A rant about riced up posers

[Doc Jones]

Ok so I bought my 91 hatch about 2 months ago. It looked ok, was lowered, has an annoying muffler, and had a couple of other little things like tinted windows and sport pedals. A nice start I figured, since I wouldn't have to spring for the coilovers and whatnot. So yesterday I wind up rolling over this big ass piece of asphalt that comes rollin into the street (and if i find the kids that did it they are paste) and I slam over it. Not bump, not grind, SLAM. My car jolts twice and then I hear the muffler rattle. Just as a precautionary measure I take it down to midas where a buddy of mine is the manager. we toss it up on the lift to make sure I didn't fuck anything over. Aside from a couple scuffs on the fuel tank and a slight dent in the muffler everything looked ok. Then we get to the FUN part:

My muffler is just that, a plain old fucking muffler. The annoying sound is because the asshat put a resonator tip on it, nothing more. Factory piping and everything.

The car DOES NOT have a lowering kit in it, they chopped the springs and redrilled the holes! As a result of this not only do I need to get some new springs (who knows how bad they might have fucked this up) but the wheels are spaced out a little from the body, and if I turn the wheel too far the tires will rub the fender.

So basically I now have a factory civic with a resonator tip, tinted windows, and knock off "racing" pedals.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH FUCKING POSERS!!! JUST SAY NO TO RICE!!!

[optimuscivic]

that sux man, and didn't they also put neuspeed stickers all over it? better take those stickers off.

[Doc Jones]

Oh yeah, the neuspeed and ractive stickers are commin off saturday afternoon.

[kingpinn]

its all good .. what was the age of the kid you got it from .. 15

[Doc Jones]

try 26

[shaddr3]

haha, yah... i cant believe somebody would do that shit to their car, but hey i guess if they cant afford new stuff :-/

[90civicracer]

Shit dude that sux about your car. I hate when people don't do things the right way cuz on the springs issue thats not even safe. Something could happen with that and cause him to get in an accident with someone else.

[PunkAlex]

Thats part of the reason why i will never buy a pre-modified car. The other part is that want to have something suited to my tastes

[JapPrecision]

Definitely sucks about all that mickey mouse shit done to your car.. Should've checked it out before you bought it, but im not going to lecture you cause no one likes that shit. when I was new to the game, (I had a jetta at the time) I cut the springs and it was slammed to the ground. it looked sick but rode like ass, and the springs would jump out of place every now and then and "bang back into place". I literally had no front suspension; had about half an inch of it. I rode through the parking lot of the speed shop on my way to buy real springs (yeah i put 2 & 2 together) and hit a speed bump that i wasnt aware of--the front end jolted so hard my head almost busted through the sunroof. I had a headache after...go figure. My jetta wasnt ricey though (no stickers,huge spoilers, etc...,) Moral of the story--do it right the first time and dont be cheap(and learn from your mistakes.)

[Shaguar47]

If kids want to rice up their cars, they need to stay to the cars true form. This is something I've told my friends and classmates and it's actually my moto: "Always get something that serves a purpose!" Cleartails and resonater tips serve no purpose except that you know nothing about cars!

[91lxdreamer]

Originally Posted by Shaguar47

If kids want to rice up their cars, they need to stay to the cars true form. This is something I've told my friends and classmates and it's actually my moto: "Always get something that serves a purpose!" Cleartails and resonater tips serve no purpose except that you know nothing about cars!

Wait hold on, usually rice means puttin gaudy graphics, wings, fucked up chrome wheels, cuttin your springs, stickin a tip on your exhaust, shit like that, I think you should replace RICE with MOD, theres nothing wrong with moddin your car, and I agree, you should mod it with taste. But I doubt that keepin your car clean, and "true to its form" would be called rice. I'm not startin a fight or anything, I'm just sayin...does that make sense?

[crxtacy]

im not trying to be an asshole, but why didnt you look at it before you bought it? or ask him what kinda stuff was done to it? like muffler and springs.

wasnt the ride way shitty with cut springs??

i agree completely about doing stuipd shit like that. sorry you got fucked over man.

[Doc Jones]

Originally Posted by crxtacy

im not trying to be an asshole, but why didnt you look at it before you bought it? or ask him what kinda stuff was done to it? like muffler and springs.

wasnt the ride way shitty with cut springs??

i agree completely about doing stuipd shit like that. sorry you got fucked over man.

I didn't know as much about modding cars then (not like I know that much more now) so I didn't know what to ask. He said it had coilovers and a high flow muffler, so I think he was either lying out his ass, or didn't know what the prior owner did.

couldn't tell much on the ride, the roads near where I drove it are actually pretty good, so there wasn't much to base it off of, next time I buy a car, it's potholes and speedbumps.

[amy@af]

the previous owner did this to jer's poor si:




he doesn't mind as much now that his b16 is in. i suppose the good part is it's red and not yellow

[91lxdreamer]

Man, you guys are gonna think im a ricer when you see my car....It's only half done, but its not like bright pink or anything, just silver and white....But with the way you guys are talkin about painted interiors...