November 5th, 2008 Posted in Cars

New car, woo!

The Calibra got crashed into and written off, then sold to some Poles.  In it’s place is now a shiny new BMW 318 coupe 😛

It came with a new set of 18″ MV2 copies on it so that’s the wheels sorted.  It’s a really straight car and has been looked after by it’s business owners before me. It came from Junction 27 Cars in Annesley (near Mansfield) who were disorganised but nice to deal with.  The driving experience is soooo different to the old and knackered Vauxhall.

I ripped all my stereo gear out of the Calibra, so the Sony MP3 headunit will be going in this week when all my wiring and facia adapters arrive.  The 6.5″ dB Audio components will be getting shoehorned into the doors by a pro stereo fitter after all the ballache I had installing them last time! Now it is dark and cold, the last thing I want to be doing is rolling around on the floor fitting speakers.  The amp and sub will have to wait a little while until I recover from the financial shock of obtaining a new car.  Apparently there is a “credit crunch’ on, but that didn’t stop a couple of credit card companies throwing 0% cards at me after a two minute online application 😀