Car Mods That Ruined Your Car... 

What mods were you guilty of?

When I was 16 I put underglow on my moms rav4

I will install lambo doors on a Honda Civic *I cannot be stopped.*

Me at 20 years old: haha ive never done any of these My 2004 Civic in desperate need of an oil change: 😢

I’m about to buy a beater for less than $1,500 just to do all these mods to 😈

"Sometimes you do these things when you're 16..." *laughs* "... sometimes you do these when you're 28." *removes window tint from Amazon cart*

I once changed the head gasket on my mates ford, didn't go well, ended up with 4 extra bolts once I was finished but kept it a secret. To this day the car is still in use and the bolts are still in my tool cabinet 😂

Cutting the springs on my 1964 Chevy pickup when I was 18

Waaaaait, what’s wrong with plasti dip? 😂😂😂 not everyone can splash out a few grand on getting a respray every time they wanna mess around with colours 😅😢

“Car mods that ruin your car” **Video intro** “50% off spike lugnuts!”

God i’m glad I never failed as a young modder... BBS wheels KW Coilover kit APR Stage 3 tunes Wilwood Big Brake Kit All on my- *Alarm wakes me*

Plasti dipped wheels, tails, trim and emblems, underglow/LEDs everywhere, cheap tint on a 2002 Trailblazer for me... still no shame. Learned from those mistakes 😂

So glad I didn't get into modding cars until I was 20, when I actually had a good job with good money.

My first car was a 1995 Pontiac Sunfire. Metallic pink. YUCK. I decided to spray paint the car lime green like Paul Walker's Eclipse. It turned out just how you would think spray painting a car in the hot sun in front of your parent's house would turn out. Eventually I got sick of the green and decided to go matte black, but this time with a roller and a gallon of outdoor house paint. Now this was actually pretty sweet because if I ever got a door ding in a parking lot, I would just open what was left of my gallon paint can, and paint right over the scratches. Eventually I saved up enough money to get a "professional" paint job from Maaco and the car got rear ended a week later.

Plasti-dipped racing stripes on my car and I mean it’s plasti-dip so it’s basically a sticker which means it adds extra horsepower...

"Angry jeep grill" enough said.

My first car was a 97 328i sedan automatic. I loathed that it was an automatic, so I took the shifter trim off and installed a boot to "hide" the fact that it was auto. Also, plasti dipped the factory 15" wheels, put fake M badges everywhere, had an autozone cone filter for the intake, installed cheap eBay headlights, blacked out half the tail lights, and installed cheap speakers that sounded terrible. Now I'm back in a 97 328i sedan, but its manual swapped. Also installed BC coilovers, Bavsound speakers, glass headlights, and spent the rest of my money actually fixing everything and eliminating all the leaks.

We didn't cut our springs, but we did have the heavy guy sit on them & torch em.

Lmao I was the high school tint guy, everyone hit me up to install their oreilly’s tint 😂

glad they added under glow in the video but didn’t talk about it cause I still want to do that mod 😂

Just finished “tasteful” plastic dip on my emblems🤣🤣

Did everything, but bad tint. Chris Fix got my back 😂

I didnt even have a car when i was 16😒 Thats why i made these mistakes when i was 19😂

This video just saved me from doing the tiny mistake

i am currently plastidipping my entire outback

This guy sounds like a discount Linus tech tips. Lol

"Everybody watching this video has done something on this list." *But... I don't even own a car*

i taped every chrome part i can find onto my car... i though i was officially pimped 🤣

The intake was my first mod ever. Good times.

Just got off ebay, feel kinda bad...still gonna put it on the car though.

He said when we were younger we all had those embarrassing things we did.. nooo we didn't. Because some of us didn't have a car at 16.

Thanks for the amazing mod list👍

Tinted windows, cut springs, check. I did tint my windows pretty well.

I totally put lambo doors on a honda del sol, not even ashamed of it.

I'm not gonna lie I'm 14 but I feel like when I get my first car, ima forget I ever watched this video and do everything u just said not to do

When I was 16 I took plasty dip off of my speed 3 that the previous owner did. That’s about the closest I got to anything on this list.

I bought a em1 civic which I still have where the owner put big plumbing pvc pipe as a intake lol 😂

*silently cries after looking at the prices of exhaust*

I hate when I hear an exhaust note n turn around only to see said car cruising at 5mph smh

I've never done any of these because all of my vehicles have been work/family vehicles, but I'm finally getting fun cars so I watched this to learn from others' mistakes. So thanks ya'll

Alex: " if you tell me you didn't do any of these mods I know you're lying" me who has 3 more years before I can even get a license : **sips cup** ...yup..

"Plastidip just rubs or scrapes off" That's the point. It's a cheap as dirt way to change colors/looks rapidly on your car.

Cut the exhaust off my Lexus SC300 because LOUD. Tried to get my inspection sticker and the dude looked at me like I was the dumbest person on Earth (deserved).

Lol!! Damn you got me on so many of these. But #1 Cutting my springs, was a hard learned lesson. Lol. Thanks man, you made me laugh at my stupidity in my younger years.

