120I M convertible
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It'll also pick it up from about 30ft away from the car, even halfway through a call, much to the annoyance of some of the guys at work when they're on site, wander too near their car and the conversation just cuts out because it's now in the car
I've no idea if this is just down to them not being wired up properly or something but it'd annoy me
Dad has got them on his car headlights they look sort of blue and white
As above they're called Xenon Headlights.
You can physically fit them, but its not advised since it has the wrong type of headlights. You can buy kits from ebay to do it as there is currently a bit of a grey area as to whether they are illegal or not, but the EU is trying to get them banned. So even if you do fit them against our advice, there is a real chance you may have to remove it soon anyway.
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He wont let me have those then
nope.
new MOT rules that the EU are using to ban them come in force 2012.
The reason they are trying to ban them is when they're fitted to cars like yours (like this)
The light goes everywhere. It can go up into the sky. into drivers eyes etc.. If you just want to look cool this doesnt matter, but its why the EU wants them banned.
You'd need a set of Projector Headlights to do it. They look like this :
Yours are called reflector headlights.
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I can honestly say that I don't. I'll hit 29 this April and while the most I have ever spent on a car has been £6.5k, less than a third of the car in question here, but every penny spent to buy my two cars has been my own.
My first one was given to me by my grandad when he became to ill to drive it but I had saved up £2k to get me on the road (£1k for the car and £1k for insurance). It was a higher insurance group than the others I was looking at and ended up costing £1250 to insure so I put the rest away for uni.
Second car was £3500 and was bought with money I'd saved up from working part time at uni. Bought at quite a pivotal point in my life, just finished education, time to enter the real world.
Third and current car was again at quite a pivotal point. I'd bought a house with my GF about a year before and was now standing on my own two feet.
While it may be a bit sentimental I can look back and see that I worked for all of my cars and while this applies to everything I own cars are a bit different because in my case they represent my second biggest asset behind the one that I live in! They all also represent what I'd achieved at the time.
I'm a long way from owning a £22k car but when I do I know for a fact that I'll be more appreciative of it than if I had been given it at 18.
I disagree entirely
This comes down to the individual. Speaking as a father we all want to give our kids the best in life. I don't have the money to do it (driving a 5k car myself) but can entirely see where mark is coming from.
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