Car Mods That Make Me Lose Braincells

About this video

• Video Title: Car Mods That Make Me Lose Braincells
• Channel: SocialOrbit
• Speakers: None specified
• Duration: 14:10

Overview

This video discusses and critiques various car modifications that the speaker finds questionable or aesthetically displeasing. The presenter shares their opinions on trends like excessive carbon fiber wraps, poorly executed widebody kits, inappropriate racing stripes, and various aftermarket accessories, arguing that many of these mods detract from a car's original design or look tacky.

Key takeaways

• Carbon Fiber Wraps: Applying carbon fiber wrap to a car's interior is seen as defeating the purpose of weight-saving and can look cheap, especially when peeling.
• Widebody Kits: While potentially good when professionally done, most widebody kits are considered a miss, often looking worse than the factory design.
• Racing Stripes: The speaker believes racing stripes only look appropriate on American muscle cars and can appear "cheap" on other vehicle types.
• TikTok Shop Mods: Mods purchased from platforms like TikTok shop (e.g., fake vents, LED signs) are criticized for being low quality, temporary, and indicative of poor taste or a lack of budget for proper modifications.
• Colored Window Tints: The speaker strongly dislikes colored or mirror tints, preferring standard black tint and considering colored tints to be "AutoZone mods" that look cheap and illegal.
• Muffler Deletes: Removing mufflers on cars that aren't high-performance V8s or Mustangs is criticized for making them sound worse and louder, rather than better.
• Pops and Burble Tunes: Extended or overly aggressive pops and burble tunes are seen as unnatural and often sound terrible compared to OEM-implemented sounds.
• Brake Pad Covers: Plastic, oddly shaped, or colored brake caliper covers are viewed as tacky and potentially unsafe due to heat.
• Window Louvers: Generally disliked unless on older classic American cars, window louvers are often associated with "rice style" cars and are considered a miss most of the time.
• Colored Wheels: Wheels that are not black, chrome, silver, or bronze are generally seen as a detractor, even on exotic cars, and "nerf" the vehicle's appearance.
• White on White: The combination of a white wrap and white wheels is considered tacky and cheap, with black on black being a more acceptable monochromatic look.