I've always wanted fender mirrors.

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 05/18/2016 at 19:49 • Filed to: miata

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And now I have some.

+5 points to “ridiculousness”

EDIT: also I fixed my lights so now they actually pop up, and I put on my center caps. Yay!

jkm7680 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 19:56

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Jake the ricer is your new name.

d15b > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 19:57

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Your car is turning quite into the Miata parody!

S65 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 19:59

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Do This Next:

RallyWrench > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 20:16

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There’s a red Miata around the corner from my work that yours now reminds me of. It has some new frippery on it weekly, it seems, and is dumped on the ground. Stickerbombed, GT wing, stretched tires, the whole deal. I’m pretty sure it’s a joke.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 20:22

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JDM yo

Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 20:40

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Freaking love it. What about a LED light bar on top of the windscreen next? (I have a weird obsession with light bars)

daender > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 21:03

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Paint/plasti-dip the mirrors black, it’ll look good.

Also, I still recommend plasti-dipping the windshield frame black.

LongbowMkII > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 21:26

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You're going full clubroadster.com on that.

Scary__goongala! > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 22:01

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Well do you have extras

Die-Trying > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 22:06

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color the mirrors the same color as the wheels, or the stickered door

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Die-Trying 05/18/2016 at 22:42

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I’m not sure what I want to do as far as that goes. Part of me wants to go “full retro” and get smoothie steelies and make it look all Triumph Spitfire/MG MGB style

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > LongbowMkII 05/18/2016 at 22:44

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Eeeh, stickerbombing and loud-ass colored wheels aren’t really clubroadster things, and I’ve only seen three member-owned cars on there with fender mirrors. I’ve loved fender mirrors since the first time I saw a Datsun 280z

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > daender 05/18/2016 at 22:44

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Man I wish I had bullet mirrors. Those were $60 apiece and these were $15 for both, though. So I’ll live. I am considering the plastidip thing, though.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. 05/18/2016 at 22:45

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Eeeh, that’s a bit... tacked-on.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/18/2016 at 22:45

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This weekend I’m getting a vanity plate that says JDMTYTE

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > RallyWrench 05/18/2016 at 22:46

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My rule for this is to keep it functional. Make it crazy, make it silly, make it a parody of car culture, but no stretched tires, unusable suspension, or stupidly loud exhaust.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. 05/18/2016 at 22:50

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Come on. Even Jake has to draw the line somewhere. lol

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > d15b 05/18/2016 at 22:55

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That’s the idea

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > S65 05/18/2016 at 22:55

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Not a fan.

Die-Trying > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 23:24

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still trying too hard to be trendy.

Caleb "If a rally car can do it, so can my Malibu" M. S. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 23:41

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says you after adding fender mirrors :p

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Die-Trying 05/18/2016 at 23:43

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That actually looks really nice but I’m not rich enough to even look at that photo.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > jvirgs drives a Subaru 05/18/2016 at 23:44

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I draw it somewhere between “dildo shift knob” and “seventeen degrees of camber”. It’s kinda vague.

Die-Trying > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 23:45

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they are some sort of re-hooped wheel.

Die-Trying > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/18/2016 at 23:51

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that is the money spent variant. you could always get brave and try to re-hoop/rebarrel some wheels on your own.

Die-Trying > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/19/2016 at 00:19

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wheel fixxie

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/19/2016 at 00:20

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actually looks very good

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Die-Trying 05/19/2016 at 06:50

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That’s awesome, but the widest steelies I have are 14x5 :/

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/19/2016 at 07:42

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So how do you adjust these?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 05/19/2016 at 08:03

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Same way as the stock mirrors. Get out of the car, move them, get in the car, figure out how they’re off, get out of the car, move them, repeat. Though unlike the stock ones these don’t move around and get out of alignment every time I go over a bump. Yes, the stock ones have tension adjustment screws, but they’re as tight as they can go.

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/19/2016 at 08:56

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Do they actually work well?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 05/19/2016 at 09:33

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They vibrate less than the stock ones, but the field of view is severely diminished, so I have to aim them out farther from the car than I’m used to. It’s all a bit weird, but it’s really cool being able to see both of my mirrors without moving my head, and while able to keep the road in my peripheral vision. Not terribly useful for parking, though. I can’t see the line on the ground in relation to my car.

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/19/2016 at 09:49

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Gotcha. My friend keeps going on about wanting these for his FRS.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 05/19/2016 at 10:00

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That would look nice. Like a 240Z, which is the car that made me want fender mirrors 5 years ago.

Die-Trying > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 05/20/2016 at 22:13

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doesnt matter too much, it’ll just kick them further out to the edges of the wheel wells.(if its the right link...... flipping wheel centers) it will make the wheel look wide, without it being wide