Pointless car mods

Generally, I don't care what anyone does with their car in terms of modifications unless it becomes a danger to others or an otherwise rare, OEM, collectible is molested.
 
SauRoNZA said:
The road ahead isn’t the only concern when driving.

Precisely why knowing exactly what is going on around you makes you safer.
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And thus the blind spot mirrors, which enables me to more easily know what’s going on around me, while my eyes are still able to look in the most important direction more often.
 
/M Badges on anything other than a M2, M3, M4, M5 etc.

no, just...no.
 
supersunbird said:
And thus the blind spot mirrors, which enables me to more easily know what’s going on around me, while my eyes are still able to look in the most important direction more often.
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Yea but they don’t work properly and due to their stupidly small nature you need to pay deep attention to them to get that already broken data out of them.

You can turn your head and have a quick look and get more data more quickly and more reliably and look forward again.

Your argument doesn’t really make sense. More so if it did then you wouldn’t need to buy these things aftermarket.
 
handyman007 said:
Never liked mods. The manufacturers engineered and build the car after years of r&d, why change it?
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Because sometimes the manufacturers make basic mistakes -----
Like changes incorporated supposedly to "suit local conditions"
In other words, the manufacturers do not always get it right either.

That is the only time a mod is required.

On my Nissan Navara locally assembled with a smaller battery than it was designed for, the wrong size tyres fitted (which screwed up the speedo calibration), A softer suspension (to provide a softer ride it was claimed), and the removal of the key lock on the back flap.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
Yea but they don’t work properly and due to their stupidly small nature you need to pay deep attention to them to get that already broken data out of them.

You can turn your head and have a quick look and get more data more quickly and more reliably and look forward again.

Your argument doesn’t really make sense. More so if it did then you wouldn’t need to buy these things aftermarket.
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If it was the case that they made no difference then I wouldn't have nearly had an accident in a vehicle without them a few weeks ago, because I was turning my head to look at blind spots when something happened in front of me. Many modern cars have them integrated now, or other systems (the Merc red side-mirror LED when something is in blind spot)

One doesn't need to get much detail out of them, they are there to show if there something there or not.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yea but they don’t work properly and due to their stupidly small nature you need to pay deep attention to them to get that already broken data out of them.

You can turn your head and have a quick look and get more data more quickly and more reliably and look forward again.

Your argument doesn’t really make sense. More so if it did then you wouldn’t need to buy these things aftermarket.
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Can't we just agree about different strokes? They certainly work for me, I have the square ones that swivels, I can see the pavement when I reverse, they are generally very useful for me.
 
SauRoNZA said:
The question is rather why do you need blind spot mirrors?

Simply turn your head. It will always be better and therefore safer.
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My mother has a 2015 Ikon and the outer section of the mirror is curved slightly to eliminate the blind spot problem. Youf Figtree should have the same setup. My Corsa also has the curved outer section thing. Pretty common these days.
 
nazmo said:
Downforce have little to do with traction, its mostly about just that, downforce, increasing cornering ability and mid corner balance, hopefully without too much drag.


Look below, a FWD car with a rear wing...

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A4 quattro. But yes wings on road cars are pointless. on Touring cars they were effective because the cars were driven at high speeds.
 
nazmo said:
crap, posted the wrong car. can probably post most super touring cars of the 90's here....

anyhow, was just internet arguing. wings arent exclusively for RWD or a specific drive.
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The latest two Civic Type-R models come to mind. Factory fitted rear wings on fwd cars.
 
Mekon said:
My mother has a 2015 Ikon and the outer section of the mirror is curved slightly to eliminate the blind spot problem. Youf Figtree should have the same setup. My Corsa also has the curved outer section thing. Pretty common these days.
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His Figtree is an old car just sold recently.
 
Mekon said:
My mother has a 2015 Ikon and the outer section of the mirror is curved slightly to eliminate the blind spot problem. Youf Figtree should have the same setup. My Corsa also has the curved outer section thing. Pretty common these days.
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Integrated ones do exist....and are pretty useless and I would argue actually less safe as they still don’t actually cover your blind spot properly.

The detection ones as in higher spec cars are of course a completely different setup that doesn’t require you to look at all, which is quite different.

I maintain it’s both safer and more reliable to simply turn your end. The blind spot detection systems excludes as you don’t need to concentrate on an tiny little mirror.

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Following on from the next post I made, blind spot detection has been the best thing in car safety ever to happen to bikes.
 
thechamp said:
Can't we just agree about different strokes? They certainly work for me, I have the square ones that swivels, I can see the pavement when I reverse, they are generally very useful for me.
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My problem is that it turns people more and more into brain dead mindless zombies behind the wheel as turning their head is even becoming too much effort now.

The moment you use something for “comfort” you are compromising on vigilance behind the wheel.

But what do I know, I ride a bike where you have none of these things and you simply have to look for yourself properly, otherwise you die.

Sadly the more people have this kak in their cars the more likely I am to die because they can’t see me in their shitty little add on mirrors.
 
This car is straight piped and it sounds horrible! :sick::thumbsdown:

When it is at idle it sounds like there is a scrambler idling (a real snot separator / piss kriek sound). Honestly some of the delivery motorbikes sound much better.
When it is driving it sounds like a tractor (Massey Fergusson diesel) with added snorts in between DSG shifts.

It is a student's car so I was not expecting anything better, but still helluva annoying - and a crap car at that.
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Other pointless mods I see, that are less annoying but still pointless :
1) Windscreen banner but in the bottom of the windscreen where it is in the driver's field of view - how stupid are you?
2) Lowered cars that crawl over bumps - yes I am hooting at you because I can take that bump much faster, stop wasting my time.
 
Rouxenator said:
This car is straight piped and it sounds horrible! :sick::thumbsdown:

When it is at idle it sounds like there is a scrambler idling (a real snot separator / piss kriek sound). Honestly some of the delivery motorbikes sound much better.
When it is driving it sounds like a tractor (Massey Fergusson diesel) with added snorts in between DSG shifts.

It is a student's car so I was not expecting anything better, but still helluva annoying - and a crap car at that.
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Other pointless mods I see, that are less annoying but still pointless :
1) Windscreen banner but in the bottom of the windscreen where it is in the driver's field of view - how stupid are you?
2) Lowered cars that crawl over bumps - yes I am hooting at you because I can take that bump much faster, stop wasting my time.
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Hate cars like that, useless and pointless. Driven by brainless and ball-less twats.

Can't wait for one of the small brained twats to see this and overreact.
 
ForceFate said:
Saw a slammed Tazz with stretched tyres struggling with speed humps. Damping was also atrocious as the car wouldn't stop bouncing. I doubt the driver can do over 60km/h in it.

Also saw a stock Corolla taking a small speed hump sideways.
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Always amusing watching these dropped cars bouncing down the road with driver and passengers bouncing along too.
 
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