Underglow is dope idc what anyone says. People just hate it now because it's cool too

heh, not a single mention of having 6 15 inch subs in a ford escort. guess i am not on the list.

I can’t wait til I turn 16 and make a few bad mod choices

When I was 17, I had a 1993 Buick Rivera and I took 3 guitar cables and spliced them into the speaker cables. Then all you need to do is plug in PA passive speakers and bam ghetto bass and outside speakers.

As a 17 year old I’m proud to say I haven’t done any of these

Plastidip done right will not give you the bad results you spoke of

there's also weight reduction... like, taking out your back seats and your buds ask for a ride and you're like uhh... I have no back seats today...

14 with an angle grinder, welding torch, and a 1999 Toyota Corolla. Homemade gul wings. The car was in disrepair and my parents gave it to me so I started modding it. Gull wings sounded like a good idea....until it leaked, never stayed up, and whistled when I drove it 2 years later. I came around to finally fixing the issues (including properly rewiring it so the window motors and door locks worked again..), I redid the suspension, changed out the alternator, battery, spark plugs, ignition coil, head gasket, cleaned the piston housings, the wire harness, rebuilt the air intake, fuel system, and new interior (the leaks led to rot and mold) Best car I had after all of that. Was totaled when my neighbors tree collapsed and fell onto it thanks to Hurricane Sandy

I really haven't done any cheap or bad mods. I bought expensive stuff but it was well worth. The best decision was a $2000 exhaust system. It sounds incredible...

I’m 21 and I still use underglow. I am not a ricer, I don’t have any crazy body kits or wings or anything stupid like that, I just really like underglow.

I can buy an entire turbo kit on wish right now

I put in lowering springs, WITH OUT new shocks or struts. 😂. Bouncing all over the place is an understatement

Im in the process of ricing out my first car. It was a hand me down 2002 Acura Tl. Chippin paint, dirty af, needed new cv axels and ball joints, the whole works. The way i see it, it was free and im not gonna get anything out of it... so why not have some fun with it? Black plastidiped the trunk, roof, and hood. LED strips for the interior by your feet. Blue LED bulb replacement for the interior. Seat covers (probably gonna be more expensive than the car after im done with it lol) and djm floor mats. Jdm stickers galore, and some charms here and there. Bent license plate. Blue fog lights. Wait for it...... Underglow!! I think its fun to see other people see my car and laugh or smile at it because I KNOW its ridiculous. I say of youve got a cheapo car you still drive around, why not have some fun and pretend you're a teenager again

I have one confession... 1998 corolla + air intake + muffler delete.

Oh God, the forgotten, repressed teenage memories that you just revived... "Whatever no-name exhaust" "Fake Intake" "K....&...N." Guilty on all counts. 17 year old me thought my Camry was so classy with the Autozone green LED dust covers. Three of which didn't work. Also, the $50 loud muffler didn't quite fit, so I used zip ties so it only sagged a little bit. Needless to say, my girlfriend's parents were very impressed with her choice of boyfriend.

i’m 15 and i was thinking about tinting my own windows until i found a professional window tinting/detailing place nearby i’m gonna save up my money to get them tinted

I plasti dipped my wheels just to see if I like black rims on my car🤣. And I put the wing badge on my car but it is made for my car

I only use my muffler for state inspection , straight pipe

I didn't even pay for exhust I just cut off my muffler

Almost 1 mill sub! Congrats!

Im 18 I never did that when 17 or 16 and I'll never bc of some amazing tutorial channels like this one...actually only this one😅

Cheap open air intake that was blue to contrast my red Honda fit... The plastic felt cheaper than the water bottles they give out at conventions

in sweden we dont cut springs... we remove them

Never had cheap headlights. Although I've just bought tinted taillights for my A4 B5, and don't know if I like it yet lol. Uhh I almost forgot what the previous owner did! -Removed air filter box and the heatshield for it, replaced with a cone filter which is now slightly melted because of the lack of shielding: it's a really well made hot air intake. -"Upgraded" the front position lights to LED, and only the positioning bulbs. -Filled LITERALLY half the trunk with a ported box that fits two 10" units (tbh, it's actually quite nice). -Plasti dipped the rims, and now it's all cracked: my friends call them spiderman rims. -Removed a vacuumline to the DV so it'd make a cool turbo stutter. -Straight piped the resonator from 2" pipe, to 3", back to 2", presumably made by a "welder". After looking at it from under a lift, I'm pretty sure the welder was blind and or had no hands.

I’m 17, and I have a habit of putting wayyy too many stickers on my car.

I. Installed a cheap air intake on my car.... today

You forgot putting house speakers in the trunk and calling it a system

THOSE FREAKING wheels on that 350z look sick af

Aye them wish/Amazon neon interior lights go hard tho 😂😂

You forgot blue led interior lighting

Not a mod that I did, but I used to “double clutch” my Mr2 turbo during a drag race launch thinking it would spool up the turbo or some stupid shit 🤦🏻‍♂️ influenced by that stupid ass line in the fast and the furious *Damn you Dom!!

