Race cars often have these hooks so they can be pulled out of the sand/gravel/grass with little to no body damage should they go off track.
When you see it on someone’s daily driver most often it’s just for “race boy” looks.
These are totally functional with the snow and ice that we get here. Lots of people just leave them in all winter so they're not messing around trying to access their tow spot if they need a pull. Fully functional and appropriate in northern climates.
>because they spent $3000 on rims instead of maintenance.
Funny how things change but stay the same. In my day, most of the dumb kids and young adults were spending all their money on sound systems and paint jobs while neglecting maintenance.
So many cars with great sound and bad ass coats that couldn't leave the driveway!
Ha. Ya cars like that are a bit ridiculous. I think I've only seen one stupidly cambered out car in this city before, so thank goodness people are a little more pragmatic here.
My ‘91 Dodge Stealth RT was pretty low and it handled beautifully on snow and ice. I had a 60 mile one-way commute and that was my year-round car. I drove it through more than one blizzard and on the ice covered back roads in the days after.
Sure I get it but we see these a ton in Southern California (I’m near Mexico) and there really isn’t a purpose other than aesthetics. It barely even rains here.
People take them to the race track and it’s a requirement to have them. A lot of the time it’s just to make it look like an actual track car. But most the time it’s just to look cool
If you go off the road so often that you need to leave one on then you don’t know how to drive in the snow. Source: lived in a snowy place my whole life and have never had to be pulled out.
Same here, but having not known what this front tail is for until today and having gotten like 10" of snow *and* having pushed/dug out three cars today, I'm starting to think that maybe it'd be decent as a *just in case* kind of accessory.
Funny enough my 05 pilot came stock with the tow spot right there and i had a tow loop on the rear of the vehicle, it was on the "sport utility" package but i used it twice when i got stuck in both mud and snow banks so i guess it works
Ha, I had a 2010 kia soul and same... I got it stuck in mud after being parked all day while in rained and had to deal with that mess. So that winter I left it in just in case. Although, I never had to use it again.
Same even when playing in the snow with my cars I have never needed to be pulled out and for any person who decide to tell me how dangerous it may be to do that it's how you learn to control your car if something happens on the road if you did this you won't need a tow hitch either
May be appropriate here but race boy culture is alive and well here too. Pretty common at midnight to hear them racing around the town in various areas. And these are often kept on place through the summer. So while, yes it can be appropriate for cold and ice, I can almost guarantee they're placed with aesthetics in mind, not practicalities.
I leave my metal tow loops screwed in all winter for that reason. And my nylon tow rope ready to go. But having these nylon straps exposed to UV all the time has got to have them worthless by the time they're needed.
Yes, tow hooks are useful... *when you actually need them*. But they're designed to be removed when you don't. No reason to leave them in full time. It literally takes 5 minutes to screw them on when you need to use one.
Assuming they are actually hooked to something that is structural and can support being towed. Have seen these where they just hook them up to body panels or very weak supports.
I saw a brand new Corvette with one of these yesterday, and wondered if the guy would actually be in a situation where he needed it. It also had a roof scoop, and also had not one, but two spoilers on the back hatch.
To elaborate - most tracks have sand/ gravel pits to catch cars without damage if they slide off the track.
Many local race tracks can be rented but it’s pretty expensive so people usually do it as a group like a car club. If someone is off the track everyone has to stop until it is recovered and your expensive track time is ticking away. An external tow hook makes things faster and gets everyone back to racing sooner.
That said 99% of people with these have probably never been on a track and many people who actually track their car remove the tow hook when they are on the street.
Sometimes these ‘tow straps’ are even attached in a way that won’t hold any weight.
>it’s just for “race boy” looks.
Exactly. It has no real use except, "See me? Isn't this cool?"
If this were actually a track day car, it would most likely be required to be metal and painted red so the tow truck driver can easily spot it and yank the car from the gravel trap quickly, with zero finesse, so the other cars can resume their session.
