What Annoying Auto Mod Have You Seen Lately?

"LJ909" (lj909) 12/30/2015 at 16:12 • Filed to: None

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That my friend is a Wrangler with a LED light bar attached to it. Sorry for some of you that might have this mod but I find them douche-baggy and annoying. Why you ask? Because for one, why the hell do you need a light bar when all your doing is navigation the jungles of suburbia? Do you need to spot those pesky kids on hover boards? Not only that, but the drives of the vehicles that they are attached to feel its their duty to tailgate. So the light of the sun is constantly in your eyes? What other annoying mods have you guys seen around?

coelacanthist > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:16

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Agreed, those are obnoxious. My pick is the external loudspeaker forcing everyone in the vicinity to listen to their shitty music.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:17

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THIS

1000X THIS

Every truck and SUV in my high school now has to have them. And most of the time, these kids leave them on, even in the daylight so they are always blinding someone.

Second is these giant lifted trucks on super stretched tires. They are unsafe and look ridiculous.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:18

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What about not re-aiming your headlights after a lift? That’s almost as bad as a light bar.

LJ909 > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! 12/30/2015 at 16:20

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A bunch of damn posers. Especially the giant lifted trucks. There should be a law against lifts.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:21

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That’s a good one. But at the same time there are people who do overlanding or night off-roading and actually put them to good use. If I see them on a jeep, rover, or land cruiser with useful mods I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

LJ909 > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 12/30/2015 at 16:21

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That pertains to almost 98% of lifts. None of them do it. Either they don’t do it, or their lift is so stupidly high that they don’t need to.

FrederickLawOlmsteez > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:22

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These things have got to generate a crap ton of wind noise. Jeeps are notoriously noisy, so maybe this isn’t a big deal.

LJ909 > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 12/30/2015 at 16:24

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I thought the same thing too. But I’m pretty sure they aren’t. Surprisingly, the majority of people I see driving around with these are what look to be house wives. Other than that the lifts on their vehicles tell me they either aren’t doing any off roading or they cant at all, like the majority of lifts. Not saying that females cant off road, I’m just saying you don’t need off road tires and a light bar to get the kids from school and go on your Starbucks run.

coelacanthist > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:25

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Also, these.

LJ909 > FrederickLawOlmsteez 12/30/2015 at 16:26

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I’m pretty sure they cant hear the wind noise over the road noise of those never used off road tires.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:27

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It’s about as dumb as only cranking the torsion bars on a GM truck to raise the front.

HammerheadFistpunch > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:28

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I hate that the new trend in douchary is lightbars. Partly because it is so massively douchy looking. Partly because I want one for use as...you know...a light. My friend put one on his truck for the Maze trip and because the daylight hours were short it got used a lot...and i LOVED it.

MarquetteLa > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:28

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This Xterra’s lightbar placement is...something, that’s for sure.

LJ909 > coelacanthist 12/30/2015 at 16:30

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I think god every time I go visit my Grandpa in Texas that this trend has stayed in the south.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:30

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LEDs around the back of brake rotor dust cover(at least I guess that’s what they are attached to). There is a super bro, squatted F-250 with this mod. With the lights flashing off the chrome of the Force wheels, it’s the most awful thing I’ve ever seen.

Noah - Now with more boost. > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:31

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Agreed, light bars are heinous. Mostly because the vehicles they’re installed on never leave the pavement, as you pointed out. Flashy tow hooks/straps are just as bad IMO. Yet another trendy accessory for posers who don’t understand what it’s actually designed for. We all know that most slammed Miatas/Civics/etc never see the track! And if they did end up in a gravel trap, those pink Chinese ebay hooks would probably snap before the stancemobile in question made it back onto the tarmac.

My econobox is a RACECAR BREAUX

HammerheadFistpunch > coelacanthist 12/30/2015 at 16:32

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This one... oh man I hate this one. I was backpacking in the mountains a few years ago and I had to follow this group with a bluetooth speaker pointed backwards on their pack the whole 12 miles. I’ve never wanted to push someone down a rocky slope so much in my life.

LJ909 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 16:32

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And you proved that you should only use it if you actually off road. Not just for looks. I seen one on an FJ Crusier the other day complete with fake gas cans. If you don’t off road, don’t have one. If you do off road, take that shit off once you get back home or don’t turn it on at night.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:33

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I mean, I agree with you, but those laws never get enforced. In Massachusetts lifting or lowering your car more than 2 inches is illegal, but the inspection shops don’t really care and police don’t follow up on fixit tickets.

LJ909 > Noah - Now with more boost. 12/30/2015 at 16:34

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I see these every day too. Most attach some kind of little toy to the end of them. Juvenile.

Textured Soy Protein > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:34

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I didn’t get a picture, but the other day when it was all crazy snowy outside, I took my Grand Cherokee on General Grabber AT2s to the local Subway to get lunch.

