Brand New 2006 Base, what should i do?

[48castro]

I have a brand new 2006 matrix base as my first car, and i want to soup her up a bit, what should i do? i'm new here and i've been looking around, what do you think i should do with her? i've got some ideas, cold air intake, ront strut brace, rear sway bar. I've added some aftermarket fog lights since the base didn't come with them, and i've put in some red interior neons. I want to go sporty and classy, not ricer. any ideas or advice?

[mistamatrix]

Suspension first. Lower it!

[ToyotaMan1281]

INtake, exhaust, nice rims..

[Frank@toronto]

I'd go for tinted glass...

[Jayleav]

If nothing else, enjoy driving the quality car Toyota has made for you.

[48castro]

what should i do cosmetically, interior or exterior? besides lowering/groundkits, heard it from everyone

[Frank@toronto]

Interior:
- Custom paint your plastic panels (currently grey)
- Neon Light
- New Radio (NAV, DVD, Sub-Woofers, Power Amp, etc...)
- Change gas, brake and clutch pedals

Exterior
- See above
- New rims
- New front Grill
- Carbon Fiber Hood
- HID front light system
- Add fog lights
- Custom Rear Light enclosure (maybe replace bulbs with LEDs)

[tonyman115]

dont lower it...get sportier rims and exaust system...racing seats depending on the way u paln on driving it....have fun.

[BODYFAT2]

I deactivated my day running lights (thanks to the great posts, but on the 2006 the red/white wire is NOT the one to cut, the grounded yellow wire worked). I also swaped in a HID bulb system BUT, the light pattern is horrendous! It is a wierd star pattern due to the difference in filament shape and hot spots. It is terrible at night (but looks oh so cool) to see with. I added fog lights to fill in the spots but they are not HID yet. The question really is, is there a way to adjust the aiming of the headlights. It turns out that one of them is much higher (or lower) than the other and accentuates the star pattern of light.

HELP!

[mistamatrix]

^I agree re. light pattern. The headlight lens does scatter the beam pattern quite a bit. Projectors or retro-projectors would definitely help out.

As for headlight adjustment, -> http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t134940.html

[BODYFAT2]

How do the projectors/retro projectors work? do you place them inside the lens housing? Do you know of any websites/vendors who sell them or have information?

thanks