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Title: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: mr.brown on 06 March 2005, 06:00
Just got an early 1989 Valver in Jade Green and it's got original single window doors - is this unusual? I thought it was a G reg thing?

http://www.seangill.com/images/Goof1.jpg

(Big pic - sorry)
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Dannyd on 06 March 2005, 06:33
only 16v have theses i believe
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Mr Blue on 06 March 2005, 09:32
if that had new doors then i dont think the colour match would be as good :laugh:
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Gambit on 06 March 2005, 12:24
no its not unusal. the change over on all golfs (not just 16v's) to single piece was in 88
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: free on 06 March 2005, 12:28
Quote from: Gambit on 06 March 2005, 12:24
no its not unusal. the change over on all golfs (not just 16v's) to single piece was in 88

is true :wink:
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: PeeWee on 06 March 2005, 19:14
well mine's an 8v and its an f reg,  :smiley:
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: tinman on 06 March 2005, 22:21
single piece as someone said earlier happened during the E plate. 87Es had the quarter light, the 88Es didn't.

they also changed the side mouldings, and a host of minor mechanical changes as well. the badges at the back moved around. the centre VW badge appeared on the rear, the VOLKSWAGEN name tag disappeared as well, and the GOLF became GOLF.

you could always spot a repaired Golf in the early days cause they also stopped producing the original rear panel. so if you were buying an older Golf with the centre badge you knew it had been hit.
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Dizzie on 07 March 2005, 09:43
mine's got single windows and it's a D reg :wink::wink:
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: mk2gtigolf16v on 07 March 2005, 10:34
If your windscreen wipers go from rest position and move up and left when there in use, then the car is pre 88 and the original doors on the car would have come with quarter light windows. 

ive got a set of mint tornado red, doors 1 piece green tinted vag glass and central locking and electric windows motors, im selling,  they have had the black plastic strip removed and smoothed over.
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Gambit on 07 March 2005, 10:56
Quote from: Dizzie on 07 March 2005, 09:43
mine's got single windows and it's a D reg :wink::wink:

its also a non VAG Colour and has a 1.8T in it!! not exactly factory spec :wink::wink:
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Horney on 07 March 2005, 18:43
Mines an 87 E with single windows and the badge in the centre at the rear. Must be a dead early 88 spec one. Causes much confusion when I first started ordering parts. Now I just say it's an 88 8v.
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: ...joe on 07 March 2005, 18:48
best way, half the people your ordering from don't know any difference anyway!!!
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: tinman on 07 March 2005, 19:12
tell me about it, and its not just the third party people like GSF and Eurocrapparts either.

the amount of times our local VAG counter ordered the wrong part for my Golf, always getting the early and incorrect part.
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: tinman on 07 March 2005, 19:13
Quote from: Dizzie on 07 March 2005, 09:43
mine's got single windows and it's a D reg :wink::wink:

yeah but its an audi TT :)
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: ...joe on 07 March 2005, 19:21
Quote from: tinman on 07 March 2005, 19:12
tell me about it, and its not just the third party people like GSF and Eurocrapparts either.

the amount of times our local VAG counter ordered the wrong part for my Golf, always getting the early and incorrect part.

imagine the dumb look on thier faces when i said i wanted to put mk4 brakes on the rear of my mk2!! you could almost see a puff of smoke when something went pop in their teeny brains!! "but ones older than the other..... does not compute...arrrgh.....bzzzzzpfffff"
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 07 March 2005, 22:35
lol! thats why i like printing pages from the etka and walking in and saying order this biatch! (but more politely obviously) but it has to ba said whites in woking are pretty good for parts, phil knows his stuff
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: ...joe on 07 March 2005, 22:39
yeah if you get hold of patrick in goring he knows that there is a love for vw that often goes outside the chassis number!
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 07 March 2005, 22:42
apart from when i went to vw in camberley and they were trying to convince me that i had to have my mk2 windscreen bonded in  :angry:

i was like errr.......no
Title: Re: Single window doors on a Feb 89 car - unusual?
Post by: ...joe on 07 March 2005, 22:43
ooops! :rolleyes: