Mods Removed

[Alerodude]

Today my parents freaked out and made me put the emblems back on and made me fix my clear corners back and take out my cathodes and I didnt even get a picture or anything. They said that it was all illegal and pointless and that the clear corners and cathodes would affect my driving and that taking the emblems off affected insurance and crap it was all a bunch of lies but whatever so now im pissed....I dont know if I will be back on considering my parents wont let me do anything anyway.

[alero_ecotec]

haha, my dad is a little tense like that, and he has a right to be, he did buy the car, but just do what i do, work on your car when your parents aren't home, or go to a friends house, and dont let your parents near your car

[jackal2000]

that sucks dude, i would be waaaaay pissed :angry:

[alerored04]

ive got the same deal. good thing mine only care if im spending money so the cheap stuff is fine. itll be a scary day when they find out about the intraxes and the kyb's. ill probably have to run the exhaust and rims past them since those are kind of noticeable mods. sucks that your parents dont understand.

[Oldsmopimp]

hahahahahaha..... kids

[Alerodude]

Well its just freaking stupid basically. If I wanted to put a cb or something in my car he would be behind me all the way but yea.thats stupid

[Alerodude]

I'm gonna like drive it off a freaking cliff so that way whatever breaks I might be able to fix my own custom way....if that made any sense

[Redog]

Thats sucks a lot dood.

I don't see anything that you did as illegal or insurance increasing

[Pimpalero03]

u think that is bad, try comming home with a body kit, making them freak.. THEN comming home with a bagged out ride. lol WOW they werent happy

[smlzalero]

:o That sucks ass!! I take it you're on their insurance, not your own? And is the car yours or theirs?

[Alerodude]

My car I payed for it, I pay for gas, I pay for insurance, I pay for new tires, New brakes, Everything, and I said that but they were like We are still your parents ladefrickingda so on so forth

[smlzalero]

Evil!!!

You can always just ignore them... :P
Worked for me.

[Alerodude]

My dad thinks he is a hardass he would probably just rip it all off anyway...

[alerored04]

depending on how much you have to rely on them you could just tell them to deal with it since you paid for it but pissing parents off is not a good thing.

[OrangeALero]

i also own my car and am on my own insurance and they flip out...

i was washing my car one day and i had the hood open to wipe stuff down and my dad saw the intake and strut bar through the window and ran out....had to explain stuff for about 20 minutes....

good times

[Alerodude]

well my parents are being difficult i might just have to wait till i get out of this house before i do any car stuff....and i might not have the alero then

[Cliff8928]

That's crazy that you can't do any of that stuff... Before I was of legal age the only thing i was ever complained at about were things that woke people up at night LOL! Tomorrow I'll be getting a new cat-back made for my dad's Crossfire (2004, 2500 miles on it). I guess it's a good thing that everyone's parents aren't the same.

[SilverBullet256]

my parents dont give a crap at all, in fact my dad has helped me do almost all of it so far and he is helping me pay for my lastest projects

[Alero04]

that sucks man...thats some wacked insurance company if they're gonna raise ur rate if u take ur emblem off....parents just lie to piss their kids off i swear!!
my parents dont kno anything about cars so they dont really care what i do...i disabled my Daytime running lights and dad kinda was mad about that cuz he's afraid its gonna effect my warranty...totally not gonna. and he thinks my HIDs are WAY too bright(they are but they look hot!!! :cool: ) and he thinks the tint is gonna get me killed or that im gonan run over someone cuz its so dark...lol!!
my mom's just like 'whatever. its ur car, u paid for it, u pay for insurance, do whatever you want to it as long as u pay for it'...
dad's just oold school...i mean he IS 62 :P

[mixmastercase]

You should talk to them again, or just ignore them. It's your car and you pay for everything so they don't have a right to complain about your car. In early summer 2003 I was driving a 1995 Accord and I spent about $4500.00 in one month. My car came home with rims, coilovers, new lights all around, wings west lip kit, and a few minor engine mods. The summer before I spent about $2000 on the stereo and alarm. My parents thought I was crazy and were a little upset but would never tell me to take stuff off because it was my car and I paid for everything. You have to tell your parents that it's yours and you can do what you want with it. I was still living at home when I had the Honda and was working full time.

[Alero04]

exactly man. its ur car in everyway. too bad for them if they dont like it. ur insurance isnt gonna go up if u take ur emblem off...like comeon!
i do all those mods again and if they dont like it, tell them to pay for your car

[doubleN0alero]

Sometimes, parents are just being parents. I haven't lived with my parents for over 6 years now and they still give me a hard time when I buy something new for my car. Their resoning is a little different though....they would prefer that i save my money for a house rather than pissing it down the drain in a car...

