What's the most ghetto thing about your car? I have to open

>inb4 rotated image

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I have used ducttape inbetween the hatch and the plastic piece that the plate-light attaches to with the purpose of it stopping vibration and wearing out the paint

3/5 of my hood scoop's plastic studs sheared, so it's held on by the middle and farthest left studs and duct tape hidden under it on the right side. The right side pops out a bit every time I shut my hood

Currently have coat hangars holding up the back section of my exhaust

>>13868734

the car clock is nixie tube

>>13868734
I had to duct tape a piece of broken plastic trim so that it wouldn't sound like my windshield is being assaulted by pebbles on the freeway

Somebody ripped out the ignition barrel from my shitbox wit a slide hammer or something but didn't bother stealing it.

After that, I used to just turn it on with a screw driver.

>>13868734
i have to duct tape my hand to the steering wheel

the latches on my hard top don't fully grab so I put foam underneath them and in the pins so it stays in place and doesn't clatter

>>13868810
Pics pls senpai

One side of my front bumper is held up with a ziptie. Also gotta slam the left side of my tailgate with my ass because it won't shut all the way.

My drivers side window is frameless (thanks Subaru) and wobbles back and forth a bit. When I'm on the freeway, it makes this horrible screeching sound unless I stuff paper between the outside holder and the window to keep it flush with the car.

Front liscence plate is attached via 3m double sided trim tape.
1 out of the 2 clips holding the cabin air filter cover has broken (poor design)

>>13868734
Duct tape instead of intake coupler at throttle body. Bought one for $70 and it was the wrong size, so I didn't feel like paying for another one.

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That stick hanging out of the grill is my hood latch. The cable broke so I just taped a stick to the last 2 feet of it. Been like that for almost a year now

It doesn't have keyless entry.

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>>13868734
>the most ghetto thing about your car
Its very existence. Pic related

>>13868734
Clear thumbtacks holdin up the headliner

>>13868734
Paint is peeling away.
Dat glorious GM

One of my mirrors is the wrong color because I destroyed it in a parking garage and couldn't find a replacement that was the right color.

I'll get it painted someday.

>exhaust/header connection is 2 soup cans, some steel wool and a nice length of wire
>hood latch cable doesnt work, rigged so you pull the whole cable sheathe instead
>improvised connectors, just wires plugged into ports and prongs
>driver door window goes only half way down, must be opened from outside
>zipties
>no loctite
need i go on

I have duct tape all over my car to cover cracks and marks in the body panels. Passenger mirror held up with duct tape after it broke off. My AC fan selector knob broke and I taped it together to work and just left it. My passenger windshield wiper limps and won't move sometimes but I haven't gotten around to fixing it. There are holes developing in the trunk sides because of undercarriage rust. My tachometer sometimes has a seizure when I turn the car off and twitches. Driver's seat has holes in it and foam coming out... clutch pedal squeaks when it's hot.

My blower fan controller is automatic. So it broke obviously.
Now I use a on and off switch under my dash for 100% full speed or completely off.

Duct tape to cover fuse box
Duct tape to cover resovoir bottle cap
Duct tape to hold together some little plastic shit

Dipstick handle is broken

>>13868810
Yes pics pls

>>13869082
i've never seen a single black person in a lincoln LS


also my car doesn't have any ghetto features strangely. it matches its charater

>gray, boring and german

my old vw was ghetto as fuck though

>zipties holding exhaust because it would keep snapping the rubber mountings
>stereo only has speakers in the rear at the hatch because i didnt want to cut the doorcards
>grill held with zipties and the remaining clips

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License plate is attached by velcro

I have to start my 94 gmc sierra by putting the key in the ignition and pressing a button.

radiator an is hooked up to a switch


...pretty sure this truck was stolen or molested by rednecks

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>>13868820

>>13868734
My rear flap windows are held shut with zip ties.
>Beaners can't resist the taco

>>13871142
anon do you do shady shit and swap plates or easy fix?

I sell out of it...

>>13871169

The bolts from the former plate are stripped and rusted to the car.

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The pneumatic fuel cut off valve is broken.
To shut down the engine I have to either stall it or press the big red STOP lever inside the engine bay.

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This turns on my ignition.

