Author Topic: Clubsport Edition 40 and Clubsport S build numbers (and car photos)  (Read 142555 times)

Offline Exonian

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The red trim centre caps are only on the 18" wheels. :sad:
I wonder why VW went to the trouble of ordering in special caps for what is probsnly a very limited run of wheels. How odd that they didn't fit them to the bigger and more expensive option wheels. 
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Offline kalimon

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The red trim centre caps are only on the 18" wheels. :sad:
I wonder why VW went to the trouble of ordering in special caps for what is probsnly a very limited run of wheels. How odd that they didn't fit them to the bigger and more expensive option wheels.
Bigger and more expensive but not necessarily better.
Your 18's are far nicer wheels than the Brecias in my humble opinion.
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Offline TurboTrev

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The minor trim differences are really weird.  When a special edition is produced you'd think they basic spec would be identical.

Offline JoeGTI

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You could always retrofit the red centre caps (I think someone here did that?) but in VW style they're not cheap and in my humble opinion, they're naff.
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The minor trim differences are really weird.  When a special edition is produced you'd think they basic spec would be identical.
Indeed, you'd think they'd all have the red trim on the belts and the red cap trim.  :rolleyes:
It must be logistically more difficult for VW to build them with all sorts of trim variations than if they'd all come with the same trim specs (ignoring options of course).

You could always retrofit the red centre caps (I think someone here did that?) but in VW style they're not cheap and in my humble opinion, they're naff.
They suit the other red accents on the GTI but would probably look a bit out of place on other models in the range unless you'd been to badge skins and raided their catalogue for red detailing. Those that have GTD's and have added a few red details to their cars have made them look a bit less monochrome.
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Offline wantmygti

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Picked up number 653 on the weekend. Standard seats so no red trim on seat belts but it does has red trim on the centre caps on the quaranta alloys.
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Cannot understand why the red stitching does not come with the standard seats on UK models. I have the standard sport seats on my Clubsport here in Ireland and it has the red stitching as does all the other Clubsports I have seen with sport seats.
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Thanks for the welcome Kalimon.
Lighter wheels faster on track. :cool:
Will get some better pics up soon. :smiley: