Awful Accessories

[overrun]

Aye, powdery travel sweeties....they  usually went off if they were in the glove compartment.

 

My mate was festooned with a tin those things for free* when he stuck an Audi in for service.

When I saw them, I was expecting rust on the tin. They looked decades old.

[vulgalour]

They've just never changed the packaging.  My parents keep TWO tins of those boiled sweets in the glovebox and have ever since their first car.  I don't remember if they had them in the bike and sidecar, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[inconsistant]

Aye, powdery travel sweeties....they  usually went off if they were in the glove compartment.

 

Mmm, delicious! I loved dipping a licked finger in the pile of powdery icing sugar at the bottom of the tin. Heaven!

[Volksy]

I had my camper van searched by the police when trying to enter a music festival in the early ninety's, in the glove box was a tin of those travel sweets, No sweets left, just the white powder. You can imagine the reaction.

[Jim Bell]

 My parents keep TWO tins of those boiled sweets in the glovebox.

 

Be prepared. Be very prepared.

[brickwall]

If left, they sorta joined together into a single sticky mass helped along my the warm glove box.

[retrogeezer]

[Lord Sterling]

Anyone remember these?

 

 

Pull-out stereos. Never really saw the point in these, big bulky things to hide. I remember most people used to just hide the stereo under the passenger seat or in the boot. I suppose it gave opportunist thieves the idea that although you had a nice car, you just couldn't be arsed to shell out extra on a radio, or the thief couldnt be arsed searching your car for a stereo.

 

Here is someone with a Car-Bra carrying a pull-out stereo:

 

 

I got given a few stereos last year and amongst them is a pull out jobbie, which amazingly still works.

 

Garfield window bear - I had one of these as a kid, but an Edd-the-Duck one which took pride of place in my Dads Sterling, don't know what happend to it since.

[stormee]

Thieves just didn't know which pull out stereo was hidden under the seat or wherever. Not all of them were worth the effort of breaking into the car. Most thieves were specialised in reselling special stereos.

[Hendry]

We lived in an area quite bad for car theft/theft from cars when i was younger (the days when every 2nd car was a mid 80s - mid 90s Ford, and even LX spec ones had a factory alarm, and every one of them in a several mile radius had the Ford badge nicked) to the point my old man pulled out the standard Ford Dolby digital cassette player in his H plate Orion so it didn't get nicked.

 

I remember my old man also deliberately buying cars without alloys because he thought it would make the car more likely to be stolen. I suppose he had a point given someone tried to steal the absolutely fucked rusty D reg turd brown Maestro City he had before the Orion, busting holes around the door locks, some sad bastard even stole the standard Austin hubcaps and the triangular plastic trim behind the rear quarter window, (proving the shite accessory Moss Security alarm the car had didn't work very well)

 

My neighbours Sparkrite alarm on his B plate Fiesta "L Special" wasnt much better.

 

Another shite accessory this has reminded me of is "trim tape/side decals/pinstripes" the Orion in Matisse blue had a white thin stripe level with the door handles running the full length of either side of the car (it looked factory fitted as well) and some people with poverty spec cars without the chrome strip in their bumpers used to fill the space with the dodgy tape too.

 

Finally, not really an accessory as such but still shite, the mirror stick on kits they used to sell, mostly to Ford owners I assume from experience, for when the interior mirror arm which stuck to a black square bonded to the screen came unstuck, it was like some sort of rubbish superglue and some black mesh/gauze that went between the mirror arm and the black bit on the screen, lasted a couple of days if you were lucky and fell off again.

[Grundig]

I had a sparkshite alarm - it had a pad stuck to the windscreen that had  'A' & 'B' on it, using the fob to swipe over the a or b (four times) this set the code to arm or dis-arm it e.g  AABB BABA BAAB etc etc, pretty cool & yet pretty shite at the same time 

[Pillock]

My Beetle was broken into a couple of times in Mansfield, losing me my CD player on the first go and just having a rummage on the second. So I fitted a Sparkrite alarm. With ultrasonic sensors!

