thats not what i meant
a lot of cars use standard iso connectors but with completely different wire configurations whereas all aftermarket radios come with the standard iso config
so youll either have to buy iso to what vw/bmw/toyota/whoever thinks is iso adapters or hope they at least used the standard wire colour codes and spend half an hour rearranging them
I recommend you get one of those special energy saving, stronger illuminating and eco-friendly light bulbs. You will save over 2p per week!!! You will be able to cause an accident at night because of your ridiculously powerful light bulbs!!! and eco-activists won't burn anymore on the zebra when you stop at a red light!!! Sorry can't thing of anything other that for your car.
IMO I don't think you should invest money in the car. Just make sure it's in perfect working condition, use it for 1-2 years then get something decent and german like a Golf or a 3 series.
I've seen those wannabe xenon lights. In fact, those pieces of crap are 100+W halogen bulbs. If you leave them on for a while you can smell your headlight units (and wiring harness if you're lucky) melting
Don't bother with real xenon if you don't have a proper headlight unit. You need a clear lens an a good quality reflector. Most normal halogen units will just cause a huge glare, blinding everyone (the chav look).
Get some Philips Nightguide bulbs if you want some good halogen bulbs that are affordable.
Don't bother with Xenon unless you have a proper car. Putting several hundred quid's worth of headlight into a banger you bought down the auction for a fiver is pointless.
What is also point less is getting HID headlamps with a color temperature greater then 5400K. 5400K is the easiest color for your eyes to detect, and is unsurprisingly the color of normal daylight. Anything higher or lower then that is more difficult to see.
Most folk don't chose their first car unless they had to go out and earn it themselves, but being Britain, like all teenagers Jack has thrown a paddy fit and cried until his parents relented and give him one of theirs on the next family upgrade. It's part of the right of passage that all teenagers get a car, without it you just are not grown up and will be polishing shoes for a living for the rest of your life.
My folks had no car to give me at the time so they picked up a Fiat 126 for £50, the previous owner had swapped it for a microwave. And I got more girls with it than any chavved up motor coz it was cute and rediculous! Since then i've only had 2 cars with an engine smaller than a 2 litre turbo, but that first car... it could only be described as "lol".
Say, you've not long turned 17 yourself, what was your first car?
Actually Jack I think your Dad was just so embarassed when you asked him to give you and your girl a lift to the local park for some window steeming that he just couldn't take any more!
I almost got my first squirrel during a lesson last week. That little bugger ran across the road from under a parked car, disappeared up the street and then REAPPEARED at the next street. I swear it was suicidal.
My mum ended up killing a few rabbits a few years back. I was recording at a studio in the middle of nowhere and I swear to god, at night the road around the place just because a carpet of rabbits. I'm still amazed she got as few as she did.
And the running costs aren't what's going to hurt me (I've done plenty of research into fuel costs, repair bills, etc), it's the f*cking insurance. I object to my insurance costing more than the car itself
I almost got a squirrel on my bicycle the other day whilst cycling fast, though in fairness, the damage would have been mutual.
I remember one time riding in a friend's car and a bird landed just as we pulled up at some lights, when he pulled away he wheelspan (typical yobster etc etc) and all these featers rose up. Sad, but funny. Though not as funny as the small bird that hit another of my friends windscreen and got stuck under the wiper, he was so distressed and wanted to set it free so he turned his wipers on to help it and this poor bird got dragged across the windscreen going "chirp chirp chirp!".
And to think we have to pay Alton Towers for that kinda fun.