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So, we will never admit the stupid mistakes
we made when we were young.
Especially when it came down to modifying cars.
I did nothing wrong ever when I was 16.
I made no mistakes when I was building my 1994 3000GT SL.
I did not make mistakes or argue with my dad about the
fact that ground wires actually improved horsepower.
And I definitely didn't talk to him about
how the fact that like, you know,
my wheels when they didn't have the piece that held
the lugs made the car lighter and therefore faster.
When we were young we all just sometimes said and or did
some pretty silly things when it came to modifying our cars.
So we figured that we would talk to you guys,
and maybe reminisce on the past with some of our viewers
that we know did these things to their cars
when they were probably around 16 or 17 years old.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
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And let's just get right into it.
The first thing that probably everybody has done,
or has at least thought about doing when they were young
or had their first car, was cutting their springs.
(car banging)
- [Man] Oh my god.
(car revving)
- So a lot of people always see cutting their springs
as like the fast was out, especially when it
came down to lowering your car.
And some of us have done it, and some of us haven't,
and we'll never admit if we have or have not done it.
But at the end of the day, a lot of cars when they didn't
have cheap options for coilovers of lowering springs
people would just end up cutting their springs
and then putting it back in.
Then they would wonder why they were rolling around
like a tug boat on top of like Lake Michigan,
and they could never really actually drive their car
at a safe speed because it'd be doin' one of these.
At the end of the day,
it was something that ruined a lot of peoples cars,
but it looked good when it was staying still,
because you could cut it, it would just drop the car.
It was easy, it was cheap, and it was a little bit
amateur but we won't really talk about it.
At the end of the day through,
a lot of people ended up selling those cars
and when they went to buy their next car
they ended up getting actual lowering springs
because they probably had a job that paid more.
You know, they were maybe feeling more like an adult,
and they picked up Eibachs like a responsible teenager.
Now, we won't talk about the next thing as terms of a story,
but I remember countless times that everybody would
go out onto Ebay and buy whatever exhaust they could
for their car because it was affordable.
(car revving loudly)
I know with the brands like SSAX and brands like that.
Where it was these no name brands that supplied
mufflers and exhausts and things like that
for legitimately pennies on the dollar
when it came down to metal.
And you would sit there and justify the
grade of steel, or aluminum, or metal that they used,
to justify the fact that it was a no name brand
to put on your car because it was like $900 cheaper
than the actual name brand exhaust
that you could get for your car.
At the end of the day, there was
a lot of people that did it.
They either totally did it, and just completely disregarded
the fact that they didn't care that the welds were terrible,
or the fact that nothing actually matched up,
or that it came with no gasket.
So it was just metal on metal
and it just made this terrible rasping noise.
Or, you tried to justify it and say the brand's super cool.
You'd be like, yeah it's double S AX,
you've never heard of it, it's a European brand.
And they'd be like wow, really, that's a cool brand.
How much did it cost?
And you're like, oh uh, 270.
And they're like oh, for the muffler, for like the catback?
And you're like no, for the whole thing.
I would like, if I had like a 40
or whatever it is that you pour out
when you have to think about things passed,
I would it do it right now, so that we can sit together,
me and you, and talk about Plasti Dip
as being one of those modifications
that probably did at one point in your life.
Whether you did it temporarily,
or you did it to justify the means to an end.
Somebody probably when they were young,
used Plasti Dip to modify their car.
Or you might be sitting there watching this video
in the garage Plasti Dipping your wheels.
If I could just give you one tip.
If I could just give you one tip just right there,
I'll get real close.
Don't.
- Everybody makes a mistake or two in life, right?
- Plasti Dip is one of those mods that came and went
and it's really not a mod, I'm sorry.
There's people that said it but Plasti Dip is something
that like was used as a temporary thing
and turned into a permanent thing,
and as a result people started Plasti Dipping
everything on their cars.
Anything they possibly could,
wheels, emblems, tail lights, interior pieces,
every in between, but the problem was
is that Plasti Dip is this rubber adhesive
that if it wasn't kept up with it would scratch or peel off.
Or even worse like dust would get set on
and it would stick to it and it would look
like a pair of 20 year old fuzzy handcuffs on your car,
and it just looked bad and it still kinda looks bad.
If you're a proper adult you would just go get
your wheel powder coated or repainted
and get them fixed up like you should.
Or just buy new wheels at fitmentindustries.com
Right.
Going up next would probably be fake badges.
That's it, fake badges.
Your A6 is not an RS6, I'm sorry.
Your NISMO is not a NISMO.
Right, I gotta stop saying that.
So we talked about fake, cheap exhausts,
but what about those fake intakes?
I remember going into the aisle seven of AutoZone
even though you, that didn't happen actually.
I never went into AutoZone or Arise or Advanced
to buy stuff that looked really shiny and fun.
And you would get to the aisle where
you got to see the infamous stand.
That golden stand where angels sang and cried,
and on it in big bold words it said two letters, K, N.
And you got really excited cause you knew that
intake you'd get horsepower.
Just put the K&N on there and you'd be good to go.