>>13868749
>no face shield or gloves

Fucking idiot

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>four doors
>two seats
>full of junk at any given moment
>progressively disappearing/reappearing interior trim

for a while I had a boost gauge held by a hose clamp to one of the dashboard air vents, but the plastic pneumatic tubing blew out pretty fast.

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Im curious OP, what motor do you have in that nova?
Also, this ghetto rigged mess

>>13868803
do you drive an MG Midget?

>>13871235
Similar problem here, only the bolts are out but the threads inside are stripped. Thus, four zipties hold each license plate to the car.

Glorious hood pins and zip-tied back bumper

My headlights are held in by wood screws that go from the radiator support into the headlight housings.

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>>13871273
chilling out at work cleaning up some welds
BOOOM
shrapnel blast to the face
gloves torn to shreds
holes in the roof and walls
fragments of grinding disk everywhere

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This fell off the rear end of my car about a year ago due to rust. Still haven't bothered fitting a new pipe or muffler.

>>13868734
Hood release broke, so I have to use a screwdriver to open it.

>>13869017
>$70 for an intake coupler
Holy fuck

From my old shitbox:
>Interior passenger door handle broke off, had to open the window and reach outside to get out
>Driver side window crank handle wouldn't stay on, had to search for it every time I wanted to open the window

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>>13868734
My bumper is currently being held on by hopes and dreams.

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>>13872594
My trunk is blue and my hood is yellow

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>>13872599

And I used metal zip ties to hold the front liscense plate on.

>>13869082
Looks Japanese, reminds me of Toyota Chaser.

The underside of front bumper is duct taped together and the muffler is head in place with steel wire coat hangers.
And the most ghetto thing about my car is the passenger side wiper doesn't work. It just sits there.

>>13872753
And I can't type today...good to know.

have +30 wood screws in various places
Fuck plastic clips

but those non removable that you have to brake to remove piece are on another level of gay fucking shit

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starting car

>>13871311
Srt caliber?

>>13873095
Looks like a Dart. I'm guessing SXT with the 1.4MAT. Done the power pedal upgrade yet?

>>13868734
There's a dent in the rear bumper, the door seals fall off, and there's smears all over the windscreens on the inside.

I take care of my car, and get it fixed.

>>13872551
Yeah it sucks. But the only place to get one right there and then, was a semi-truck shop, and they charge out the ass for those parts.

There's a hole in the floor mat where people's right heels have dug through. I put a glove under it.

>>13871323
That motor is the most reliable motor on sale in the US right now. It has DI and MPFI. This motor is god

>>13868817
michael salazar, is that you?

>>13871359

>not chilling at work
>cutting 3/8 rough steel
>disc looses a small chunk
>decide to go ahead because hardly any vibration and the disc is almost unused
>PING
>small dust cloud
>hold breath and shut off grinder
>check disc
>disintegrated
>only the mesh that ties in the material remains

>>13873058
this is great

btw the reason its doing that is because youve got a short somewhere

>>13868734
The body processor in my XJ8 has some malfunction where the right brake light was stuck on even when the car was off so I just cut the wire for the light and wired it to the trailer harness instead

Works great.

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>new intake boot, tubes and fittings
>$65
>ricer tier DIY cold intake hoses and silicone fittings
>$22

>>13868734
Aside from the faded paint, dents, and discombobulated trim pieces that flap in the breeze, the most ghetto thing is probably either the ground I run from my battery (which has its height boosted by a couple of wood blocks) to the engine block and then again to the shiny aluminum radiator, or it could be that I replaced most of my AC with that from a 90s honda civic, and you can see the welds/soldering/grinding when I open the hood.

>>13873572
That looks like it would seriously hurt air intake.

>>13872594
>>13872599
>>13872603

When did you buy that? still have the s2k?

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>>13873819
Doesn't look much worse than stock, if at all.

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Cv boot patch.
Tape
Zip ties
Bicycle tube

>>13868845
You wouldn't happen to be taking about a legacy would you?

>>13874202
Shits common on many frameless Subaru's. If I close the door with the window rolled down it sounds like the glass shattered on the inside from the horrible rattle sound it makes.

>>13873843
couple months ago, paid 1800$ for it. I still have the s2k, but I just wanted something to beat on without feeling bad. It's also got a bit of aftermarket goodies as well.

