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Most car modifications are stupid, at least the ones i hear about
Whenever a car or motorcycle passes by that makes a lot of sound, i'm always unsure of whether i should feel bad because the vehicle is obviously damaged, and the driver can't afford to get it fixed, so they have to live with the embarrassment of driving around in an obnoxiously loud vehicle
Or flip them off because they're an asshole that intentionally fucked up their exhaust because "haha car go vroom"
When a friend of mine said he was planning to do that yo his bike, the rest of us unanimously told him we would pour sugar in his gas tank if he did so
While this is true, diesels often come from the factory with a conservative one size fits all engine tune.
You can usually make the car more fuel efficient and/or add a bit more power if you do it properly. Potentially you can even make it more reliable. One of the things manufacturers caught up in dieselgate did, is recall cars and give the engine a less polluting engine tune.
Obviously, that's not what most people do. They tune it to have as much power as possible (or if they're idiots roal coal) and are then surprised when the transmission or engine gives out prematurely, and the manufacturer no longer feels the need to honour the warranty.
You know how people say that a new car loses depreciates up to 20% just driving it off the car lot? Stuff like engine tuning is one of the reasons that difference exists. You don't know if the previous owner did stupid shit to the car.
It's more that the car transitions from "new" status to "used" status. But yes the probability of something getting abused on it goes up
Honestly Greta is an evil bitch, but she isn't wrong about Palestine or the environment . She does just suck as a person tho
who mentioned greta?
I think I replied to the wrong comment my bad!