Looking to Enhance Your Ride? Try Some Interior Accessories!
Is there anyone out there who does not accessorize their cars? Whether it is a phone holder, garbage can, or set of rubber floor mats, we quickly realize that we cannot drive our new cars very long until we find that we need some after-market gadget to get us through the driving day.
But it’s really no wonder. Even in an age in which many workers have switched to telecommuting, the average American driver spends almost 300 hours every year sitting in the car cruising down the highway, stopped at traffic lights, running errands, catching a nap while waiting for the kids, or pulling through the drive-thru. When you spend that much time in your car, you can’t help but want to personalize that space to make it more comfortable and suitable for your needs.
Modern cars have a lot of built-in convenience features: cupholders, navigation aids, connectivity with our smartphones, trip computers, and multiple music options. Every year car-makers still come up with something new to add. As an example, the Ford F-150, one of the most popular trucks for construction workers, now has a Console Work Surface that provides drivers with a space to work on their laptops, and a Pro Power Onboard feature that provides a built-in generator for plugging in power tools.
But not everyone is a construction manager – or not all the time, anyway. The console is also a handy spot to place your burger, fries, and shake, and that power outlet in the bed is a nice feature when you want to catch televised pre-game activities at a tailgate party.
But is that enough? Apparently not. We love to customize. Here are some popular interior accessories you might suddenly find that you cannot live without.
Car Accessories For Practical Purposes
Some interior accessories are just to keep your interior clean and protected, or to keep you safe if something happens. These types of accessories include seat covers, floor mats, trunk mats, window shields, cell phone chargers, and cell phone holders.
If you often ride with your dog, you are sure to need some accessories to protect your upholstery and also to improve your pet’s comfort and safety. You may want seat mats, a pet barrier, a seat extender, a booster seat, and a dog bed.
Car Accessories That Are Handy to Have
Sometimes, you just have to carry things in the car to make traveling convenient. There are a number of accessories that attach to the back of a driver or passenger front seat that can hold all sorts of things. There are hooks that attach to headrests for hanging jackets, handbags, briefcases, purses, or bags. There are elaborate holders that have space for tissue, toys for kids, fold-out food trays, tablets for movie-watching, and other organizer pockets.
You probably also want to have other convenience accessories. If you don’t have one built in, or if more than one of you drives the same car, you will probably also want a sunglasses holder. Given how often we eat in our cars, some kind of garbage receptacle is always welcome, and a car vacuum is also helpful now and then for small messes. A net or rack that keeps your groceries from rolling around in the trunk or falling out the back of the car is also useful.
One of the latest must-have accessories is a seat gap filler that saves us from the aggravation of having keys, phones, and coins slip down in between the seats. Some of these gap fillers have handy shallow compartments for holding pens, phones, coins, notebooks, gum, wallets, lip balm, or whatever else you need to have within reach.
Car Accessories That Are Fun to Have
Now that you have kitted your car out with all the things that responsible car owners should have as well as all the accessories that make car life convenient, you can now pay attention to giving your vehicle’s interior a personal touch.
How about a leather or fur steering wheel cover? Why not hang a favorite character swinging from the rear-view mirror? You can buy coasters for your cup holders, colored LEDs for your dashboard, and bright accents or wraps for your interior trim. You can even get humorous gear-shift knobs and cigarette lighter plug caps.
When it comes to personalizing your car, there is almost no end to what you can do.
See Mike White Ford For Genuine Ford Accessories
If you spend a lot of time in your car, if you haul your children around to school, practice, and lessons, or use your car for work, it makes sense to fit your car with appropriate accessories that will make all that time in your car comfortable, convenient, and fun.
At Mike White Ford, with dealerships in Coeur d’Alene and Sandpoint, we can make sure that the Ford you buy has all the features you want, and our parts department can provide you with all the genuine Ford accessories you need to make your car suit your lifestyle. Contact your northern Idaho Ford dealer, Mike White Ford, today!