Many of us become very attached to our cars, but after a few years we easily part with them and buy a new car. Some people, on the contrary, are not ready to part with their car and use it for many years to come. But there is a certain part of car enthusiasts who are not only not ready to exchange their car for another. Such people are uncontrollable fans of a particular make and model of car.
Such drivers most often try to improve their vehicles by upgrading the chassis, engine or appearance. As a rule, for this, most car enthusiasts turn to specialized studios so that professionals can carry out fundamental work on the car. But there are also car enthusiasts who do not want to go to expensive tuning studios.
What comes out of this and how cars surprise you on the roads, we invite you to find out today in our review of the most amazing tuning cars that were modernized either independently or with the help of a small garage service.
Opel Corsa: LSD
Corsa tuning with amazing airbrushing and scissor doors that replicate the door style of Lamborghini cars. As you can see, in addition to the body, the modernization also affected the engine compartment.
Suzuki Swift: Forgotten Japan
Japanese cars are not often subject to private tuning, especially when it comes to regular cars. For example, this Swift car has received a radical modernization, both in appearance and interior.
VW Vento: Camouflage or...
Incomprehensible independent tuning. I wonder what the owner of the car was after? What did you want to emphasize? At first glance, the style is similar to those found in a car scrapyard. But upon closer examination, it becomes clear that the car has a protective military camouflage tuning for guerrilla warfare.
Peugeot 206: Color madness
Pay attention to which direction the car doors open, as well as the monitors built into them. This 206 is a great example of how any car can be remodeled. Despite the brightness and some shortcomings, this car is able to attract a lot of attention on the road.
Mercedes: Lifting
Could the creators of this model in the early 60s have imagined that something like this could be done with a classic car? Fans of the German brand's classic cars are likely ready to heap a lot of criticism on this tuning. But we think that young people will like this modernization option.
Seat Ibiza: Ready to fly
Not only does the tuning give the Ibiza a rich and chic exterior style, but the modernization affected not only the appearance. Private specialists managed to boost the engine, increasing power to 220 hp. (VR6 from VW Golf III).
Suzuki Super-Carry: Audio tuning
The machine, apparently, was created for those who love music at high decibels. This is indicated by a huge speaker in the cockpit next to the driver's seat. I wonder if you turn on the music at full volume, will the driver be able to hold the steering wheel?
Nissan Skyline GT-R: Ready to surprise
An unusual modernization of the Skyline GT-R.
Opel Tigra: Pink is in fashion
Who said pink is for girls? Paired with the matte black exterior paint, the pink accents look amazing.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo: Cry of the soul
A little more pink tones.
Renault Twingo: New perspective
Slovenian private tuners have made a serious bid to ensure that their tuning becomes the best by the end of 2014. Notice how the car doors have been redesigned.
Peugeot 106: The dream of being big
It had its wheel arches widened to accommodate larger rims and serious tires.
Mazda RX-8: Alien
Tuning from Switzerland. Private masters made us look at the RX-8 in a new way. Note the unusual rear doors.
Audi TT: More than just tuning
Wow. When you see this unusual TT, you understand that despite the fact that the tuning was done in a garage, the level of skill of the tuning creators is at the highest level.
VW Golf II: Forester
Another car, which, apparently, was created for camouflage in the forest.
Mercedes SLK: Fire of Passion
Not only the color of the car says that there is no point in messing with it on the road, but also the headlights scare off prying eyes. Very .
Peugeot 206 CC: Changing the look
Unlike the production convertible, this car, modified by a private master, boasts better ideas.
Smart: N.L.O.
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Volkswagen: Who is more beautiful?
Choose for yourself which car you like best. On the left is Carrado. On the right is the first generation Scirocco. Pay attention to the engine compartments in both cars, which sparkle with their crystal cleanliness.
Ford Fiesta: Disguise
If we had not written what kind of tuning model this was, many of you would not have immediately identified what it was. Note the darkened headlights, which, like sunglasses, set off the bright interior and unusual exterior color.
VW Corrado: Rare model
Very rare old model from a German company. The mirrored hood allows everyone to see in more detail all the engine parts.
Opel: Slippers and much more
A complete tuning kit for car lovers.
VW-Golf: A unique way of looking at things
Unusual tuning of a popular car. Apparently, the author of the modernization was inspired by the style of an SUV for touring trips.
