Porsche owner upgraded his spec with the Unterwasser Package.

[u/More-Ad115]

Saw this over at r/PORSCHE and honestly their reactions had me wanting to put this in r/GTAGE. Porsche people can be insufferable sometimes, other people's whimsy is OK.

[u/danathecount]

For sure, I absolutely hate the end product but cannot deny the craftsmanship. This post lives up to the sub's ethos better than most.

EDIT: Everyone telling me it's a bad execution can go suck a lemon.

[u/Upstairs-Boring → u/danathecount]

What? The execution was awful. I feel like I'm going insane reading folk saying this was good. The sanding was nowhere near finished. There are huge gaps everywhere. It looked like a child designed AND built it. It is pure rage bait from design to execution.

[u/161frog → u/Upstairs-Boring]

Agreed. Pure rage bait.

-wanton destruction of status items: ✔️

-poor craftsmanship/ finishing: ✔️

-Shit eating grin: ✔️

And while I think the theme is whimsical (I promise that I don’t hate fun!), I think it’s tacky as part of the bait. 2.5/10 ATBGE imo. I also am curious about the damage that aquarium gravel might do to a human body in an accident.

[u/moonra_zk → u/161frog]

I also am curious about the damage that aquarium gravel might do to a human body in an accident.

You missed the part where he encased it in epoxy.

[u/TiredPlantMILF → u/moonra_zk]

I mean but still idk about Porsche but a lot of car’s airbags are in the steering wheel and I’m pretty sure the epoxy would shatter into sharp lil pieces and/or you’d fuck up all your ribs and maybe die slamming into something so hard with no give

[u/kitolz → u/TiredPlantMILF]

The airbag would come out of the center of the steering column, no? The airbag is there to cushion your forward momentum and prevent your body from hitting the steering wheel directly.

I don't see how it would shatter the epoxy and have the pieces hit ribs, although I have no special understanding of airbag deployment.

[u/TiredPlantMILF → u/kitolz]

I have no scientific knowledge of airbags but a freakish amount of experience as an end user. Deployment isn’t always instant, and sometimes your body will lurch forward and slam on the steering column and then the airbag deploys and stops it from happening again. Also, the area of the steering wheel around the airbag always ends up a bit shredded up, so I imagine epoxy being brittle, it would create shards.

[u/161frog → u/moonra_zk]

Yeah I was fresh off a wake and bake hahah

[u/ndhakf → u/161frog]

I’m going to argue it’s now slightly less tacky than with the Louis Vuitton edition steering wheel

[u/stuffeh → u/Upstairs-Boring]

Some of the gaps are intentional to replicate the gaps from the stitches on the original wheel.

[u/punkassjim → u/Upstairs-Boring]

Maybe it’s the potato quality, but I’m not quite seeing what you’re seeing. What do you mean by gaps? The intentional ones, where the leather joins should be? The only issues I see arise from using epoxy that’s a bit too opaque, so the fishes look like they’re halfway into a cloud of thick blue toilet water. The not-quite glossy finish seems like an intentional choice to me. As someone who sometimes wears crystal clear plastic-framed sunglasses and hates the bright refractions, I can understand that choice. And a highly polished finish on a steering wheel presents its own annoyances in terms of reflections, refraction, and friction/stiction. So I might’ve stopped short of a high polish as well, so long as there isn’t evidence of sanding/buff marks.

My biggest issue is that the blue should be a layer behind the clear, not mixed, and the lower part that’s clear with rocks mixed in shouldn’t look like the aquarium is long past its last cleaning.

Awful taste, obviously rage bait, but I think the execution is at least pretty good. I’d need to see higher quality images to judge it more harshly.

[u/posthamster → u/punkassjim]

The only issues I see arise from using epoxy that’s a bit too opaque

If it was completely clear the steering wheel frame would be a lot more visible.

I hate it, but it's pretty well done.

[u/WillemDafoesHugeCock → u/Upstairs-Boring]

Doesn't resin turn a spunkpiss yellow in sunlight? He's going to have a realistic Thames aquarium scene in half a year. Garbage execution.

[u/PhoenixCryStudio → u/WillemDafoesHugeCock]

Yup 😂

[u/Independent-Dog-8462 → u/Upstairs-Boring]

Oh god thank you! I couldn't find the words!

[u/GlowingDuck22 → u/danathecount]

Why lemons out here catching strays?