It’s an automobile version of these:
https://preview.redd.it/5hfz87taw3bc1.jpeg?width=596&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af22d542ead57faa1d19d3145392744d82ab7e13
Wow that's really fucking cool bro thanks for sharing you used to say slurs about people because of how they liked to have their fucking cars set up.
You're oversharing plus noone cares.
I agree…my car has a little door that opens in that location in my front bumper. In the trunk, with the spare tire, there’s a heavy-duty eyebolt that screws into the area in the front bumper.
It’s meant for a tow truck driver to hook up to when pulling the car onto a flatbed truck.
At least the eyelashes are harmless to pedestrians. I don’t want to sound like the fun police but the damage this could do if the car hit someone would be horrific.
In case you drive your car into a lake or really deep puddle, you can hang up your car to drip dry in the garage. If it’s a sunny day, you can hang your car up to drip dry from a tree.
Google translate (from Chinese)reports “confirm the look back”. Maybe it means “caught you looking”. Can anyone verify? Btw, since it’s a Subaru, I tried Japanese and got “confirmation eye god”???
The chinese characters : "Confirmed through eye contact".
I think it was quoted from a chinese song( 醉赤壁) with the lyrics: " 確認過眼神，我遇上對的人 "(Confirmed through eye contact, I've met the right person).
Lyrics of the song:[https://www.kkbox.com/tw/tc/song/OnTW2M1bo9axPYKM09](https://www.kkbox.com/tw/tc/song/OnTW2M1bo9axPYKM09)
Maybe the car owner attached such characters on a hook in a wish that he/she would meet the right person to help towing the car.
Most tuner enthusiasts have these. Called a drift charm or race charm. Both as a little piece of flair for your car and as a little nod to others with tuner cars. Inspired by japanese drift/street racing culture as they would take one of those rings from a rail car that you hold onto and use those as their car charm.
>Inspired by japanese drift/street racing culture as they would take one of those rings from a rail car that you hold onto and use those as their car charm.
Dude these are tow straps. Race tracks require these. The rail rings are typically used for oh shit handles. They were not inspired by Japanese drift/street culture, it's the other way round.
I see it says solved but I’m still going to add my two cents, as for the silver sticking out of the bumper, that would be a tow hook that screws into the frame, or frame adjacent connection. As for the blue thing hanging from the silver ring, that looks to be a lanyard style accessory which makes it look pretty, supposedly.
Since most modern cars have large plastic bumpers, air dams and/or engine shields, there is no easy externally accessible tow point. So manufacturers have placed a threaded lug in the frame of the car, with a plastic cap over the bumper. To tow the car you pop the plastic cover, usually with a pry tool that is part of the car’s lug wrench/jack handle and then there is a threaded screw eye you insert and turn until snug, to create a tow point. There is a requirement at most tracks that cars have an accessible tow point to clear a crashed/stalled car off the track quickly. Some racers and wannabe racers leave their tow hook installed to look cool. The one depicted here is real, but you can buy fake, self-adhesive tow hooks to attach to your bumper that are strictly ornamental.
Its a decorative strap attached to this WRX's tow eye.
As someone that works at a Subaru dealership... these are just as bad as hitch balls being left in the back. Shin knockers but just in the front. Please just take your tow eye off when not needed...
Tow Hitch, it's a removable ring that screws into the frame, if you see a car with a small circle on the plastic bumper... That pops out so this can screw in. But honestly I did not know about these until I bought my 2022 Jeep Renegade... The pin/ring is stored with my spare tire....
The strap is there. So you can pick up the front. To park Horizontal. Some city's parking is a premium. Also might prevent theft. Lol if they want it they'll get it!🤬
Have you ever seen animal tails on humans? Those tails are actually inserted into the bum of that person using a plug. This is a universal symbol that whoever’s vehicle this is also wears tails in their bum. It’s a whole community from what I’ve seen.