[misslindseysue]

So, you still live with them? They are your parents. Maybe you could explain what you want to do first and convince they it's alright before you did it. Or you could just listen to them. Call me old fashioned, but I lived by my parents' rules until I moved out. Thems the breaks, kid. How old are you, anyway? My parents didn't care what I did to my car when I was living at home at 23, but they didn't even let me buy a car 'till I was 19.

[AftermathAlero]

haha... my parents yelled at me when i started doing mods to my car. The worse one was coming home with shaved door handles after going ot my buddy's house and doing them. They didn't car for the other mods besides telling me i was wasting my money. They bought the car for me as a graduation present. Everytime i come home with something new my parents just shakes their head now.. cuz they've been yelling at me for 4 years now.. hahahahha


I got pulled over the other day while transfers my license plate from louisiana to texas and i didn't have a plate on the car yet but I driving to the registration place. and the female cop (she was older like 40ish but cool) she says.. what kind of car is this and wheres all the emblems? I told her the truth.. I took them off and never put them back on. Then shes like.. ok. LOL

[Alerodude]

well i took my emblems off again this morning...lol i decided to be a hardass im not gonna put them back on....ill probably put the cathodes back in but keep my corner reflector on just cause its more noticable.....

[cherrington17]

my parents rant and rave whenever i do some kind of interior mod to my car. they always have and always will. its just a "cultural" difference between us.

... but as soon as i'm driving somewhere with my dad, he starts asking detailed questions about how i did stuff, cuz he'd like to do it to his suv... :lol: :lol:

its their house and their rules. they also funded half the cash for the car(that i'm almost completely paid them back) and its their insurance, so i can't do anything major like what pimpalero03 did. if i came home kitted and bagged, they would take a bat to the car.... :glare: i just live with it...

[Nik1128]

That really sucks, man... The emblems though? That's crazy.

My parents are pretty cool. They bought me my deck for Christmas, and my dad was out there watching when I installed my speakers. I removed my emblems a couple weeks ago and they haven't even noticed... lol. I'm going to have to clear my corners on a day that they're both gone, just 'cuz I hate being interrogated. Probably the only time I will ever get a hard time for modding my car is when I start tampering with engine related things and most likely suspension too.

Oh well. I hope you get things worked out, dude.

[Alero04]

am i the only one who likes the emblems?? :blink:

[alero_ecotec]

man, i didnt realize you paid for everything.......i guess technically you could call the cops on them if they mess with your car after you've done stuff to it, but thats a little extreme, it would probably get a good laugh on here though

[RAVAGE214]

My dads a machanic and has helped me with everoneone of my mods to date.

[AleroBloke]

My dad thinks my car is bad ass, he helps me out with most of the stuff. Hell his old ass races me at lights sometimes, he drives an Audi A6..haha..he doesnt' beat me that much.

[Alerodude]

Well I am about to start a car club around here but I wanted to fix my car up a little more first....I mean I know alot about cars but not the technical stuff but my buddy is like car phanatic he knows more than any mechanic i know and he is 16...sad i know maybe i live in a retarded town well infact i know i do...lol

[sound_xtreme]

ya, my rents used to give me poop. they still do cause now the car takes up room in their garage.

[Alerodude]

well we dont have a garage so its taking up their driveway....lol

[Oldsman]

Originally posted by Alero04@Apr 18 2005, 11:30 AM
am i the only one who likes the emblems?? :blink:
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nope, i like my emblem. i am proud to display what i drive.............lol

[freakout]

Damn, I guess I was lucky. I can remeber being around 8, I think, and going to the Super Nats in Coloumbus. In a 1938 DeSoto.

[Alerodude]

well i am n ot ashamed of what i drive or anything i was juist going for a cleaner look.....no handles no emblems so on....just would look cleaner i guess.....

[snake_eyes2]

All I have to say is wait until you get married! Cause then its not the threat of getting grounded its the threat of having to live with someone who wont sleep with you!! :P

[cherrington17]

ya, my rents used to give me poop. they still do cause now the car takes up room in their garage. Thats the biggest thing i have to fight w/ rents about.

And i've thought about taking off the hood emblem, but not the alero one on the trunk. kinda up in the air about it...

[Alero04]

u shoud all be ashamed of urselves!! :angry: removing that classy olds emblem off ur cars!! be proud of what u drive! i LOVE that emblem! :)

[doubleN0alero]

Originally posted by snake_eyes2@Apr 19 2005, 02:49 PM
All I have to say is wait until you get married! Cause then its not the threat of getting grounded its the threat of having to live with someone who wont sleep with you!! :P
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LOL...yeah being married or even close to it is 10 times worse than dealing with the parentals....now you have to deal with....should I buy a super or should i get new furniture...
....the furniture won! I kinda feel like that guy in the Harley commericial....The new harley or the killer dinette...

