While car modification and customization certainly is cool, a lot of what goes on isn’t just for looks. These modifications do serve practical purposes- they can enhance car and/or driver performance, for example, or protect your car from damage. And when you’ve spent so much money on making your car look good and perform well, protection is exactly what you should have.
Smoked tail lights, for example. Smoking or tinting your tail lights covers the glass with a film, applied by sticker or sprayed on, that prevents scratches on your taillights. Just be careful about putting tints on your taillights- you may have state laws regarding how dark and opaque taillights can be, so your Smoked tail lights may not be street legal.
Less showy than Smoked tail lights and much more practical are the Clear bras paint protection systems. These also lay down an additional, almost invisible layer of film over you car. They’re applied to the front bumper, and areas like side mirrors and headlights, which are often subjected to small collisions with flying road debris, like loose gravel.
Without the clear bra, these small collisions with street debris can really add up to a lot of scrapes on your ride, which might require some costly repainting to affected areas. Clear bras are a good investment so that it never comes to this: just spend a little extra in the beginning, and then be assured that your paint job is safe.
If your car is hit hard enough (like with a larger piece of rock, while going at high speeds), it will leave a dent. This doesn’t necessarily mean another trip to the car shop to have the whole panel reworked and repainted, and several days’ worth of waiting.
You’ll find the answer in PDR Paintless dent removal. This technique is both cheaper and faster than traditional methods, because it’s so simple: a skilled technician gently eases the metal back into place with a set of tools, and a lot of patience. Once he’s done, your car will look like new, and you didn’t even have to pay for repainting.
Modifying your car looks cool, but it’s not all about simple aesthetics. Many customizations have more functional purposes- they can make the car run faster or smoother, for instance, or help to defend your car from any damage- if you’ve spent a lot of time and cash on your ride, the last thing you want is for all of that to be ruined by scratches and dings.
- Eddie Borgwardt