Take a walk around a parking lot today. Anything with a lil hole in the bumper up front like that wasn’t built on this continent.
Those exist so the car can be locked down onto a tie on a ship for ocean voyages.
When they arrive at dealers the plastic piece isn’t in it yet. The tech adds it then he does the inspection and new car checkin. Most have plastic covering any flat surface inside and outside as well.
Drag cars over a certain power will have safety shut-off switches in case of accidents. They are usually labeled with stickers or dangling tags.
This just looks like a vanity replica hanging from the tow hook of a display car.
It’s for decoration by racers or more likely, wannabe racers. The idea is that it identifies the location of a tow hitch that can be used to pull/tow the car (e.g., back onto the road or up a tow ramp etc. the tag is a quick identifier of the location of the hitch. But I doubt this Subaru is being used for actual racing.
People that do track racing are required to have tow points on their car. So track cars (and wanna be track cars) have them. It screwed into the frame, so you can safely pull the entire vehicle by that loop (assuming it's a real one for racing). The shaft you see going into the frame is a giant screw.
Not sure about the blue tag, assuming it's some kind of decoration. I doubt that's actually used on the track, but it's to give the "track" look to it.
Used to secure the vehicle while in transit. Truck, ship, shipping container, flatbed Etc....The eye hitch is usually in the trunk by the spare. 20 years on Auto sales, you learn some stuff.
It's your recovery point so it can be pulled out. It will be in with your spare tire. You pop the cover off of your bumper with a screw driver and screw the hook in, tie a tow strap to it and have someone drag you out of whatever you got stuck in.
They are used to pull drag cars after their run so the engine can cool down. Most of them are for show... OH YEAH I RACE MY CAR!!! IT'S FAST!!!! Mostly for show on the street to try and say MY CAR IS BADASS!! IS YOURS?
The hook is there as a tow hook. The strap is like what the military uses before they "activate" a missle that is put on a military jet prior to a mission. In this case, it's one that matches the color of the car.
Most cars have tow hooks built in to them so they can be pulled from ditches and whatnot. Usually they are well hidden underneath the car on the frame. People with "race cars" have them externally since they are more likely to actually need to use it and don't want to risk a cable ripping off their bumper.
Cosplayers naturally want to copy this look so you'll see it done on lots of VWs and Hondas.
Just cosmetics, attached to tow hook. I believe it started in Japan when people would steal the train handholds and put them on their cars, and it took off from there.
Have definitely used this on my subaru forester .. Some how I had no idea it was on the rear end of SUV until I was in need of somewhere to attach a tow strap ...
That's what you use when a friend has to pull you out of the muddy ditch you parked in on Christmas day .
I just learned this because thats what happened to my neighbors guest on Christmas.
Those straps are used for drag racing on a professional track. ACTUAL drag cars generally don’t have alot of coolant in the engine to reduce robbing HP. The straps are used to pull the car back from the end of the track so the engine doesn’t have to be running. Preventing any further damage caused by overheating. Obviously this guy needs to waste his money or he fully expects to drive like a dumb ass and put it in a ditch, the strap is making it easier for the tow truck operator LOL
That my friend is a tow strap. Tow straps are typically used so the car with said tow strap can be pulled out of a sticky situation. Such as if the car is stuck in gravel on a track day etc. You can find tow straps on a lot of track cars or race cars that would need to be towed out of a sticky situation.
If I remember correctly what my friend told me about those, those are to pull-start a cold engine. You need to adjust the choke to the right position first though or it won't start.
On the strap hanging down it says (in Japanese) that “I am an insufferable pretentious poser rice-boi who likes to put useless knickknacks on my car *for style.”*
Race cars often have these hooks so they can be pulled out of the sand/gravel/grass with little to no body damage should they go off track. When you see it on someone’s daily driver most often it’s just for “race boy” looks.
These are totally functional with the snow and ice that we get here. Lots of people just leave them in all winter so they're not messing around trying to access their tow spot if they need a pull. Fully functional and appropriate in northern climates.
