With the development of car culture and the younger car buyers, cars have become more than just a means of transportation in the eyes of more and more consumers. as the aborigines of the Internet era, post-90s (or even post-00) car owners pursue more car-loving personality and creation, and car modification has become the only way for the new generation of consumers to express their personality.

Lao Rong said before: the automobile refitting industry, a promising industry, has a market size of 160 billion yuan, an annual growth rate of more than 30 percent, and less than 80 percent abroad and less than 3 percent at home. In such an industry with broad development prospects, the current situation of domestic development is regrettable.

The reason does not rule out the uncivilized behavior of a small number of modified car owners and the non-standard of the domestic refitting market. In addition, the deep water in the refitting industry and the uneven quality of modified products are the reasons why most novice players do not dare to enter the “pit”, so how deep is the water in refitting cars? What are the “pitfalls” that can be avoided?

I. what is the modification of the car?

It is believed that many motorists have seen the video of car modification on *, at least tens of thousands, and many have no upper limit, and the money is slammed out like water. Many ironclad people have limited financial means and want to know how to save money to refit their cars.

Therefore, a variety of cheap modified parts on the Internet have attracted the attention of many motorists, such as electronic turbines, eddy current intake, electronic throttle accelerators and so on, as well as the unusually hot X horsepower some time ago. But does this really help you?

In Lao Rong’s view, to save money to play modification is not this kind of parts with cheap and efficient slogans, but less fooled and modified in a more reasonable way. Change the appearance, color, change the wheel hub, brake pads, shock absorbers, exhaust, tires, springs, spark plugs, brush a second order, and so on, these categories can choose a few, according to their own preferences.

If you do not brush the program, there is no need to change tires, wheels, brake pads, shock absorbers, springs and so on. And do not be with rhythm, like what must buy a good film, so that the car paint is not easy to damage, can maintain the value of this, then do not believe, a good film movement is 2-3W, no matter how much your car factory paint value, but also back to the film money, however, the car.

Second, no matter how poor you are, you can’t be poor with wheels.

Most of the modified rookies that Lao Rong knows think that exhaust, appearance change and ECU are the real modifications when they first come into contact with the car modification. Wheels, shock absorbers and tires are all fragile parts. Just find a second-hand one that looks good and cheap.

But this is a very wrong and stupid idea, because no matter how powerful your car is and how cool it looks, in the event of danger, only tires and braking systems can save you. The hub in the picture above, the data is perfect, the most important thing is that the price is only 450 yuan / piece! Compared with the brand-new forged hub in the big factory, this is only a fraction of someone else’s. Do you save money to buy bone incense?

Then there was an accident! Therefore, if you really want to change the wheel hub, please be sure to first select the authentic big brand factory quality wheel hub.

However, “No matter how poor you are, you can’t run out of wheels.” this sentence is really not suitable for riders who do not play with performance. in fact, the tires of the original factory are really enough. manufacturers choose products according to data debugging, and all cars leaving the factory are the most optimized scheme. so ordinary players, appearance, color change enough.

Third, do not buy second-hand modifications!

There are dozens of advertisements promoting second-hand car demolition and shock absorbers in moments every day. 3XXX, package adjustment, no matter walking down the street or off the track, you can’t afford to buy 3XXX at a loss.

More than 3000 can buy the original price of more than five figures of high-end teeth shock absorbers, slow hand action will be others seconds! As a result, another rookie got a set of HKS teeth to avoid shock.

When I saw the real thing, this set of toothed shock absorbers was indeed relatively new, and there was no oil leakage or oil leakage. 3999 yuan did include installation and debugging, and the posture was perfect after getting on the bus. But this is just the beginning. after driving for about 1000 kilometers, the toothed teeth began to leak oil, hit the top of the tower endlessly, made strange noises, and finally put it back to the original factory.

As a result, Lao Rong gives a suggestion to the young people who want to enter the pit. After all, retrofitting shock absorbers is a modification, and many of them do not have a scientific and rigorous design, and most of the operating conditions are more complex, so although there are no defects on the surface, it is very likely that the internal valve body has already been seriously damaged, so that the car will be installed perfectly and will be “lying in the nest” for a period of time, and there is no protection of rights. Therefore, if there are conditions, shock absorbers should not choose to dismantle the car parts!

Fourth, valve exhaust is of little use!

The fourth is also the most easily misunderstood point for novice refits: exhaust!

I do not know since when, the valve exhaust began to enter the field of vision of novice refit players, open the valve can “wave”, close the valve can be a quiet beautiful man, so that you can wave up when you want to wave. Usually in and out of the community can avoid being reported by neighbors, this really seems to be a perfect solution.

However, the vast majority of valve exhaust structure and working principle is to make a small hole in the middle / tail section of the exhaust of the original car, and then weld an electronic valve that can be opened and closed. The disadvantages of this are:

1. The voice is not good!

In fact, it is rejected to call valve exhaust modified exhaust Lao Rong, because what you actually hear is the sound of exhaust from your original factory, but you have bypassed the muffler drum at the end. there is no difference between this self-deceiving “noise” and the “self-high tube” that simulates sound waves.

2. The motivation will only be weaker!

Some riders think that after retrofitting the exhaust, the exhaust sound is louder and the car feels fiercer, in fact, this is all psychological effect, and the loud sound is entirely because you step on the gas pedal more presumptuously, but the actual effect is that when you open the valve, you destroy the exhaust back pressure that engineers have racked their brains to design, lose Bao’s low speed torque, and increase consumption without power rising or falling.

So choose a valve exhaust, it is better to choose a set of low-key mid-tail exhaust designed according to your own model, in fact, in the low-emission turbo now, as long as you do not blow up the street, controlling the speed sound will not disturb the public.

If you especially like to show your personality, valve exhaust and self-high tube can actually be used, Lao Rong is not killed with a single blow.

Lao Rong summed up, in fact, there are still many pits for modification. I just mention a few here. Because the domestic modification system is immature in all aspects, there are various pits. But think about it on the other hand, if it weren’t for his love to highlight his personality, why would he have to eat so much?

Hahaha, I love and hate this path of modification. I have taken many detours and suffered a lot of losses. Only then can I understand that modification is to keep torturing yourself and enjoy it ~ Just play with your innocence, man, so what if you spend a few dollars on toys?