- Before we even get into it,
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Pick one up, and then of course
we'll be doing a live giveaway where I'll be beating Mario,
or Dakota, or Steve or all three of them
in some sort of competitive based sport.
Maybe like, Drift Trikes or something.
A long time ago, in a land far, far away we made a video
talking about if you should stretch your tires.
Slanty wheels, base model Camaro's, and stretched tires.
I had short hair, small glasses, and a gnarly green screen.
It was a little weird.
Things were great though, y'know,
people weren't calling me daddy.
Daddy.
And the topics were easier, we only had like 15,000 subs.
But, just like a good piece of molded cheese
in the back of the fridge,
it's time to bring up the topic once again!
Because why not?
Stretching tires isn't a new topic, especially for us.
Why have people started to go
into now doing the extreme stretch of things?
Especially in today's world, and by the way I'm Alex
from Fitment Industries, Alex.Fi, I sound like I'm about to
sell you some Shamwow slap chop stuff right now.
You guys ever have a slap chop before?
All you gotta do is stop having boring salad.
But, today we're gonna be talking about,
why do people run extreme stretch?
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We know that stretched tires came
from the Volkswagen Euro Community over in Germany
due to the German Military installation document rules
that prohibit cars from having pretty much having fun.
This includes license plate rules, lighting rules,
and of course, not allowing tires extend beyond the wheel,
rim, nor poke outside the fender at all.
Now, if you are internationally based,
there are quite a few countries that are way more strict
than the United States.
Now really the only strict one in the United States
is California because they just refuse to have fun
and they have things like ignitions and things like that
and I don't know why you guys don't just move East
to where you can just have fun with the cars.
But that's besides the point.
Germany has always been really tight
on their regulations for automobiles.
And of course, when you're looking
in the aftermarket industry, they're all about pressing that
but, just y'know, things in the 21st Century,
they started to get more popular.
We know that back in the past, the car culture did that
to actually maintain a wider wheel,
while also stretching the tires inside the fender
so they could maintain legality.
But over time it's gotten excessive.
In the 21st Century the five to seven degrees of camber
now have turned into the 30 degrees of camber.
But, Germany really wasn't the first to go to the extreme.
Even though you could probably argue
that they were definitely getting there.
You could really actually trace it back to Japan.
One could argue that Japanese automotive culture
was the first to this thing.
Extreme anything, anything, not even automotive related.
Just Japanese everything can find a home in Japan.
No questions asked, if you've gone on a YouTube adventure
you know what I'm talking about.
An extreme camber is no exception.
When the Kawashima car showdown featured a Toyota Selica
with that extreme camber that just blew up on the internet.
The whole world exploded, vehicles then in the States
started taking an S and putting it all over their 370 Zs,
their FRS's, their BRZ's, pretty much anything else
that could be over-fendered or just had some thick hips.
Truth be told, extreme camber is truly just,
it's just an aesthetic thing.
There's no doubt the look is eye catching
and creates conversation, that, and the wider the wheel,
the better the wheel design can normally look.
Especially if you have a classic design.
However that is it, and that's where a lot of the arguments
can start to come into play
because there is not much depth with it,
purely beside the fact that
it is a very aesthetic thing to do.
Extreme camber, and camber in general does seem to have
a negative connotation, I wonder why.
Anytime extreme camber is discussed,
comments on any forum usually directly lead
to some form of statement that would probably make
your mom judge you.
Maybe that's why people don't like it.
The removal of functionality, or the fact that
it doesn't provide much performance enhancement.
Just to be devil's advocates,
there's a lot of things that we do as enthusiasts
that don't necessarily fit that criteria either.
It's just that they're more commonly accepted
than an extreme camber case.
On top of that, most of the individuals
in this type of car scene generally don't care.
They seem to be extremely okay with what they're doing
and don't mind it at all, especially as they just bottom out
jumping over bridges or if their wheels are like this,
and then their barrels break.
So can you be mad?
You know, I don't know,
but extreme camber just adds to the list
of other extreme things that have been done in the past.
And if you don't think that that's normal then
you can take a look at the Bosuzoku style.
Any of the styles that came over from Japan
in terms of access styling.
Extreme camber though is also pretty subjective.
Negative five degrees being too much for some people,
while others thinking negative 20 degrees is too much.
Either way, the style is something that definitely
isn't for everyone, then again, floating center caps
are gaining popularity again,
so I suppose anything is possible.
Camber is just weird 'cause it's like the kid
with the odd colored hair on the internet right now,
and nobody just seems to like it,
but then people always stare at it,
and then on Instagram it gets a ton of engagement and likes.
So it's a bit funky.
I think you can have a little bit of both
but the extreme camber is one of those things
where it's just.
(claps)
It's different, you know, it's just,
it's up to you to decide whether you like it or not.
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Anyway, if you guys are also looking
to win a free set of Konig wheels,
we also have the wheel giveaway shirt going on right now.
So you can just check out the description link below.
Konig Wheels, it's a free set of any cast wheels,
flow form wheels, and of course we're doing
a competition at the end of it.
So, with extreme camber,
there's not a whole lot of history on it.
There truly isn't.
With camber in general, there is.
You can go into the race pedigree of the slight camber,
you can go into the degrees of camber.
Whether it was the German installations,
and the rules and regulations that came out of that scene.
You can go into it from the Japanese style of things.
Go into the Access, to the Bosuzoku style
or anything like that.
Or you can just take it into the states
and the states starting to turn it into their own thing.
It's not necessarily super new,
especially when we talk about extreme things
that you can do to your car.
This just happens to be the most extreme new thing.
So, that does make me a little nervous
about what the next extreme thing is going to be
but why don't you guess below in the comment section
on what you think is gonna be the next extreme new thing?
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries and we will see you later.
Peace.