Saddest part is that it's faster from 0-100 than the s2000. (anything after 3rd gear is slower, but that's just due to gearing, 1 and 2 are almost identical to the s2gay.)

I'm gonna be doing winter lapping at cayuga with a couple guys from /o/ and you can come if you want.

>>13873479
It was corroded negative cable that went from battery to engine

>>13871311
>t
>four doors
>two seats
why
cuk?

>>13868734
I swapped the engine on my hatch but never cracked the AC system open, so it's still full of original charge from 1995 and the compressor is hanging by hanger wire bc it doesn't bolt up to the new engine

>Polishing wheels by jacking up the front of the car and idling with a gear engaged
>Handbrake cable tied to the rear torsion bar tube with a metal zip tie
>Used to have a dash mounted tachometer, but ended up changing the instrument cluster to one that has it as stock. The hole remains in the dash.
>Corrected the mileage on the new instrument cluster by disassembling it and end rotating the drum
>Back covers of both headlights held in place with duct tape
>Minor body plastic fixes done with zip ties
>Duct from the bumper to air filter replaced with sewer pipe and bends, because OEM wasn't available
>Plenty of rust treatment and DIY underseal mess. Haven't found any holes yet luckily, as they would require more thorough action.
>Rusted to shit brake backplates fixed with welding large washers to act as bolt holes that had rusted away with large bits of back plates

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>>13871323
In the nova I have a 406 small block

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>>13874894
Because race car bby

>>13875122
awww yeah nigga awwwwwwwwhhh yeeeeeeeyuhhh~~~!!!!!`

The back door doesn't stay open on its own, so I use rake handle to prop it open.
Two of the five doors don't respond to the power locks and have to be manually locked or unlocked.
The driver's door often fails to unlock itself in response to the remote door unlocker.
Zip ties are used to keep one of the electrical cables plugged into the computer securely so that it doesn't wiggle free and cause backfires.
One of the wheels is missing the center disc, leaving the hub exposed.
The backlight for the gear selector doesn't work, so you can't see what gear you're shifting into at night.
99% of the time, the radio fails to perceive any FM stations at all, leaving only AM stations available to listen to.

>>13875122
Is that bar acrros the fuel pickup factory or are you lol bracing?

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>>13868820

>>13873095
>>13873137
Dart Rallye 1.4T

Drives fine without a pedal box. I used a scan tool to reset the TPS and PPS several times until it learned. You just have to pay attention to your tach and keep it in the powerband at all times. A double-tap on the throttle before accelerating from a stop helps to "wake it up" too.

>>13874894
because racecar
because Dodge didn't equip my car with the underbody aero kit other Darts have so I can't actually get the advertised 41 MPG without modification.

I cut off the fake diffuser in the rear too, as it was causing extreme aerodynamic drag (related to the lack of underbody aero).

also my intake has been replaced with a $3 aluminum CAI tube from a junkyard Civic. It doesn't really do anything but the induction, surge, and purge noise is glorious.

>>13871359
what causes that to happen?

>>13868734
The gas door lever is broken, so I have to open my trunk to reach in and open the gas door.

The little trunk open sensor is strapped on with electrical tape to keep it from moving out of position (the sensor is on the locking module, not where you'd expect)

My headliner is sagging and I pinned it up with sewing needles in a quilted pattern in the back... I actually prefer the look so I'm keeping it that way.

I have to remove a 10 amp fuse to turn off my interior lights because of a stuck on illumination module. Every time I park at night I have to do this, so sometimes I drive at night with no dash lights

1995 Jaguar Vanden Plas. I plan to fix the last problem soon.

>>13868734
The IACV is broken so I have to keep my foot on the throttle at stop lights or it dies. People who can't use the brake and gas with the same foot at the same time can't drive it.

