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MG Progress Update 4 – A new stereo (earlier than planned!)

 

Howdy, so yes things are coming on well. I was hit by a stroke of luck with this one really. I had received some vouchers from Bedford College to spend in shops around Bedford – all part of the Bedford BID scheme.
This, I thought, was quite generous!

What was even better was that Argos were one of the shops listed where I could spend the vouchers at so naturally I had a quick look through their catalogue to make sure that they did car stereos – which they did!

I’d already got a Kenwood unit in the car, which I was pleased with, so thought I’d go down that route again. I picked up a Kenwood KDC-415UR CD/Radio/USB/Aux unit mainly because it was the most expensive I could get with £100 of vouchers and secondly because it seemed like the best I could get for the money that would let me plug my iPod in.

It also came with a set of free speakers – but the factory fitted ones seem pretty awesome for now!

To see my other MG posts take a look here!

Badge out the box

MG Progress Update 1 – The stereo works, and other things!

After having taken the car back to the garage (thank goodness we got it with warranty aye) and have the friendly mechanics look at it they discovered that the muppet who had it before decided he’d try mounting an amp on each speaker. This is possible, but he’d screwed up royally and there was no sound at all.

The head unit worked, but no sound. So the mechanics ended up rewiring the whole system. This would have cost a few pennies to say the least.

They also fixed the ignition issue whereby the car wouldn’t start all the time – this was due to a loose connection to the switch or inside it. They took it apart and sorted that out too.

I can wholly recommend Graham Hilton Cars (Stevenage Road Garage Ltd.) – they’re service is fab. My Corsa, previously my parent’s car, also came from the garage.

Next steps… physical improvements. New MG Badges!