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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 19:26

Title: US spec rear bumper
Post by: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 19:26: Does anyone know the best place that I could get a U.S spec rear bumper, or even better just the lower splitter that it has like on this:

(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s304/crankycalf/16551_13709.jpg)
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Dec on 23 July 2009, 19:27: America? :rolleyes:
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 19:29: really :tongue:
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: VR6-Joe on 23 July 2009, 19:33: The 'splitter' doesn't come off. Whole bumper needed.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 19:36: bo#$o*ks, thought that might be the case. I would want one that is gonna cost me 10 times what its worth in postage
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Wayne on 23 July 2009, 20:27: I think you will find that is not a USA spec item but has been modified, from memory all mk3's had an exhaust cutout.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: tweed on 23 July 2009, 20:31: thats the 300bhp vr6 turbo. you could get so much more from that.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 20:31: I've seen alot of Us golfs with this rear so not sure it is a mod

(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s304/crankycalf/100_0773.jpg)
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Wayne on 23 July 2009, 20:32: I think it is and very easy to do, all you need to do is to plastic weld a section in.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 20:34: might give it a go. I think it looks much cleaner
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Dec on 23 July 2009, 23:22: Quote from: crankycalf on 23 July 2009, 19:29
really :tongue:

Well you asked? :huh:
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Mikester on 23 July 2009, 23:29: Imagine it this way.

Think of trying to buy a dodo, yes the bird that is dead.

Then double how impossible that is.

And thats how hard it is to get this bumper in the uk.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Wayne on 23 July 2009, 23:31: Quote from: Mikester on 23 July 2009, 23:29
Imagine it this way.

Think of trying to buy a dodo, yes the bird that is dead.

Then double how impossible that is.

And thats how hard it is to get this bumper in the uk.

So is it a factory bumper then.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Mikester on 23 July 2009, 23:35: i THOUGHT it was a custom jobbie. And not from the US either.

As i saw it in PVW once, along with some nice custom side skirts.

But it did say that it wasnt made any more.

I didnt think there was a us spec rear bumper, that was any different to uk one.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Dec on 23 July 2009, 23:41: Tiny notch as standard...

(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g220/UTA_flyinghigh/Voitureuhs/Willoumobiles/Golf%20III/willoumobile_golf3_11.jpg)
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Wayne on 23 July 2009, 23:41: Interesting:

Just looked on vagcat, item 18: 1H6807833A trim for bumper / for complete painting rear / GL,GTI,VR6, or am I barking up the wrong tree.

(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p51/jmfangio5/807500.png)
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Mikester on 23 July 2009, 23:42: Cant see if thats got an exhaust peice though :/ And i didnt think it was able to be seperated.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Wayne on 23 July 2009, 23:45: Quote from: Mikester on 23 July 2009, 23:42
Cant see if thats got an exhaust peice though :/ And i didnt think it was able to be seperated.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hard to see but I never knew you could get them without the bumper.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Mikester on 23 July 2009, 23:50: Either way. Plastic weld one up, make it your own.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: _redders_ on 28 July 2009, 08:15: ok differences between us and uk bumpers....

the us spec bumpers are longer on the tops than the uk bumoers (as in it stick out further), the front come with side markers built in, and no plate recess, the front comes with a different front lip, very much like a vento splitter but it fits properly, the rear is longer on the top (as in it sticks out further) than the uk item, and the lower lip is one peice lip, but rounded off to match the front, and is attatched to the rear bumpe very much like the uk and is not a seperate item.

the red one pictued has a standard us spec bumper, with the swage line removed, and the exhaust cut out smoothed using the same process you would use to smooth a uk soec one, cut out the right bit of plasit from another bumper, and plastic weld it in.

you wont get the rear splitter without the rear bumper.

check ebay.de there is a guy who sells them on there.

jon.
Title: Re: US spec rear bumper
Post by: Wayne on 28 July 2009, 08:54: I believe the lower skirt is available on its own, check out the drawing I posted earlier.