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i am the niggerest

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Mismatched exterior trim parts, it's the same on the other side, I can't seem to find the matching part on the boot lid

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Oh boy
>door open light hasn't showed up in a year
>trunk won't open from inside lever and key regularly refuses to turn in lock
>same deal with driver's door's lock, I don't have a fob and the lock in passenger's door doesn't work at all, so I'm screwed when it decides to stop turning entirely
>I'm too lazy to hide amp power and RCA wires coming from trunk to front so they are just taped on top of carpet
>radio sticks out from it's hole, it's semi-easy to rip out. Pic related
>side blinker light that's close to passenger door won't work even with new lamp
>gas cap is from a blue car, mine is white. Before changing it was white cap taped together with duct tape
>temp gauge occasionally drops to zero, then shows real temp again, then drops to zero etc.
>those plastic harnesses that house back lights are different: other has place for three lamps, other has four, so it looks like I have one burned lamp

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>>13868734
Everything about my Ranger is in pretty good shape.
The only thing I can think of is that my tachometer on my driver vent is aftermarket because it doesn't come with one by default (and yes it is a manual).
That or my tires.
Pic related
If I put a quarter in absolutely nothing disappears apart from the notched edging of the quarter

>>13874177
Could have spent 10 dollars for a new boot and not even an hour to install it. Also is that a Subaru Legacy or Impreza? Looks similar to my one

>>13868822
if mx5 (which probably because /o/ and mx5 latches do that a lot) you can pull them apart and put a small screw into the surface the latch latches to, to allow it to latch to the screw.

>>13868734
My rear brakes are held together with 2 lengths of copper wire, which keep the shoes from jamming up against the drum/ rattling around.

>>13875791
Subaru outback. Inner boot is a pain to get at. Just want it to last through winter.

My dual outlet exhaust is too loud for daily driving so I hammered a martini shaker over one of the tailpipes

Previous owners of my bmw fixed the front of the car, they used drilling screws to hold up the right headlight assembly. Will post pics later.

>>13868734
I have to hold up the gas lever while opening the filler cover. Meaning if there are no passengers I have to put something between the lever and the panel to hold it open while I fill my tank. Also, the trunk only opens from the inside. And at the moment I have no radio antenna. And my glove box can only be opened by physically prying it open with a screwdriver.

The struggles of driving a Montero

>>13871323
wtf is this

My rear license plate holders rusted off destroyed the plastic it attached to so I put velcro over the entire back of the license plate and stuck it on. It's been on that way for ~8 months.

My drivers door window is off track and will tilt if I try to roll it up so I used a suction cup to hold it straight while I roll it up

Rear driver window doesn't work at all so I duck taped it completely shut because it has a habit of falling down. The duck tape wasn't holding well enough and leaving a sticky residue as it failed so I ended up sealing the entire window with loctite and duck taping it again. I imagine after a while it might rip off the weatherstripping.

>>13875436
lel'd

>>13871142
Duct tape holding the air filter cover in place, door handle in passenger door broke, duct tape covering massive hold next to handbrake, covers mising from the seatbelt latches, all windows but mine are a bitch to open and close.

>>13877628
I know it doesnt make more power, I know its ghetto, i know it doesnt flow as well as stock, but i dont care, it sounds good kek

My fuel cap doesn't open anymore by pressing the button. I have open the trunk, pull out the sidewall, then unscrew the release mechanism which releases the cap.

I always do this at the back of the fuel station so people don't see it.

>>13879636
>button for fuel tank
What utter shit. No wonder it broke

>folding middle armrest is missing in pickup
>replaced with cardboard box

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everything. 43 year old stripped out vw bus orginal drive train and daily driver

>>13868734

In my daily? The plastic undercarriage has a shim holding it to the passenger's wheel well. I keep good care of it.

In my project? Shit, that's a hard one. Probably a toss between the washers forcing my Dana 44 to stay engaged, the pliers I have duct taped to the window roller, or just the generally awful and half assed spray enamel paint. Or maybe it's the back hatch which has to be held up by a piece of PVC pipe. Or maybe it's the fact that it came from the factory with air box ducting but is carbureted. Or maybe it's the fact that its forced to drive in front wheel drive because a u joint sheered and dropped the rear shaft. Or maybe...>>13868737

>>13876145
Assuming it's similar to my one things you'd need
>boot kit, comes with the grease and straps or whatever they're called
>new roll pin

tools
>Hammer
>roll pin punch
>some sort of penetrative/lubricating spray
>those pillers that that has little circles on the end to get the ring clamp thingy off on the innards of inner joint
>32mm socket for axle nut
>19m for wheel nuts, also a 19mm ring spanner
>12mm I believe for the sway bar bolts
>brass hammer, you might need to knock the axle out of the hub assembly

1. block the rear wheels, raise the front off the ground,usual safety bs, jack stands to support the front up and also keep jack there as well. Break the wheel nuts

2. remove wheel, try to get that notch on the axle nut out as much as you can. get someone the press the brakes to undo the axle nut using a breaker bar

3. undo the bits that connect the hub assembly to the shock, mark where the top bolt was to get the alignment right when done, undo the sway bar where it connects to the lower control arm.

