so i was chatting with NgoRX8 about a few things i wish i did differently, and he told me that another car forum has a thread like this, and he suggested that i start one here. so post up your the mods you regret doing and why. perhaps the product just sucks, now all that you could have hoped for, or perhaps you've learned something about yourself and wish you spent the money on different mods, or other things in life.

ill begin...

i wish i got some KW v3 instead of my Tein Flex. the flex are nice but more adjustability is nicer. plus the rears of the Teins don't have as wide a range for height adjustment as i would have liked (don't go low enough!)

also wish i didn't buy a body kit. it looks nice and i love how it looks, but i just wish i spent the money on other things that i realize are more important to me (lightweight exhaust, intake, battery, sway bars, or maybe investing in some bonds or something). i mean, i can still do those mods...i just need to make a lot more money

so what do you regret and why?

 

sometimes I regret my mazdaspeed springs wishing I would have gone lower...

 

Pulleys. Way too much money for a 2 hp gain.

 

I regret the plastic strakes I put on my car 'cus they scratched my paint! I hope the new chrome ones are better.
I also wish I'd done suspension before exhaust.

 

painting my calipers orange and silver.. it was a drunk thing...

but they look good now...

 

I regret not buying two sets of 275/30r19 tires when they were on sale.

That's all.

 

I regret not buying the Pettit Supercharger, and going on vacation with that money

 

I regret not buying a $12 Ebay sport chip.

 

my regret is almost the reverse of one of the above posts. anyone who's paid attention will know which.

 

You regret NOT painting your calipers orange and silver?

 

i regret buying royal purple. Waste of money too much hype. I will say after 3000 miles there oil is pretty good. ( which is probally the point but meh...)

 

ROFL!!! Man thats funny hahaha. Stop baggin on that poor fellow hahaha.

 

Regret not buying tires on sale would have saved a bundle

Regret not getting plastic tips for edges of racing skirt

 

Regret putting ACT HD clutch in but that may change once I go FI .....

 

OMG IT WORKS THOUGH I CAN NOTICE THE DIFFERNECE

I regret not having any mods yet...Hopefully once I get my new Borla exhaust I won't regret that though.

 

I regret buying a Veilside rear for my 2006 8. The auto body shop wouldnt install it since it requires removal of the crunch bar. A hazard for sure...

Time

 

haha, i told you this would be a good thread.

lets see- mods i regret are...

Au-to Bahn bodykit: i forsee it getting played out soon.

Racing Beat Exhaust: want a louder and lighter exhaust.

Autolumination lights: most burn't out

MS cf spoiler: ended up trashing it cuz it fitted bad, quality sucked, and disliked the look with my kit.

actually, also regret a couple other mods i spent and wasted money only to never put it on.

 

ms cf spoiler????? or rotary extreme?

beers

 

carbon creations. i hated it so much, gave away the bottom lip to my friend and trashed the other.

 

No mods = no regrets.

 

ah,

at least i could paint over my mistake...

ouch, very ouch..

beers

 

I am hating my freaking size-of-a-shoebox carputer that I am trying desperiately to fit somewhere in the must-use-every-single-nook-and-cranny-for-something-important RX-8 interoir. I wish I would have gotten a much, much smaller computer now instead of saving a few hundred bucks. It's probably cost me the extra building an aluminum box and support brackets and crap at Hoem Depot than the tiny CPU would have cost me in the first place. Oh well, I will love it once it's in there. Eventually.......

 

I regret trying the "yank and pray" method of taking off the center trim before reading about pushing the tab to the side from the cup holder area.
Oh well, the only person who knows the center section is loose is me.

 

No regrets = like my mods

 

i regret nothing.....i learn from my experiences