Free Reign: Should People Be Able To Modify Their Cars However They Want? #blogpost
While the car community can be inviting and friendly, it can also be rather polarizing. There are a lot of de facto rules as to what you can and can’t do when it comes to car modifying.
While the car community can be inviting and friendly, it can also be rather polarizing. There are a lot of de facto rules as to what you can and can’t do when it comes to car modifying. Engine swapping cars such as a Porsche 911 or a Mazda RX-7 is considered taboo and donk culture isn’t widely accepted. Should car enthusiasts have free reign as to how they modify their cars or should there be guidelines as to what you should and shouldn’t do? I’ll take both sides of the argument for free reign of car modifying…
Live And Let Live
It’s ironic that car enthusiasts want to break from regular social norms but then set up social norms in their own community. You rarely hear people smack talking about someone’s choice of spouse at a wedding, so why do fellow car enthusiasts hate on certain cars and car modifications? Some people should just mind their own business, who cares if someone put chrome rims and a body kit on a car? It’s their car, they should be able to do what they want with it, even if it means putting a Corvette V8 into an RX-7. Haters gonna hate.
Don’t Be Stupid
Sometimes, car modification might go a little too far. Big trucks lifted up into the stratosphere, cars that would bust open their oil pan going over a normal speed bump and car stereos that can be heard in multiple counties. Laws that ban exhaust sounds above a certain decibel rating aren’t too bad of an idea, same goes with speaker sound. If your only car is 1 inch off the ground and you live somewhere with snow and ice, you’re pretty much screwed if you want to drive it 12 months of the year. People don’t wear clown suits everyday, so why drive a ridiculously modified car on your daily commute?
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Thank you! People get so overly exacerbated if I dare put a V10 in a Miata. IT’S A F*CKING GAME
In a game, anything is allowed. Sometimes I see a car modified in a way I absolutely think is terrible and say “Thank fuq it’s only in a game”
Sure, if you bought your car with your own money - you have an absolute right to do whatever you want to do with it. But you must remember we have something called free speech. That means I can call your car a ‘riced sh■box for a wannabe crapitalist w■nker’ and you won’t sue me for it.
Good to see salomondrin’s Hellgato after a long time.
Car models aren’t produced infinetly. Some people like to retain the originality of some iconic cars.
Imagine every Mclaren F1, as it got delivered, was modified with an LS1, airbag suspension, wide body kit, wisefab kit, rotiform wheels, etc… Every part would be changed for an aftermarket one. Who would know what an original F1 actually felt like and performed? Years later, a Mclaren F1 fanatic would love to own one and he would look up used examples and not find ONE original car.
Not to mention that aftermarket part generally deteriorate the car’s performance and safety (excluding some particular parts that had to be produced at a lower cost to allow for a smaller price tag).
The solution to this is to modify the car with parts that can easily be switched back to the original ones without deteriorating any of the original parts. There are ways of making your car unique and exciting without ruining it. If you’re not happy with your car, buy one that satisfies you, don’t try to make it something it isn’t.
YES
Let them do whatever they want, because they are making themselves look stupid.
Opinions are like assholes: everyone has one, it’s just that some are louder than others (tortured simile).
Good point. If truck guys wanna lift their trucks really high and stance guys wanna lower their cars and put camber on them, shouldn’t ricers be allowed to put spoilers on their cars? I mean these 3 have one thing in common and that’s no function other than aesthetics. The car community should be welcoming, not judgemental
Actually, lifted trucks have better ground clearance than stock trucks. Thing is, a majority of people with lifted trucks don’t really use them off road…
Alot of it is people not knowing how to paint or build engines how many car guys have mis match panels on non missile and slammed car with bad allignment? Alot
Well in germany there are so many restrictions for car mods due to our strict laws.
I´m not gonna lie my car is not really street legal atm just because of that stupid fog lamp on the back of the car.
So here are some of the bad parts.
• Nearby no import parts allowed (you need a certificate or a registration for it which can cost a sh!tload of money)
• 96 db max on your exhaust mods (some people are louder being stock….)
• Overfenders? Nope they could hurt someone on an accident!
• Ducktailwing? Nope they could hurt blabla… accident!
• Frontlip? Nope they …. accident!
Sure there are some expections but they will mostly break your neck getting them registered.
So they’ll let you go 200 MPH on the autobahn, but they might not let you install a CAI on your car, haha