Too much customization? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

DerrickCaracter · 10-28-2010, 09:07 AM

I think some cars get customized so much that it doesn't even look like a Porsche anymore. Plus, when you go over the top, it makes your car look like a hooptie.

Does anyone else agree?

r9i8c7k · 10-28-2010, 09:17 AM

I definitely think there is a tipping point between "just enough" and "too much" customization. Yet, no rule of thumb for which is which. It has to be seen to be decided.

stab1991 · 10-28-2010, 09:30 AM

Cars are like women, we all have our tastes.

Poorly done mods cheapen a car. With high end cars, the newer models are usually tastefully done, but I notice that as a car ages and becomes more affordable to everyone, that the bargain hunters break out the JC Whitney catalog and go crazy.

When I had the Viper, very little modding was done even to the early cars. But even the old ones arent cheap.

But in the vette world, watch out. There are too many tasteless cars out there. Especially C4 vettes.

eightsandaces · 10-28-2010, 09:53 AM

IMO even the factory goes too far at times, I don't want my $70,000 car to have Spider written on it's door in huge letters and orange krazy wheels like goodyear sold for kids bikes in my youth. Boxster Spider looks stupid written on the trunk too. There were so many 944's with the added plastic fill taillight panel with "Porsche" plastered on it that when I first started looking I thought it was from the factory. Every POS beater in my town has a poorly mounted, one pipe for all people, stainless muffler that on throttle sounds like those banned soccer noisemakers.

yelojkt · 10-29-2010, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by eightsandaces

Every POS beater in my town has a poorly mounted, one pipe for all people, stainless muffler that on throttle sounds like those banned soccer noisemakers.

If I ever see a Fartcan on the back of a Boxster I will personally tear it off with my own hands and leave a note on the car telling them to go buy a Honda or a Saturn.

Perfectlap · 10-29-2010, 10:23 AM

well if you look at the Boxster concept car that made the big splash in 1993 and the "less is more" version that first came off the assembly line.....there was definitely a big difference.

to many, this would be considered "ricer" like:

extanker · 10-28-2010, 09:55 AM

i get a chuckle when some folks get rain sensing wipers on a car that wont ever see foul weather and/or dynamic lighting for a car not driven at night. lets not forget the race mats,fire ext etc for people who only see a track under their xmass tree...BUT its their money and its not my place to say it to their face

Johnny Danger · 10-28-2010, 11:31 AM

I agree that there's a delicate balance between tasteful modifications, especially cosmetic ones, and "gilding the lilly". I concur with EightsandAces, in so far as Porsche needing a crash course in "style" when they start putting decals on their vehicles that say "spyder". Very garish indeed.

jmatta · 10-28-2010, 12:53 PM

I do believe he meant "Spyder", not the araneae.

Modifications are all in the eye of the beholder...the simpler, the better, in my book.

Highlow · 10-28-2010, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DerrickCaracter

I think some cars get customized so much that it doesn't even look like a Porsche anymore. Plus, when you go over the top, it makes your car look like a hooptie.

Does anyone else agree?

I think it can be overdone, but as long as the owner is happy with it, nothing else matters.