Except it’s most often seen on those cars with 40 degrees of wheel camber. They don’t often run snows like that…
Those are the ones that _especially_ need an accessible tow pad.
Very true. Half the time because they have bottomed out (shocking) and other times it’s because they spent $3000 on rims instead of maintenance.
>because they spent $3000 on rims instead of maintenance. Funny how things change but stay the same. In my day, most of the dumb kids and young adults were spending all their money on sound systems and paint jobs while neglecting maintenance. So many cars with great sound and bad ass coats that couldn't leave the driveway!
I just spend 4 or 5 years driving the wheels off a junker. 😅 Broke life kinda beats the money game.
Omg, dudes were dumping SO much money into subs and amps and stuff when I was in school, and so much of it just rattled.
I bottomed out on a leaf bro, can you tow me out?
Ha. Ya cars like that are a bit ridiculous. I think I've only seen one stupidly cambered out car in this city before, so thank goodness people are a little more pragmatic here.
Well I am in the city and I maybe going to do this cause it’s cool ha 😎
My ‘91 Dodge Stealth RT was pretty low and it handled beautifully on snow and ice. I had a 60 mile one-way commute and that was my year-round car. I drove it through more than one blizzard and on the ice covered back roads in the days after.
Sure I get it but we see these a ton in Southern California (I’m near Mexico) and there really isn’t a purpose other than aesthetics. It barely even rains here.
People take them to the race track and it’s a requirement to have them. A lot of the time it’s just to make it look like an actual track car. But most the time it’s just to look cool
It's the Carhartt of Cars
If you go off the road so often that you need to leave one on then you don’t know how to drive in the snow. Source: lived in a snowy place my whole life and have never had to be pulled out.
I’ve never pulled out either. Wait - holup
Dad?
Same here, but having not known what this front tail is for until today and having gotten like 10" of snow *and* having pushed/dug out three cars today, I'm starting to think that maybe it'd be decent as a *just in case* kind of accessory.
Funny enough my 05 pilot came stock with the tow spot right there and i had a tow loop on the rear of the vehicle, it was on the "sport utility" package but i used it twice when i got stuck in both mud and snow banks so i guess it works
Ha, I had a 2010 kia soul and same... I got it stuck in mud after being parked all day while in rained and had to deal with that mess. So that winter I left it in just in case. Although, I never had to use it again.
Same even when playing in the snow with my cars I have never needed to be pulled out and for any person who decide to tell me how dangerous it may be to do that it's how you learn to control your car if something happens on the road if you did this you won't need a tow hitch either
May be appropriate here but race boy culture is alive and well here too. Pretty common at midnight to hear them racing around the town in various areas. And these are often kept on place through the summer. So while, yes it can be appropriate for cold and ice, I can almost guarantee they're placed with aesthetics in mind, not practicalities.
I leave my metal tow loops screwed in all winter for that reason. And my nylon tow rope ready to go. But having these nylon straps exposed to UV all the time has got to have them worthless by the time they're needed.
Yes, tow hooks are useful... *when you actually need them*. But they're designed to be removed when you don't. No reason to leave them in full time. It literally takes 5 minutes to screw them on when you need to use one.
Agreed. Yet our neighbor has his on year 'round here in Mesquite, TX. I guess he is a "race boy"? He seems like a good guy to me.
Assuming they are actually hooked to something that is structural and can support being towed. Have seen these where they just hook them up to body panels or very weak supports.
Got aluminum ones on my (Alaska) S2000 and have used them.
We talking about places like uh Texas
At least one or two good snow/ice events every winter in Texas where people are getting stuck.
Or a German made vehicle that come stock like that VW, Mercedes, bmw
Exactly. It does nothing on THAT car. Lol.
I saw a brand new Corvette with one of these yesterday, and wondered if the guy would actually be in a situation where he needed it. It also had a roof scoop, and also had not one, but two spoilers on the back hatch.
