11 Modifications We Want To See Die In 2016

We asked you guys to tell us which modifications you want to see die in 2016. Here are the most popular - and most controversial - answers

Neil Winn

04 Feb 2016

“You bought an RX7, the whole point of it is the rotary motor. And now it’s just a Chevy” - SkylineDom

Check out the video above… Matt Farah doesn’t agree with this one!

Is your Honda excessively loud? Do your doors open upwards? Do you own a detachable steering wheel? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you’re probably a ricer. From all of us here at CT, we beg of you, please stop ruining perfectly good cars.

We have to agree with one commenter who summed up the excessive camber craze rather succinctly:

“This crap has to stop” - the Stig’s German cousin

When Engineering Explained explains why a modification is a bad idea, you have to sit up and listen.

Rocket Bunny and Liberty Walk kits were pretty cool when they first arrived on the scene, helping to give some of our favourite supercars some serious aggression. Unfortunately, the tuning scene went a little in mad in 2015, throwing RB and LW kits onto everything. When almost every car at SEMA has riveted fender flares, you know that the trend has jumped the shark.

Chrome wrapping is another modification that has been tragically overdone in 2015. Just don’t tell Ethan…

We love a low riding car, but only when the lowered ride height helps to improve the car’s dynamics. Slamming for the sake of aesthetics needs to be banished to Room 101.

Spoilers serve a useful purpose on a 1000bhp hypercar. They make less sense on a 100bhp front-wheel drive econobox. Unfortunately the trend of throwing huge wings onto underpowered cars has been around for decades, so we don’t see it dying off any time soon.

2015 was the year of the flame spitting Lamborghini Aventador. After seeing a million videos of supercars pointlessly revving in central London, we’d be happy to see this trend die in 2016.

A modification that sounds cool in theory, but looks seriously cheap and tacky in reality.

The fact that this is even a thing still astounds us. Please stop it, America.

You can see our original community question here.

Comments

i think color changing headlights are pretty cool.

The funny thing is that I am doing to do half this stuff to my car…

Was this post created to alienate literally half of the car cultures around at the moment? Fender flares, excessively low cars, stretch tires and camber all combine to form what culture? Stance. Considering car culture is about accepting all types of builds and vehicles, why on earth is one group being looked down and criticized so often?

Because the whole community is a little ridiculous. The stretched tires are dangerous not only to the driver, and they wear quicker with the camber, which incidentally also worsens the car’s handling and braking performance to a dangerous level. And a drop is fine but a stance drop is ridiculous and amounts to little more than an annoyance when every car around has to wait for whoever stanced their car to figure out how to manouver their car over a miniscule level change in the pavement. Even lowriders make more sense than stance.

Agree on the list, except maybe the widebody kits. I don’t like them on supercars, but they can look amazing on cars like RX7s. Also, the BMW in the picture is absolutely beautiful.