There was a big RAM 2500 Diesel, sitting out front of the place idling unattended (so as to not get cold while its owner ate his sub inside?) lifted on giant rims with mud terrains, roll bar, bull bar, all your usual bro truck accoutrements. But the roll bar, bull bar, and wheels were all camouflage.

I went inside and there were these two guys eating their sandwiches. One of them had those awful bleach-patterened jeans that I only ever see slightly redneckish dudes wearing because I guess they figured the most expensive jeans with the most bleach stains and embroidered butt pockets at Kohl’s are the best jeans.

Pretty sure it was his truck.

HammerheadFistpunch > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:36

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The trouble is; who is able to judge which get used off road and which don’t. This frontier when its all clean probably gets a lot of douch bro looks...

That’s why I try and reserve judgement on all but the most obvious examples of off road jewelry. However, if you use these on a public road you deserve to have your nuts ripped off, bronzed and then used as an ISIS paperweight.

I personally LOVE the look of the overland setup if done right...but...I also really enjoy the modularity and stealth of being able to add and subtract as needed. My truck gives off very few hints it actually gets used in its DD configuration.

Noah - Now with more boost. > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:37

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Ooooh yeah I forgot about the toys. They get SO filthy up here in the Northeast during the winter. They all end up looking like some filthy rag hahah.

LJ909 > Aaron M - MasoFiST 12/30/2015 at 16:39

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That’s the maddening part. On top of that a lot of the drivers of these wannabe monster trucks drive the things like they are in a Mustang or Miata.

LJ909 > Textured Soy Protein 12/30/2015 at 16:41

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I hate those jeans. Where the hell do you get camo wheels, roll bar and bull bar? That’s crazy. I bet who ever truck it was it the type of person that goes hunting and shoots deer execution style. A Trump supporter if you will.

E92M3 > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:43

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Same reason they need a winch and a snorkel.

HammerheadFistpunch > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:43

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FYI- Utah has a law on lifts [long story short - usable lifts are allowed, douchy lifts aren’t], its enforced as much as its law on blocking the left lane. But seriously, you can’t say no lifts...like you can’t say no drops.

LJ909 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 16:46

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True. Well there should be lifts to a point. Because to me its more dangerous to overly lift a truck than it is to drop a car. The lifts are dangerous because most of the drivers drive the things like they are smaller cars, they tail gate and have a super high center of gravity. I cringe when I see lifted Excursions loaded down with family and luggage.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:47

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Fake intercoolers.

Rim that are severely curbed. Shows how bad of an owner that car has.

HammerheadFistpunch > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:47

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eh, my wife drives my cruiser from time to time (its expensive to travel with compared to her TDI) and so she and the 2 little girls roll around in 6000 lbs of off road ready machine every now and then. Give ‘em a break, they probably aren’t the ones using it off road...but maybe they are.

Frank Grimes > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:53

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blue wannabe HID bulbs.

cutting the mazda badge into some kind of different m thing

plastidipping badges

painting the bumper on your car to make it look like an audi grill

people probably mostly juggalos who put these stickers on the back window

i question why someone wants to put a sticker of all their family members on the back of their car but it is a 100 times more annoying when someone posts a sticker of a chainsaw murderer on the back of their car telling us all how much they don’t care. Which proves they do care enough, enough to buy a weird/antisocial sticker telling everyone.

HammerheadFistpunch > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 16:53

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Both are dangerous. Lowering a car bellow its roll center is a bad idea for handling and can make it pretty dangerous if done poorly, on the other hand you can do a 4 inch lift pretty safe. That being said, cheap lifts/drops and or crappy execution are usually a pretty bad idea. Utah’s law looks at wheelbase as a lift limit, i.e. you can’t put a 4 inch lift on a 2 door wangler but you could on a 4 door long bed truck. the idea being roll stability. Its still pretty limited and even with my relatively big cruiser im legally limited to 2.5 inches. Granted, if you need more than 4 inches of lift...chances are you are either trailering your rig to the trailhead anyway or you don’t actually go offroad and its all for looks.

WiscoProud > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 16:57

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I look for functional mods. The ARB bumper is a good indicator the guy probably uses it. If he just wanted looks he would have gotten a brush guard. Decent off road wheels and tires work too. If they have all the gear, but still have all seasons, I’m going to judge you.

HammerheadFistpunch > WiscoProud 12/30/2015 at 16:58

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My dead giveaway is sliders that DON’T have integrated side steps. You don’t by sliders to pose.

LJ909 > Frank Grimes 12/30/2015 at 17:00

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All of those you named I hate.

Fake HID”S: If you can’t afford to get HID’s don’t get any lights at all

I used to think the Mazda badge thing was something people ordered until I saw people cutting it. Dumb.