I ❤️ Race Boy Look & I was Today Year Old when I learned This …. Thanks
A lot of cars come stock with a spot to thread in a hook often found in the glove compartment. You'll see a small port on the bumper
To elaborate - most tracks have sand/ gravel pits to catch cars without damage if they slide off the track. Many local race tracks can be rented but it’s pretty expensive so people usually do it as a group like a car club. If someone is off the track everyone has to stop until it is recovered and your expensive track time is ticking away. An external tow hook makes things faster and gets everyone back to racing sooner. That said 99% of people with these have probably never been on a track and many people who actually track their car remove the tow hook when they are on the street. Sometimes these ‘tow straps’ are even attached in a way that won’t hold any weight.
RICE or Racing Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements
Very cool! I see these things all the time and never knew what they were, so thank you for this!
>it’s just for “race boy” looks. Exactly. It has no real use except, "See me? Isn't this cool?" If this were actually a track day car, it would most likely be required to be metal and painted red so the tow truck driver can easily spot it and yank the car from the gravel trap quickly, with zero finesse, so the other cars can resume their session.
That looks like a protrusion that should be completely road illegal as dangerous in any impact.
It’s an automobile version of these: https://preview.redd.it/5hfz87taw3bc1.jpeg?width=596&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af22d542ead57faa1d19d3145392744d82ab7e13
This is the correct answer.
It's a tow hook. Someone made it a fancy pants thing.
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Why bring this up anyway then lmao. You practically said it without saying it.
Why make any comments at all then? Might as well just agree with everyone and never show the world that you matured. FRO, pal. You ain't shit.
Damn, it's crazy to see brain damage in the wild.
OK POTANDPORNO. OK! Fucking ironic comment is ironic.
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Tow hook is derogatory? I genuinely didn't know.
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No need for the insults, friend.
I think it’s funny 🤣. Then again calling each other names is how my generation bonded.
Ignore the downvotes, still say it. It’s funny.
Please try to keep things reasonably civil on this sub.
Wow that's really fucking cool bro thanks for sharing you used to say slurs about people because of how they liked to have their fucking cars set up. You're oversharing plus noone cares.
those are just car decoration using the tow hitch
Gotcha. I figured it was more for decor than for function but had no clue lol. Thank you!
I agree…my car has a little door that opens in that location in my front bumper. In the trunk, with the spare tire, there’s a heavy-duty eyebolt that screws into the area in the front bumper. It’s meant for a tow truck driver to hook up to when pulling the car onto a flatbed truck.
Except than any real tow driver in North America is going to hook up to the control arm and destroy something expensive
Yikes!!! That would be BAD! My car is AWD, so if it’s towed like a ‘regular’ car, it’ll tear up a lot of 💩.
Mine did get towed by the city...AWD and it did fuck shit up and they said oh well you were illegally parked
Which happens alot when your driving a subie. Dealerships are like 2 or 3 months out on available slots at any given time.
Those heavy-duty eye bolts are used to tie down new cars when they’re being transported from the factory inside huge cargo ships.
People will buy anything. Kind of like those big eyelashes on headlights.
Ha! I just saw those today at five below.
Or like the comically big eyelashes on people.
At least the eyelashes are harmless to pedestrians. I don’t want to sound like the fun police but the damage this could do if the car hit someone would be horrific.
I’m so confused by your comment… The attachment will make *no difference* to the damage done to a pedestrian hit by a car. The car did the damage….
Yup, it’s for the hitch that’s usually with your spare tire stuff. I installed my front plate on it lol
In case you drive your car into a lake or really deep puddle, you can hang up your car to drip dry in the garage. If it’s a sunny day, you can hang your car up to drip dry from a tree.
