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The Car Mod Thread...
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Hey all!
I've got a 2005 Mazda 3. It definitely isn't fast but it sure is a blast to drive. I've been slowly modifying it over the years, I've got a lot of small modifications and a few engine modifications. I won't go into all of the details but below is a list of the main modifications and my future plans.
Current Modifications
I've got a 2005 Mazda 3. It definitely isn't fast but it sure is a blast to drive. I've been slowly modifying it over the years, I've got a lot of small modifications and a few engine modifications. I won't go into all of the details but below is a list of the main modifications and my future plans.
Current Modifications
- Corksport Power Series exhaust
- Corksport Short Ram Intake
- Drag DR-31 (plastidipped copper) with 225/45/17 Toyo Proxes 4 Plus tires
- OEM (non LED) 08 - 09 tail lights
- DDM Tuning 35w 6000k HIDs
- Switchback LEDs for front turn signal / running light (run white, flash amber with turn signal)
- Rho-Plate V1 tow hook license plate relocation kit
- TWM Performance solid shifter bushings
- Subaru S204 front lip (in my garage, just need to install it)
- Coilovers (4x4 status needs to go)
- Window tint
- Thicker front and rear sway bars
- Mazdaspeed 3
It's probabably a state to state thing, but I imagine in most states in doesn't matter. Usually it's the front windows they care about. After all you'll see things like commercial vans and box trucks that don't have rear windows... Or those commercial version dodge caravans, ford transit connects, and Chevy HHRs (*vomit*).
I believe that Cargo vans (the terms for cars with no rear windows) is the only exemption in the law. And hey, the HHR was designed by the same person who designed the Chrysler Gangster Car (PT Cruiser).
Pickup trucks according to MN 169.71
Subdivision 4
Section 3- no side or rear window can be treated with any matieral to obstruct or substantially reduce drivers clear view or has a light transmittance of 50% EXCEPT:
(4)/(3)
I - the rear windows of a pickup
II - the rear or side windows of a van
If you have a pickup truck, technically the function is to put stuff in it which would block the rear view. That also adding a dump bed, box, etc.
The Chrysler PTC and Chevy HHR are hideous. Clearly the designer didn't have a very expansive vision of car design. Those are a couple cars I could live without.
Personally the rear decals are terrible. I'd never put one on.
The HHR was suppose to be a hybrid of the most popular Chevy Pickup of the 50s and the Gangster Car for Chrysler (BTW the PTC is actually classified as a "Van" whereas the HHR is a Station Wagon.
I wanted to, at some point, get a rear window decal that says "Tailgaters Like It Up the Rear!" just for the fact it's funny as hell!
I also want to buy this bumper sticker:
Not sure I have ever seen a gangster driving a Chrysler PT Cruiser.
All scary genocidal men drive Volkswagen Beetles, the gangsters from the hood drive Chrysler PT Cruisers, and I guess the members of the mob drive Ford Pintos according to your grandpa's logic.
Some people might not appreciate that, for multiple reasons. BTW, do tailgaters "like it up the rear" or "like giving it up the rear" or "giving it from behind". If you're tailgating someone then you are the one desiring to be in the rear, not that you want it done to yourself. I think you need to rethink that joke.
I feel like that sticker would only encourage people to "screw" with the Daewoo.Nobody wants to screw with your Daewoo
Given that the car is universally known as a "PT Loser" I would say very few.
Everything my grandfather ever told me is fact.
The
doesn't fall far from the tree.Going off that same logic, does his grandpa think the 911 is a hitler car too?Your grandpa sounds like such a charming fellow
I thought Mobsters drove 1960s Lincoln Continentals
The suicide doors make pushing a body off the bridge easier without someone seeing what you're doing.
BTW, the big trunks on these and on things like Chevy B Bodies and Ford Panthers are sometimes called "3 body trunks." I can tell you from experience that Town Cars have an absolutely voluminous trunk and the name-while crude-is probably well deserved. I remember when we were out riding around with my 5' 2" grandfather and he had a flat tire. We were getting set up to change it, and the next thing I knew my grandfather was standing in the trunk of his TC passing stuff down to my dad and I. There aren't many cars where even someone his height could stand up at full height in the trunk.
Definitely the case around here...those and BMW X5s...
The 911 certainly has more in common with the original Beetle than the current Beetle has...
I thought the mob drives Town Cars because the trunks are big enough to put bodies into? LOL
The decal would be in my rear window COMICAL because people ride my ass when i drive the SPEED limitSome people might not appreciate that, for multiple reasons. BTW, do tailgaters "like it up the rear" or "like giving it up the rear" or "giving it from behind". If you're tailgating someone then you are the one desiring to be in the rear, not that you want it done to yourself. I think you need to rethink that joke.
I feel like that sticker would only encourage people to "screw" with the Daewoo.
Given that the car is universally known as a "PT Loser" I would say very few.
Everything my grandfather ever told me is fact.
The
Here is a relivent decal (not the one i'm talking about but surely the TRUTH!):
Probably true as a spite thing, if you have a sign saying NOT to do something people will do it out of spite, same in this case, Ah, well my insurance policy covers vandalism.
I never once said my grandpa was right, in fact, he's wrong about most of that he says. He still has the mindset that you can walk into a business from the street and walk out with a job, he hates women (yes, his actual words), anytime he sees bad driving its automatically a woman behind the wheel. My grandpa can be a generous man, but he's not a nice man most of the time.
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The decal would be in my rear window COMICAL because people ride my ass when i drive the SPEED limitHere is a relivent decal (not the one i'm talking about but surely the TRUTH!):
Probably true as a spite thing, if you have a sign saying NOT to do something people will do it out of spite, same in this case, Ah, well my insurance policy covers vandalism.
I never once said my grandpa was right, in fact, he's wrong about most of that he says. He still has the mindset that you can walk into a business from the street and walk out with a job, he hates women (yes, his actual words), anytime he sees bad driving its automatically a woman behind the wheel. My grandpa can be a generous man, but he's not a nice man most of the time.
The joke doesn't make sense though, because if you're tailgating someone it doesn't mean you like getting tailgates yourself. Just because one might like anal sex, doesn't mean they like giving it. Catch my drift.
Speaking of spite, I know we discussed this before, but slowing down for a tailgater instigates or exacerbates road rage. Just a thought... I believe someone spoke about this before.
You seem to quote him a lot, that's all.
Slowing down for ass-riders runs in the family. My Grandma did it, my mom did it, I do it, none of us ever had any issues, I am the only one however, that lays on the horn when they pass. It gives me a rush using the horn it's vary comical nd brings me relief, so I'll keep on blasting it.
As a Decal states "Don't ride my ass if you don't have the balls to pass"
Obviousaly ALOT of people slow down for ass-riders, Why else would there be decals and bumper stickers saying such things?
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You and your family's spiteful behavior just results in slowing down traffic for everyone though. The people going the speed limit behind the tailgater will then catch up and get stuck behind you who is now going intentionally slow. If you're on a multilane road, just pull over to the right lane. If not, just keep going your speed or pull over if you feel unsafe. Don't let one person ruin everyone else's commute.
Sure people tailgate, but there is an appropriate and safe way to deal with it, rather than escalating the situation. You take an aggressive driver and piss them off more by slowing down.