Why You Should Never Put $5000 Rims on Your $2000 Car

hon-DUHs are made to have small rotors. That way the brakes will
overheat and the idiot owners will give up the ghost in a flamming car
wreck.


<<<<What I find hilarious are the CD sized disc brakes

Chris >>>>

In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005 21:30:36 -0500,
> (Brent P) wrote:
>
>>In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
>>
>>> You're right, somebody just HAD TO HAVE a set of STOCK rims for a
>>> Honda Civic.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You'd be surprised. On the torqueless wonder car a number of years
>>ago someone pried off a piece of side trim and stole it.
>
> Are you sure it wasn't just mindless vandalism?

One specific piece was stolen, removed in a way not to damage it.

(Brent P) wrote in
:

> In article >, Scott en
> Aztlán wrote:
>
>> You're right, somebody just HAD TO HAVE a set of STOCK rims for a
>> Honda Civic.
>>
>>
>
> You'd be surprised. On the torqueless wonder car a number of years
> ago someone pried off a piece of side trim and stole it.
>
>
>

Thieves peeled off my Acura namebadge,Acura symbol and GSR badge from my
Integra. I would have given them away if removed without scratching the
paint.

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at
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"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 May 2005 21:30:36 -0500,
> (Brent P) wrote:
>
> >In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> >
> >> You're right, somebody just HAD TO HAVE a set of STOCK rims for a
> >> Honda Civic.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You'd be surprised. On the torqueless wonder car a number of years
> >ago someone pried off a piece of side trim and stole it.
>
> Are you sure it wasn't just mindless vandalism?

Or an effect of gravity?

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"C.H." > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 29 May 2005 20:05:40 -0700, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
>
>> http://tinypic.com/5fq8pf
>>
>> Some poor college student from Minnesota is going to get a rude
>> surprise
>> when he comes back to school after the Memorial Day weekend...
>
> What I find hilarious are the CD sized disc brakes
>
> Chris

"Small car" = lower mass = smaller brakes to achieve same stopping
distance from given speed, as compared to "big car".

"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
>
> > wrote:
>
> >> >> You're right, somebody just HAD TO HAVE a set of STOCK rims for a
> >> >> Honda Civic.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >You'd be surprised. On the torqueless wonder car a number of years
> >> >ago someone pried off a piece of side trim and stole it.
> >>
> >> Are you sure it wasn't just mindless vandalism?
> >
> >Or an effect of gravity?
>
> If that were the case, would not the trim piece still by lying on the
> ground next to the car when Brent got back?

Obviously, a kindly trash collector got there first. OK, it's far more
reasonable to assume that it was stolen by the owner of a similar car, but
still...

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Bev
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