- Hey guys, I'm Sam today.
We're gonna talk about
what car parts you should avoid buying.
We often tell you should buy this, you should buy that.
But not often enough do we tell you things you should avoid?
I've made some really dumb decisions in my life
on buying car parts.
So learn from my lessons and my mistakes.
Don't do 'em yourself.
Let's get into it guys.
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All right guys.
So the first car part you should avoid buying is
any visual or performance mod until your car is reliable
'cause you need to be able to drive that thing
in order to have fun with it.
So buy some oil, got gear oil, engineer oil here
to keep your car going.
Replace those fluids. Do general maintenance.
Bushings are worn out. Bearings are worn out.
Fix those first,
before you're gonna go do any performance or visual mods.
One part I think you guys should definitely avoid buying
are cheap body kits or arrow bits.
Here's a side skirt from my IS300 that I bought.
It's really cheap polyurethane wrap
that I bought of eBay and took a lot of work
to get it to fit.
And honestly, once I was on the car
and I drove hard on it, it was in the sun,
heat it up, cool down.
Didn't fit that great.
It started to sag and honestly look like crap.
You should buy regular parts that fit.
I can't say that enough.
It's really annoying to try to get body kit stuff to fit
and aerial bits that don't fit just look terrible.
'Cause you're buying them to look cool.
And when they don't fit, you don't look cool.
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Something I would recommend,
something like Sabon carbon fiber, that stuff fits great.
Looks dope. Super lightweight.
Can't recommend it enough.
And we sell it. Go buy it, buy it right now.
And it looks like garbage. You just look like garbage guys.
I'm sorry.
All right guys, sorry a car drove by
and I thought it was gonna be really cool and it wasn't.
All right guys, when you're sorry,
I thought he was gonna be loud.
He did a pull then he just stopped.
All right guys, another car part I'm gonna tell you
I think you should avoid buying is OEM style brakes.
So when you gotta replace your brakes,
heres an example of a road rough my 240
try to upgrade it a little bit.
It doesn't cost a whole lot more to get some vented
and slotted rotors that look a whole lot cooler
than this kinda lame looking thing here
or some more aggressive brake pads.
So you can stop a little faster or some ceramic pads.
So you don't get brake dust on your wheels.
Like I said, it's not a whole lot more money.
It's a great time to upgrade.
Cause you're replaced in anyways.
It'll look cooler and perform better.
So I highly recommend that.
All right. Another part I think you guys should avoid buying
are cheap or no-name exhausts.
I know this is like a no-brainer.
And I think a lot of us are guilty of buying these
'cause it's like oh it says stainless steel,
it's cheap and I can buy it. It'll sound better.
When in reality it often sounds like crap.
I bought a no-name, cheap exhaust from the IS300.
It didn't really sound very good.
And that stainless steel on those exhaust,
I should more say stainless steel is gonna start rusty.
Happened to me. It's happened to my friends.
It just isn't worth it.
It is worth it though,
to go buy something that's like a name brand or reputable.
Something like MA performance for instance.
We started carrying those really dope exhaust.
They sound great. They're handmade.
They look amazing,
and you get what you pay for, with those cheap exhaust
and there's not saying to avoid buying it
is 'cause you're still spending a couple hundred bucks
and it just isn't really worth it
because it's gonna fail and it's not gonna sound good.
Honestly, just doesn't look as good
not to mention when you're installing it,
it kind of won't really line up
'cause oftentimes the hangers for that exhaust
are gonna be a little bit off than they need to be,
they need to bend that tab and sometimes it snaps
and then you're really outta luck.
And you gotta weld something.
And you should have just bought the good exhaust
to start with.
So avoid buying those cheap exhausts.
Oh these cars are so distracting.
Like I see something that I think is cool coming
and it's like a fricking traverse.
I told you guys you should avoid buying
those cheap exhausts.
And on the intake side, I'm gonna say the same thing.
You should really avoid buying those cheap intakes
because they're they're cheap.
And the reason that's a problem
is they usually don't fit very great.
The installs are kind of difficult
and they're really important thing is that
they usually come filters that don't actually filter much.
That filters what stops things from coming into your engine
and blowing it up.