I am truly proud to say, I did nothing on this list except a muffler delete and straight pipe (on an inline 5 so it wasn't too crappy)

5:06 literally every guy at school in a civic with "type r" stickers 😆

“ Dipyourcar Fonzie has entered the room”

Jesus dude, I am in my 50's and went to a vocational school for automechanics. I think I could write a book on the stupid stuff I did lol. When I grew up we still had carbs, most cars didn't have fuel injection yet. And a lot of us had muscle cars from the 60's and 70's. A big thing was putting too large of a carb for the camshaft. Or using adapter plates to put a 4 barrel on a 2 barrel manifold and not changing anything in the engine. Or worse yet buying a performance manifold and carb but not changing the cam or anything else to support it. Or putting the wrong cam or too large of a cam in your engine and making it useless for daily driving or using the wrong headers for the application. I also pulled the whole exhaust off my 72 buick and put in dual straight pipes. Killed my torque and actually made the car slower lol. I put a hood scoop on my car and had it painted. It ended up cracking and looking like crap. It also made my engine really dirty and took longer to warm up. Didn't help the performance at all either. Didn't make it worse really, but it didn't help much. I put hood pins on my car and removed the OEM hood latch system. My dad told me not to, I did it anyway. Someone pulled the clips off while I was in a store and I didn't know it. Yep, my hood flew up at 40 mile an hour while I was driving home and destroyed it. On the upside it got rid of my hood scoop lmao. With newer cars I fell for the cold air intake thing and wasted my money on that. Didn't help the performance any but made it sound like a vacuum cleaner or something. Muffler deletes, cat deletes and cheap performance mufflers that made my v-6 or 4 cylinder sound like a swarm of angry bees. And again made the car perform worse. Car companies actually spend a lot of money to design an exhaust that is quiet and performs well. Then we mess it all up thinking we can do better than a team of engineers. 9 times out of ten we don't. I have also seen people try to do things right, but still mess it up simply because they chose the wrong parts. Like using a camshaft and headers designed for circle track use. They are designed to make horse power at wide open throttle at high rpms. They are horrible for street driving and will actually make your slower off the line. I always tell people to go with the street/strip version of something and not the "race" version. It will work much better for daily driving. With muscle cars we always said build for torque, not horsepower. That is the power you can feel when driving around. Unless you are running really low gears, but that sucks for daily driving too. I built a car for the drag strip once and tried to drive it daily. It was fast, but you couldn't drive it in the rain without sliding all over, it was extremely loud and hot and it got 6 freaking miles to the gallon lol. And my top speed was 130 mph. It would do it in like 11 seconds but that was as fast as it would go without blowing it up. And I got beat on the highway by a ford toraus sho! That was humbling let me tell you.

Just got my self a 97 Accord. Plans: 1.)Replace all the worn stuff, old stuff with new aftermarket [stock] parts. 2.)Fix all faulty areas like the manual windows and horn 2.) Repaint 3.) Follow up on how to properly modify Extra: get advice and learn from other people

The cheap filter thing was a fail I experienced. Plasti dip worked great for me however. I plasti dipped my old focus back in 2014 and the guy I sold it to still has it on there and it looks as good as the day I did it. It's just flat black, but If you do it right, you can power wash it and keep it looking fresh for as long as you want.

I couldn't afford most of this stuff when I was 16. Actually I still cant 15 years later.....

Underglow. Because the fast and the furious was too good

I'm watching this vid at 14 yo and he's like yelling at me to admit these things LOL

Haven't done any of this yet. About to get my first car though. Good video.

Drink every time he says “at the end of the day”

I bought fog lights that I installed but never installed the wiring

Gotta be honest. Haven't done this at all. First car was a 1999 C5 corvette and well the only thing ive done to it is well, build the engine. Upgrade the stereo system and exhaust.

When he said plastidip and tinting your windows by yourself, I felt attacked

Thanks for opening some old wounds for us man.

He forgot the part about the 16 year old who had 3 12 inch subs in the trunk of his accord running off a single 400 watt amp lol. Not saying I ever did that but...

I’m proud to say the only one I’m guilty of is the cheap intake but it was just the filter cause I made my own intake when I turbocharged my 1993 v6 Ford ranger and definitely didn’t tune it afterwards at 18 years old

I have done nothing on this list... but I’m guilty of throwing eBay wheel spacers on my Dodge Caliber 😂

I saw an old Altima once that had a nismo sticker

I put an amazon wing on a Honda Civic..😂 it was all just for fun tho it was a beater car

4:47 *"fuzzy handcuffs on your car"* 😂😂

I did the lambo doors on a Sentra SE-R Spec V. They were a bit weird for a 4 door car anyway, but they were practical as hell, and got me points for car shows.

When was "back in the day" for you? 2012?

I'm 25 years old and I still want underglow and spinning rims. Anyone else remember those cheap hubcap spinners that you could get at walmart? Yeah, I always wanted to put those on my moms Cavalier when I was a kid lmfao.

Crappy tints usually came from dealers and you forget STICKERS MAN! lol