Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
I'll try to remember to lookOff to Larnaca for 3 days. Just in time, poxy weather...Not been there for 20+ years. I wonder if the departure screens still have a crashed Windows 3.1 screen on them, as they did for years
Regardless the head unit, if you have the CD Changer you can unpin the R-L-Gnd from it and pin a 3.5 jack instead. You need to keep one CD in the changer for it to run and allow the R-L lines to stay activated.I didn't have a CD in my CDC to do that. Simply selecting CDC was enough.
Works fine and you have the best sound quality that is possible to get. Cassette adapter is really poor quality.
I personally plugged the jack to a bluetooth receiver so there is no wire running through the dashboard
Then, if you plan to install the Bose amp, you will need to find or recreate the wire harness, change all the speakers to 2ohms from Bose, and find the specific head unit to work with. And - imho - you will loose trunk space because of the amp tray.
Best thing he can do is to get a side job and plough every penny into paying it off as soon as possible.Doctors and dentists soon get to a point where they are paying it, nurses too given their pay rises...You very seldom 'chomp through'. My lad is on plan2, and the interest charged each year is RPI+3%. It's more likely to increase every year than fall.
And when you spend 7 or 8 years accruing it, the debt burden takes a while to chomp through.
I found Bilstein B4's lasted well on mine (>100k and I think scrapped with them still on) as well, but I got them at a sensible price. B4 is supposedly similar to factory spec, though I've heard some say they felt hard (probably because the old shocks they took off were utterly fubar)The Sachs ones are the factory fit shocks, Bilsteins are an equivalent at best. And their supplied fittings are dire compared to the Sachs ones which are indistinguishable from the genuine VX parts in my experience.