So that's really important.
I would tell you buy something from someone reputable.
Like I talk about this MA performance exhaust.
Same thing on the intake side, and performance has on those.
We also started carrying them and the filters are good.
And not only that they install really easy
and they look really good.
Another car part, I tell you guys to avoid buying
are those cheap coilovers
that you might have in your cart on eBay.
We recently did a video where Gels tried
to install some on his car and he couldn't even install them
'cause they just didn't fit.
That's one reason we go to install those parts.
Sometimes they just don't fit
and you have to modify something
just about a couple hundred bucks on or even more than that.
Buy some good revial coilovers,
especially if you're gonna drive your car hard or track it.
I've got some good coilovers in all of my cars
'cause I drive them really hard and it pays for it.
They take a lot of abuse and sometimes like
when you have them rebuilt,
you can actually have them rebuilt by the company.
Example that would be somewhere like Fortune Auto.
Now nearly with coilovers tool is adjustability.
You those cheap coilovers won't have as much adjustability
as something a little bit more expensive.
And longevity of them isn't that good?
You might have to go through a set or two.
And at that point you could have just upgraded
and bought some better ones.
So don't cheap out, spend the money right away
and avoid buying those cheap coilovers.
Something I think looks really cool in cars,
especially if you've got some aftermarket seats
or harnesses.
And this is a spot where I'm gonna tell you guys
to avoid really buying those cheap harnesses,
the no-name ones.
Because this is a safety device
and it honestly prevents you from flying to that windshield
and smoking your beautiful face on it.
Buy some good harnesses,
avoid those cheap ones even though they might look cool.
That could be a wrap of an actual harness.
Make sure you're buying something that has some sort
of pedigree or like an FIA rating to it.
And while we're at it,
I'm just gonna talk about safety in general.
Really avoid buying those car parts
that are interior mods that you think look cool
and have a safety factor to them.
So with that you got harnesses, steering wheels.
You don't want your wheel of pop off
or like quick releases any of that stuff and your seat.
Don't go and buy those wrap seats,
avoid buying those cheap wrap seats
because it's a safety thing as well.
You're in that seat.
And if you get into an accident
that seat could crack and throw you somewhere in the cabin
where you don't want to be.
Get a good seat, stay planted and stay safe.
Another car part, I'm tell you guys you should make sure
to avoid buying are cheap no-name,
taillights, headlights any sort of lighting for your car.
And the reason being is
first of all they might not fit super great.
So these tabs might not line up.
You have to adjust them.
You might crack some plastic.
The other thing is they might create some like
ecosystem in here.
So you'll see some taillights or headlights.
They're super foggy.
Like there's a little rain forest going on there.
You got like little animals right in there
and it's not that bad, but you've all seen the headlights
or taillights that do have that fogginess to it,
'cause there's condensation in there.
That's 'cause those lights weren't sealed properly,
Unlike something like this from an OEM
or highly rep able manufacturer in the aftermarket scene.
Finally guys, I'm gonna tell you to avoid buying those
gimmicky power adders.
Now this is a really broad category.
So it could be anything from those like electric turbos.
You can buy in wish.com that a hundred percent don't work
and we'll just get sucked in your intake
and blow your (bleep)up.
All the way to those like mystery oils
you can buy at Walmart that say,
they're gonna add five horsepower.
That stuff just doesn't work.
And it's pretty bad for your motor.
If you're watching this
and you're thinking about buying it just don't,
it's not worth it.
Do your research, buy something reputable.
That's kind of a little list of things,
you guys should avoid buying when it comes to car parts.
And honestly I've fallen for a lot of these myself.
I used to buy like some of those power adders
and like oils and pour 'em in my motor.
And there's probably like weird stew happening
in my gas tank.
It didn't do anything,
like it probably just made my Mustang
like worse or my integrity.
'Cause I put in both of those
'cause I was dumb for like two cars.
So don't do that and avoid buying that other stuff too.
If you have any questions, comment down below
you know, like subscribe, you know, all that stuff.
But honestly I'm answering comments myself
for the first couple hours.
So drop a comment, drop a question
and we'll get that taken care of.
Appreciate you guys watching I'm Sam, peace.