What Car Accessories Should I Have?

There's a vast array of appealing and fascinating car accessories on the market today. They can truly enhance the look, function, and performance of your car, truck, or sports utility vehicle. Some of the more popular ones are described here.

Electronic Accessories

Some of the most superb state-of-the-art electronic accessories every car owner can consider include satellite radio receivers, video navigational and positioning systems, MP3 and DVD receivers, rear seat mounted satellite TV screens, and high powered, upscale stereo systems with all the bells and whistles.

Many of these products are costly but they can be financed on credit cards or even at some retail shops who now offer their own in store financing specials. With these devices, you can feel like you're right at home in the comfort of your own living room in front of your expensive home theater system. While driving, you can keep the kids occupied with the TVs, and you can cruise down the roads listening to spectacular music, all while being expertly directed to any place you need to go.

Performance Accessories

These include high quality suspension and braking products, such as shocks, coil springs and struts, chassis lowering kits, large and lightweight performance rims or wheels, ultra performance tyres, and xenon headlight bulbs. These bulbs light up the night unlike anything that ever came before them. Moreover, they don't cause any glare to oncoming drivers as the light beam is much more narrow and concentrated.

The suspension kits generate extraordinary amounts of improved handling, and you can even also install engine boosting components that mount either inside the engine, on top of it right under the hood, or towards the rear of the vehicle for massively increased acceleration results. These pricey items include turbochargers, performance headers and manifolds, custom, dual opening exhaust pipes, and power-grabbing carbonite mufflers.

Cosmetic Accessories With cosmetic accessories, you can stylishly dress up your car on the outside to make it look as unique and as highly personalized as you want. These include everything from the latest rage of car eyelashes and acrylic eyeliners, carbon fiber, fibreglass and urethane rear-mounted spoilers, custom Billet grilles, glossy, enamel based paint coatings which make the body gleam and sparkle, tinted windows, custom turn signal lamps, and even stylishly designed roof-mounted ski racks.

With any or all of these visual delights, your ride will turn heads wherever you drive. Most car accessories have been manufactured to be extremely durable, and many are secured in such a way that they're also highly resistant to any potential of theft. It's comforting to realize that so many different accessories can be purchased either online or at a multitude of physical retail locations, and they're so easily adaptable to most every make and model of car.

By Hugh McInnes