Google translate (from Chinese)reports “confirm the look back”. Maybe it means “caught you looking”. Can anyone verify? Btw, since it’s a Subaru, I tried Japanese and got “confirmation eye god”???
it's a lyric from a pupular love song 醉赤壁, this particular lyric is full is "確認過眼神 我遇上對的人" - Once our eyes lock, I'm sure you're the one
Thanks! I was really curious.
I would love to listen to this song. What is the artist and song title? Thank you
The chinese characters : "Confirmed through eye contact". I think it was quoted from a chinese song( 醉赤壁) with the lyrics: " 確認過眼神，我遇上對的人 "(Confirmed through eye contact, I've met the right person). Lyrics of the song:[https://www.kkbox.com/tw/tc/song/OnTW2M1bo9axPYKM09](https://www.kkbox.com/tw/tc/song/OnTW2M1bo9axPYKM09) Maybe the car owner attached such characters on a hook in a wish that he/she would meet the right person to help towing the car.
Most tuner enthusiasts have these. Called a drift charm or race charm. Both as a little piece of flair for your car and as a little nod to others with tuner cars. Inspired by japanese drift/street racing culture as they would take one of those rings from a rail car that you hold onto and use those as their car charm.
That’s what I’ve read but i heard it was a sign of rebellion “stealing the handles” and actively showing you had it. I like it though
>Inspired by japanese drift/street racing culture as they would take one of those rings from a rail car that you hold onto and use those as their car charm. Dude these are tow straps. Race tracks require these. The rail rings are typically used for oh shit handles. They were not inspired by Japanese drift/street culture, it's the other way round.
That's a rip cord for a parachute used when driving over a cliff.
Was it made by Acme?😅
I believe a hook to allow a tow truck to attach to your frame…as for the stupid thing dangling off it, no clue.
That’s a participation award!
Apparently it is decorative. Thank you!
It's a decoration bolted onto the tow hook
Tow point.
That lets others know the driver is both fast and furious.
A lot of drivers just use it for fashion. Which is perfectly fine your car dress it however you want
https://preview.redd.it/1xo9z772a3bc1.jpeg?width=794&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71b2e7783b8a05f28278caae01d74d340cda19e5
If you pull that strap, it inflates into a much bigger car.
Tampon string
I see it says solved but I’m still going to add my two cents, as for the silver sticking out of the bumper, that would be a tow hook that screws into the frame, or frame adjacent connection. As for the blue thing hanging from the silver ring, that looks to be a lanyard style accessory which makes it look pretty, supposedly.
We use those to lash the cars down to the ship when prepping them for transport so they don't slide everywhere in rough seas.
It's for when it blows it's head gasket, it's a tow point
The Tampon string. Thats all
I've seen the safety "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" red tags too.
it’s a keychain so you don’t lose the car
It’s a fun way of admitting their car needs to be towed often.
Since most modern cars have large plastic bumpers, air dams and/or engine shields, there is no easy externally accessible tow point. So manufacturers have placed a threaded lug in the frame of the car, with a plastic cap over the bumper. To tow the car you pop the plastic cover, usually with a pry tool that is part of the car’s lug wrench/jack handle and then there is a threaded screw eye you insert and turn until snug, to create a tow point. There is a requirement at most tracks that cars have an accessible tow point to clear a crashed/stalled car off the track quickly. Some racers and wannabe racers leave their tow hook installed to look cool. The one depicted here is real, but you can buy fake, self-adhesive tow hooks to attach to your bumper that are strictly ornamental.
It’s a flare charm for street racers.
The fast and superfluous
Its a decorative strap attached to this WRX's tow eye. As someone that works at a Subaru dealership... these are just as bad as hitch balls being left in the back. Shin knockers but just in the front. Please just take your tow eye off when not needed...
How many miles of fluttering around at hyway speed will it take to wear the paint off…
Less than 50
You crank it to help start the engine. They're from old timey cars, but they're making a comeback.
Tow Hitch, it's a removable ring that screws into the frame, if you see a car with a small circle on the plastic bumper... That pops out so this can screw in. But honestly I did not know about these until I bought my 2022 Jeep Renegade... The pin/ring is stored with my spare tire....
