Now that you've got your grubby little hands on a car, the one thing as a priority is, you really should fit a low coolant alarm if not already fitted, this will potentially save your engine and shitloads of cash, in the long run. nothing wrong with you tarting up the interiour  of the car, and upgrading the sound system, indeed they sound similar tt what I've done on my car, but those things won't actually improve on the design weakness of the car.
Just tying to save you  the pain and suffering, frustration, heartache and the associated wallet ache!
Another hard won lesson on living with one of our cars is to fit sme tail light cover to the inside of the tail lights (in the boot)

these will save you from damage to the tail light wiring and/or the tail light circuit board getting knocked off every time you put shopping bags in the boot!  I believe that these are still available through various suppliers

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