{"id":4574,"date":"2019-11-07T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:00:39","slug":"bedazzled-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/bedazzled-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedazzled Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like putting a personal touch on my cars, and I&#8217;m not the only one. Many people like bumper stickers, but I&#8217;ve seen a couple cars recently with a different modification that&#8217;s a bit more shiny.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4581\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_07_01.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_07_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not something I would&#8217;ve thought to do, and it&#8217;s definitely not my style, but some people like to use these stick-on gems to give their car a personal look.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4582\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_07_02.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_07_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Putting them on the heated seat switches doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense to me, as they block the indicator lights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4583\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_07_03.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_07_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around the engine start\/stop button is one I&#8217;ve actually seen a couple times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4584\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_11_07_04.jpg\" alt=\"2019_11_07_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of custom valve stem caps, but I&#8217;ve never seen one like this before. I&#8217;m not sure who pays attention to valve stem caps besides mechanics, but I guess the owner of this car likes this look.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a>\u00a0are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like putting a personal touch on my cars, and I&#8217;m not the only one. Many people like bumper stickers, but I&#8217;ve seen a couple cars recently with a different modification that&#8217;s a bit more shiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-interior-trim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}