Before the moment you walk into a Car Toys store or even click around our website, you should have some guidelines already in mind. The more you know about you and your car's needs and wants, the better our experts and installers can find the perfect system for you.

What is your price range?
Not only will this obviously help decide which products and features will fit into your budget, but it can better help our experts put your money to its most beneficial use, concentrating it on the essential components for your car to better deliver top performance.

What is its primary use?
Are you looking to use the system everyday or just occasionally, say on that once-a-year family road trip? This could help decide, for example, whether you need a system that can better withstand everyday wear and tear or one perhaps with a little more pizzazz - as well as help determine how much of a system you're really going to need.

How often are you in your car?
This can greatly decide how much of a system you really require. If you only use your car a couple of times a week, as opposed to those daily hour traffic jams, you might not have that great a need for 100 digital channels of Satellite Radio. Of course, with, say, a surround sound DVD system Surround Sound DVD System installed, you might just start finding yourself spending more and more time in that poor neglected automobile...

How long will you keep your car?
If you're going to sell the car next month, do you really want to go to all that trouble installing a state-of-the-art theatre system only to watch someone else enjoy the benefits? A good rule of thumb is if you're planning on keeping your car 3 or more years - go for it. On the other hand, if it's an In-Dash Receiver you want, you can always dive in now knowing that our expert Car Toys installers will always uninstall the new component and replace the original FREE OF CHARGE!
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How far will you go in altering your car?
If you're not comfortable cutting into your pride and joy, or instead are the type that doesn't care for all that extra trunk space, this will greatly affect the type and size of system you will buy - whether it's a simple deck or speaker switch or a custom installation that makes your friends drool with jealousy.

Once you know the answers to these types of questions, you're ready to graduate to the exciting and rewarding, if we do say so ourselves, process of selecting a component/system... Because friends don't let friends drive with factory-installed units.