Curiously, the roads must have become ultrasafe in the 90s all of a sudden, because the brake lights disappeared. Today, they are so forgotten it's hard even to find images of them.
No, the single LED band that some cars have these days is not a worthy successor. It doesn't look cheap-ass, "built-not-bought" enough.
with 12" 150w cibie front spot lights !!The clientele was largely Audi 80-driving pensioners and Capri/Manta boy racers, but at some point they were bloody ubiquitous.
As per usual, the justification for this crap was "safety". Curiously, the roads must have become ultrasafe in the 90s all of a sudden, because the brake lights disappeared. Today, they are so forgotten it's hard even to find images of them.
No, the single LED band that some cars have these days is not a worthy successor. It doesn't look cheap-ass, "built-not-bought" enough.
Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Tuesday 15th June 15:09
ThunderSpook said:
You lot are a proper judgemental load of tossers who are really starting to make me question why I frequent PH. It used to be full of people who would appreciate that whatever you did to your car you did it because you loved your car, no matter what changes it was.
Now it seems to be that unless it’s an approved change then you’re marked as a throbber.
Stop it you aholes.
I daresay most people on here either have, or had, some addition to their car that someone else wouldn't approve of. I know my car definately does Now it seems to be that unless it’s an approved change then you’re marked as a throbber.
Stop it you a
holes.
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