Modifying my car is becoming a problem for me! I'm too addicted!!
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Modifying my car is becoming a problem for me! I'm too addicted!!
When I first got my car, I told myself that I would just drop it, clear the corners, exhaust and that's it. But every couple weeks after a single mod, I have this addiction to keep doing more. I need something new to my car every couple weeks. If I don't, I start to hate my car and not wash it or take care of it. I think it's starting to become a problem. I'm spending too much of the little money that i get from my $9/hr job. Week after week, something has to be modified for me to keep liking my car. Has anyone else had this addiction?
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Rep Power: 0 I started modifying my car with a pair of hyperwhite bulbs... Now look at it i dont know if i will ever be able to stop, as soon as im done modifying it i know im going to sell it and buy somthing else but then i guess ill just start all over agian. I guess it is an addiction oh well... 
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Rep Power: 0 hey at least "modding" your car is alot better than "fixing" your car[IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG] where as repairs can cost alot more than doing stuff that will help your car hth 
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Rep Power: 0 Hey Im with you guys on this one too.
I am thinking I need to get a second job just to pay for modding the car, its nuts. But as one of my only hobbies, its worth it to me.
I love it.
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I am thinking I need to get a second job just to pay for modding the car, its nuts. But as one of my only hobbies, its worth it to me.
I love it.
Later
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Rep Power: 0 make it stopp.... [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 316 I wasn't planning on modding up my car until I came across this web site back in like March of 2001. I started with altezza lights cuz I thought they were cool [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG]. Then I saw fast and furious, don't flame, nice cars in there. Then I went to import shows and decided all my savings would go into my car from then on. Working 16 hours a weekend, $7 an hour, $5,000 later, I've kinda calmed down a lil bit. Working on gettin an LCD now and installing my PS1
ive got the same problem. i keep saying that I'm not putting any more money into my car, then I go out and buy something else. I just bought fog lights and I know ill be buying more crap...
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Rep Power: 0 I am so addicted i have only had my car for two months and already put over $3500 in to it and plan on doing another 3000 in the next 3-4 months. someone please stop me:
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Rep Power: 0 Yeah... I guess there's nothing better than improving on something you love.
I had some cash for mods not too long ago but my friend suggested that I save up my money to buy the more expensive things first and then spend it on the cheaper things like a clutch, short shifter, shift lamp, new brake rotors with aftermarket pads, etc. etc. for more expensive things... exhaust, turbo, full coilovers, rims, etc..
I agree it was the wisest decision... but I ended up buying a PS2 because i needed something to entertain myself. Then the worse case scenario came up - found the rims I wanted for cheap and since I bought the PS2 there's no way I can afford it now nor compromise and return it to Best Buy.
I had some cash for mods not too long ago but my friend suggested that I save up my money to buy the more expensive things first and then spend it on the cheaper things like a clutch, short shifter, shift lamp, new brake rotors with aftermarket pads, etc. etc. for more expensive things... exhaust, turbo, full coilovers, rims, etc..
I agree it was the wisest decision... but I ended up buying a PS2 because i needed something to entertain myself. Then the worse case scenario came up - found the rims I wanted for cheap and since I bought the PS2 there's no way I can afford it now nor compromise and return it to Best Buy.
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[hr]Originally posted by: ncwcivic
I am so addicted i have only had my car for two months and already put over $3500 in to it and plan on doing another 3000 in the next 3-4 months. someone please stop me:[hr]
[hr]Originally posted by: ncwcivic
I am so addicted i have only had my car for two months and already put over $3500 in to it and plan on doing another 3000 in the next 3-4 months. someone please stop me:
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[hr]Originally posted by: Roadog
There are alot of bad things you could be doing with your time and money so that makes mods to your car a good thing...........right?
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[hr]Originally posted by: Roadog
There are alot of bad things you could be doing with your time and money so that makes mods to your car a good thing...........right?
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Rep Power: 403 i know, i use to have a checking and savings account but now i find my self scrounging around for money since i don't have any (i make about 10 dollars an hour plus other money) ... i don't know why i do it but even though i won't have money to feed my self i still buy stuff for my car... and then i have a gf... she now complains that i don't take her out... dam it... by the time im 22 i will have the sweetest car in the world but i will starve to death...(im 19)
i need to STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i need to STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rep Power: 0 I think most of us are addicted. I sure as hay know I am. Soon as I buy a couple things, a couple things go on the list. It's a list that can never be completely scratced off. The list grows at a faster rate than my wallet.
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Rep Power: 0 hey, you guys are lucky, there isn't half the modifications out there for the 7th gen civic then there is for the 3rd generation integra, not only do I have the addiction to mod the car, I have the stress to find out which one I'd prefer, the best price and which one gives the most power or looks the best. But, damn it's fun.
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Rep Power: 0 HEHE yeah I have this problem too, worked all summer 12+ hrs a day and have money for rims but then I lost my job to seasonal. Now I finally have a decent job again and I want rims so the next mth of work will get me to my rims then once I am done with wheels I dunno. I spend all my time looking at rims to buy I will go crazy once I buy them because then I will have no mods left to add HEHE
But I feel you guys
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But I feel you guys
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Rep Power: 0 I'm in the same boat to i spend all of the money that I don't have anymore and now initial D arcade game even more addictive, sigh why can't I just make 100,000$ a year
and now initial D arcade game even more addictive, sigh why can't I just make 100,000$ a year 
