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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: brett on 10 May 2013, 12:31

Title: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: brett on 10 May 2013, 12:31
Afternoon all ,just a visit from the dark side lol,i still have a few bits left from my old mk3 (having a shed clearout),but what i was wondering was does anyone have the covers on the back of there rear lights like these
(http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/r555/gtinovice/SAM_1120.jpg) (http://s1171.photobucket.com/user/gtinovice/media/SAM_1120.jpg.html)
just wanted to ask as never had them on any of the other sets i've had ,cheers brett
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: Len on 10 May 2013, 12:34
Nope! Never seen those before.
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: brett on 10 May 2013, 12:37
Hmmmmm,will have to have a looksy about ,cheers len
and there fitted to a nice blue set like yours lol
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: Len on 10 May 2013, 12:40
Oh wow!

How nice is the blue set?  :wink: :grin:
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: brett on 10 May 2013, 13:30
Can take some better pics if you want,only thing wrong with them ,is while stored at my mates someone knocked one of them and must of put it back without saying anything because if you look carefully the light on the right hand side is missing the bottom stud grrrr
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: Gti_Jamo on 10 May 2013, 15:14
I've got two sets both with the covers. Came off early VR6's.
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: vwwvgolf on 10 May 2013, 15:45
are you talking about the covers which go over the bulb housing bit?
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: Gti_Jamo on 10 May 2013, 15:49
are you talking about the covers which go over the bulb housing bit?

Yeah.
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: F17BAD on 10 May 2013, 17:13
Got them on mine

Early GTI rear light covers, its coz early cars have no carpet in the boot and just some sh!te foam

iv since fitted the carped but also kept these covers on too
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: brett on 10 May 2013, 17:35
Cheers people  :smiley:
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: vwwvgolf on 10 May 2013, 17:48
my 93 1.4 had them

and every pair of gti rears ive owned.

thought they were normal?
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: vr6D4v3 on 10 May 2013, 18:42
My '95 vr6 has them
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: brett on 10 May 2013, 20:14
Ah right first pair ive ever had on any of my lights lol
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: Wayne on 10 May 2013, 21:26
Have seen the covers on a few mk3s now.
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: Lumpz on 10 May 2013, 22:24
my 94 gti 16v also has them.
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: chiefwhosm on 10 May 2013, 22:32
I'm curious as to whether the original poster meant=: has anyone ever seen covers on the mk3 lights, or of that particular style?

Reason I ask is the '93/4 donor golf I have has covers but I didn't think they looked exactly like those in the picture, but my '97 had no covers at all (so I figured one of the original owners had lost them from it when I discovered the covers on the '93/4 cars lights).

The cover and rear lights are now on the '97 of course.

Chief :)
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: brett on 10 May 2013, 23:44
I meant the  bulb covers as had honestly not seen them before lol
Title: Re: Anyone one else got these ?
Post by: chiefwhosm on 11 May 2013, 00:11
Fair enough :) In my own case due to ill health I had to leave my car interior bits in pieces for ages, and when I got back to it and saw them in the donor car I wondered what on earth I'd done with my own. Then slowly I realised I'd never seen such things before and figured the owner before the person I'd bought it form must have fiddled with it (after all, they at some point removed all the airbag crash sensors!). Then today the mystery is solved, the 1.9 obv. never had them before (but has now ;)).

So of course I didn't really think that maybe they were only on certain models. Mind you between my 1.4 CL golf and my '97 1.9 CL I seem to have managed quite well:

The 1.9 gear stick gator is a rubber moulded gator with an imprinted pattern of leather. The 1.4 was genuine leather.
The 1.4 had the bubbly rubber rear wing covers, the 1.9 had black carpet.
The 1.4 had a black boot carpet, the 1.9 had a sort of firm stiff fabric.
The 1.4 had a rear ash tray light in it, not so the 1.9
The 1.4 had those rear light covers you asked about ;)
etc etc etc.

Chief :)