- I regret a few things in my life, okay?
I regret selling my first car
which was a minty blue 1989 Mercedes-Benz 300E, okay?
Had the headrests with the button
that dropped them down but never brought them back up, okay?
I regret thinking that a freshly built T5 Transmission
was ready for a three and a half hour drive across the state
only for it to immediately grenade due to improper tear down
because I was 17 and had very little,
little idea of what I was doing, okay?
I regret thinking about buying a totaled super car
thinking that would be easy.
That one's fresh, okay?
Just don't buy a totaled super car,
just go watch branded title,
it's just, it's a hoot.
Anyway, there are car trends, okay?
That we would all probably like to hope
never get brought up again and just stay sleeping forever.
Like just don't come back bud.
You can just stay away.
I'm Alex, Alex.fi on Instagram
and today we're gonna be talking about
some of those car trends, those older regrets,
those older things that we used to do
that we just wished we never had to bring up again,
like that awkward high school yearbook photo,
just a little bit of cringe LOLs, ha ha, rar
with the A and the W and the whole thing,
you know, we're gonna be talking about...
We're gonna be talking about car trends
that we probably regret.
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Because if I get asked that question
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It's pretty much the same thing.
You just go out there,
make sure you don't have bunk fitment,
you can pick it out.
It's pretty much...
It's awesome, all right.
No joke.
Everything you could want, we have it, I promise.
If see a commenter say, would you have my will to live?
Yeah, we got that too, all right?
You ever see a car slammed on the ground?
Beautiful.
When we look at car trends,
it's always important to remember
just like that old haircut, it was once in style, okay?
It's just not something you'd wanna run nowadays.
I had a bowl cut,
it was a long time ago, I regret it but hey,
you know, the hairstylist, she tried her best.
Starting off right at the beginning
would be the fake carbon fiber vinyl
or like the fake wood wrap
that used to be extremely popular back in the day.
And I remember this because specifically,
it was really easy to get your hands on that
fake carbon vinyl wrap.
Now, that's still out there to this day
but for the most part it's not as common anymore.
But back then it was pretty gnarly.
People could buy fake rolls of carbon fiber wood design,
wrap their mirror cap,
they'd go and they wrap their interior pieces,
they'd go wrap their door handles,
they'd go wrap
more door handles,
they'd wrap like everything they possibly could,
they'd wrap their badges.
I mean, everything you could possibly handle
without much fuss.
And for the most part it wasn't the worst thing
in the world, okay?
But problem is that the weaves would all be going
like different ways on the pieces
and the parts were vinyl wraps
so they'd peel due to heat or fade in two weeks
because of California has a monster of a sun.
Now, this is something that people still do
and it doesn't necessarily always look terrible.
The problem is that you can usually just tell the difference
between real carbon fiber and fake carbon fiber.
And a lot of times when the weaves are going
all sorts of different ways
especially when they're mounted up in your interior,
it starts to look a little bit wonky.
But you can still do it.
Just do it in good taste,
you know, just a little bit here and there.
Don't just wrap your entire front end
in carbon fiber vinyl, okay?
What do you want from me?
I'm sorry.
The fake wood thing,
also just a little bit odd.
That's the hydro dipping, that was super common back then.
Let's get the fake wood out of here, all right?
Let's just...
We don't need it.
Next up would be the grille diamond inserts
that you can still find on eBay for like 1,999.
And you remember it, I remember it.
Specifically if you're a mid 20 year old,
this was super common.
It feels like we're in a ky,
that we're molding a 16 by 20 piece of metal
around our front bumper inlet.
But nowadays, it just doesn't look that good, okay?
Chrome grilles in the lower valance was a hot thing,
especially when you had massive holes
in your intakes in the front
and it was in your bumpers.
Those chrome grills in the lower valence
were a really hot thing.
Especially on those early gen body kits
that you could find online.
But that has mostly pretty much gone away now.
And if you did ever install them,
cleaning them was an absolute mess, okay?
If you remember you know what I'm talking about.
But like, it was always really interesting
'cause people put the chrome meshy grille tops
in the bumpers but then there was no chrome
anywhere else on the car.
Because I think we wanted to think it was like
an inner cool looking piece but it really wasn't.
Now, a good next one is probably not actually that common
to all the young bucks out there
but the older tuner guys and the ones
that were way back then,
it would probably be that side opening trunk
and rear aftermarket bumpers
that forced you to have your license plate crooked.
If you remember that, Need for Speed Underground 2,
it had it, okay?
And if you remember the trunks,
they would open from like one side of the car,
kind of all like kinked up like this.
But it was just pretty much so that you could see
the bass amplifier in the back or like the NOS tank
that was never actually connected.
And they were sweet, okay?
But they were a damn pain in the ass to close.
They never actually sealed
as well as the original trunk setup,
and nowadays, it just looks a little bit silly.
You don't see many people throwing out doors the wrong way.
Except for Jasper, he still does that.
And the crooked bumper,
those were a huge,
they were huge on Civics back then in 2000,
because the entire rear bumper was just
one big flat piece of polyurethane
and then they would place and mount your bracket
specifically crooked and it was to give it some depth
or something, I'm not entirely sure
but that whole rear bumper if you remember
there wasn't even a crease to give it some depth,
it was just out, around, in and then just this like
two and a half inch indentation that was like this
that you put your license plate in.
Or what about the Grand Am nose hood things
that got super popular back in the early 2000s.
Those massive nostril hoods that sat on cars
that needed them like the WS6?
It just got so popular
that everybody started putting them on cars
for an aggressive setup.
It was like (inhales heavily).
The car community was playing Angry Birds
before Angry Birds were even a thing.
And if you remember, it was super common
on a lot of tuner cars.
The bigger those inlets, apparently the better.
Then you match that chrome grille mesh
that you had back in the day,
to that insert or to the whole nostril hood
and it was just a...
It was a weird time for everybody involved, okay?
And then we used to do this weird thing where
when we owned a Mitsubishi Eclipse
and people would take the taillights
out of other makes and models
and mold those taillights on to a different platform.
This was especially common in the early 2000s to mid 2000s.
Now, not even a similar make brothers like,
like but a whole different set of taillights.
This created some Frankenstein style of cars
from the early 2000s that now,
they probably just feel a little bit confused.
Some of the super common ones way back in the day
would be putting like super taillights on Eclipses
or they would take 240SX headlights on the Honda CRXs
And it happened a ton.
And it wasn't really frowned upon at all because
taking that and doing that really wasn't that big of a deal.
And that sort of stuff now just confuses
the hell out of people and thinks that you're faking it
because you own a car that you don't own.
And it's just weird.
It was like seeing your friend get a nose job.
You're just wondering, like,
where to go, you know?
And then you have the fake badge era overall.
Now fake badge era, it's a car trend we regret, all right?
And it's probably something everyone has done
in some way, shape or form
at some point in their life, okay?
This is something that people regret personally,
and it's definitely something we did
when we were a little bit younger.
Whether that's removing your A4 badge
and hoping people think that your new honeycomb front grille
that you got for 1999 will make people think
that it's an S4,
or you put AMG on the back of your E300 that you bought
but you keep all three numbers on your E300.
Stop it, okay?
Get some help.
Fake badges, they're not a thing,
we regret it all the time.
Don't,
just don't do it, okay?
It's better to de-badge than re-badge with the wrong stuff.
So what do you think are some car trends
that you personally regret?
Drop 'em below and of course don't forget to subscribe
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I'm Alex from Fitment Industries
and we will see you later.
Peace.