Crap at Pep Boys, Advantage Auto Parts, Etc.

by **tiredolddog** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:18 pm

On a whim, I stoped into a few auto parts stores today. What a load of crap they are trying to sell people to upgrade their rides. One of my favorite items this huge (5" diameter) exhaust pipe tip with LEDs inside it. :roll:

It was a licensed The Fast and the Furious product. This thing must have weighed 5 pounds. That's what I want on my car. A 5 pound exhaust tip that does nothing for performance..... Hello???!!!!!

Also, love those LED winshield washer nozzles. They must add 5 HP each!!!

What is your favorite piece of crap?

by **Blaze** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:20 pm

gotta be the disco ball thing i saw, its like half the size of a real disco ball for your car :-?

also anything by apc

by **Yanks0114** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:22 pm

even circuit city road shop is selling rice boy products now

by **TXSolaraSLE** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:40 pm

yeah, it seems like every place that sells car stuff has a "ricer" aisle....i always gotta take a peek to see what kinda stuff they come up with. the muffler is pretty over the top though..nothing says class and performance like a 9-color led stobe muffler!

by **TadS** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:15 pm

Heh, I don't generally like to judge style, but those stupid wheel LED's have to go. Talk about distracting to be behind, or next to. I have no problems with people lighting their cars up like Christmas trees, but OMG flashing lights are just obnoxious to other drivers.

Website · by **DavPak** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:58 am

my fav is NOS brand seat covers and floor mats!! that's gotta add some HP to the car!

i'm also a big fan of the lighted exhaust tip aka, The Afterburner! when the product came out about a year ago, they actually had radio ads for it!

by **TXSolaraSLE** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:40 am

instead of a light-up muffler, shouldn't those civics and other assorted cheap riced out cars put lights on the FRONT of their rides so we can enjoy the lights as we pass them by?

by **Mole** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:19 am

indiglo pedals...

my interpretation of those is that if a person is too dumb to distinguish brake from gas to clutch (in some cases) and needs a light to illuminate the pedals, that person does not deserve to drive at all.

by **Jai_Jai_Binks** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:49 pm

TXSolaraSLE wrote:shouldn't those civics and other assorted cheap riced out cars

Have you driven the new one's...the new civics are pretty nice! (although i wouldn't buy one)...but they have come a lot way from being called cheap...same goes for corolla...a nice loaded one will cost you 18K....that by no means is cheap!

by **TXSolaraSLE** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:51 pm

nope..sure haven't driven a civic. but when i say cheap, i mean that relative to the quality of a solara. what im talking about are the kind of cars that typify the ricer image or the fast and the furious image, not the lexus-esque style of our cars

by **happy_aggies** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 2:16 pm

APC Banner. :angel:

Crap at Pep Boys, Advantage Auto Parts, Etc.

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