Flares... What's the point?

FST4RD · Post by **FST4RD** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:10 pm

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 · Post by **iOnic** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:16 pm

Its the new trend. Hellasunk. Offset is nothing.

steroidcontaskie · Post by **steroidcontaskie** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:36 pm

iOnic wrote:Its the new trend. Hellasunk. Offset is nothing.

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

rollaholic · Post by **rollaholic** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:41 pm

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

FST4RD · Post by **FST4RD** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:30 pm

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 · Post by **Boost_4_Life** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:36 pm

looks even better on a starlet with trd flares :lol:

rollaholic · Post by **rollaholic** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:25 pm

FST4RD wrote: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 · Post by **QikStarlie** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:15 pm

FST4RD wrote: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 · Post by **Bling** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:41 pm

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 · Post by **wde_bdy** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:18 pm

BZG|Bling wrote: 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 · Post by **STR** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:37 am

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?

Post by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:44 pm

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 · Post by **sleeektoy** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:42 pm

Narrow or Fat - works either way

mjrstar · Post by **mjrstar** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:04 pm

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

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

CAMB01 · Post by **CAMB01** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:40 pm

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

VR-4Squid · Post by **VR-4Squid** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:18 pm

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

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:38 pm

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

crispy'86 · Post by **crispy'86** » Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:55 pm

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 :lol:

was probably to make sure the 5 or 10mm the tyre stuck out past the guard was legal-ish