[Alero04]

:o thats mean! ^^

[snake_eyes2]

But ohh so true!! Try exlpaining the need for a super or turbo to a woman whose idea of cool transport is a Gary fisher worth more than my car. Somethimes it just hurts :cry:

[Alerodude]

Well i have a girlfriend if that counts...haha she is supportive of pretty much everything i do....my band, my car, so on. I just dont understand what the big ordeal is about me doing stuff to my car. I mean its just like a hobby.....everyone has a hobby....

[-Alero-]

Originally posted by Oldsman+Apr 18 2005, 11:49 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Oldsman @ Apr 18 2005, 11:49 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Alero04@Apr 18 2005, 11:30 AM
am i the only one who likes the emblems?? :blink:
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nope, i like my emblem. i am proud to display what i drive.............lol
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i kept the front olds symbol and left ALERO on the back. thats it

[Alerodude]

I left the front symbol on.....if that counts for anything

[jwth2005]

WOW.... I didnt know there were so many people put there with that problem. Me personally i have never had that problem. Hell i even tell my parents what i WANT to do to my car... Show them pics, Videos, Sound clips, ETC. and they are like cool.... I even told them about a possibility of me getting a body kit since my front bumper is kinda messed up and they thought it was a good idea... I pay for the car payment. Altho it is in their name... I pay for insurance (when i can both payments total to 600 a month) and most of the time i pay for gas. ANd as far as being married or having a GF not likeing the mods... Me and my gf are very very close... Luckily she understands why i do the stuff i do or want to do the stuff i want to do... I guess im one of those lucky few.

[Alero04]

Originally posted by snake_eyes2@Apr 19 2005, 04:01 PM
But ohh so true!! Try exlpaining the need for a super or turbo to a woman whose idea of cool transport is a Gary fisher worth more than my car. Somethimes it just hurts :cry:
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k...liking a bicycle and wanting a bike over a car?!!? hrmmm :glare:

[dt_freak1]

jeeze dude that sucks, ya i live at home too but you know what i do what i want to my car, i pay the gas, the insurance, the maintenance and my payments and do my own laundry and keep my own bathroom clean and work about 45 hours per week and my parents gripe cuz i dont keep my room clean and i sluff off on the damned lawn mowing. i just ignore it mostly. they cant take my alero away, and thats the way it is. actually since im 25 it dont matter anyways. im my own legal guardian anyway so listening to them is optional. :D

[cannaert]

Its the hole we have power over you thing. Mine do that to me about poop and so did my X.

[freakout]

I'm lucky my wife is pretty cool. I'm trying to talk her into running the alero down the strip. Don't know if I can or not, I try to keep her involved.

[mike2002]

Originally posted by Oldsmopimp@Apr 17 2005, 06:46 PM
hahahahahaha..... kids
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lol, im thinking the same thing

[snake_eyes2]

Don't get me wrong I love my wife greatly and we get along great. Its just that she doesn't really understand anything to do with mechanics. I had to explain why I had to replace the distributor in her civic before the thing exploded. It took like twenty min. This just happens to be the one part of my life that she fains intrest in simple to appease me. So I guess I am lucky, I just have to come up with more creative ways of selling her on the mods I am doing.

"I might as well clear my headlights, I have to take them off because one is leaking anyway. What are they leaking? Headlight fluid of course, I gotta fix it before it wreaks my headlights!"

[Alerodude]

HAHAHA....headlight fluid. That is the coolest thing I have ever heard. Well my emblems are still off and i'm putting cathodes back in as soon as i get a chance. So yea im just not gonna listen basically. I guess that isnt the best way to go about it but o well....

[sound_xtreme]

bah, not listening is the best. look where it got my alero, and rich's alero

[AftermathAlero]

Originally posted by sound_xtreme@Apr 21 2005, 03:54 AM
bah, not listening is the best. look where it got my alero, and rich's alero
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:thumb: WERD :thumb: :thumb:

[Alerodude]

Well you know....I would actually say something productice right now but its like 7 am and im about to leave for school and im sooooo tired haha so yea talk to you guys this afternoon...I wish I had time to do those cathodes...

[Youngblood77]

Originally posted by Alero04@Apr 18 2005, 12:30 PM
am i the only one who likes the emblems?? :blink:
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Nope, I love mine. :cool:

[BMart]

Originally posted by mike2002+Apr 20 2005, 07:27 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mike2002 @ Apr 20 2005, 07:27 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Oldsmopimp@Apr 17 2005, 06:46 PM
hahahahahaha..... kids
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lol, im thinking the same thing
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HAHAHA... just grow up... your parents give you too much for you to moan and complain about the hard time they give you... and if you want to argue that, then just TRY repaying them for all the food, clothes, sports, etc that they paid for over the few years of your life...

all your complaining and trash talking makes you sound like a whiney baby haha. we all go thru having to get someones OK on mods at one point or another... just suck it up and deal for now until you can move out... then you can waste your money however you want haha...