 

So the third time it was broken into, by removing the rear window, you'd think the alarm would go off. Wouldn't you?

[For Fiats Sake]

I like plaggy bits.

 

The iFat Nadpa has every bit of plaggy I can find, including a Golf spoilers- front and rear, roof bars, air intake cover, 4x4 style side trims.

 

I would love an auto plas louvre - not found one yet though.

 

I've also stuck my FiatForum initials on the back in silver letters and have a huge sun strip emblazened with panda across it.

 

I completed the look with a set of montecarlo alloys 

 

I'd post a picture but being a mongtard can't work out how.

[overrun]

Anyone remember these?

 

 

Pull-out stereos. Never really saw the point in these, big bulky things to hide. I remember most people used to just hide the stereo under the passenger seat or in the boot. I suppose it gave opportunist thieves the idea that although you had a nice car, you just couldn't be arsed to shell out extra on a radio, or the thief couldnt be arsed searching your car for a stereo.

 

Here is someone with a Car-Bra carrying a pull-out stereo:

 

 

I got given a few stereos last year and amongst them is a pull out jobbie, which amazingly still works.

 

Garfield window bear - I had one of these as a kid, but an Edd-the-Duck one which took pride of place in my Dads Sterling, don't know what happend to it since.

 

I have a pull-out geneuine Panafonics, somehwere.

 

They weren't as pointless as the pull-down flap you got in 90's Renaults. The only cars that had that cubby hole covered, had either cash money or a fly Kenwood to obscure.

[brickwall]

Aye, had a pull-out Blaupunkt jobbie in the Monty

[retrogeezer]

still got a pull out Sharp stereo in my Supersport....  100watts!

[JohnDeere]

I fitted a pull-out Pioneer to my LNA and always used to leave it under the passenger seat while parked in dodgy bits of Birmingham without a problem.  Was finally nicked from my brother's house in Harborne - bit pointless seeing as the mounting cage was still in his Metro parked in the pub car park over the road.

[Partridge]

My Gran had one nicked from her Golf Driver...remember it like it was yesturday.

[retrogeezer]

screwdriver through the doorskin by the lock?

[For Fiats Sake]

screwdriver through the doorskin by the lock?

That's how they got into the iFat chinkychentoe to nick my removeable head unit stereo which I cunningly*  hid underthe passenger seat, only 'cos chentoes don't have glove boxes.

[Wilko220]

Come to this thread a bit late but enjoying it very much.

 

Has anyone mentioned the famous Penisheads sticker?

 

 

[Partridge]

Come to this thread a bit late but enjoying it very much.

 

Has anyone mentioned the famous Penisheads sticker?

 

 

 

What a major league pillock.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I have a pull-out geneuine Panafonics, somehwere.

 

They weren't as pointless as the pull-down flap you got in 90's Renaults. The only cars that had that cubby hole covered, had either cash money or a fly Kenwood to obscure.

 

I always assumed, or hoped, that the Renault Flaps were purely aesthetic. Like an automotive equivalent of those old tellies with doors. 

[vulgalour]

I just suddenly noticed something wrong with this picture...

 

That's not a Triumph.

[overrun]

Come to this thread a bit late but enjoying it very much.

 

Has anyone mentioned the famous Penisheads sticker?

 

 

 

Wanker stickers for wanker members of an up-it's-own-arse wanker website.

[Wilko220]

^ Don't hold back - say what you mean!

[overrun]

^ Don't hold back - say what you mean!

 

I aspire to have the latest plate, ticked on black Audi TDi.

 

Why's their stupid sticker have three pistons, anyway?

[scruff]

[Mr Livered]

Those look like the signs that you hang over hotel door handles.

 

Perfect for shiters, assuming that they mean "do not disturb because I am currently using the hotel wifi to go on Autoshite and wank over pictures of old Peugeots".

[Junkman]