What cars should you not modify
Discussion
300bhp/ton said:
On this note, I fully do NOT understand why people take the most common of common cars, and then want to mod them under the premise of wanting 'something different to everyone else' or 'wanting to stand out'. If that was true you wouldn't start with a common car like a Corsa/Focus/whatever..
Because the most common of common cars tend to be cheaper to buy...?omfgmynamewontfi said:
dieseluser07 said:
What type of cars come across chav like if someone modifies them?
Do you believe it has to at least be a proper hot hatch before exhausts and lowers etc are considered okay, or are warm hatches acceptable? What about the bog standard model?
Is it just a certain type of car that or is it a case of any car aslong as its tasteful, please share your opinions.
any modded car is chavDo you believe it has to at least be a proper hot hatch before exhausts and lowers etc are considered okay, or are warm hatches acceptable? What about the bog standard model?
Is it just a certain type of car that or is it a case of any car aslong as its tasteful, please share your opinions.
alway leave standard IMO
... but a complete lack of punctuation, capital letters and use of nouns as adjectives shows taste and class.
dieseluser07 said:
What about louder exhausts on warm/hot hatches
Grey area. I've had a loud exhaust on a hot hatch and generally I found it a lot of fun. However, there is such a thing as obnoxiously loud and not if an engine sounds s
te to begin with then putting a loud exhaust on the back of it will just exacerbate this. I don't really see the point of running a decat on a road car either, too much of a faff for me at MOT time but they do sound cool. I must admit that whizzing about with a popping and crackling exhaust does make you look like a massive knob though. Depends if you give a damn what other people think about you or your car in which case a hot hatch is probably not the car for you (loud or otherwise).
dieseluser07 said:
Is it just a certain type of car that or is it a case of any car aslong as its tasteful, please share your opinions.
Provided it's legal and not dangerous, I think anyone should feel free to modify their own car to their hearts content.How do you define tasteful? It might not be to my taste, but if I don't give a s
t then what does it matter?Vitorio said:
Dave Hedgehog said:
they look utter st, like a 9 yo designed the mods
I take it you arent a big RWB fan then either? To me they are the only people who can get a 911 to look right.t, like a 9 yo designed the mods i will stick with singer for my porsche mods
Many modifications are practical, mechanical or performance driven changes. Taste doesn't really come in to it as they're not apparent at first glance.
An MG Midget with a Kenlow electric fan to replace the viscous fan is a modification by anyones' definition. Only concourse sorts and nitwits would argue it was better to have your MG overheat when idling in a traffic jam than modified to run an electric fan when the coolant got too hot.
An MG Midget with a Kenlow electric fan to replace the viscous fan is a modification by anyones' definition. Only concourse sorts and nitwits would argue it was better to have your MG overheat when idling in a traffic jam than modified to run an electric fan when the coolant got too hot.
dieseluser07 said:
What type of cars come across chav like if someone modifies them?
Do you believe it has to at least be a proper hot hatch before exhausts and lowers etc are considered okay, or are warm hatches acceptable? What about the bog standard model?
Is it just a certain type of car that or is it a case of any car aslong as its tasteful, please share your opinions.
Any car where the net result of the mods is a car that sits 10mm off the ground and an exhaust that sounds like a chorus of toads croaking into a drain pipe.Do you believe it has to at least be a proper hot hatch before exhausts and lowers etc are considered okay, or are warm hatches acceptable? What about the bog standard model?
Is it just a certain type of car that or is it a case of any car aslong as its tasteful, please share your opinions.
At the end of the day, do you what you want. You can sink £4K into Ohlins coilovers and £3k on an Akropvic exhaust for a hot hatch, but no one will know they are the cream of the crop and still call you a chav.
SuperchargedVR6 said:
At the end of the day, do you what you want. You can sink £4K into Ohlins coilovers and £3k on an Akropvic exhaust for a hot hatch, but no one will know they are the cream of the crop and still call you a chav.
There is no accounting for taste, if we (pistonheads) already disagree with regular john and prefer not to buy a cooking model resale grey german hatch, why would we care what the same fellow thinks of our car?Modding your car is about you liking it better, not dave from next door.
They look brilliant IMO, although the 2nd Lambo is too low for my liking.
I've always modified the cars that I've owned. For my first car, a Corsa, it was just a bluetooth head unit and speakers, because the standard speakers were awful.
On my Leon Cupra R I fitted Ferodo pads, a Badger5 turbo intake pipe, Forge diverter valve, Jetex cone filter, and Cobra turbo back resonated exhaust. It wasn't remapped so power gains were probably <20bhp. In the end, it sounded like Darth Vader having an asthma attack on throttle, and hissed/barked when I let off the throttle. Chav? I don't care, live and let live
I've always modified the cars that I've owned. For my first car, a Corsa, it was just a bluetooth head unit and speakers, because the standard speakers were awful.
On my Leon Cupra R I fitted Ferodo pads, a Badger5 turbo intake pipe, Forge diverter valve, Jetex cone filter, and Cobra turbo back resonated exhaust. It wasn't remapped so power gains were probably <20bhp. In the end, it sounded like Darth Vader having an asthma attack on throttle, and hissed/barked when I let off the throttle. Chav? I don't care, live and let live
Dave Hedgehog said:
OP should have asked what cars cant be ruined with mods:
Vauxhalls
Rovers
Bit of a sweeping statement. Whoever was designing Audis in the 1990s could have done worse than asking Rover for help with their set of crayons.Vauxhalls
Rovers
Understated, elegant, handsome
Inspired by cardboard boxes
Vitorio said:
Modding your car is about you liking it better, not dave from next door.
If only that was true though.For example, there is no way on Earth, anyone with eyesight and more than 2 brain cells could claim (with a straight face) that these look good.
They might well be a statement. But by any conceivable measure they look dreadful and are miss proportioned. It's only peer pressure and the want to conform with a certain group or to be associated with a certain group of people, that anyone would ever claim they look good.
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