4. rotate the rotor to get the roll pin on the inner side horizontal, pull the rotor forwards to remove outside axle end from hub. Punch roll pin out. Remove axle completely.

5. pull apart inner end of axle there's that ring clamp thingy for those pillers. Clean all the parts. put duct tape over the spines on the end to put the new boot on without damaging it. reassemble the joint with covering the pieces with the supplied grease. put some grease inside the outer cage then put some more grease in the new boot, do it up.

6. reinstall the axle in reverse of removal, do the axle nut up tight (152 ftlb), hit the notch in

there, my illiterate instructions on how to do it

>>13871249
Holy shit.

whatever spring system that holds my gas door open/closed broke so it was free to swing in the wind for almost a week before i superglued magnets to it

on my old car the passenger window got smashed (theft) and i replaced it with a piece of clear plastic but since the window was curved and the plastic isn't you'd have to open the door and manually guide the "window" into place if you opened it. I usually had to tell people not to use the window

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Heater deleted because Audi
Ac overheats my car
Popped sound speakers
Dent in bumper

Otherwise mint

It doesn't have a radio because if I put another one in a crackhead will just smash my window and steal it again within the weak.
>tfw it's still 1998

>>13884358

Looks like shit, too.

>>13884371
Better than your car for sure lmao. Sit down virgin

>>13884358
>Heater deleted
Do you have any problems with freezing or fogging windows?

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Passenger window is off the track so it doesn't go down the rubber properly and gets stuck.

Otherwise mint

>>13884394
No. Socal here

>>13884414
Fellow socal bud her. Isn't never needing a heater nice?

>>13884061
Thanks but like I said it will be for a spring project. If the boot holds then quite frankly there is little urgent need to replace. Any detrimental damage would have been done from when it initially tore and not from having it covered back again. I scooped out what I could and replaced with new grease to give it its best shot.

>>13873376
Can confirm. I have an IS350.

>>13875436
its like when black people use strap on's to make their dicks look bigger.

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>>13868734
On my skyline r33 we had to jam a stick in ignition barrel to stop the steering from locking then put a screwdriver into the ignition to start it.

This is the only pic I have of it we took the rb25det out to put into an s13

When my toyota supra's aircon is on cold water drips on the passengers foot

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>>13885346
This is the interior of the S13 dat shovel tho

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>>13876327

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>>13885346
>>13885366

Not west auckland skid hacks at all

have to pop my gas cap via reaching into the trunk and manually twisting the lock out of place. its a civic

>>13868734
No driver side door handle

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>>13887621
the POS in its glory

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1992 geo metro. Headlight switch went bad so put fog lights on the hood and drove it like that.

The VIN plate in the dash was hacked out with a screwdriver, so there is no VIN on the dash, since they thought it would help when they dumped the car in a field after stealing it.

Take a guess what car I drive.

>>13868734
have to exit my car thru the rear hatch since if i lock the doors then close it it opens by itself and i dont have the door key
z32

Don't have a car. Ride a bike.

my last car i had to rev it in nuetral at stops and it was an automatic. that was like driving on expert difficulty. had to pull e brake when coasting to stop. kept finding the problem would fix for a few days then do it again. rip ford escort.

Jeep wrangler
>zip ties holding parts of my soft top
>pack of live savers gummies stuffed between soft top and roll bars to absorb the rattling from wind (engineering bro did this for me lol)
>broke a evap hose fitting, pulled hose higher on to metal part then hose clamped and then zip tied
>manual window crank falls off
>heater/fan Knob is all dicked up goes off, low, higher, highest, off
>fuel tank was puntcured and repaired with JB weld
>back left wheel missing a stud

it's a Jeep thing