all the time in our garage, okay.
But that's not to say that there are some ways
you can spruce up the good old daily,
to make you just feel a little bit better
when you hop into it to go to your job on Monday morning.
I'm Alex, @alex.fi on Instagram,
and today we're gonna be talking about the best mods
you can do to your daily without sacrificing it
to the car building lords, okay, let's go.
Okay, it's a thing, if anybody's done it,
you know you get a daily, you mod it up,
you mod it so much so that you just need another daily,
and you're asking yourself why, why am I like this, y'know.
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things are getting pretty serious, anyway.
Modifying your daily without losing what makes it a daily
is actually pretty tough, okay?
Because the finish line just always gets pushed out
any time that you, uh, I mean, first it's just a lip,
then it's a diffuser, then it's a brake kit,
and then it's a tune, and the next thing you know,
you have to buy another daily.
Like we just talked about before, it happens all the time.
I've done it so many times, it's actually painful
that I fall for the same trick every single time.
The biggest thing that will help to keep your daily tunes
and stuff all in check is to not really play around
with the motor, the trans, or the differential.
Yes, you can put an intake, a tune, an exhaust
on your daily, but I bet you that broken FC RX7
in your garage could actually use that money
for the dip that it needs, okay.
You know it's true, every time somebody gets a new car,
they want to go spend money on the new car,
and they forget about the old car
that actually needs all the love, okay.
By keeping the build to more aesthetic items on your daily,
or extremely light function modifications,
is really what is gonna keep the car doing what
it's supposed to be doing, which is be reliable.
That's the, that's the word, that's the word
I want you to remember okay.
So with making your daily just look a little bit better
without losing any reliability, it would probably
be coilovers, coilovers are first for many people,
but finding coilovers that are
the best for your daily can be tough.
The best way to look for coilovers for your daily
are those that maintain a slightly higher spring rate
right out of the coilover replacement,
and it keeps the threaded body relatively tall
when you do end up installing the coilovers.
Now, coilovers have this thing where you get 'em,
and then you wanna slam all the cars on the ground,
and then all of a sudden your car is now unreliable,
but, by keeping it a little bit longer,
not having it threaded all the way down, and having
a softer, y'know, spring, you're gonna be pretty good.
You don't wanna slam your 2003 bugeye on it's knots
if you need it to get to high school
everyday and you live in Michigan.
Okay, it's just not a fun time, tightening up the wheel gap
but keeping the spring rate soft and the coilover
setup with a minimum drop will actually keep the car
performing just as it was before, but better looking
without that void in between the wheel and the fender.
And it just looks good, an OEM car with no wheel gap,
looks so, so proper, it's just insane to me, okay.
Now, when you are modifying your daily,
and you go to your coilovers, you get your coilovers in,
okay, you didn't slam it on the ground
even though you wanted to, you pretended it,
you took a picture, then you raised it back up.
The next up would be wheels- now, it's actually pretty easy
and okay to go with any wheel option on a daily vehicle,
but we'd recommend keeping the sizing
pretty moderate, and here's why.
Now, most wheels in the world wide web will offer you
an 18 by 8.5 or an 18 by 9.5 with a plus 35 offset.
This setup fits about 95 percent of daily driving vehicles
out there, and it's like, the Wonder Bread of wheel size.
Sometimes people wanna jump into 19s or even 20s
for their daily, because now-a-days daily drivers
have wheel wells, larger than like, (smacks lips)
I just don't wanna be demonetized, but y'know,
there's jokes in that, in that,
there's jokes there that you could say.
Anyway, keep the wheels for your daily to 18s
if you want the safest, best thing for your daily driver.
18s look great, especially if you don't have a step lip
on 18s, they can look bangin'.
If you want a step lip on 18s the wheel ends up
looking a little bit smaller, okay.
Now, this is where you get the best value though,
because when you pair your tires
up to an 8 inch aftermarket wheel.
There's a million and a half options
without breaking the bank, but when you jump up
to 19 inch wheels, it's okay, but tires do have a tendency
to get a little bit pricier, and you'll usually
have to go with the lower side wall for them to look better.
Now, lower side wall numbers equal rougher rides,
just how it goes, riding on a 315/25/20 and you will wonder
why your back is now, just absolutely shot.
Remember, we're modifying the daily,
you gotta keep telling yourself that, and the goal
is to keep the car reliable, reliable, okay,
reliable, say it with me, reliable.
Tires are a good place that people
mess up their daily all the time.
I've done it, I did it on my A6 and I kept
blowing out beads every like, 60 miles.
And because sizing can be confusing and everyone
wants their car to look super fast,
they go with the super low aspect ratio for their tires,
and then they end up with an 18 by 8.5 on like a, 215/25
for some reason, don't do that.
With tires on an eight and a half inch wide wheel
for a daily, 225/40s are a solid choice that will absorb
a good chunk of your crappy pothole roads.
Nine and a half, you can go up to a 245/40
and still get a decent look, when you start going down
to 215/35s, or 30 aspect ratios, or 195/25s,
you start getting weird stuff going on,
you start getting some stretch on eight and a half
or nine and a half, and if you're not slamming the car
on the ground, stretched tires look kinda funky, okay.
That's not really something you want on a daily,
that's a dialed-in look, you're just looking
for a nice look, okay, now, you can have
a coilover setup that's not slam, okay,
on a car that is relatively unmodded.
If you go throw a set of stretch tires on your
aftermarket wheels on a car that's not slam
to the ground, it is going to look a little bit silly.
Anything you replace in your daily driver
needs to have the same or slightly better performance
from a function point of view,
without ruining the drivability.
Now, keep the mod bug to the car that's sat apart
for two seasons now in your garage,
because I'm assuming everybody that's watching this video
likely already has a project car,
they just wanna go modify their daily.
Now, just put the money towards the project car,
okay, you see this face, look at me,
look at me, this is a serious face.
Stop, stop deviating from your
project build, okay, stop doing it.
There needs to be no more conversations about
what the car is gonna be like two seasons from now, okay,
go spend three weeks on it, get it fixed,
get your daily some wheels and tires,
maybe get it a little splitter, a little diffuser
to make you feel a little bit better about yourself
and exhaust and then you'll be happy, okay.
But what do you guys think? Do you just end up
sending it anyway and scrape frame while blasting rodeo,
or do you actually, are you actually
gonna take any of this advice?
Either way, it's completely up to you,
and of course you know, at the end of the day, boom.
If you're looking for aftermarket wheels, tires,
or suspension, be sure to hit us up over at
www.fitmentindustries.com and of course let us know
in the comments section below what
you'd like us to talk about next.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries,
don't forget to wash your hands and don't touch your face,
and we will see you later, peace.