Accessories that never caught on

[rj1986]

Thankyou4calling said:

On the motorway and saw a car with Alloygators, plastic wheel rim protectors and I realised I'd never seen a car with them. Are there other accessories that have fizzled out or not caught on?

I was looking into getting a set of these for my car (20"'s get expensive to refurb- suppose i could stop driving it into the kerb), but a lot of horror stories of the connector clip breaking at high speed, leading to a bit of plastic spining over your paintwork at 70

[Twincam16]

PhilTDi said:

A brilliant innovation by Ford! Every car should come with these! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7S_fp0xVc

Needlessly complex version of this:

[PhilTDi]

Twincam16 said:

PhilTDi said:

A brilliant innovation by Ford! Every car should come with these! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7S_fp0xVc

Needlessly complex version of this:

I know which I would rather have on my car given the choice though!

[LotusOmega375D]

Twincam16 said:

Needlessly complex version of this:

The problem with those was that they scratched your paintwork the moment you put them on, so you couldn't take them off again!

[Morningside]

Twincam16 said:

PhilTDi said:

A brilliant innovation by Ford! Every car should come with these! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7S_fp0xVc

Needlessly complex version of this:

Does it stop dents caused by children swinging the door open with some force?

KrazyIvan said:

jds32 said:

Steamer said:

What on earth is it?!

A 12V door mounted laminator?

Same thing I asked myself !!

Knock yourself out

http://www.doorshox.com/car-door-protectors.htm

At least that's what I think it is, as it look pretty much the same

So is it a door alarm?

[Rude-boy]

Twincam16 said:

PhilTDi said:

A brilliant innovation by Ford! Every car should come with these! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7S_fp0xVc

Needlessly complex version of this:

Nope.

The ones in PhilTDi's post look a really good and neat idea. I would not object to seeing them on 'my' new car.

The ones in your post look like they should be riveted to the side of some st brown Granada with black vinyl roof in the background of a photo taken on Carnaby Street.

[Eighteeteewhy]

y2blade said:

Eighteeteewhy said:

Steamer said:

Great way to stop your fella nipping down the shop in your car though!

...I'm just wondering...

If I got huge pair of hairy balls to hang from the underside of my motor, would it stop the O/H driving it too?!

Knock yourself out!

Please tell me they swing about as you drive?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9c0r9LYh_0&fea...

[750turbo]

The Crack Fox said:

A whole range of nonsense here... I am reliably told the owner of this website (below) gets regular enquiries from people (mainly American people) who don't get the gag...

http://www.chelfing.com/page14.htm

<cough>

http://www.chelfing.com/page8.htm

Brilliant!

[EDLT]

Rude-boy said:

Nope.

The ones in PhilTDi's post look a really good and neat idea. I would not object to seeing them on 'my' new car.

The ones in your post look like they should be riveted to the side of some st brown Granada with black vinyl roof in the background of a photo taken on Carnaby Street.

Actually you're more likely to see them on a ten year old golf thats been rat-looked.

[fathomfive]

Green tinted sun-strips across the tops of windscreens, with or without the driver and passenger names.

[muppets_mate]

Steamer said:

Awwww... Disappointed.

When I saw the name 'Door Shox' I thought it might be for electrocuting fat-arsed moms and sprogs that fling their doors into the side of your car.

See:

PhilTDi said:

A brilliant innovation by Ford! Every car should come with these! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7S_fp0xVc

Sadly without the shock of an electric cattle prod for thoughtless feckless chavs and their children. Even so they're still a good idea

[KrazyIvan]

Morningside said:

KrazyIvan said:

jds32 said:

Steamer said:

What on earth is it?!

A 12V door mounted laminator?

Same thing I asked myself !!

Knock yourself out

http://www.doorshox.com/car-door-protectors.htm

At least that's what I think it is, as it look pretty much the same

So is it a door alarm?

NO no no no no, well yeah pretty much

[Charlie Michael]

What about car-bras?

I can't say i've seen more than 5 of them in the few years they've been around. Or am I living in a cave?

[KrazyIvan]

Ok, technically not an accessory, but still an automotive idea that never made it.

Bose active suspension
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSi6J-QK1lw

[anonymous-user]

PhilTDi said:

A brilliant innovation by Ford! Every car should come with these! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7S_fp0xVc

Great, so you get to protect everyone else's doors but your own. It won't stop other people opening their doors onto your car will it! They've sort of got the solution the wrong way round

[Rude-boy]

fathomfive said:

Green tinted sun-strips across the tops of windscreens, with or without the driver and passenger names.

Saw one a few weeks back. On a very loved looking Nova GTE. Made me laugh as on the dirver's side it said something like "Baz" and on the other side "Baz's Right Hand".

[Twincam16]

EDLT said:

Rude-boy said:

Nope.

The ones in PhilTDi's post look a really good and neat idea. I would not object to seeing them on 'my' new car.

The ones in your post look like they should be riveted to the side of some st brown Granada with black vinyl roof in the background of a photo taken on Carnaby Street.

Actually you're more likely to see them on a ten year old golf thats been rat-looked.

Also, a brown Granada with a vinyl roof on Carnaby Street is cool these days. A new Focus isn't.

Also, who gets that worked-up about how their door-protectors look? FFS.

I reckon after repeated openings and closings over several years, that Ford pop-out door protector will break, jamming open and causing the door to bounce against its shut, wreaking havoc with the central locking and the alarm. Like so many things on modern cars - for the sake of 'ooh, look at that' gadgetyness, something that can be solved simply (or wasn't a problem in the first place before some daft new piece of gadgetry created it) is now much more complicated to design, build, buy, repair and ultimately live with.

[Twincam16]

Charlie Michael said:

What about car-bras?

I can't say i've seen more than 5 of them in the few years they've been around. Or am I living in a cave?

Seem to be de rigeur amongst the modding crew.

[Rude-boy]

Twincam16 said:

Also, a brown Granada with a vinyl roof on Carnaby Street is cool these days. A new Focus isn't.

Carnaby Street is closed to cars these days. The protectors you showed look like something from back in the day you could drive down it.

Twincam16 said:

Also, who gets that worked-up about how their door-protectors look? FFS.

If they are going to make my car look st I would. I mean imagine those on the side of a 968Cs or a 430 or an MX5.

Twincam16 said:

I reckon after repeated openings and closings over several years, that Ford pop-out door protector will break, jamming open and causing the door to bounce against its shut, wreaking havoc with the central locking and the alarm. Like so many things on modern cars - for the sake of 'ooh, look at that' gadgetyness, something that can be solved simply (or wasn't a problem in the first place before some daft new piece of gadgetry created it) is now much more complicated to design, build, buy, repair and ultimately live with.

Possibly, but then you can say the same thing about many 'features' on new cars these days. Christ knows how I manage with the CS, there isn't even a headunit in it at the minute.

[john2443]

Spinning hub caps.