What's your worst mod?

[Willie]

We'll everyone always goes on about the great mods but what about the worst one's?
No one mentions these.

for me it's got to be the SPEC stage 1 uprated clutch and steel SMF... I HATE IT!!!!

TBH I had wished it would slip so I had an excuse to change the fecker.
I find it really difficult around town not to stall and steep hill starts are embarrassing.

What's yours?

 

[traumapat]

I`ve been lucky other than choosing the wrong FMIC style before BT.

Mind you there was a period where the car sported 2 chrome effect flames around the side indicators which could have got me into bother with the SCN fashion police..

 

[james walker]

tbh i have no bad mods... only thing ive ever changed is the suspension which im doing just now form janspeed shocks and spring to weitec coilies.

the janspeed are ok aswell for normal driving.

maybe making the mistake of using ebay cv joint! but that is a minor cost one

 

[Lodgey180]

tbh mines probs the eyebrows... i didnt fit them tho so they where straight off

 

[225]

Not on a SEAT but on a MK2 1.4S fiesta I "fitted" a "sports exhaust" which basically was a chrome finished tube, so hacked off the rear box and used exhaust gumming stuff and a metal wrap to fit it. Sounded great for 5 min then the gum overheated and cracked and it basically sounded like a knackered exhaust, which in effect it was.. ah the things you do when your young..

 

[ArosaRacer]

towbar on the x plate leon

 

[warren_cox]

Worst mod I've done on an LCR was the Richbrook shortened bee-sting aerial. Although it didn't look any worse than the OE one the reception was shocking.

Performance wise it would have to be the set of HR coilovers on my old Lupo GTi. Had them set up and aligned as fair cost, and let me confirm the product was very high quality, and never failed in any way. They just didn't suit the super short wheel base and I had horrific issues stopping or controlling the car on very bad a/b roads. Just a bad choice of mod for the car.

 

[G2232]

not the worst the the most painfull and annoying at the time of fitting
custom FMIC

 

[vwbassett]

I had boge turbo dampers with H&R springs on my mk3 golf a few years back - worst ride ever for british roads although when you found a smooth straight it did really feel togetherand was quite fun but was OTT for what i wanted and the roads near me. As for my leon im quite picky these days, i only really buy performance mods that are tried, tested and reviewed by others as i hate to waste my time on somehting i wont like and will have to remove and refit with a better part at another date.

 

[Husbandofstinky]

Nothing yet really.

The only things I can think of are I prefer the soft feel of the OE clutch compared to the SACHS organic, also the dog bone mount will always be slightly more vibey than stock. So much so I have to plug in the passanger seat belt because the clip vibrates annoyinly at a particular resonance.

This is really nit picking though.

 

[MrBen2k7]

not so much a mod... just how lame my first car was... Fiat Cincequento 0.9L BEAST!!!

 

[Willie]

not so much a mod... just how lame my first car was... Fiat Cincequento 0.9L BEAST!!!

LOL

Also I forgot about the powerflex DBM, hated that too

 

[bigxdan]

has to be the lexus rear lights that i put on my leon now have a sweet set of led ones on there all good!!!

 

[danny20vt]

no bad ones on my Leon but past experiences include an "on a mission" sticker on my first car, fiesta rs turbo stick on bonnet vents, red and black bucket style seat covers, on a 1.2 mk 1 clio and TURBO on the back of my 1.9 306 diesel, none turbo by the way


i should really hang my head in shame but these were about 10 years ago

 

[MrBen2k7]

lol, i think this is tee'ing up a bad car history thread....

 

[turbo009]

Mine was silver stripes of thin tape over the bonnet vents of my 206 gti and beesting aerial

 

[DOLBY]

mine was probably the cold air scoop that fixed behind the nearside headlight....other than that im happy with all my mods they have a purpose one way or the other....

 

[Rocky Rocastle]

thus far in my short journey of modding the LCR it has to be the halfords 'Autogauge' boost gauge, not saying all are but mine was absoloute !!!

 

[Willie]

mine was probably the cold air scoop that fixed behind the nearside headlight....other than that im happy with all my mods they have a purpose one way or the other....

I really wanted these to be good, but as soon as I saw the design of the hose end (oval) 'I was out'

 

[D.K]

mine was probably the cold air scoop that fixed behind the nearside headlight....other than that im happy with all my mods they have a purpose one way or the other....

I really wanted these to be good, but as soon as I saw the design of the hose end (oval) 'I was out'

Unfortunatley they were'nt that great

I did'nt like my BMC CDA either