BMW: Super trailer
Amazing tuning of not only the car, but also the trailer for it, which is made from a real 3-series station wagon.
Currently, do-it-yourself car tuning occupies a significant place in the life of a true car enthusiast. Time changes, and with it, cars and us change. What previously was everyday maintenance, care and inevitability (imperfect design) when operating a car can now not bother us for thousands of kilometers and many years of operation. With the changing rhythm of life and technology, our stereotypes and concepts have also changed, what was previously called advice from experienced people can now be called tuning. Of course, not all car owners are sometimes interested in improving their production car; we can say that do-it-yourself tuning is even, in part, a way of life. After all, tuning for many is a hobby, just like billiards, bowling, and so on for some. In this section about car improvements, we will touch on the topic of how you can independently, on your own, carry out tuning of a car, both for those who are simply interested in this as information and for those who will directly use these tips to bring tuning to life.
Tuning (from the English Tuning) - tuning, substring, adjustment, adjustment.
This category provides information on improving machines. This improvement is implied by the word tuning, which has become an integral part of our everyday life.
Sometimes car tuning changes the car “radically”, forcing you to look at familiar things differently. Of course, only truly passionate people can take on this work, but the results sometimes exceed all expectations. In part, such improvements make us envy the owners of cars with tuning.
... although we don’t want to dwell on anything. Therefore, if something interesting suddenly appears in our “piggy bank”, we will be sure to convey it to our reader with great pleasure and in an interesting form.
Car body tuning
Body tuning is the most visible work to improve a car, especially its appearance. When working on body tuning, you can unleash the full potential of your creative mind. At the same time, tuning can be both practical and aesthetic. That is, when you really improve the technical and operational characteristics of a car, or do it for the sake of appearance. For the sake of what you think is beautiful! Well, both options have a right to exist in our lives. After all, tuning is first and foremost a hobby. At least for amateur motorists. This means it should give us pleasure, because how could it be otherwise!?
In the "Body Tuning" section, do-it-yourself articles are presented that will help you improve your production car.
Car interior tuning
The interior of each car is its individuality, since tuning the car’s interior reflects the preferences of its owner. In this section "Interior Tuning", we will offer you several articles on improving the options and functionality of your car's interior, which you can do with your own hands. In addition, tuning the interior will also affect your comfort, both during a stop and while driving your car.
Suspension tuning: tires, wheels, springs, spacers, shock absorbers
Driving a car directly depends on the use of components in its suspension, tires, and wheels. Tuning and choosing these elements will allow you to feel most comfortable on the road. So, when using low-profile tires, handling in corners will improve, and when using “high” tires, the suspension will be softer. Although, of course, the choice of tires is only a small part of what can be done to the car in order to improve its suspension and adjust it to suit you. Spacers, silent blocks, rods, springs, all this can and sometimes needs to be changed so as not to experience discomfort when driving and a feeling of constant dissatisfaction with your “iron horse”.
So, we will analyze tuning of individual suspension components, as well as the entire suspension as a whole, in our section “Tuning of suspension, tires, wheels.” What is especially important is that everything proposed here can be done with your own hands, and this is very important for ordinary car enthusiasts.
Car tuning: brake system
The guarantee of your safety and confidence when maneuvering on the road will be tuning the brake system of your car. The section "Tuning the brake system" will offer, in this section, information about the possibility, importance and advisability of maintaining the brakes in perfect condition. In addition, tuning the brake system, described below, can be done with your own hands, making the braking system more effective than on a production car.
Car tuning: electrical equipment
Electrical equipment is the most complex and intelligent component of a car. Tuning electrical equipment will help you most effectively and competently use and manage most elements of the machine’s electrical network, with maximum efficiency.
Tuning electrical equipment can begin directly with improving the electricity producer - the generator, and end with the selection of light bulbs. Each element of the system is very important and significant. In our “Tuning Electrical Equipment” section, we will cover the most relevant topics, that is, those improvements that can be done with your own hands, and such improvements will be within the power of most car enthusiasts.
Arduinoµcontrollers
All kinds of electronic devices can greatly facilitate driving control, increase safety and comfort. Sometimes just changing the appearance inside and outside of your car for the better. However, such modifications and upgrades require certain skills and abilities. It is this kind of useful and necessary information for car enthusiasts that can be found in this category of the site. Here we will talk about electronic crafts on the Arduino platform and individual microcontrollers.
Car tuning: Engine
Engine tuning is the most noticeable and significant work to improve the driving characteristics of a car. When working on engine tuning, you can unlock the full potential of your car. This section on engine tuning contains a number of articles that will help you improve the power unit of your car with your own hands.
In fact, high engine efficiency is ensured not only by the engine itself, but also by the systems adjacent to it. Power supply system, ignition, exhaust gas emissions, etc. You can also learn something about all this from our “Engine Tuning” section.
Car audio: radio, amplifier, capacitor, wires, speakers
Which motorist has not thought about the most popular topic - tuning the audio system of his car. Tuning your car's audio systems will allow you to enjoy the true values that characterize a real car. This is a good sound, movement, speed and a great mood.
Tuning the "Car Audio" section will be useful both to ordinary people, who will be able to learn from it about installing a simple radio, and to experienced auto electricians. After all, the section will also include more complex car audio tuning projects, such as: installing an amplifier, subwoofer, capacitor, etc.
Garage tuning
Those who do any work in their garage, be it tuning or repairs, know well how important it is to have all the conditions for this. This includes a spacious, bright room, tools and equipment, and what is often called know-how. All this can radically change the efficiency of all your work, and therefore affect the final result. Considering all these factors, you need to understand that in most cases no one will arrange your workplace better than you. After all, only you know what types of work you perform regularly, and how to make it more convenient for you. And if this is so, then you can only achieve your dream workplace in the garage by working on this project individually. For our part, we want to offer options for improving the garage, no matter what the parameters. This is exactly what our category, with the self-explanatory name “Garage Tuning,” is designed to do. We can only hope that the ideas proposed in this section will find their active and successful application for every motorist who wants to somehow improve his garage!
It has long been firmly established in the everyday life of most car enthusiasts. When translated quite loosely, in relation to a car, this concept means customizing certain elements or characteristics in accordance with the own tastes and preferences of a particular car owner. It does not matter here the amount of work performed, the complete or partial re-equipment of something, since in this case everything depends on requests based on material capabilities.
Interior tuning
Modern car tuning aims not only to stand out from the crowd and emphasize your individuality, but also to provide additional convenience and comfort for yourself and your passengers. Among all the activities to improve and comprehensively refine the entire car, interior tuning occupies a special place.
Good interior tuning will make travel much more comfortable
This is primarily due to the fact that during trips of any duration, the driver and passengers spend most of the time inside the car, in its cabin. In addition, ultimately, the interior trim must be harmoniously combined with the exterior design of the vehicle and its technical equipment.
Types of tuning
As practice shows, tuning a car’s interior is quite a complex undertaking. The interior of any car is a set of elements, parts and devices for various purposes, therefore, it is extremely important to observe and maintain a certain general style. Since the instrument panel is the most important element of the interior, all transformations begin with it.
Video with interior tuning options:
First of all, the devices themselves are subject to modification, by replacing the scale or optimizing the backlight. The biggest hassle is replacing the instrument panel with another part from a more expensive and prestigious car brand. The most exclusive option is the hand-crafted, custom-made instrument panel. This is the most expensive and time-consuming method, which only a few qualified specialists can do.
Flocking
When solving the problem of how to make interior tuning, you should focus on flocking. This is one of the modern types of interior design, when instead of smooth surfaces a velvet, velor or suede covering is formed. This effect is achieved by applying small fibers or flock located in an electric field, due to which they become perpendicular to the substrate being coated. Flocking, carried out in a continuous layer, ultimately gives a uniform fleecy coating. By selectively applying the coating, a pre-planned pattern is formed. In addition to the decorative function, flocking, due to the properties of the material itself, plays the role of heat and sound insulation, fire protection, preventing condensation, etc.
Most often, after the instrument panel, car control elements undergo modernization. In the first place here is the steering wheel, which can be changed in a variety of ways, up to its complete replacement with a sports steering wheel of a smaller diameter. The steering wheel is often covered with various materials. However, it is necessary to take into account that all manipulations with the steering wheel do not in any way affect traffic safety.
As a rule, the original seats are simply replaced with other, more prestigious ones, which can be installed in your own cabin. A more expensive option is to purchase sports-type chairs from well-known models.
In accordance with the general style of the interior, interior elements such as the ceiling, floor, and upholstery of the front and rear doors are subject to modification. At the same time, work is being carried out in parallel on the installation of additional speakers. At the same time, it is possible to replace standard interior lighting devices with more advanced ones, in the form
Ultimately, tuning your own car will bring tangible benefits and will bring great pleasure every day.
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Although tuning cars with your own hands is gaining more and more popularity in our country, it is still not a simple process and requires from the motorist, in addition to technical training, knowledge of the car, also a professional creative approach.
After all, car tuning is the process of refining and customizing the car to suit your needs or, to be honest, your whims, and it should not consist of thoughtlessly changing both the external and internal appearance of the car.
There is such a category of people
Of course, tuning a car with your own hands is an expensive, labor-intensive and time-consuming process, and not everyone can afford it. And if you have even the slightest doubt about the success of this matter, then it is better to entrust it to professionals.
But why do people even do this when there is nothing to do?
What we get from a car dealership is designed for an ordinary buyer. And if you are not an ordinary buyer, then what should you do? Correctly do car tuning yourself.
There is no limit to the creativity of thought
There is simply no limit to the creativity of thought in this matter, the main thing is not to overdo it so that the car does not end up in a penalty area.
Each driver is an individual person, so approaches to tuning a car with your own hands are also individual.
For some, it is enough to simply change the airbrushing and install large spoilers, for others it is enough to install beautiful wheels, for others it is enough to increase the engine power in order to “make” everyone at a traffic light.
To tune a car, you need to know a lot.
Tuning can be divided into three main areas:
- Tuning of the engine and other main components and assemblies;
- Interior tuning (internal);
- External car tuning.
External tuning
Let's look at external tuning, since it is most striking and gives the most effect.
The most important thing in the external tuning of a car is the aerodynamic body kit. This type of tuning is the most common and most popular.
An aerodynamic body kit can change the appearance of a car by approximately 80%, making it much more attractive and beautiful.
And the aerodynamic parts themselves can really significantly increase the aerodynamic effect, especially if the engine power has been increased.
Those who know a little about cars and have been tuning for many years know that when a car moves, various aerodynamic forces constantly arise that weaken the balance along the axes.
This phenomenon greatly affects the quality of car handling and the braking process.
But, unfortunately, there is no escape from this physical phenomenon, but it can be weakened. And here do-it-yourself car tuning will help us.
In order to combat weakened balance, special so-called “anti-wings” are installed on the roof and trunk of the car, which can be adjusted.
This significantly reduces the impact of various forces and gives the vehicle proper balance, especially at high speeds.
The presence of downforce at high speeds also gives the driver confidence that he will not lose control of the car, especially when cornering. To do this, a front bumper spoiler is additionally installed on the car.
But that's not all that the aerodynamic body kit has a positive effect on. Improving the quality of engine airflow, ventilation and cooling of brake mechanisms, and many other useful and necessary functions that are performed by external car tuning.
From this we can conclude that external car tuning not only makes the car more attractive and individual, but also ensures more comfortable operation of its various systems, if you can call it that, of course, provided that you use expensive aerodynamic body kits, which Mainly used in motorsport.
Inexpensive aerodynamic body kits only allow you to personalize your car, nothing more. Although for many this is quite enough.
If we consider the wheels of a car from the external tuning side, then there is the same dual approach.
On the one hand, you can install inexpensive alloy wheels, which will only play a decorative role; by the way, here you can choose according to the make of your car.
On the other hand, you can install expensive lightweight wheels that are used on sports cars.
Thanks to them, the engine and the entire transmission operate much easier, and this affects, although not significantly, fuel consumption.
External tuning of a car also consists of equipping the car with xenon headlights, illuminating the bottom of the car with neon light and much more.
Car airbrushing can also be classified as external tuning. We very often see various beautiful and not so beautiful designs on cars.
This is automobile airbrushing. Autobase car paint is used for such designs. The drawings are then varnished and polished. Not difficult, high quality and long lasting, but a little expensive. In general, tuning a car with your own hands is an expensive undertaking.
Internal car tuning
Internal car tuning is another not small item of your expenses.
This can include everything related to the car interior and its styling.
There is no limit to the imagination here. Everything can be changed and improved. Tuning pedals, gear knobs, steering wheels of various diameters, seats, instrument panels of various colors and much more.
Also, thanks to the internal tuning of the car, you can significantly increase the comfort of the interior. From reupholstering the interior with any other material you like to installing new auto acoustics to match the interior color.
