Shit 1990s accessories

[sierraman]

What's everyone's favourite 1990's car accessory?

 

Mines either the stick on 'dimma' fuel cap or one of those big fuck off 'Pioneer' stickers for the back window

[fordperv]

Florescent Fido dido sticker

 

The peco big bore 4

 

Those big "On a mission" stickers

 

Tiger stripes on fords

[Timewaster]

Oh so so many to choose from.

 

Garfields in the window, comedy plastic fingers in the door shuts.

Road Runner spot lights fitted with scotch locks.

Stick on LCD clocks.

Goodmans shelf speakers.

Slightly wobbly stripe kits.

Nylon seat covers.

Autoplas wheel trims.

Chrome exhaust trims.

 

No, none of those....

 

MOSS SECURITY MS705.

 

Detecting cats and light rain and alerting the entire neighbourhood since 1987.

[Matt]

Autoplas wheel trims.

 

I have a set of these, local garage has I think three still in the packaging.

[RoadworkUK]

Without a doubt, mine's the anti-vibration tray you could get to mount your Discman in a car.

 

Or indeed, your Sony CarDiscman.

[Timewaster]

It just occurred to me I should have written that to the tune of My Favourite Things.

 

If I can't sleep later, I may be back.

[mk2_craig]

Later in the 1990s I went batshit for Minidiscs and bought a Sony MD head unit for my van. I've still got it in the attic!

 

Oh, and Oakley Thermonuclear Protection windscreen stickers.

[mercrocker]

I seem to have ignored the 1990s.   However, I do recall ridiculously over-engineered tax disc holders, usually some three-part plastic affair.   Oh, and little footy kits suckered to a back window.   Guaranteed to attract a brick in the wrong place at the wrong Saturday afternoon....

[andy18s]

Later in the 1990s I went batshit for Minidiscs and bought a Sony MD head unit for my van. I've still got it in the attic!

Always wanted 1 of those but never seemed to get round to actually buying one

[Hendry]

Moss Security alarms which were wired in wrongly so briefly went off as you were starting the car, hole in the dash with this awful looking black plastic thing sitting on top of it which was the interior ultrasonic sensors thing. 

 

The rear window decal of a wee spiky haired guy in a vest with his fingers in his ears (no idea what it was called)

 

A decal on the rear window consisting of 4 horizontal orange lines at either side with in big orange letters "FIESTA/NOVA/ESCORT/ASTRA" etc.

 

Oakley rear window decals

 

The Garfield suction cupped to the rear side windows (I had one in my dads B reg Fiat Uno as a child and loved it, was gutted when he disappeared or more likely my mum or dad binned him)

 

Black door edge protectors with orange reflectors in them

 

Static strips hanging from the back end of cars

 

Door lock surround decals with the manufacturer of your car's logo on it

 

"On A Mission" Stickers.

 

People having a craze of having rear head rests from a CD spec Vauxhall or Ghia spec Ford on their Popular Plus or Merit spec car and just sitting the metal legs between the rear seat and the parcel shelf rather than cut the holes and put tubes in to fit them properly.

 

Number plates with all sorts or weird and wonderful unreadable fonts, and usually with a line across the bottom along the lines of "lower than your granny's nipples, or lower than knocking off your own sister"

 

Coloured lights, light the blue/green indicator lenses, side repeaters and rear light clusters you could get for run of the mill stuff

 

Decals running the length of the side of the car saying "Orion" or "Ford Motorsport"

 

Pullout radio cassette head units, before face off ones became the new thing. 

 

Cars with aftermarket bean can exhausts with a stainless steel metal plate riveted to the rear bumper above the exhaust

 

Shopping lists down the front doors for manufacturers of car tuning parts, bonus points for having the names of things your car didnt even have fitted, like "Sparco, OZ Racing, Alpine, Koni, K&N, Fulda Tyres"

 

"SORTED" Badges on the back of Fords, in the style of mk6 Escort badges. 

 

Spot Lights, ala Fiesta XR2 style

 

I could go on all night listing this tat! I have to admit i thought it was cool when I was 7/8 years old though when all my cousins pals had cars like that. 

[sawdustman]

Ah, ripspeed remembered.

-- them crappy plastic headlight covers which were supposed to make your vauxhall nova look like it'd had a 4 headlight conversion.

-- Jamex sporty* air filters which looked like painted car sponges

-- piss poor stick on window tint (Inc. air bubbles and creases)

 

 

 

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[Paul Dupart]

Those glass pop up sunroofs, as often fitted to poverty spec special editions.  Independent windscreen guys would fit one for the cost of the windscreen excess and give you a receipt to send to the insurance company.  "Fetch the tin opener...."

