What are the Things You Regretted Doing to your Car?

[bloowolf]

We all like to personalize our rides (including big bikes). But sometimes we overdo things. We buy stuff or do things that we think will look good but regret soon after.
I personally don’t spend a lot on accessorizing but I do have bought & done things that classify as “stupid”.


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[dr. d]

well,
i regretted selling my car!
there was really nothing wrong with it.
it was just occupying garage space.
sigh.
the consuelo is, i sold it to a friend at a literal near-give-away price.

i suppose, many of us are in the same boat,
selling a perfectly good car because it is older and/or occupying valuable real estate.
cars deteriorate if not used regularly.

what did i regret doing to my car?
my first car was an ex-taxi.
i purchased it, then spent a mint making it decent.
my moral of the story: do not buy ex-taxis; and if you accidentally do, sell it pronto! even at a loss.
the good side is, i learned a whole lot about cars, whilst fixing up that ex-taxi.
i would not recommend the experience to anyone, however.

[hardwang]

Our lancer cedia was the victim of my early days of owning a car.

1. I remember putting on body kits which I eventually removed since it kept falling apart pag sumayad.

2. Upsizing the wheels also pretty much destroyed the suspension and wheel bearings.

3. Buying useless accessories at auto and hardware stores, pinalitan ko pa yung shifter ng MOMO na fake.

4. I even did a fabrication of fiberglass headlight cover para mag mukhang evo... The cringe man...

5. Doing "naughty" things with my now ex girlfriend and got caught by the police.

[bloowolf]

Our lancer cedia was the victim of my early days of owning a car.

1. I remember putting on body kits which I eventually removed since it kept falling apart pag sumayad.

2. Upsizing the wheels also pretty much destroyed the suspension and wheel bearings.

3. Buying useless accessories at auto and hardware stores, pinalitan ko pa yung shifter ng MOMO na fake.

4. I even did a fabrication of fiberglass headlight cover para mag mukhang evo... The cringe man...

5. Doing "naughty" things with my now ex girlfriend and got caught by the police.

I surmise that getting caught by the Police is the regrettable part[emoji2958]


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[dr. d]

i was a new owner of an old car.
the tires were balding.
dad had a set of older but barely-used non-radial tires with inner tubes, just lying around in the garage, for a car that had earlier been sold.
kasya naman sa rims, so we did the swap.
it did not occur to me, that the new tires had a much larger circumference.
the resulting car looked and rode significantly higher, and it drove the odometer and speedometer way off.
bumili na lang kami ng bagong radials...

[bloowolf]

I was duped by my elder brother into buying this electric rust inhibitor. He is older & expectedly wiser so I believed him. I put it into this box type Lancer I just had repaired & hoped it’ll help keep the rust off. Turns out, he really is the smarter one.


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[dr. d]

I was duped by my elder brother into buying this electric rust inhibitor. He is older & expectedly wiser so I believed him. I put it into this box type Lancer I just had repaired & hoped it’ll help keep the rust off. Turns out, he really is the smarter one.


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we tried that. built it ourselves, from plans published in popular electronics magazine or something.
hey! it worked! the surrounding bare metal an inch away from the electrical connection to the body, did not rust. beyond that, however, there was rust.

back in the 80s, electronic ignition boxes were a'plenty in evangellista. easy to install.
we purchased a couple, and installed it in our traditional electromechanical ignition cars.
hey! it worked! improved performance was palpable.
but one day, the car engine died on the road.
upon examination, the contact points were found to be dirty.
apparently, the ignitor was designed to send low voltage to the contact point, which would have resulted in less wear, which was one of the claimed advantages of the gadget.
unfortunately, the side effect was, dirt built up because it was not being burned away by high voltage.
we removed the ignitor and restored the ignition back to factory...

[bloowolf]

we tried that. built it ourselves, from plans published in popular electronics magazine or something.
hey! it worked! the surrounding bare metal an inch away from the electrical connection to the body, did not rust. beyond that, however, there was rust.

back in the 80s, electronic ignition boxes were a'plenty in evangellista. easy to install.
we purchased a couple, and installed it in our traditional electromechanical ignition cars.
hey! it worked! improved performance was palpable.
but one day, the car engine died.
upon examination, the contact points were found to be dirty.
apparently, the ignitor was sending low voltage to the contact point, which would have resulted in less wear, which was one of the claimed advantages of the gadget.
unfortunately, the side effect was, dirt built up because it was not being burned away by high voltage.
we removed the ignitor...

The opposite happened to me. Upon the influence of my racer froends, I changed the stock ignition coil to the Bosch heavy duty coil, the red one on my Lancer that still had contact points, not yet modified to be electronic ignition. Binili ko pa ng high tension electric blue colored cables. Ang ganda! Worked great for a couple of hundred kms then the tuning gets screwed up. Mech would file down the contact points then tune it up & after another couple hundreds, palyado na naman. Yun pala, the coil melts the contact points & I should replace the contact point & distributor with electronic ignition type.


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[cast_no_shadow]

1. I remember putting on body kits which I eventually removed since it kept falling apart pag sumayad.

Same here! Stupid kits. Sabit ng sabit. Sira bumper alignments.