Only problem is is that it was 200 bucks,
and you're like ah, that's a lot
that's like a lot of money of 16 year old me.
And instead you ended up going onto Ebay or Amazon
and you found the next closest thing for $47.99
on free two day shipping because you are a student
and you bought that instead.
And you'd go to install it and it would not sit
in even the remote appropriate place.
It'd be made out of really thin metal that didn't
line up with your throttle body or anything like that.
And then you kinda just cursed yourself out
because you would install it,
and you'd drive down to your friend's house the next day
and then it would fall off or get loose
or the clamp would not actually tighten up completely
because it wiggled around too much.
And then you ended up just putting
the intake on without the metal piece
and you threw the metal piece away.
And then you sold it because you knew
that was terrible idea.
Cheap intakes are just as bad as cheap exhausts
that have no brand, no name.
But at the end of the day you did it because the
picture looked cool and that filter was like blue,
or pink, or purple, or something like that.
Finally we have the other thing that probably would
signify the immediate rest of something you probably
did when you were young and will never do again,
probably cheap headlights.
You remember it, I remember it.
Anybody that owns a Euro car definitely remembers this.
I remember having every single Euro car I've ever owned
have cheap little tabs that broke all the time
when you'd take out the headlights and put them back in.
So at the end of the day you're like
I could just get these super cool RS style lights
that my A4 or A6 definitely doesn't have,
and I could install it it'd be like 500 bucks
it'd look super cool.
But at the end of the day they were black housings
with chrome things and LED strips,
and the same plastic tabs that ended up breaking
the moment that you installed them.
Cheap headlights ultimately would just angle upwards
and shine the next person coming down the road
down highway 41, and you'd be wondering
why you did this in the first place.
And all of a sudden your nice sleek B5 S4
in the iconic Imola yellow now just looked like
a hunk of junk because you decided to change the headlights.
But at the end of the day, 2016 came around
and everybody decided that they wanted their street car
to look like a track car,
and at the end of the day Aero is expensive.
Liberty Walk, Wings, things like that, Battle Aero,
everything in terms of ground effects
and everything in between was not
a real cheap product to buy.
And especially when it came down to diffusers and splitters,
you were paying out the ass when it
came down to buying these parts,
unless you got the cheap version.
And that probably came from Amazon.
Or Wish, because apparently that's a thing now too.
Thank you Wish, for now making it easier
to do terrible decisions to your car
that I would have probably made if I was younger as well.
When you talk about fake Aero, or even just bad Aero,
you're talking about the people that would install
the big gigantic wing on the back of the car,
but then nothing in the middle
and then nothing in the front.
Or they put this huge diffuser splitter thing on the front
and then they had stock clearance,
they had stock suspension with no side skirts.
If you're gonna do Aero, make sure you have Aero
that goes throughout the entire body of the car.
Another thing that probably isn't too common anymore
but definitely something that I remember back in the day,
as they would say, would be Lambo doors.
Not even the official Lambo doors that we talked about
with Kw Automotive actually starting way back in the early,
I would even say '90s.
We're talking about like the third party Lambo doors,
the ones that went up, or the ones that went
you'd open the door and then they would go up,
they would like slide out and then go up.
But the problem was is the hydros are so bad on those
that they never actually stayed up.
You'd bring them up and then they would crack back down
and then they'd hit peoples heads when you were
getting out of the car, on your Honda Civic,
or Teg, or anything like that, it looked like absolute poop.
A lot of times people did that when they were young
because that was like the cool thing to do
and it looked neat, you know, on paper
when you told people that you were gonna
put your doors up in the air.
But then at the end of the day that was before Facebook
and myspace, and it was really just forums at the time
and it was really hard to post,
so you didn't get judged as much as you do now.
Whereas when you post it now,
unless you're like a big flashy car it just looks wrong.
And the final one, that I know, I just know that somebody,
everybody watching this video has done
something on this list.
So if you're here yet I want you to like just do it,
imagine you're confessing, imagine you're at confession.
I want you to go in the comments
and I want you to put which one of these that were you,
and why and what car you own,
because then I'll feel better about sharing
all of my terrible ideas when I was young.
The last thing is bad tint.
Do you remember going to Ziebarts or whatever it was,
and you'd go to get your windows tinted
and seven windows was like $290.
And again you're back in square one you're like
that is really expensive.
I could buy my own 3M window tint off Amazon for like $49
and then I could just install it myself.
Sometimes you do that when you're 16.
Sometimes you do it when you're 28.
Either way, regardless of what your age,
it is always a terrible decision
because it ends up looking terrible,
you cut it wrong, it gets purpley, or it gets bad.
Or when you're young you put it on your Honda Civic,
or your 3000GT, or your Teggy, or your Mercedes,
whatever car got handed to you when you were 16 years old.
And you think it looks good cause
you took a picture in the right light,
but then the moment you actually drove it,
or you sold it and you look back the next year
when you actually got the tint installed correctly
and you're like, rough.
That was a rough time.
So those are modifications that you probably
did when you were young.
Drop a comment on which one you did,
and if you say you never did any of them,
I know you're a liar.
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