One Mod and it has to be a good one!

BulletRaptor · Post by **BulletRaptor** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:36 am

Im 17 and im going to be getting a corsa 1.2 as my first car>
Im going on my parents insurance can i can do some stuff to my car asap.
If you guys would surgest one MOD for it what would it be!

Just my first mod>

i was thinking:

Back box
Air filter
Head unit

ether one of them or something else.. what do you guys think is a good first mod??

purecarsound · Post by **purecarsound** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:54 am

Thats probably the best way to start.

If you go for alloys try and get a set of Vaux ones as it won\'t affect the insurance too much. I got a set of Cav GSi wheels for £40 from a local car boot.

mr.feza · Post by **mr.feza** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:36 pm

Yes true, plus you\'ll surely scrape a few curbs so you dont wanna be scraping expensive alloys! lol - headunit, air filter and backbox sounds good. i never had alloys on my first car, i just mainly used it for getting used to driving and havin fun in it and basically killed it going off road and driving like a nutter!

tom87 · Post by **tom87** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:58 pm

Im under my parents policy and our insurance company allowed alloy wheels aslong they were not over 2\'\' bigger than the standard size.

Joff · Post by **Joff** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:11 pm

For the first mod, I\'d recommend an induction kit (Pipercross of course!).

It doesn\'t affect your insurance - but STILL inform them. 99% of insurers will just say ok, it\'s now on your policy, etc.

It helps to give your car a bit more poke through the gears and makes it sound a bit nicer to boot.

It won\'t do anything to the exterior of the car, so wouldn\'t make the car any more desireable to theives (unlike wheels, exhausts, headunit, etc).

It\'s the cheapest out of all the other mods (unless you go for cheap and nasty wheels or ICE).

Once you\'ve got the filter on, then get the exhaust - a backbox will be fine.

gsimark · Post by **gsimark** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:54 pm

well if i may give some advice over the last 15 years of tuning and styling cars i\'ve seen some poo and i\'ve seen some corkers if you want a nice lookin motor go for what we call the sleeper look, colour coding, smoothing the cars lumps and bumps out, getting it\'s ass to the ground is good, subtile but effective changes that make people look and nice, insted of oh waht a mess of a motor the mod\'s really are up tp you depends how deep the pocket is ( right guys) at the end of the day u got to drive her and pay for her upkeep.

good luck m8

Karen · Post by **Karen** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:29 pm

Getting the car would be the best mod

gsimark · Post by **gsimark** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:32 pm

Getting the car would be the best mod

pmsl @ that

Joff · Post by **Joff** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:40 pm

[quote=\"gsimark\"]well if i may give some advice over the last 15 years of tuning and styling cars i\'ve seen some **** and i\'ve seen some corkers if you want a nice lookin motor go for what we call the sleeper look, colour coding, smoothing the cars lumps and bumps out, getting it\'s ass to the ground is good, subtile but effective changes that make people look and nice, insted of oh waht a mess of a motor the mod\'s really are up tp you depends how deep the pocket is ( right guys) at the end of the day u got to drive her and pay for her upkeep.

good luck m8[/quote]

The only problem with that is that a lot of insurance companies do like to increase the premium with any changes to the suspension. Plus you should really go for a full lowering kit, then if you went for the cheap one it would lose any comfort, etc.

Sig16v · Post by **Sig16v** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:47 am

a headunit is probably the first thing i\'d buy.

gsimark · Post by **gsimark** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:31 pm

i agree get sum tunez in it after you brought it eh

tom87 · Post by **tom87** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:22 pm

first thing i did to mine was 6x9s, like mr.feza says its easy to scrape a set of new rims, this happened to me today when i was driving to work, accidently hit the kurb just comng out of teh village i live in, a lorry was coming the other way and there barley room to get past so ended up putting a nice kurb mark or 2 on the new rims.

punkheadgray · Post by **punkheadgray** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:38 pm

take the rub strips off the doors and the badges as well... simple and it costs hardly anything (depending on what you use to get the glue off)

BulletRaptor · Post by **BulletRaptor** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:43 pm

how easy is that to do then?

FasT · Post by **FasT** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:40 pm

it cud go right or totaly wrong ie leave a faded mark wich will look poo. i\'v colour coded the door strips and door handles n looks really gd. plus it still protects my door from arsholes who smak their doors on mine