These Are The Worst Car Tuner Fads

I hate scowling jeep grills and that whole mean off roader look.

Angry Jeep faces should be number 1. Ruins the look. Especially on the TJ

Using badges to unsuccessfully turn your car into one that was not sold in your region. Case in point: I saw an Acura RSX the other day, with what clearly looked like a homebrew job of removing the Acura and RSX logos and replacing them with a Honda and Integra badge.Two things: 1) No one would notice or care except for a car enthusiast, and 2) a car enthusiast will know it’s fake and write you off as a complete douche.And yes, the driver of the RSX I saw was exactly the twenty-something vaping tool you are picturing in your head.[...]

“Two things: 1) No one would notice or care except for a car enthusiast, and 2) a car enthusiast will know it’s fake and write you off as a complete douche.”This. Always this.

Counterpoint: I love when people upbadge so obnoxiously it’s obvious it’s not true. I put hellcat badges on my Chrysler 200 a while back. Still think its funny. My Transit Connect has SVT Cobra badges all over it

Rolling coal [...]Nothing says “i don’t give a shit about you, your health, your children, my children or the environment” quite like one of these rigs.Truck Nutz is a close second.

The Carolina Squat. It was made illegal for a reason. [...]Lifted trucks should be banned too, IMO. But you cannot sit there and honestly say that those are “just as unsafe” (emphasis mine). The angle is going to have you tilting back in your seat and there’s more hood that you have to look over. I don’t even know how you can see the road at all over the hood, much less what’s right in front of you. The pic I shared was a minor example.I cannot think of one good reason for the Carolina Squat.

Squatted-trucks.

Huge wheels combined with tires with such low aspect ratios, it’s as if the vehicle has big rubber bands stretched around the chrome abominations: [...]I call them “wagon wheels”. The car rides hard enough to jar your fillings loose. When, not if, you hit a pothole and damage the wheel (no cushioning from that rubber band), then you’re faced with replacing the chrome monstrosity, possibly the tire too—all so you can go back to having your remaining fillings jarred loose—ugh.I’ve got better things to do than be a masochist behind the steering wheel.

+1 I hate the oversized wheel/rubber band tire trend.

LED light bars that blind everyone

I feel like we had the PIAA fog light trend of Y2k, had a slight break, then went right to blinding LED light bars. Common ground being that they are usually on when they have no reason to be and aimed to track the moon.

The fads that are the worst are those that put other people in danger: Bro Trucks with huge lifts, stanced cars with enough camber to seriously affect grip, tinted windshields... basically anything that negatively interferes with visibility, handling, or braking. Everything else; knock yourself out. It’s your money.