Terrible Drivers/Car Owners - Idiot Drivers, Ricers/Bad Mods, Maintenance Ignorance/Neglect, etc.

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Ah, the early 2000s tuner scene. Where it seemed every other Honda driver inspired by The Fast and The Furious spent their paychecks buying up the entire parts store aisle populated with APC accessories, AEM intakes, altezza taillights, and stickers by the dozens. I admit I feel a bit of nostalgia for the time though, it was my formative years afterall.

What I absolutely hate though is the modern "scene", if you can even call it that, based around a build designed for the algorithms to get as much attention and clicks as possible. You have these vaguely brownish "influencers" or People Of Soy™️ that exude "funded by parents money" driving around in upper-mid to full luxury or exotic cars. Everything is designed around perfectly curated builds with absolutely no details on the actual build process. To the point that I'm 99% sure that none of these faggots have ever actually turned a wrench themselves in their entire lives. Most of them couldn't tell the difference between a turbocharger and an alternator. These people don't go to meets, they don't participate in any events, and the only time their cars are ever seen are in the algorithmicly perfected staged shots for the 'gram and TikTok.

Another thing that sketches me out about most of these carfluencers is the extremely shady way they go about when it comes to money. Either they're living off of an inheritance from their parents, involved in some form of illegal gsmbling/crypto/money laundering scheme, or they're the scammers constantly hawking "giveaways" if you buy their merchandise.

Speaking of that, and not to go off on too much of another tangent, but that's one thing that has bothered me more and more over the past few years. Why and how in the fuck did every broccoli-haired faggot with 50k youtube subscribers suddenly all come up with this same scam? Put our some shitty merchandise that you can buy for a chance to win some ultra rare or expensive car/truck/boat/whatever, but there's no way these people could actually afford to put up the dosh for it in the first place. I hardly ever hear about someone actually winning any of these things, and if they do it's some anonymous person who "elected to take the cash value" instead. I swear half of these prizes never even actually existed in the first place. There has to be an entire underground scam that all of these people are taking part in
 
You have muscle car douches, asian tuner douches, German saloon douches, eco car douches, motorcycle douches, rich asshole car douches, im angry im poor car douches, bicycle douches, transit douches, truck douches.

Really the only person on the road who isnt is a douche is you.
 
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Amin Yasister said:
What's is one of those



Writing "riced out" is, but not as gay as writing



FFS.
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"Riced out" refers to "Ricers", an Australian term for car modification enthusiasts who drive shit modified hatchbacks with sound systems worth three times more than the rusty shitbox they're installed in. (Think "racer" with an Australian accent). The word crossed to the US but in the UK the term is "Boy Racer."

In the UK they used to use Citroën Saxos but nowadays they prefer Skoda Fabias or SEAT Leons because they're basically VW Golfs underneath and they can pretend they have a Golf GTI (the car they all really want but can't afford).

Before the Golf GTI the Boy Racer's dream car was a Ford, either an Escort Cosworth or XR3i, both of which fetch huge prices now because most of them were wrapped around trees by Kev from Romford in about 1997.
 
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I have very little to say about this topic other than boomers on Harleys can't get old and lose their licenses soon enough. Fuck all of them for making the summer months deafening.
 
There was a time when nearly every Nissan Rogue driver was a complete retard because the Nissan dealerships were financing literally anyone even povs with piss poor credit scores.
 
Spunt said:
"Riced out" refers to "Ricers", an Australian term for car modification enthusiasts who drive shit modified hatchbacks with sound systems worth three times more than the rusty shitbox they're installed in. (Think "racer" with an Australian accent). The word crossed to the US but in the UK the term is "Boy Racer."

In the UK they used to use Citroën Saxos but nowadays they prefer Skoda Fabias because they're basically VW Golfs underneath and they can pretend they have a Golf GTI (the car they all really want but can't afford).

Before the Golf GTI the Boy Racer's dream car was a Ford, either an Escort Cosworth or XR3i, both of which fetch huge prices now because most of them were wrapped around trees by Kev from Romford in about 1997.
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Thanks, I assumed "Ricer" was a racial slur, not a description of Mighty Car Mods fans

I was around in the 1990's and had a Ford Sapphire Cosworth (just the two wheel drive version). Had a few engine tweaks by Graham Goode Racing. Got fed up being paranoid about it being stolen, even with the best locks and alarms. A flat bed lorry, a winch and 5 litres of engine oil would see it gone in a couple of minutes.