 

Stick on false phone aerials.

[Alexg]

'Mission aborted, gone for a spliff'

[sierraman]

Britax sunroofs, NACA ducts, cosworth vents, porthole kits for vans.

 

Alloys like tritecs like those three spoke shit ones you could get on Probes

 

DIY smoked lights, those covers you could get to use in daylight that made your lights look black

 

Hella aux light grilles, flashback kits for Sierras.

 

RGA body kits

 

Those car mats with the checker plate on the heel.

 

Monroe static strips

 

Stick on bullet holes

 

Those bead type car seat covers

 

Chrome arch kits to cover up rusty arches on Granadas

[Felly Magic]

Amything from Motorworld with the 'Kingavon' or 'Randall & Hopkirk' brand

[Lord Sterling]

Had a 'Eddy the Duck' window stick on.

 

Loved to the 'Pioneer/AIWA/Kenwood' rear window stickers. Used to see the ////AIWA back window flash on quite a lot of Belgian boy-racer cars as well as repositioning the rear number plate to the bottom of the bumper.

 

Pioneer/Kenwood were also found on 90s flight jackets of which I am a proud owner of.

[Timewaster]

Amything from Motorworld with the 'Kingavon' or 'Randall & Hopkirk' brand

Randall & Hopkirk.

Have they (de) ceased trading?

[Ghosty]

Tailblazers!

[stuboy]

stick on bonnet vents..

[clayts450]

Just squeaks in - Flat Eric

 

[matty879]

in my neck of the woods it was always a big fuck off turbosystems sticker accross the windscreen,and stick on rs turbo bonnet vents,and a max power sticker

[andy18s]

Ah,round my way it was all these guys

Who gave us this sort of stuff as well as the usual Escort Cossies

[Hendry]

Actually although its a 2007 car, I think this has most of the shit 1990s accessories fitted to it (the guy bought this completely standard brand new from my old work, replacing a similar gold Saxo VTS he owned from new which suffered an engine fire, he was in his late forties IIRC)

 

 

 

 

Ive no idea what possessed him either tbh! How anyone thinks thats stylish, nice or tasteful ive no idea!

[AndyW201]

God, I shudder to think of some of my previous cars.

 

In 1992/3, I was running a 1984 Mk3 Esc-rot 1.1. Gained a set of 'stylistick' side graphics with an XR2 style fade and 'Escort' logo in red. A Lombard RAC rally sunstrip in the windscreen and small Weber stickers in the rear side windows. Topped off by a set of mk3 Capri S alloys with Falken 185/60/13 tyres. An Audioline radio cassette with a set of Pye 3 way speakers on the rear shelf blasted out the likes of Altern8, Bizarre Inc and Naughty by Nature. All show, bugger all go!

 

In 1994, came my first brand new car, a Rover Metro Rio Grande. That gained a set of KN 5 spoke alloys, a JVC pull out radio, the chrome bumper strips were coloured green and a matching green stripe added under the side mouldings. De badged the boot and removed the Rio logos and added a Moto-Build windscreen sunstrip.

 

After a couple of Rover 100s, I got a new k11 Micra in 1996. It was the povo spec 1.0 Shape model but the dealer had already fitted a genuine Nissan bodykit. Along with the standard 13" steelies and 'Motor factor special' trimz...

Soon after I whanged on a set of pi 40mm lowering springs with a set of 13" TSW alloys. The interior had been given a horrible fake wood kit around the dash vents and heater controls by the dealer. I soon had them covered with some of that Folia tec fake carbon fibre film. Some CT racing mats, Sparco harness pads front and rear and an alloy gearknob went inside. Pretty soon the alloys were upgraded to 15" Team Dynamics DTM and some Primera 'SRi' badges on the grille and tailgate went on.

 

Next k11 was a red 1.3 Si facelift in 1998. That also got a pi lowering kit and the 15" alloys from the previous car. Coloured bulbs had become the latest thing so the sidelight, number plate light and interior light bulbs were all changed to green. (I wasn't brave enough to have the green sidelight bulbs in long...). Interior also got a set of red carpet mats with the chequerplate heel pads on the fronts. A local accessory place had started doing number plates with logos 'ghosted' into the background so I had a set made with the Nissan logo in the background and the reg number in 3D. The front and rear bumpers gained some RGM (Richard Grant IIRC) 'DTM' corner splitters.

 

Yet another k11 followed in 2000 but that was a Mystique version, which had Chromoflare flip paint as standard so already stood out a fair bit. That just got lowered and some more 15" rims. Maybe by then, at 25 I was starting to grow up a bit...

