- The car we bought was used, has about 150,000 miles.
Definitely needs some good old maintenance love
before throwing the same amount of energy and money,
that the car was actually initially bought at
into modifications, okay.
But, there's a few out there that kinda hit the best
of both worlds.
When you go to jump into a car
and you go to actually modify it,
that not a lot of people know about.
I'm Alex, Alex.fi Instagram,
and today we're gonna be talking about
some of the most underrated car modifications
you can do to your car,
and why they're so underrated, rolling jaw.
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Before looking into what Hipster car mod,
you wanna be different with,
it's important to know if your car
has some of these parts already.
So remember, when we're talking about underrated car mods
we're talking about things that most people generally
don't think about,
as their first modifications
that they would do to their car.
But let's start off with the basics.
Does your car have the following,
number one, limited-slip differential,
the thing that helps distribute torque
to the wheel with the most traction
while limiting the slip on the opposite.
Generally, when we talk about limited-slip differentials,
we're talking about a real wheel drive setup car.
However, you can have a limited-slip diff
on a front wheel drive car,
or anything that you could possibly want.
Or is it open like a six week bag of Doritos?
This is important,
'cause most of the cars that you get for your first car
are gonna have an open diff, not an LSD.
What about the standard rubber brake lines
that feel like your 87-year-old on skin
after 42 years of smoking?
Do you have normal brake lines
or did you have steel brake lines from factory?
These are two solid places to start,
that are drastically underrated
because they inherently aren't actually, they're not visual.
Limited-slip differentials are common swaps around those
that use their car for, you know, performance modifications.
And why do my eyes hurt?
It's taken all those dubs in Warzone,
that's probably why it hurts so much.
Pow-pow, paw-paw, at-a-ah.
Mostly used for performance then for luck.
Slidey boys just while they're open diff
but a limited-slip differential can help get all the power
of your car to the tarmac without actually needing thousands
upon thousands of dollars.
And, honestly, the car at the gate, like when you're going
into jumping into modifications, mostly for performance
it should be a lot less about adding horsepower to your car,
and more about getting the horsepower it does have,
to the actual wheels, to the actual ground.
Because a lot of times your loss of power,
not that hard to fix, especially on an OEM stock car.
A lot of times it's just because of age
and because of restrictions,
or because they wanted to make the car last longer.
Once you yank that reliable crap out of there,
and you make it unreliable like it's supposed to,
its a lot faster.
The steel brake lines help especially with lines
that haven't been replaced.
You can do pets too,
but a lot of the time those lines suffer from heat sow,
harsh winters and years of neglect
by Steve that didn't know that he owned an S4.
He just wanted the fancy seats.
Next thing you know, your brake lines are going out
and it feels like a mushy, meatloaf pedal.
Replacement of those lines can help
with the rigidity when the brakes are in use
and have you a more consistent friction and grab point
when you are driving the car a little bit more heavily,
because there's nothing worse than having sloppy breaks.
Now let's say that you've gotten like the maintenance
all of those items taken care of,
everything from the cat's ass to your brake lines
to your brake pads, to everything in between.
No worries, you're ready.
You're good to go.
You've got the good old wheels,
the tires, the suspension, the intake, the headlights,
the exhaust, the tude, that works.
You've got everything that you possibly need,
for your car.
Now, one of the most underrated things
that you can actually do,
when you get those parts, especially with wheels, not rims.
Listen to me with the wheels and everything else,
is ceramic coating.
Now, hear me out, everybody knows about ceramic coating
on their cars, on their paint, things like that.
A lot of times people overpay way too much money
for ceramic coat,
but, there's some really good things
that you can do with ceramic coat.
Now on a typical 5-spoke wheel, for example,
cleaning them isn't the worst thing in the world.
Splish bash, you're taking a bath,
and you can wash them up pretty good
Like a KNP in about probably five minutes.
But, when you start looking at like,
a Multi Spoke, Floating Spoke, directional wheel,
hope you enjoy bashing your fingers
against metal for 50 minutes,
because it's a pain in the butt to keep clean.
Now ceramic coating your wheels is the cat's ass,
because it makes it so much easier to clean.
Ceramic coating almost acts as a secondary clear coat
on your car's surface.
So that when you do go you give it this wishy-washy
taking a bath thing.
It's not actually that hard to get the crap off the wheel,
or the surface.
Now, the compound of ceramic coat
makes it extremely resistant to water, dirt, and molecules.
that generally love to grab onto things.
And if you love Floating Spoke Wheels,
directional wheels like Artisa or Multi Spoke alloy wheels,
Ceramic coat is the bee's knees.