So far yan pa lang, dame ko plans puros drawing. Wala tuloy ako maidagdag na regrets. [emoji23]


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[babkalakal]

circa 2006. i had a civic 2.0S Fd then.

kabit cusco strut brace at short ram intake. pam pa pogi ng engine bay. first time i had a brace and short ram on any car. after a week pinatanggal na agad. hehe expensive lesson. na realize ko sobrang ingay nung short ram lalo na at higher rpms. and the strut bar transmits every single road irregularity through the steering wheel. imbes na relaxing drive tiis pogi. e hindi naman ako na ngangarera o nag track on any regular basis.

[dr. d]

circa 2006. i had a civic 2.0S Fd then.

kabit cusco strut brace at short ram intake. pam pa pogi ng engine bay. first time i had a brace and short ram on any car. after a week pinatanggal na agad. hehe expensive lesson. na realize ko sobrang ingay nung short ram lalo na at higher rpms. and the strut bar transmits every single road irregularity through the steering wheel. imbes na relaxing drive tiis pogi. e hindi naman ako na ngangarera o nag track on any regular basis.

OT.
might i inquire,
do those strut braces frequently seen under the bonnet of fans' cars, actually work?
is there a palpable effect on car driving?
baka kasi, all it does is to hinder air filter replacement, and offer sabitan ng emergency light when kutingtinging at the engine.

[babkalakal]

OT.
might i inquire,
do those strut braces frequently seen under the bonnet of fans' cars, actually work?
is there a palpable effect on car driving?
baka kasi, all it does is to hinder air filter replacement, and offer sabitan ng emergency light when kutingtinging at the engine.

well in my case one thing i can certainly say is that it works. it definitely stiffened up the steering feel also you can feel na lessen yun flex sa front ng car especially when turning. kaso nga lang the way that i know it works is naging "malikot" yung steering together with transmitting more road noise and vibrations inside the cabin which i could not tolerate.

[babkalakal]

kung placebo lang iyon i would be more than happy to have left it as it was a pretty looking thing. kaso nga lang masyado na compromise yung comfort to my liking.

[bloowolf]

For my car, the strut bars improve cornering handling & control. It controls the lean of the car in curves & corners. Not that I fling the car into corners every chance I get. I’ve outgrown that phase. Since I frequently use the SLEX & STAR, I can’t really slow down in the curves of the off ramp. This is the main reason I use it.


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[CVT]

Years ago,- "car lowering"....

I had to drive diagonally on every street hump I pass....

The street humps in Pilar Village LPC for example were my car's GFs,- they got smooched every time,- no matter how oh so gentle, slow and sweet I took them... Sideways, over,- and under..

[uls]

yes lowered car

puro gasgas ilalam

pati crankcase may dent (bato sa gitna ng kalye too late umiwas)

buti di nabutas

[ice15]

Our very first family car this was in the 80's - Ford Cortina, we had it body repaired. after 3 years, same issues became worse

Lesson learned - if the body repair is done outside the casa, post a for sale sign asap.

My second car - during the late 90's, second hand Lancer. I wanted to make it fast... after all the mods. car had issues when idling with A/C on. tapos sobrang lakas sa Gas (especially for a college student like me). We decided to sell the car as-is after 6 months.

Lesson learned - keep the car stock as modifications will lower the car's value.

Third car - last car my parents gave me. using a car cover. - it damaged my car's paint!

Lesson learned - covered parking!

[oj88]

Blanking the EGR in 2015.





A few months ago, I made the decision to remove the blanks in my Innova 2.5 D4D and restore the EGR functionality. Power delivery immediately became smoother with the EGR valve working as it should.

Back when the EGR was blanked, power transition was rough and edgy... for lack of a better word. It gave the perception that the engine is more responsive. I attribute that likely to a more potent fuel/air mixture.

But there's also the guilt associated with giving off excessive NOx emissions. Mistakes were made but that's in the past. Though, I would have to suck it up (no pun intended) to have the whole intake de-carbonized in a few years. Hopefully, I would've sold the car before then.

[dr. d]

it wasn't my fault, really.
but as i agreed to it by not specifically dictating what i wanted done... mea culpa na rin.

my sentra's serpentine evaporator sprung a leak.
i asked my man to bring it to the aircon shop. "here's the money. alam ko, mahal yan."
when he came back, "doc, heto ang sukli."
the moment i counted the sukli, i immediately got shivers down my spine.
true enough.
hilaw ang lamig ng aircon.
after a week, ako na ang nagdala. "boss, tanggalin nyo yang ordinary evaporator, at oem serpentine ang lagay nyo."
after that, fresh-factory spec na naman ang aircon lamig.
i was poorer by several thousing bucks.
highs.

in another car,
we airconed our air-cooled VW!
what we did not know, was that our alternators were 'just adequate' for stock.
we ended up by push-starting our VWs every week, if we did not recharge our batteries regularly.
we should have upgraded our alternators... but the upgade would have cost 5+ K, a hefty amount back in the 80s and 90s.

[hardwang]

I surmise that getting caught by the Police is the regrettable part[emoji2958]


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yeah. kakahiya alalahanin. nung may biglang ilaw ng flashlight na, I knew I was f***ed (no pun intended)