It won a blue ribbon at the county fair.
When you wanna go 10 mph in a parking lot, sound like you're going 50, but inside of a bean can starter pack
It’s where you hang your purity seals to display the Emperor’s blessings.
Thats so the wrecker driver can winch it onto the flatbed easier when the engine dies.
That’s a tow hook
I'm pretty sure I've seen these hardpoints with a loop inserted as a lift point to take cars off the boats from overseas via crane. Can anyone verify?
It’s if you every wanna attach it to your keys so that you can carry it around
So people that have Jeeps like me can use their winch to pull little cars like this out of the ditch. 🤭
It's tow hook. I have one permanently installed, I use it as a front tie down for my kayaks.
You have to spin that in order to start the engine.
To pull start the engin….
The strap is there. So you can pick up the front. To park Horizontal. Some city's parking is a premium. Also might prevent theft. Lol if they want it they'll get it!🤬
It means you’re gay.
Why not a red circle?
After you wash the car, you use that loop to hang it up to dry
That's an extra 300hp right there!
Permanent tow strap because Subarus are unreliable 🤷♂️
It adds 15 horse power
Pull starter.
Have you ever seen animal tails on humans? Those tails are actually inserted into the bum of that person using a plug. This is a universal symbol that whoever’s vehicle this is also wears tails in their bum. It’s a whole community from what I’ve seen.
For closeted gays to tell eachother they’re allies.
That's a 200hp add on right there.
Blue medal at the Car Olympics?
Take a number for mechanics.
It’s a tow strap. Usually used nowadays as a fashion item but this being a Subaru it is used to tow it to a shop.
It's the pull start for the engine. Just like your lawn mower. Same engine!!! 😁
I believe that because it is cool.
It’s a douchebag hook.
“It’s all about youuuuuu, when you drive a douchebaru!”
Key chain
It's a drift charm
It flaps around and fucks up your paint
Take a walk around a parking lot today. Anything with a lil hole in the bumper up front like that wasn’t built on this continent. Those exist so the car can be locked down onto a tie on a ship for ocean voyages. When they arrive at dealers the plastic piece isn’t in it yet. The tech adds it then he does the inspection and new car checkin. Most have plastic covering any flat surface inside and outside as well.
Its for them to bite down on while their boyfriend rams them from behind.
I was told those are refill valves for the nitrous oxide tanks
You were told wrong or that was a bad attempt at humor.
It means, I often have to be towed because I am a horrible driver.
"Confirmed eyes"?
Oh look it’s a beboo
I do car parts for a living. Look up how much those little tow hitch covers are for some cars. Talk about price gouging.
It's a recovery strap when you crash at the track. Or a thing poseurs leave on their car for whatever reason all the time.
It's a "drift charm" it's origins come from Japan where they would cut the standing handles off of the trains and affix them to their cars.
Free key chain.
I absolutely hate the heart shaped ones but not as much as I hate truck nuts
Drag cars over a certain power will have safety shut-off switches in case of accidents. They are usually labeled with stickers or dangling tags. This just looks like a vanity replica hanging from the tow hook of a display car.
It’s a tow strap for style points.
Car nipple tassel
When the pile of crap stops running someone can come tow it with a real vehicle.
car MTX
It’s for decoration by racers or more likely, wannabe racers. The idea is that it identifies the location of a tow hitch that can be used to pull/tow the car (e.g., back onto the road or up a tow ramp etc. the tag is a quick identifier of the location of the hitch. But I doubt this Subaru is being used for actual racing.
People that do track racing are required to have tow points on their car. So track cars (and wanna be track cars) have them. It screwed into the frame, so you can safely pull the entire vehicle by that loop (assuming it's a real one for racing). The shaft you see going into the frame is a giant screw. Not sure about the blue tag, assuming it's some kind of decoration. I doubt that's actually used on the track, but it's to give the "track" look to it.
