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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Sugar79 on 02 December 2004, 13:30

Title: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 02 December 2004, 13:30

i bought them off awesome-gti.co.uk, prob is, only one fits, the other wont go in because the tow bar bracket is behind it, when i told awesome they said that they fit on all the other golfs, anyone else got them and had any probs?

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: kniterider on 02 December 2004, 13:38

ive always wondered about these my self??, does the tow bracket come off (ie bolted on etc), ive never looked closely at mine only when i hooked a tow rope on it when it blew up!!!, ill have a look later when mrs gets home from work in it, i think on the turbo models the intercooler is behind the orig vents, so there maynot be tow hook there?? but on mine there is.... you out there toph?? what you got on yours?

Gaz :cool:

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 02 December 2004, 13:41

i dont think it does unbolt, its just annoying as ive only got one in and a gap on the other side.

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 02 December 2004, 13:44

http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/images/richgolf.jpg look they fit this one  :cry:

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: topher on 02 December 2004, 13:49

There's no towing eye on the turbos, just a threaded hole that you screw a loop bolt into which is stored with the jack/spare wheel.

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: kniterider on 02 December 2004, 13:51

yeah come to think of it i think thats what aa man did to mine, yeah im positive now

if yours has a tow eye there it should un screw then!! thanks toph!! (memories of towing the mk4 in full effect now!!) lol

Gaz

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 02 December 2004, 13:55

yeah mine has the bracket where the towing eye goes, its that bracket thats in the way  :cry:

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 03 December 2004, 12:15

i dont have the towing eye in tho, thats in the boot, its the bracket that the towing eye goes in to that in the way, wondering if my cars been involved in a front end before i bought it, although its hpi clear.  :sad:

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: topher on 03 December 2004, 12:30

odd. ill see if i can pop into the dealers over the weekend and pull the vents off a 2.0 GTI to see whats behind it, im sure there's no obtrusive bracket on mine..

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 03 December 2004, 12:48

lol  :laugh: its the vent on the drivers side, the other vent fits ok.

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: topher on 03 December 2004, 13:11

Silly question, and dont be offended :grin: .. but they haven't sent you two passenger side vents by mistake have they ? Otherwise how does the standard vent grille thingy fit on ?

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 03 December 2004, 13:16

no thy havent sent to sides the same, i havent got the orginal vent on that side as it flew off down the motorway when i first got the car, which makes me think if it been in a front end, because the orginal wasnt fitted in properly if it fell out and i cant fit a different vent in, sound dodgy to me  :sad:

Title: Re: lower bumper air intakes
Post by: Sugar79 on 03 December 2004, 13:18

http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/images/richgolf.jpg these are the vent that ive got to go on, they fit that golf  :cry: