For headlights specifically: both. A cleaner/clearer lens will greatly improve headlight brightness assuming everything else is working as intended.
If you have a car that has headlights like the before pic on this post, I’d highly recommend grabbing a kit.
Also the box said 10 horsepower.
From someone that daily’d a 2006 GTO for a few months - I’d recommend against it.
I fucking adore older cars (preferably 85 to 2010) - almost the perfect blend of tech and mechanical elements without being too overly reliant on tech. Fuck touch screens.
However, dailying something that old will definitely be a little bit more challenging than something newer. Sure, it can be cheap to replace parts on an old Toyota, but then you’ll need to start looking at your time as a resource. Like how often are you going to want to keep working on it as parts inevitably fail due to age?
It’s all up to you, really. If you’re in a good spot to be able to make it work then more power to you - but always look at time as a resource as well and recognize that an older car will definitely be biting into your time. Personally, I wouldn’t go older than 2003 for a daily.
Having anything, whether tint or shades, to block direct sunlight will help immensely to block heat.
There could be a few tint shops in your area that has a display/demo they can show you: basically a demonstration of how much heat any given tint can block, but even simple shades will help.
Having something will always be better than nothing!
Funnily enough, doing a color scheme of something lighter (like white or red or blue) with black wheels does a better job or making the car look sporty than most “ground effects” packages. Looks super nice!
And I’ll die on this hill, but you can have as much fun in a small FWD econo-box as you can with a high-powered RWD sport coupe - take a cruise on a few of the less-used interstates where you can find some windy roads and have some fun!
Slow car fast is just as good as fast car fast. :D
Oh, that’s a sweet rear. <3
Oh man - I don’t think I’ve really ever seen an older Skyline in red before but this looks HOT! Color works really really well with the body lines and the carbon fiber bits are a great accent!
I love your car! :D
Hi Inky! First post on Lemmy and I used to be a perpetual Reddit lurker, especially in r/cars (but hoping to contribute more with the new change of scenery).
I like the themed day ideas but one thing I wanted to take another look at the “what should I do Weds.” I know we’re still pretty small and have a lack of automation tools but having a rolling weekly or monthly thread solely for automotive tech questions would be very beneficial in centralizing all of that related discussion.
Otherwise - excited to join and contribute and show off my crazy-ass stable of cars!
I reckon they could only run with that claim as long as the tires of the time were still crappy! Now imagine any of the Big 3’s big hitters on some brand new Pilot Cup tires - my god.