With you 100% on this one, dangerous and needless.
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Worst car trends/mods of recent times..
- Thread starter z8jay
- Start date
With you 100% on this one, dangerous and needless.
Same for having rear seats, or a passenger seat for that matter
The passenger seat gets used in mine and I'm proud to say I've used the rear seats twice!
I dont have rear seats on my daily because I dont like having more then one person in my car, I find then annoying and dangerous. So I stripped the rear put a ktec mat in,on my racecar that hasnt done a trackday yet. Screw the system I did this because I want to.
Do agree with the half (ie no point) cage thing. Cage it to track it fine, no track no cage needed.
BoatNonce
ClioSport Club Member
I never understood the Ktec mat.
Remove seats, install massive mat. Cancel out all your weight savings.
Remove seats, install massive mat. Cancel out all your weight savings.
A shiny black one.
That mat can't weigh the same as the seats, Shirley?
BoatNonce
ClioSport Club Member
Can't be too much lighter from the size of it. Pointless anyway.
SQ5
Well at least your not one of them I suppose...
Remove Cup suspension.
replace with £300 ebay specials.....to improve handling?
Modified clios aren't there to make sense, just jokes
I think the ktec mat looks tidyier to be honest it was a birthday present so I wasnt fussed.
Have you got the bends?
The rear seats weigh 30kg, a piece of carpet doesn't.
He/she might not be wearing a seatbelt.
A shiny black one.
The people I would have had in the back are noisy friends who can't drive people that take the aux lead and crank the music up mess about in the rear playing around (teenagers)
Having to give people lifts from work was a pita aswell.
Having to give people lifts from work was a pita aswell.
Julie knew her killer, IIRC.
Clio Trophy
not a mod, but this 100x over, misuse of fog lights front and rear, so annoying
Jonnio
ClioSport Club Member
Punto HGT Abarth
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-hig...adverse-weather-conditions-226-to-237#rule236
Says switch them on/off when visibility worsens/improves. Not when somebody on Cliosport is behind you whinging that their eyes can't cope?
Says switch them on/off when visibility worsens/improves. Not when somebody on Cliosport is behind you whinging that their eyes can't cope?
I'm not sure which is worse.
Fog lights or DRL's.
Neither have a use in the daytime other than to give the owner a sense of "yeah, look at me, now, get out of the way, rep-spec Audi 1.6 coming through"
Last one that tried that game with me ended up doing 55 on the outside lane of the M25 whilst I speed-matched the lorry I was passing at he tried to get into my passenger seat via the boot.
I dont care how many exhausts your 4-pot rebadged-Skoda may have, you sit on my rear bumper like that and I can't promise there wont be a cat jum out in front of me...any....second.......
BOOM!
Fog lights or DRL's.
Neither have a use in the daytime other than to give the owner a sense of "yeah, look at me, now, get out of the way, rep-spec Audi 1.6 coming through"
Last one that tried that game with me ended up doing 55 on the outside lane of the M25 whilst I speed-matched the lorry I was passing at he tried to get into my passenger seat via the boot.
I dont care how many exhausts your 4-pot rebadged-Skoda may have, you sit on my rear bumper like that and I can't promise there wont be a cat jum out in front of me...any....second.......
BOOM!
What is the limit that it's actually required to put the fog light on though??
because you'll be driving down the motorway on a 'foggy' morning, but you can easily see for a good half mile or more and there will be people with fog lights on.
Yozza'd Blue Bus
I believe the official marker is when visibility is less than 100 meters due to fog, heavy rain or snow.
Turinis are bad because they're not even a modification really. They look good, I agree. But people worshipping them (especially here) basically equates to anything else being bad. That's boring IMO. I'm not saying horrible wheels are great because they're not Turinis. Just that Turinis are like repainting your off-white walls to light eggshell and raving about the difference.
Sabelt wheels look like crayola started doing steering wheels. I'm sure they're great to drive with though.
Sabelt wheels look like crayola started doing steering wheels. I'm sure they're great to drive with though.
Could be worse, like those cars that start off life as a perfectly useable shopping-trolley, but then have all the suspension travel removed, a big front airdam bumper glued on (typically slightly wonky) and proceed to think that they're suddenly king of roadtrackroad
I'll not get any turinis then as they are a great wheel but arnt really a modification lol.
I dont think people get the sabelt wheel to look good, more of to replace the double decker wheel and because they feel so much better, I dont think your post makes that much sense tbh.
The point of the thread is it's a place where people can vent about what they consider to be bad (for whatever their reason) modifications I thought? I'll try and explain again, maybe it doesn't make sense to others, but it does to me! Haha.
For me, they're bad because they're boring. Like Ikea furniture - it looks good (some of it) but it's pretty generic. I come to the forum mostly to read project threads and post in my own so my point of view is heavily skewed towards what's interesting to see/read about. It seems that tying to make your car slightly different - not unique - from the rest though has sadly become somewhat synonymous with (what's largely considered) poor taste recently. I hate reading threads where someone's considered three or four wheel options and then bottled it and stuck Turini's on because everyone's posted to say they're the best. Often the same thing then happens with the colour choice too; silver or anthracite?
I guess we all have different reasons for modifying/reading the forum and that changes our personal criteria for what is or isn't bad. Someone who's track focused might not give tuppence about aesthetics etc.
We can't all agree on everything or it really would be boring! Hah.
To each their own!
Good post
I like turinis but i got ultras instead, I now wish I got turinis because they look so much better and are sort of an oem wheel, this is probably why they are so popular.
Jonnio
ClioSport Club Member
Punto HGT Abarth
"Rule 226
You MUST use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced, generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet). You may also use front or rear fog lights but you MUST switch them off when visibility improves (see Rule 236)."
Not exactly clear cut, as Goodj says really.
MarkCup
ClioSport Club Member
This bit is though;
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/27/made
Do not use them if they may dazzle other road users...ergo if you can see that I'm behind you in traffic, turn the f***er off.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/27/made
Do not use them if they may dazzle other road users...ergo if you can see that I'm behind you in traffic, turn the f***er off.
