I was thinking about the term "Tuner."

Why do so many people with an import car call themselves "Tuners" or say thay are into "Import Tuning", when all they have done to their car is pay someone else to install their JDM coilovers and wheels?

To me, tuners are the guys sitting behind the wheel with their laptops modifying fuel and timing maps. Not someone who buys a bodykit and a wing...


Thoughts?

 

x 1 billion

 

Do people actually refer to themselves as "tuners"?

Circuity city parking lot

"yo... i am a tuner"
"word"
knuckle bump

ghey

 

never heard someone call them selves as a tuner...maybe the closest to it is i'm going to mod (inster blank)

 

My favorite is the NOPI "Tuner lifestyle" LoL watta bunch of APC crazed garbage.

 

tuners are, in my book, the people that actually manipulate aem, crome, hondata etc etc

Tuners as a lifestyle should only apply to those who actually do the work on the cars themselves. I think it should also apply to all car makes and not just imports.

If you dont do the work yourself but totally dedicate yourself to researching and learning about the car that is being built with your money, I guess you can call yourself a tuner but whats the fun in doing that???


<-----quasi half "Tuner lifestyle" member #00001

 

Hah, I agree. How about "tuner style" wheels? WTF does that mean, pretty but heavy?

 

[QUOTE=Scot,Dec 1 2006, 12:01 PM] Do people actually refer to themselves as "tuners"?

 

maybe the term has just evolved and/or been adopted to become a more ambiguous slang term. take the term "cool" for instance. although the term originally relates to description of temperature, somehow it is been adopted to become an ambiguous term describing something or anything that's not temperature related. i'm guessing the term "tuner" in our case has just evolved to become a more ambiguous term that incompasses anyone and everyone who modifies their vehicles in any way shape or form, whether they actually perform the modifications themselves or not.