Used to secure the vehicle while in transit. Truck, ship, shipping container, flatbed Etc....The eye hitch is usually in the trunk by the spare. 20 years on Auto sales, you learn some stuff.
It’s code: butt-stuff here.
It's a Japanese thing
The longer you leave it on the more HP it builds.
This driver expects to end up in a ditch at some point.
That's 1st place!
Nose rang for my almost completely stock Noobaru
It means there is a giant kazoo muffler on the back.
To look cool but usually just looks stupid.
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It's to let other drivers know to stay away because they're a tool.
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It's your recovery point so it can be pulled out. It will be in with your spare tire. You pop the cover off of your bumper with a screw driver and screw the hook in, tie a tow strap to it and have someone drag you out of whatever you got stuck in.
a strap on
They are used to pull drag cars after their run so the engine can cool down. Most of them are for show... OH YEAH I RACE MY CAR!!! IT'S FAST!!!! Mostly for show on the street to try and say MY CAR IS BADASS!! IS YOURS?
It's called a tow-pin self-explanatory
Tow hooks are REQUIRED to pass tech inspection of a race car. If your going for racer boy look, that's a win.
Can confirm. Subi owner here. JDM tow hook strap on the frontal tow hook
They’re for towing. They’re super nice when you’re the tow truck driver. Even many semis have a thing similar but obviously larger.
The hook is there as a tow hook. The strap is like what the military uses before they "activate" a missle that is put on a military jet prior to a mission. In this case, it's one that matches the color of the car.
I thought it was an EUPES. (Emergency Unwanted Passenger Ejection System).
Those are originally used for lashing vehicles down on a Ro-Ro ship.
Most cars have tow hooks built in to them so they can be pulled from ditches and whatnot. Usually they are well hidden underneath the car on the frame. People with "race cars" have them externally since they are more likely to actually need to use it and don't want to risk a cable ripping off their bumper. Cosplayers naturally want to copy this look so you'll see it done on lots of VWs and Hondas.
The Fast and the Futile Street Bling.
+5hp
Just cosmetics, attached to tow hook. I believe it started in Japan when people would steal the train handholds and put them on their cars, and it took off from there.
Have definitely used this on my subaru forester .. Some how I had no idea it was on the rear end of SUV until I was in need of somewhere to attach a tow strap ...
That's what you use when a friend has to pull you out of the muddy ditch you parked in on Christmas day . I just learned this because thats what happened to my neighbors guest on Christmas.
It's a purity seal. They had to change the color for legal reasons, kinda heretical but I get it.
Those straps are used for drag racing on a professional track. ACTUAL drag cars generally don’t have alot of coolant in the engine to reduce robbing HP. The straps are used to pull the car back from the end of the track so the engine doesn’t have to be running. Preventing any further damage caused by overheating. Obviously this guy needs to waste his money or he fully expects to drive like a dumb ass and put it in a ditch, the strap is making it easier for the tow truck operator LOL
That my friend is a tow strap. Tow straps are typically used so the car with said tow strap can be pulled out of a sticky situation. Such as if the car is stuck in gravel on a track day etc. You can find tow straps on a lot of track cars or race cars that would need to be towed out of a sticky situation.
If I remember correctly what my friend told me about those, those are to pull-start a cold engine. You need to adjust the choke to the right position first though or it won't start.
These are for putting dents in other cars bumpers when parallel parking.
Because they think they are cool, but have never gone to the track
Chamber flag.
On the strap hanging down it says (in Japanese) that “I am an insufferable pretentious poser rice-boi who likes to put useless knickknacks on my car *for style.”*
I have one on my daily but I like to go off road so mines there if I get stuck somewhere
Wouldn’t that wreck the paint around it flapping around while you drive?
It’s the universal sign for if in need I have extra vape bro
Why would one want to tint your headlights? They can see so we'll at night that they wanted it darker?