 

And by 2004, I was back behind the wheel of older stuff again.

 

OE modifications now only....

[Ghosty]

ISTR green 6N Polos could come with factory green taillights...

 

I'd actually quite like a set of tri-spoke alloys...

[Hendry]

God, I shudder to think of some of my previous cars.

 

In 1992/3, I was running a 1984 Mk3 Esc-rot 1.1. Gained a set of 'stylistick' side graphics with an XR2 style fade and 'Escort' logo in red. A Lombard RAC rally sunstrip in the windscreen and small Weber stickers in the rear side windows. Topped off by a set of mk3 Capri S alloys with Falken 185/60/13 tyres. An Audioline radio cassette with a set of Pye 3 way speakers on the rear shelf blasted out the likes of Altern8, Bizarre Inc and Naughty by Nature. All show, bugger all go!

 

In 1994, came my first brand new car, a Rover Metro Rio Grande. That gained a set of KN 5 spoke alloys, a JVC pull out radio, the chrome bumper strips were coloured green and a matching green stripe added under the side mouldings. De badged the boot and removed the Rio logos and added a Moto-Build windscreen sunstrip.

 

After a couple of Rover 100s, I got a new k11 Micra in 1996. It was the povo spec 1.0 Shape model but the dealer had already fitted a genuine Nissan bodykit. Along with the standard 13" steelies and 'Motor factor special' trimz...

Soon after I whanged on a set of pi 40mm lowering springs with a set of 13" TSW alloys. The interior had been given a horrible fake wood kit around the dash vents and heater controls by the dealer. I soon had them covered with some of that Folia tec fake carbon fibre film. Some CT racing mats, Sparco harness pads front and rear and an alloy gearknob went inside. Pretty soon the alloys were upgraded to 15" Team Dynamics DTM and some Primera 'SRi' badges on the grille and tailgate went on.

 

Next k11 was a red 1.3 Si facelift in 1998. That also got a pi lowering kit and the 15" alloys from the previous car. Coloured bulbs had become the latest thing so the sidelight, number plate light and interior light bulbs were all changed to green. (I wasn't brave enough to have the green sidelight bulbs in long...). Interior also got a set of red carpet mats with the chequerplate heel pads on the fronts. A local accessory place had started doing number plates with logos 'ghosted' into the background so I had a set made with the Nissan logo in the background and the reg number in 3D. The front and rear bumpers gained some RGM (Richard Grant IIRC) 'DTM' corner splitters.

 

Yet another k11 followed in 2000 but that was a Mystique version, which had Chromoflare flip paint as standard so already stood out a fair bit. That just got lowered and some more 15" rims. Maybe by then, at 25 I was starting to grow up a bit...

 

And by 2004, I was back behind the wheel of older stuff again.

 

OE modifications now only....

 

Ive modified every car ive ever had to some degree but its always been tasteful subtle stuff, except from my first car, 1997 R plate mk3 Astra given to me by my dad, Courtenay Sport panel filter, chrome bonnet lifters, twin upswept exhaust backboxes, Jamex 40mm lowering springs, 17" Penta alloys from a Tigra B, Fiat Punto rear wiper, Irmscher rear spoiler, completely debadged, bump strips removed, GSI tail lights, home made smoked headlights, smoked indicators, mk4 clear side repeaters, M3 style door mirrors, FK mesh grille, Steinmetz front splitter, Inside had the grey interior stripped out and a black interior, all trims, carpets and seats from a CDX and a Sport, so passenger airbag dash (non working) passenger side dash undertray, Sport door cards and seats, chrome speedo dial surrounds, reverse indiglo dials, chrome heater dials and dash vents, Pioneer bluetooth headunit, Vectra chrome door handles, front armrest, Momo gear knob and handbrake handle, chrome gear gaiter surround, rear head rests, then it all got ripped out, returned to standard, the expensive parts sold off and traded in for a Pug 206. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

the sony ir card remote which may* have been used in secret @ hellfrauds to raise volume whist no where near display unit

[Split_Pin]

Here is my 1/18 scale take on 1994/95, based loosely on work colleague's cars at the time. Escort 1.1L, check. Cut springs, check. rS 1600i and RS Turbo accessories and stickers, check. Aftermarket sunroof fitted, Big Bore exhaust, check!

[0ldCh0d]

Florescent Fido dido sticker

 

The peco big bore 4

 

Those big "On a mission" stickers

 

Tiger stripes on fords

 

Those big "On a mission" Sticker/s bring back memories......My Dad had one of them on his brand new at the time (1996 N reg)  Renault Maxter 8x4 tipper.  

[Negative Creep]

Stick on bad boy light covers