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3 | 2.22% |
| They're ok especially when they go so well with my fake, plastic bonnet scoop I got off ebay. |
  
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13 | 9.63% |
| They're dumb. Henry Ford, Von Dutch and Boyd Cottington would be rolling in their graves. |
  
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61 | 45.19% |
| What the hell are altezza tail lights? |
  
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3 | 2.22% |
| Ghey |
  
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50,074 | 100.00% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 135. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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13-12-2009, 07:12 PM
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Regular Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Burra, NSW
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They've been popular for the last couple of years but what do we think of these bolt-on bits? Are they a hit or a miss for your car?
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13-12-2009, 07:16 PM
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The Vengeful One
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Tazzy
Posts: 12,765
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Wouldn't put them on my car, looks cheap and tacky i think
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13-12-2009, 07:30 PM
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Lost Boost Gained Class
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Werribee, Melbourne
Posts: 2,763
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Miss them thay look tacky
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13-12-2009, 07:35 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ballarat
Posts: 2,134
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13-12-2009, 07:36 PM
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Donating Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5,142
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IMO, an abomination.
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13-12-2009, 07:37 PM
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BF XR6, oh yeah!!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Melton, Vic
Posts: 1,015
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Forget about it, just cheap and ricey
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13-12-2009, 07:47 PM
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Regular Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 266
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I'm gonna be different and say it depends on the car.
While I wouldn't fit them to the XR, check out TUF260's car in the following link. I think the black lights on winter white look pretty sharp. http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...page=421&pp=25
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13-12-2009, 08:16 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 575
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tacky tacky tacky. they should sell them as "baby's first car modification" judging by the number of p plater commodores i see with them.
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13-12-2009, 08:18 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tamworth
Posts: 11,348
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Aftermarket Lights is no different to putting on a set of aftermarket rims.
Just depends on the car and or light. The blacked out lights with the twin brake bulbs on BA's are nice... But most chrome ones are tacky.
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13-12-2009, 08:22 PM
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Oo\===/oO
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tamworth
Posts: 11,348
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Oh, and why would Boyd Coddington be rolling in his grave? Some of his cars used off the shelf custom lights....
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13-12-2009, 08:45 PM
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Luxojet
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 1,883
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i think mine suit my car heaps, and make it that little bit different to the next falcon. but there are a lot out on the roads that look horrid, I'm talking chrome tail lights on VTs where they have the red plastic along the boot, hard to explain, but it looks sh%thouse, and jap cars. but it can look good.
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13-12-2009, 08:47 PM
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Regular Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Burra, NSW
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Good point re: Coddington. I only put him in 'cos he's dead and one of the few purists. If he didn't have it he'd usually manufacture it but he did stick some ugly steering wheels and after market bits on some of his cars.
At the heart of any modification is doing something new - the main point about these super cheap lights is that they have lost their originality. They're like wearing a novelty tie to a wedding or using comic sans on a business card. It all just screams 'novice'. |
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13-12-2009, 09:00 PM
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Luxojet
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Adelaide
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plenty of cars with ugly rims...even on this site, and that's not new...
novice this..
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13-12-2009, 09:03 PM
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Afterburner + skids =
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Skidsville
Posts: 12,139
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I voted number two.
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13-12-2009, 09:05 PM
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 maybe I shouldve.
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13-12-2009, 09:05 PM
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Clevo Mafia Inc.
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 10,496
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Most members seem to have voted......
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13-12-2009, 09:09 PM
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13-12-2009, 09:31 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Melbourne
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13-12-2009, 10:08 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 551
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A resounding result there. No vote rigging even needed.
Altezza lights shoulda stayed on bloody IS200's. Some of these knockoffs are friggin dodgy in their operation and seem to get wired up incorrectly. REAL good look huh. |
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13-12-2009, 10:17 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Foothills of the Macedon Ranges
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Saw a standard VX the other day, normally they look just OK from the rear, but this one had the clear Altezza lights I nearly threw up, AU's just the same, they look so wrong. What goes through their heads when they put these things on??
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13-12-2009, 10:38 PM
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Regular Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Outer-Inner-Northern Melbourne
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Nightshades are so much better looking
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13-12-2009, 10:40 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5,640
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They are one of the ugliest mods you can do to a car, how people think they look good is an absolute mystery to me. They *always* look out of place on the car and I'd sooner have my car painted hot pink before I'd fit altezza's, they're that ghey.
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13-12-2009, 10:43 PM
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Ford Convert
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Epping
Posts: 443
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I like mine.... so I guess that's all that really matters yeah!?
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13-12-2009, 11:33 PM
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Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
Posts: 7,453
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I went for choice number 2, yes I do realise sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but I am comfortable with that.
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13-12-2009, 11:51 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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i didnt vote because there an option missing, and that is : on some cars they look ok but not on mine.
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14-12-2009, 02:30 AM
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14-12-2009, 02:54 PM
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Luxojet
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Adelaide
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i think it looks good, and so do other people so that's all i care about, plus it's my car.
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14-12-2009, 02:56 PM
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Slow Sunday driver
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Ohrid, Macedonia
Posts: 544
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Before i clicked on this poll i was wishing there was the bottom option.
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14-12-2009, 03:01 PM
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Temporary Australian
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Central Queensland
Posts: 3,281
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Again like others say, it depend son the car, i had em on my Barge, but i think its tacky that now car manufactuars are bringing out "chrome and blinged" clear/chrome tail lights from factory, like the new FG's and Aurions, those ligts look disgusting.
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14-12-2009, 03:04 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 727
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Seriously though - what the hell are Altezza lights. (pps - sarcasm (lowest form of humour) switch now turned off) |
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