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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: sellers on 24 January 2005, 17:47
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im going back to small bumpers, as my car is going old skool, what do you recon for the old skool look??
Plain small bumpers
or the ones with red stripes in?
my car is tornado red btw
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nah m8 go for the new look neon washer jet`s neon foot pedal`s in fact neon everything and if u want to look ultra cool get a badly made big bumper kit from a well known car supplier,furry dice look kind of cool too hugh spoiler`s look the dog`s gonads too :laugh:
nice too see someone for a change that`s not modding his motor old skool rules... :wink:
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damn no vote for neon`s :grin:
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small chrome bumpers with the black textured parts smoothed and painted to match the car. Seen it done and looks stunning
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i know they look mint, but im on low budget, what would you pic outa the 2 if you had to
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im actualy thinking of going down that small bumper route if i keep the golf.
Black and chrome mate. Red looks crap :tongue:
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how much are the crome ones new or second hand if any1 can let me know if any are for sale
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www.gpcvwaudi.com (http://www.gpcvwaudi.com)
give them a ring
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the red stripe could look cool as your cars red but i prefer the black and if your going old school, red makes it look '80's rather than retro. i'd try to get the chrome ones.
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iv been offered a red set for ?15 so i might get them untill i can afford chrome ones
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yeah i would, actually a mate had some red bumpers (and this will sound naff as hell) but i've got this strange chrome tape that we recovered the red bit in. they looked awesome, god knows where i aquired this stuff form but i'm very protective of it!
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Halfords etc sell it. I had the black bumpers originaslly, but had the red tape that we put on, and it looked really good! I also put it on the dash board.... You can view pics here (http://thedubcompany.co.uk/index.php?p=folder&id=15") if at all interested :smiley:
Oh yeah, its called pin striping
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chavfords is always out of stock with the chrome tape.
pics dont work
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no its not that stuff. its a bit funky this stuff want to find some somewhere. i nicked it from the design department at uni years ago!
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but anyway his bumpers looked awesome.........that was the whole point! so if halfords sell this tape it might be worth getting some and having a go!
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the red stripe could look cool as your cars red but i prefer the black and if your going old school, red makes it look '80's rather than retro. i'd try to get the chrome ones.
you are aware that the mk2 is very much a car of the 80s arent you?
you cannot make a mk2 retro anymore than 1984, so we're talking red stripes. if you go gti without red stripes and call it old school then you just look a bit desperate.
bit like flower power but without the flowers.
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Hey nothing wrong with Chrome small bumpers on a GTI !!!
:cry: :grin:
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chavfords is always out of stock with the chrome tape.
pics dont work
I've seen it on ours :laugh: Anway, there are other motor factors that are much better than halfords arent there..... :wink:
Try here: http://thedubcompany.co.uk/index.php?p=folder&id=15 If that doesnt work: http://thedubcompany.co.uk/ Then go to pics, members motors, Sort by NAme, and i'm the second one, 88Golf
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Only problem with the red stripe is getting the rest of it for the rest of the car.
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Only problem with the red stripe is getting the rest of it for the rest of the car.
any ideas?
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Dont need to! I onlt had it on the bumpers and it looked fine! If you really wanted to, it wouldnt be hard at all to run it along the top of the rubbing strips.... The grille would be the only place to cause a problem, and you could paint that easily, its a raised section anyway, so you could get it straight and everything.
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The proper striping is a plastic jobbie, no longer available. You would have to find a scrap one and carefully remove it.
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I thought it was just painted on??
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Not the one round the car, the one on the grill is painted. The ones on the bumper and body are proper plastic strips.
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the red stripe could look cool as your cars red but i prefer the black and if your going old school, red makes it look '80's rather than retro. i'd try to get the chrome ones.
you are aware that the mk2 is very much a car of the 80s arent you?
you cannot make a mk2 retro anymore than 1984, so we're talking red stripes. if you go gti without red stripes and call it old school then you just look a bit desperate.
bit like flower power but without the flowers.
wow thanks for being both informative and patronising as ever.
i simply meant that black and red looks dated, whether it is period or not! chrome looks good, which is probably why people want it on their cars.
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Not the one round the car, the one on the grill is painted. The ones on the bumper and body are proper plastic strips.
Oh right... I never had them obviously, so never really seen them! Its just on my black bumpers, it looks like its got exactly the same strip on it, just not painted...? So.... if i wanted to change tem, i wouldnt jus paint them, i'd get a new strip??
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See, you can hardly tell that mine is a sticker???
(http://thedubcompany.co.uk/_photos/members-motors/15/1412.jpg)
(http://thedubcompany.co.uk/_photos/members-motors/15/1400.jpg)
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The genuine strip round the car is raised on a black peice of trim. You get away with the stickers but not on the sides of the car. I suppose it depends how bothered you are about authenticity.
Quote from: tinman on January 24, 2005, 22:43
Quote from: gtijoe on January 24, 2005, 18:59
the red stripe could look cool as your cars red but i prefer the black and if your going old school, red makes it look '80's rather than retro. i'd try to get the chrome ones.
you are aware that the mk2 is very much a car of the 80s arent you?
you cannot make a mk2 retro anymore than 1984, so we're talking red stripes. if you go gti without red stripes and call it old school then you just look a bit desperate.
bit like flower power but without the flowers.
wow thanks for being both informative and patronising as ever.
i simply meant that black and red looks dated, whether it is period or not! chrome looks good, which is probably why people want it on their cars.
Ooh! Good debate!
I reckon that both the red and the chrome are old skool...however the chrome is more so as it has been used on cars for decades. The red stripes ARE an 80's thang but hey, thats 25 years, hardly contemporary. Also the chrome will suit almost any car, whereas the red is particularly suited to certain colours and styles.
It's nice to see a bit of discussion on Old Skool Retro and not about F&F spoilers and 19" Spinners.