--BMart

PS - I must admit, I never thought my first post on here would be about something so ridiculous, but... here I am, proven wrong lol... (hope you find the humor in what im saying, im not trying to piss you off)

[Alerodude]

my parents never bought me anything after i turned 6 except for food....I worked to get money to buy clothes shoes....etc...so yea

[sound_xtreme]

Originally posted by Alerodude@Apr 21 2005, 09:21 PM
my parents never bought me anything after i turned 6 except for food....I worked to get money to buy clothes shoes....etc...so yea
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hum? cool, musta been sweatshops then eh?

[Oldsmopimp]

Originally posted by Alerodude@Apr 22 2005, 02:21 AM
my parents never bought me anything after i turned 6 except for food....
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:lol: :lol: ya..... I belive that... :rolleyes:

[BMart]

Originally posted by sound_xtreme+Apr 21 2005, 09:33 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sound_xtreme @ Apr 21 2005, 09:33 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Alerodude@Apr 21 2005, 09:21 PM
my parents never bought me anything after i turned 6 except for food....I worked to get money to buy clothes shoes....etc...so yea
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hum? cool, musta been sweatshops then eh?
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Hahaha, i was just bustin your chops, and you respond by saying your parents havent provided for you since age 6.... RIIGGGGHHHHHHHHHTTTTTT! If that was really the case, youd be a ward of the state... so quit your complaining man... its part of life... sometimes it sucks, but youll live... haha
--bryan

[Alero04]

LMAO!! that made my day right there...
since u were 6?!?!?! wtf kinda sh*t is that?! 'oh hunny its ur 6th bday and ur now in grade 1. go get a job cuz mommy and daddy are going to f*ck off somewheres'
lol give me a break dood

[Alerodude]

think whatever you want but thats just how both my parents were raised anyway. And I dont mean that I never got anything,,,but I mean if I wanted clothes that I didnt absolutly positivly had to had then I had to pay for it and so on.....

[BLK03GXS]

K well your parents are ASSHOLES
Mine were too, i told em to f*** off, and moved out untill they stoped being assholes.... for the most part.. they are still assholes... ahg.... anyways..
With my alero when i came home with 17's, and exhaust and system etc etc.. my rents knew that i was going to do those things because i have been modding cars for a while... but there still was the question as to " why is there a large box in your room that says H&R on it?? " hahaha
IF you are accualy paying for everything, car insurance etc, then tell them to f*** off, because it is YOUR property, if you have to park your car accross the st so its not on their property, and do like i do. when my rents say that doing something is illigal or affects insurnace, i tell them to show me where it does... and they cant. so its REAL GOOD haha

[El Pablo]

i used to have that problem when i lived with my parents i just explain that its not their car and not their problem and if u dont like it tough poop. my dads got a pimpin truck too i dont got much probelm with him on it, i used too but i reminded them i was 22 and not 12.

[shockz]

Originally posted by Alerodude@Apr 17 2005, 08:05 PM
Today my parents freaked out and made me put the emblems back on and made me fix my clear corners back and take out my cathodes and I didnt even get a picture or anything.Â;-) They said that it was all illegal and pointless and that the clear corners and cathodes would affect my driving and that taking the emblems off affected insurance and crap it was all a bunch of lies but whatever so now im pissed....I dont know if I will be back on considering my parents wont let me do anything anyway.
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Is it their car?

If I put a CAI and exhaust on my car (i mean my parents car... I make payments, but still it's in their name and they pay for all the repairs), they would flip out.

Since your parents told you to take them off... I'm assuming it is.

Maybe when you make a couple of car payments you can have a little say so in what happens to that alero.

[dt_freak1]

he already said he pays for the car so im assuming its his as far as ownership. before when i used to do things to my firebird my parents sometimes would say i was wasting my money and sometimes they actually thought what i was doing was cool....for example the cb radio....i still got the thing and it still works...im considering putting it into my alero lol. kevin

[UnoWHO]

LOL Very sniky, the funny thing about this is...is that Ive done EXACTLY the same things Alerodude has done....m ymom says "I think your making a mistake Blah blah..." and then I go and do it :), lol a side note....I burnt my hand today replacing my trunk light with a blue one....and it burns REAL badd lol

[Alero04]

Originally posted by Alerodude@Apr 22 2005, 04:07 PM
think whatever you want but thats just how both my parents were raised anyway. And I dont mean that I never got anything,,,but I mean if I wanted clothes that I didnt absolutly positivly had to had then I had to pay for it and so on.....
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so at the MATURE age of 6, u were out buying urself things with ur own money? tell us...where did u work at the young of an age?!