Now that's not really like a modification.
However, it is something that is underrated,
because a lot of times people spend way too much time
cleaning their car versus actually enjoying it.
And also remember that you can ceramic coat
just about everything.
You can do it on your big break kits,
you can do it on your headlights, your windshield,
and pretty much anything else you can possibly imagine.
So, if you're wondering if you can ceramic coat something
the answer is probably, yes.
And while there's a bunch of fancy professionals that do it,
you can actually peck it up relatively easily.
You just have to do a little bit of research.
I do want a 3000GT VR-4.
They're so underrated.
They're so fun.
They're so, maintenance heavy.
(sighs)
Moving into the interior,
there's a few common modifications
that people jump into right away with their cars.
A lot of times seats is a common one,
harnesses, absolutely hate them.
But roll bars, new deck, et cetera,
and maybe some floor mats.
Now the reason I don't--
I like harnesses on the right application,
I just don't like them when they're on a street car.
And maybe some floor mats.
Trunk goes to the good old poly board setup
when you're on air suspension,
because that's the easiest way to actually mount on,
your air suspension setup in the trunk.
But one thing, that's a lot of people have a tendency
to forget is about their headliner, okay?
Headliner, their trunk is the floating wood thing.
But for some reason, lots of headliners are two-toned.
They just are.
G35s have this especially,
but the interior could be all black,
and some cars would come with like a lighter tan interior
or lighter tan headliner.
And this was a really common thing
on a lot of like budget entry-level sports cars
because it kept costs down.
Now come the modification for the headlights, carpet,
and even trunk is replace that,
either with a matching interior color
or double stitched alcantara or leather.
Now the trouble is, there's a lot of times when people
go to adjust their interior setup,
or they go with like the double diamond stitching,
is that they can't find the fabric for their car
that doesn't cost an arm and a leg,
and a lot of times they try to go and fork out money
on an OEM replacement for maybe an upgraded sportsline,
like an RS or an RN or something like that to steal,
those parts, to put them in their car.
Now I'm gonna give you a secret,
that's gonna help you prepare
for not having to pay an arm and a leg,
when it comes to interior carpentry,
'cause I had 94 construction,
and I know exactly how this works.
Come on, come here, come closer, closer,
boat, boat, boat carpentry.
Boat carpentry and double stitching for boat seats
is practically the same thing,
and you can get it in rolls like,
and it's a fraction of the cost as the normal place
you get double stitched leather from.
And it is the best place to get car interior
if you need to get something custom-made, get it?
And if you were buying it for a boat
and for some reason, everything becomes available again.
Bonus points because it's also water resistant,
it's poofy and it looks hella decent.
Take off your wood paneling for the air setup
and replace it with some good old mastercraft stitching.
And you pretty much be set to go.
And a lot of times with the headliners, it's the same thing.
I don't know why or how we found that one day
but once we did, it was like mind-blowing.
A lot of times boats also have really cool stitching
and carpentry that you can use in your car,
that is great for high-use areas.
And finally, after you'd done it all
the last thing that you want to work on,
that most people forget about
is handling any sort of car body roll,
you may kinda have with your car as you start to modify it.
So you're driving it around it feels like a blast,
but a lot of individuals will just throw cash
into suspension which is good,
but then they still don't feel like,
it just captures the whole cake.
So you're gonna wanna take a look
and see what sort of steering rack you have installed.
And if a shorter ratio steering rack exists.
A lot of times they do, and you can pick up even a used one
from a higher performance model that you can replace
into your car.
It's gonna give you much tighter feel,
when you're turning the steering wheel.
There are different steering racks
that you can install that will make the car turn tighter,
sometimes faster, sometimes even slower,
but you're not gonna wannna go that way,
you want to go faster.
Not only that, but pair it with like some strap bars,
new adjustable control arms,
and maybe a few bushings and your car will feel brand new.
And I think that's like the most exciting thing
is when you can kinda get the car to breathe a new,
like fresh life when you're driving it.
One of the most underrated car modifications are often
the ones you see the least amount of,
which is, pretty expected.
But let me tell you,
if you've gotta car where the wheel wells
have like proper brake lines, control arms, bushing,
sway bars, new pads, coil overs, it's painted,
it looks good,
boy did you make my knees weak.
Because that is the stuff that usually,
is gonna make you experience and love the car the most.
A lot of times, it's just not really thought about.
But what do you think is the most
underrated car modification?
Let us know below, and of course,
if you're looking for aftermarket wheels,
tires or suspension,
be sure to hit us up over @fitmentindustries.com.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries, and we will see you later.
Peace.