The stupidest things I have done modifying my car “If this is even considered modifying my car.” I installed cheap neon under glow kit to my first Mazda Protege5 I owned. I will be truthful, “extremely embarrassed” Fast and Furious 1 had me hypnotized to the rice era. I drilled the neon kit to my car, did a horrid wiring job and installed the box that powered the neon kit under the car. Proud of my failure, I drove to University of Maryland College Park to show off to my friends. Sadly most of my friends approved of the cheap under glow neon kit “since most of them did not own a car, it was the coolest thing in the world to them. FAIL for all of us”. I got a few snickers from the Mustang group there. A day later it snowed and rained and I decided drive to 7-11 and smelled a burning smell. I had the kit running at the time “like an idiot”, the box that powered the neons... I mounted box to power the neons under the car which needed to be installed in the engine bay away from water. The kit cracked eventually “my car was lowered” by the ice and snow I had driven over. I went to the dealership to get my oil changed at the time, the dealer had a hard time lifting my car on the lift since the neon kit was installed and in the way. The dealer did not want to damage it. I was embarrassed and knew that this was a sign from the heavens to repent for my car modifying sins. I put on a glove in anger and ripped the kit from under my car at the dealership. The box was and wires were extremely fried; I am surprised I did not set my car on fire.
The next worst mod was installing strobe lights. I went to Rockville Maryland’s old car meeting spot next to the Borders. I saw lots of civics, Hyundai’s, KIAs, LS1 Camero’s 20’s and a Navigator with Lambo doors with strobe lights. I sinned again, and found a cheap set of strobe lights from eBay. I drilled them into my headlights and installed the kit. I was proud of my failure. I used silicon to seal the giant crack which leaked into the headlight. Once realizing my failure, I thought to myself, “OMG… What have I done…!” To feel that I didn’t waste my time and money I forced to go to the car meets and flashed my strobe lights in shame.
Another mod which I regretted because it gave me a lot of problems was installing 4 TV’s in my car and mounting a Sega Dreamcast there to blast Street Fighter 3rd impact. I would go to the car meets and invite random people to play with me. I am surprised my car never got broken into. I was always showing off my crappy Sony amp with 2 crappy sony explode subs that I got ripped off at best buy. It was a wiring nightmare, and the TV’s constantly stopped working. LOL
Last but not least, I painted my calipers… It was hot outside and I decided to rush the final process of applying the clear coat. I lost my job at the time, and didn’t want to spend my reserve money on new brakes and rotors. They squeaked and squealed badly since I decided to be an idiot and just randomly spray the clear coat everywhere without covering everything properly. The sound drove me insane, in anger I decided to speed up to 85 mph and just mashed the brakes completely in attempt to burn it off. That did nothing except wear my brakes and rotors down. LOL
That poor Mazda ended its torture and was hit by a drunk driver, but saved my life during that car accident. Many years later I purchased another Protege5 and started building her up the right way!
Now that that is fixed I am safe to drive and the clunk is gone 
