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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: TanK_VW on 20 January 2006, 13:41
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When looking on the internet for the beloved MK2 most of the Golfs have single headlamps. I am just wondering what people seem to have against them.
Personally I love the Twin lights maybe thats just cos thats what i have on my golf
hope this questionair thing works :smiley:
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Yeah, I love the look of twin lamps too. It just looks a bit more special than singles.
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I don't dislike the look of the single look but if I had another mk2 I'd go for twins and also I like to see where I'm going at night :grin:
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I like both! Personally think single look best on big bumpers, and twins on small bumpers. My light output is better now i have the crystal lights anyway!
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I like both! Personally think single look best on big bumpers, and twins on small bumpers. My light output is better now i have the crystal lights anyway!
I found that with mine!
If its a de-badged grill then def single lights but i would be happy with the standard twin lamp grill
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I like both! Personally think single look best on big bumpers, and twins on small bumpers. My light output is better now i have the crystal lights anyway!
i've got small bumpers on mine and i agree
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I like both! Personally think single look best on big bumpers, and twins on small bumpers. My light output is better now i have the crystal lights anyway!
I think the opposite :grin:
(http://www.moddin.net/images/temp/golf/singledebadge.jpg)
(http://www.moddin.net/images/temp/golf/gti9.jpg)
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I am inclined to agree with rubjonny.
(http://www.tankislarge.co.uk/otherstuff/1.jpeg)
(http://www.tankislarge.co.uk/otherstuff/2.jpeg)
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Single light grills are for chavs I'm afraid. The whole point in the beginning of the twin light grill was that it was only on the GTI's, the single lamps were for the 1ltr, 1.3ltr, no GTI etc thingys. Do you want your lovely GTI to look like that? Well do ya?? :evil:
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I dunno about simple lamp grilles being for chavs.
TBH chavs wouldnt touch a Golf, as they tend to be very anti Germany (the ones I've met anyway) It makes me laugh when I tell them their Corse/Astra/Nova was designed/built by Opel, a German company!!!
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I prefer singles on big bumpers, its much cleaner looking. Twins are old skool and suit small bumpers best x
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I like single lamps makes the front look a lot cleaner......... :smiley:
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I dunno about simple lamp grilles being for chavs.
TBH chavs wouldnt touch a Golf, as they tend to be very anti Germany (the ones I've met anyway) It makes me laugh when I tell them their Corse/Astra/Nova was designed/built by Opel, a German company!!!
I used to have a guy i worked with, well i say worked with he was in the same office, which i was always tempted to throw him out of the window. He used to slag of the looks of the Golf and German cars. He has a little boy'd up Corsa, with whopping 1.2lt engine which he thinks is fantastic. Loved seeing him on the roads when I was in my brothers VR6 or Mates R32 lol.
so i loved telling him his car was a german designed car! :evil:
Back to the lights, single lamps look empty space, having the twins change the look totally. When you see them four lamps from a distance you can tell its a Golf coming.
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Single light grills are for chavs I'm afraid. The whole point in the beginning of the twin light grill was that it was only on the GTI's, the single lamps were for the 1ltr, 1.3ltr, no GTI etc thingys. Do you want your lovely GTI to look like that? Well do ya?? :evil:
possibly the stupidest thing i've read in ages!!
i like both but have a single lamp grill, it makes it look wider and a simpler. and as for " gti's only having them" gti's had a load of stuff that other models didn't but if you look around at the golf scene, people remove arches, trim, spoilers, big bumpers, double grills, badges etc all to make their cars understated, i don't have a double grill, rear spoiler or a gti badge on the back.... does that make me a chav then?...with a chav car?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/raaage/266-6654_IMG.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/raaage/DSC01315.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/raaage/sideview.jpg)
granted the spoiler is still on it in those pics! back end now looks like this!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/raaage/DSC01794.jpg)
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Yeah, I found that comment a bit nonsensical, but anywho...
I think on Golfs, really either look good, just it depends on personal preference.
What I don't like, tho is the Bloody Jetta front on Golfs, and to a lesser extent the Rallye front, but the worst is that twin square light on the really rare golfs by some vw tuner, the one where there are only three in the country, eww.
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^^ the westmoreland front, not too keen myself but a rallye front end with de badged grill and eyebrow spoiler looks hard as f**k!
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I'm sorry if I upset anyone with the "chav" comment, but the way I see it is that the GTI has a rich vein of heritage, and moving it back to the look of the more basic models is a step in the wrong direction. Again just my take on it. And yeah I also agree about the Jetta front end looking naff (to me) and the Rallye grill, except if it's on a Rallye. As for debadging cars, I thought that was just for Corsa boys and the Max Power crowd who're embarrased that their cars are not dyed in the wool performance cars, just (badly) modded standard road cars?
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^^^ no offence taken but i think you've got the wrong end of the stick here, so by me not having ti badges on my car puts it in the same league as a corsa? i seriously don't understand that point of view? :huh:
the golf is an icon because of its shape, drivability, engineering amongst other things, not because of a badge?
ultimately the amount of different styles and tastes in the golf world (which surely you must be aware of???) means that people are able to turn their car into which ever style they prefer, and it shouldn't make them a "chav" if they decide they don't want a standard looking car?
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Brad, is that car in the signature picture yours? I am really hoping not after those comments! :tongue: :smiley:
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Yep that's my little b!tch im my sig. She's purty standard except the wheels (the BBS are in the garage waiting for a refurb). Look I think at the end of the day not everything is to everyone's taste. Different strokes for different folks.
One thing we can all agree on though is a common love of the MK2 Golf (in all forms) which is what brings us all to places like this in the first place. Sure I may not be too hot on your car, or you on mine but what the f**k. It's a MK2 Golf. Nuff said.
Oh and I think the other thing we can all agree on is that MK3 8v GTI's suck. Big time.
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Lol each for their own! mk3s lol, like a big boat! i personally like the de badged single lights on my golf, but i did also like the four lamp grille on it too,
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"Ahoy there mateys, well shiver me timbers !" ( and all that bollox ) at least the mk3 doesn't seem have the annoying habit of getting water on the inside cos when the mk2 does it needs a quality mk3 strength matrix to put it right. :nerd: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:ÂÂÂ
I'm sorry that this is all a bit off subject but why is there this strange animosity that some peeps have against the mk3 8v GTI ?
I know it's more sluggish than the mk2 , I had a mk2 8v for over 11years and it was a great car and yes if I was in the market for a Golf Gti I would still probably pick the mk2 even if money was no object but the mk3 is a good car but in different ways.
The only real thing I found disappointing when first drove one back in 92 was the handling but that was no worse than the VR6 IMO .and a simple fitment of a decent suspension kit sorted that.
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Ah ha! Touche my man! You scurvy laden MK3 lover that ya be!
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i love single lights but not a big fan of debadged grilles
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Singles = bad
Twins = :cool:
Thats what i think.
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wow! it i never thought this would cause such a debate! lol :smiley:
But what ever tickles your fancy we all live in happy VW world, all of us knowing we are better than the novas, corsas and outer little boys cars which apear in our mirrors atempting to have a race lol
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Hey Tank you forgot to name and shame the other scurge of society that is, i dont know if i should say it ................................SAXO there i said it. :grin:
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Yeah, everyone knows the french suck....