Went over to Saabs instead, 260bhp from the factory, 300 bhp easily attained, cheap to buy and not on most thieving scams radar

Not bothered now about cars so much now, drive a 23 year old, 200,000 mile 5 series BMW diesel, which I keep looking nice and maintain well.

Have 200bhp bikes for my kicks now.
 
Said it before, saying it here, and will likely say it again, but something about The Lockdowns™️ absolutely destroyed people's ability to drive safely and courteously. Cutting you off, edging halfway into oncoming traffic at an intersection, speeding so much more than before.
 
I fucking hate when larger suvs have those fucking bright ass led headlights just because you need the sun to see the road doesn’t mean I need it in my eyes when I pass you faggot.
 
Not A Cat Person said:
It's very unfortunate that the Chrysler 300 is so bad in a mechanical and electrical sense, because it has wonderful styling.

I would say the same about the early 2000s Ford Thunderbird, which was a similar attempt to meld old styling with new. But this is not that thread.

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The reason that the "retro" Thunderbird failed so miserably was it was priced as a high-end luxury car but had the build quality of a 1974 Ford Granada that was built on a Friday afternoon.
 
PandaChai said:
Said it before, saying it here, and will likely say it again, but something about The Lockdowns™️ absolutely destroyed people's ability to drive safely and courteously. Cutting you off, edging halfway into oncoming traffic at an intersection, speeding so much more than before.
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Glad someone else noticed that, thought I was going crazy.

Spent close to a decade with a long commute that was pretty much all highway driving. After Covid it was like five times as likely I’d see people absent-mindedly drift out of lanes and/or switch over without signaling. Saw more accidents in 2021-2024 than I’d seen in the rest of my life put together.
 
Beige said:
Glad someone else noticed that, thought I was going crazy.

Spent close to a decade with a long commute that was pretty much all highway driving. After Covid it was like five times as likely I’d see people absent-mindedly drift out of lanes and/or switch over without signaling. Saw more accidents in 2021-2024 than I’d seen in the rest of my life put together.
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In the UK it was notable how driving standards dropped after the coof. I don't think there are more aggressive or impatient drivers than before (Audi Man is still Audi Man after all) but the number of incompetent or zoned-out drivers is definitely much greater than before. I drive about 200 miles round trip to visit my parents. Before the coof I would tell them animatedly if some dumbass nearly got me killed on the way there, now it happens 2 or 3 times a trip and isn't worth mentioning.

Unless they passed a law in 2022 making it illegal to use your indicators and I've been the one in the wrong this whole time.

EDIT: I nearly met my end on the M4 just before Christmas because a pair of spackers in a Suzuki Jimny didn't secure their bicycles to the rack on the back and they came off in the fast lane at 70mph like a really shit version of the log truck in Final Destination. Fortunately everyone behind them was paying attention and managed to stop without causing a pileup. Imagine dying in an accident caused by a Suzuki Jimny, possibly the worst car you can buy. Fucking embarrassing.
 
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the cars went wrong when you made em for niggers, that's when it went wrong.
it's like "oh it's a stick shift" eh fuck you man, white people don't mind it, okay.
the white people are like "yeah, it's a stick shift, so what's your point?" the niggers are all like "noo, it's- we don't like the stick shift"
here's the difference between a white person and a nigger, do you like the stick shift? okay you're a nigger. fuck you. get the fuck out.
 
PandaChai said:
Said it before, saying it here, and will likely say it again, but something about The Lockdowns™️ absolutely destroyed people's ability to drive safely and courteously. Cutting you off, edging halfway into oncoming traffic at an intersection, speeding so much more than before.
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Beige said:
Glad someone else noticed that, thought I was going crazy.

Spent close to a decade with a long commute that was pretty much all highway driving. After Covid it was like five times as likely I’d see people absent-mindedly drift out of lanes and/or switch over without signaling. Saw more accidents in 2021-2024 than I’d seen in the rest of my life put together.
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Because of the coof, the DMV allowed a metric fuckton of people, I'm guessing it depended on the state, to take online tests with no practice driving requirements and no road test.
 
Allow me to introduce you to the channel Mechanical Nightmare; specifically their series 'Just Rolled In'/'Customer States'.
There is an endless supply of mechanic-provided videos of the death traps people willingly drive around. The amount of them that refuse repairs and drive away will leave you feeling insane.

Also some dash cam content as a little treat.
 
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