Welcome to Pixel Car Art

[Ben.H]

Some of you may have seen this thread I made a couple of weeks ago. But if you didn't, my dad's LS400 was for sale, fast forward a bit and it sold. So obviously my dad was then without a car, now this is the 21st century and let's be honest, if you don't have a car, you're bollocksed. So the search was on, criteria was a sensible family car, under 2.0 and not silly money to buy and run (A lot like the Alfa he had before, but then sold, hmm...). Anyway a couple of days later he comes home with this

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A 2001 Honda Accord 1.8i VTEC 'Sport' with 11 Months MOT for a very fair £750. Good buy I say, but as we all know some things are always too good to be true, and before we knew it, VTEC kicked in just a little bit too hard...

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That is of course the car just after being towed home by a friend. The real story is that my dad actually bought the car with a slipping clutch, hence the decent price (Was originally up for £900). He thought he'd get at least a few more days out of it but it decided to f**k itself up on the way home, cue 6,000rpm and no movement. Still, one of them things. So now that's been replaced and it's all very good stuff.

We ordered a little something though...

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Even though it looks like one it really isn't a dildo, or a vibrator for that matter. It is of course an über JDM tight dori dori dorifto sideways S14 AE86 Type-R 2JZ GT-R gear knob. Which means my dad now gets an extra 50bhp and he can drift his FWD car. So we fitted it, as you do.

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The difference is immense, we beat a gay white and black Toyota with some stupid Japanese writing on it in a drift battle on the way home.

There's a list of jobs that need doing though, tidying it up mainly, you might be able to see the damage to the bumpers in the photos, the previous owner didn't really look after it too much tbh, so we'll get the outside tidied up, some new bumpers may be on the cards. Also, the interior is f**kING DISGUSTING, f**king smells of all sorts of nasty s**t and the seats have some weird stains. So the seats will be replaced ASAFP, my dad wants either the Recaro seats from the Type-R or the leather seats from the Executive trim level. But if I'm sly enough I may be able to get him to look aftermarket (If anyone's selling cheap Bride seats let me know). We may add some nice JDM influenced modifications too. Nothing too OTT, maybe some wind deflectors, a new steering wheel and some minor stickerage. The F18B2 engine isn't bad, not too sure if it's very tuneable, but tbh my dad's not too fussed about getting his hands dirty under the bonnet anyway, he would like some new wheels however and he did seem to like the idea of lowering springs, but we'll have to see how that pans out.

Anyway I've written WAY too much now

This post has been edited by Ben.H: Sep 23 2011, 04:34 PM

[Timay]

I never said anything about the quality of the wheel

It's just fake s**t is for cheap ass people, buying reps is just an easy way out, so you can look cool in front of all the people that don't know otherwise

People that know better and people that have real s**t are going to think you're a tool because you have something that's a cheap copy of a real product

Not to mention the fact that replica wheels are theft of another companies designs, that's real cool. You guys get mad over stealing pixels, so what about something more material, it's theft either way.

There are few exceptions, but copies are just that, why get a copy of something unless there were only one or two produced. When it's two mass produced products, the one that's stealing designs is going to take business from the real companies. What happens when they have to quit manufacturing or jack the costs up? People that buy cheap knockoffs are the reason you can't afford real s**t in the first place

[M.I.V. Design.]

fake wheels save you money

[Timay]

Real wheels wouldn't cost so much if those manufacturers didn't have other companies selling their own product for half the price

[Henrique.]

This is ridiculous,those are just wheels, damn lol

[Daniel.]

Wheels are wheels, damn it.

There is almost no difference between Rota and real s**t if you use it normally

[Timay]

Except the fact that Rotas are goddamn counterfeit, lmao

[Josh]

plus they break in half if you look at them the wrong way

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[Andrew.]

rips off are rips off
spending 100000000 dlls on wheels isnt the same as spending 1000 on wheels

actually rota means broken in spanish

This post has been edited by AndrewGMC: Sep 29 2011, 06:14 PM

[Josh]

but with that extra cost, you pay for quality also. not even that they'll fall apart on you. the cheaper the wheel is made, the less true it'd be. same thing with bike wheels, would you rather take a $10 rim or a $100 rim? the $100 rim would be better made and more true, which makes it better overall. i'd rather pay that extra money for the ease of mind

[Timay]

Plus, half the reason they're so cheap is because their designs are STOLEN, haha. No R&D costs of someone else designs the wheel for you

[Ben.H]

dat argument

For the record, this project is now over already. This is thanks to my dad being a general c-unit and kicking me out because he's an argumentative bastard who can't control his anger

[Mkid]

O_o

I hope things work themselves out for you.

But in the defense of fake wheels... Maybe the real wheel companies would get more business if they dropped their prices. Their prices are inflated because they know people will still want and buy them and they still meet their profit goals. If they were losing money, they would drop their prices so fast it would be ridiculous. Its all about supply n demand. By the way, might I remind you that half of Enkei's wheels are knock-offs of other wheels. I would hardly consider Enkei a poser company.

This whole argument just reminds me of middle school kids who pick on the kid wearing K-mart sneakers because he doesn't have Nikes. Copying goes on in all markets. Are you going to pick on someone because they bought Wal-Mart brand apple juice instead of Motts? To say you are buying wheels just because of the respect you will get for them is retarded. Buy what you like, grow up, and stop hating.

[Henrique.]

O_o

I hope things work themselves out for you.

But in the defense of fake wheels... Maybe the real wheel companies would get more business if they dropped their prices. Their prices are inflated because they know people will still want and buy them and they still meet their profit goals. If they were losing money, they would drop their prices so fast it would be ridiculous. Its all about supply n demand. By the way, might I remind you that half of Enkei's wheels are knock-offs of other wheels. I would hardly consider Enkei a poser company.

This whole argument just reminds me of middle school kids who pick on the kid wearing K-mart sneakers because he doesn't have Nikes. Copying goes on in all markets. Are you going to pick on someone because they bought Wal-Mart brand apple juice instead of Motts? To say you are buying wheels just because of the respect you will get for them is retarded. Buy what you like, grow up, and stop hating.

é por isso que eu amo esse cara

[Mkid]

amo voce tambem <3

[Josh]

walmart brand apple juice tastes better than mott's anyway. but i digress

[Brandon]

I agree Mott's tastes like faggot. Off brand apple sauce ftw.

Rotas can be good though you guys are trippin.

You just have to make sure you're going fast enough, then they'll break and you can fly.

[Josh]

You just have to make sure you're going fast enough, then they'll break and you can fly.

this guy

[Noodles]

if your gonna drive it hard out and ramm into s**t of course rims are gonna break, genuine or fake. the matter is, if you want to look good with out spending alot of dosh, you get them replicas, but if you wanna look good (show car spec) you get the geniune poop.


poopoopoopoopoopooopoop


oh GOD

[Brandon]

I would totally use Rotas if I was a drifter or something. They're cheap, why not?

[Noodles]

cheap and easily replacable unlike genuine's.