Flares... What's the point?

[FST4RD]

I understand when people cut the guards out of cars, fit flares and fit wheels that sit right on the edge of the flares
What I don't understand, and it seems to be mainly Toyotas, people fitting flares to uncut guards, and running wheels that sit inside the original guards.
Looks silly from behind, not much better side on either
Anyone have any insight?

[iOnic]

Its the new trend. Hellasunk. Offset is nothing.

[steroidcontaskie]

Its the new trend. Hellasunk. Offset is nothing.

Always know the soarer was ahead of its time. It came Hellasunk from factory.

[rollaholic]

interesting, in my experience its nissans with cheap wide body kits off TM and +52 offset 17x7s.

[FST4RD]

I regularly see starlets, sr coupes, dx corollas with this awful trend.
Personally I think the cars would look so much better without the flares and the wheels sitting on the factory guards.

[Boost_4_Life]

looks even better on a starlet with trd flares

[rollaholic]

I regularly see starlets, sr coupes, dx corollas with this awful trend.
Personally I think the cars would look so much better without the flares and the wheels sitting on the factory guards.

i agree, but each to their own i guess

[QikStarlie]

I regularly see starlets, sr coupes, dx corollas with this awful trend.
Personally I think the cars would look so much better without the flares and the wheels sitting on the factory guards.

because the supply of eager's has ran out for their modgies

[Bling]

My guess, is that one day the cars are rolling on sweet wide rims, so need the guards. Car gets sold and good bits are taken off, it's then sold again. So now it's got the guards, but not the wheels. I don't think anyone adds flares unless they are needed. We just get to see the end result, where they aren't needed anymore. Taking them off would leave a nice mess.

[wde_bdy]

I don't think anyone adds flares unless they are needed.

My car was built for bigger wheels that ended up too far out of the budget before I bought it. Drove for 18 months and then decided to fill them.



Callum

[STR]

Could be near WOF time for some of them, so they swap to their narrow wheels/tyres that don't rub/stretch/wear out for the check, and you're spotting them before they change back to the illegal ones?

[Mr Revhead]

All of the above + wearing our the $$ wide tyres and realizing that they can't afford new ones whilst still paying off the old ones from Mag n Turbo

[sleeektoy]

Narrow or Fat - works either way

[mjrstar]

Working towards 9's on the mx5 with a bit of added width..



Flares have their place but wide wheels only please...

[CAMB01]

Gonna see how 8 inch wide rims and a front track increase goes on my EVO lol. Hopefully no mods needed, just moar camber

[VR-4Squid]

Have you gone 5stud? I have a guard roller.

[Vertigo]

It could just be that people dont have bundles of cash all at once, so get the flares first, save, get wheels.

[crispy'86]

The hellasunk look was popular 10+ years ago, think about the corolla's etc that were sporting them. I could be wrong but my trueno when the old owner had it did exactly this. Looked really weird and there were more than a handful of cars that were like that. Series 1 and 2 Rx7's, pretty much anything with modgies and eagers was probably to make sure the 5 or 10mm the tyre stuck out past the guard was legal-ish