And the painting of the grill is done by a lot of people wanting what some call the Evo look or GTR look or whatever. I’ve seen it on everything from Chevy Sonics to first gen Infiniti G35 coupes

Aaron M - MasoFiST > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 17:02

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Yeah...when I still had my Subaru a guy in a ridiculous brodozer was popping and weaving through highway traffic...I was feeling assholeish, so I proceeded to cut him off, slow down to 5mph below the speed of traffic, and speed up every time he tried to pass me. Not one of my better moments...but very satisfying. Probably wouldn’t have done it if not for the fact that we were barely going 15mph anyway.

Ash78, voting early and often > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 17:02

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As an outdoorsman, I think the portability of electronics has done more harm than good. For every person saved by a beacon or GPS, 10 others kill themselves because they can’t escape Taylor Swift on the Pacific Crest Trail.

coelacanthist > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 17:04

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Ug, I run into this so much these days. You know people, there are these things called EARBUDS! I'm glad you think the rest of the world needs to hear

HammerheadFistpunch > Ash78, voting early and often 12/30/2015 at 17:06

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“cause of death: Taylor Swift”

HammerheadFistpunch > coelacanthist 12/30/2015 at 17:07

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Its like walking into camp at midnight with a fully lit disco ball on your head...why do people think this is better than headphones?

coelacanthist > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 17:09

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Birddog > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 17:18

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Were they blasting Taylor Swift?

Cause murder could be totally justifiable in that case.

(Damn! I need to read it all before commenting!)

BaconSandwich is tasty. > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 17:22

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Driving home last night I saw a big-rig with an LED light bar - and that’s it. No regular headlights, just a huge LED light bar. I’m sure that thing had to be illegal.

LJ909 > BaconSandwich is tasty. 12/30/2015 at 17:26

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Oh yea I’m sure it was illegal. But of course, I’m also sure that the cops ignored it and went after their end of month speeding ticket quotas.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 17:40

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Oddly enough, I saw very few police over the last few days, despite driving ~1,000 km.

ThatGuyToolingAroundInTheShitbox > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 17:46

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Some kid offered to trade me his shithouse’d Cherokee for a vehicle I have for sale. His Cherokee had camo head liner with $2 LED bars across the front end, middle, and rear edge of the roof interior.

*sigh*

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 12/30/2015 at 17:58

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I had a buddy who lifted his LML with torsion keys... He tried to cross a ditch at a crawl, because he knew they weren’t actually for offroad, and they snapped. I kept jumping the ditch in the 4Runner just to piss him off. That was a fun night.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > LJ909 12/30/2015 at 17:59

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Or Carson.

Zerofret > coelacanthist 12/30/2015 at 19:27

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Ugh those speakers. I was in Puerto Rico this October, and EVERYONE with a Jeep has insane speakers in them. As a Wrangler owner myself, I still find it to be one of the worst offenses.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 22:05

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What if your wheel ET or axle width changes? Is there a proportion index or is the law just 2.5” over standard ride height?

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 22:09

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There’s a subtle difference though. While these Jeeps look ready for the trail, your LC is ready for the trail. Those who know, know. Those who don’t, don’t care.

HammerheadFistpunch > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/30/2015 at 22:11

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turns out I was wrong, I guess its based on GVWR and frame height.

Under 4,500 lb GVWR 24 in.

4,500-7,499 lb GVWR 26 in.

7,500 lb and over 28 in.

however if you change your track width you have to cover the tires with fenders

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 22:14

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Likewise in the UK. To pass MOT your arches must extend outwards to the edge of the tyres, although your mudguards don’t. What’s the GVWR of the LC in funny units?

HammerheadFistpunch > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/30/2015 at 22:15

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There are lots of LJ909’s out there who will only see posing. Not saying I care...the point is mainly to shift perspectives.

HammerheadFistpunch > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/30/2015 at 22:18

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6470 FUs

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 22:30

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The only specs I can find regarding ground clearance are 8.1” which is surely ground to diff height on the standard 255/70 tyres. With your new info just how high can you get her within regulation?

PS. 6470 +1 FU’s back.

HammerheadFistpunch > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 12/30/2015 at 22:35

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im going to go out and measure...im curious.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > HammerheadFistpunch 12/30/2015 at 22:37

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I will be asleep because I’m half pissed and it’s 3:30AM. I will look forward to your reply in the morning.

wafflesnfalafel > HammerheadFistpunch 12/31/2015 at 06:57

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yeah - what is with that? Just in the last couple years it’s become a thing up here.. Drive out to the middle of nowhere to find peace - then carry 15 pounds of extra gear out into the woods to annoy everybody else? The other tech related hiking phenomenon I’ve seen are the folks that carry their big tablet around in front of them to take photos but they can’t see where they are going so they run into/trip over/fall off of stuff.

Ash78, voting early and often > HammerheadFistpunch 12/31/2015 at 09:46

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“Ma’am, I’m a let you finish, but your husband’s death was the freakiest accident of all time. OF ALL TIME.”