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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Jez86gti on 23 September 2008, 21:07

Title: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Jez86gti on 23 September 2008, 21:07
what do people reacon on this bumper


(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/silver-corsa/b716_1_sbl.jpg)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: kells on 23 September 2008, 21:10
No.......dont do it is what springs to my mind
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: RiCHiE360 on 23 September 2008, 21:15
W@nk
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Dan34 on 23 September 2008, 21:17
errrmmmmmmmmmmmm.......no


sorry dont like it in my opinion, but hey its up to u at the end of the day!  :smiley:


Dan
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Wayne on 23 September 2008, 21:17
No - looks cack.
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Jez86gti on 23 September 2008, 21:19
ohhh, anyone suggest a smoothish looking bumper fron and rear.
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Dan34 on 23 September 2008, 21:24
Smooth the standard bumper a few peolpe on here have done it i think it looks really good, but i supose it is hard to do if u have no filler/smoothing experience.

Dan
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: MrBounce on 23 September 2008, 22:43
The trouble with thay bumper is it says to me "I want a Mk 5 but can't afford one so I'll try to make my car look like one" which it doesn't, unfortunately. Think there must be someone on the market who does a smooth Mk 3 bumper surely?
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Guy on 23 September 2008, 22:49
no... ooh no... that looks 'orrid

audi wannabe... yuk
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Jez86gti on 23 September 2008, 23:22
ok, thts a no then. i like the rear bumper thou, might go for tht and a different front

(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/silver-corsa/95f8_1_sbl.jpg)

(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/silver-corsa/0941_1_sbl.jpg)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: MrBounce on 23 September 2008, 23:24
Rear one's much better - am quite liking that.  :smiley:
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: boneybradley on 23 September 2008, 23:26
I think you need this site with kits like that.....http://www.barryboys.co.uk (http://www.barryboys.co.uk)

they are quite individual tho.....and each to their own I believe (just not my style front or back)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Jez86gti on 23 September 2008, 23:31
im new to the modding scence,   so wht are peps thoughts on this look.



vento front (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/silver-corsa/Maxsport20Front20Side.jpg)


with this rear (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/silver-corsa/95f8_1_sbl.jpg)


all in black on a 5 door gti.



thanks for your thoughts
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Ashley on 23 September 2008, 23:58
i like the rear more than the front.. altho on the rear is the splitter merged in with the bumper? im not down with the lingo, but i think i'd prefer it without a blended/merged splitter
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: kells on 24 September 2008, 00:15
leave original bumpers on....lower the car, a few choice mods like this and your on to a winner....its the best (and only) way to go with a golf....
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: LazyLunatic on 24 September 2008, 00:54
yeah bodykit + golf just doesnt go.

take a oem bumper and mod that a bit, smooth it mayb.

barryboys.co.uk LOL!!!

LL ;)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: MrBounce on 24 September 2008, 09:53
leave original bumpers on....lower the car, a few choice mods like this and your on to a winner....its the best (and only) way to go with a golf....

My god Kells! That's just like your car!!!  :wink:
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: kells on 24 September 2008, 09:59
leave original bumpers on....lower the car, a few choice mods like this and your on to a winner....its the best (and only) way to go with a golf....

My god Kells! That's just like your car!!!  :wink:

lol hehehe :wink: it works tho, really does, the amount of people that stop me when im out its mad!, had some dude in a mk 1 cabrio running D90's pull up next to me at the lights on saturday afternoon saying he loved the way it looked, OE but with a twist..basically not no over kill, i personally like the mk 3 in standard form anyhow...they look good even with just a good drop in my opinion
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: madhouse on 24 September 2008, 10:14
All that has been said I agree - body kits can look sooo chad and if they're not fitted right too look even more pants + like boneybradley you find ya motor posted on BarryBoys web site - and that ain't a good thing.

Like kells says keep it standard but with a twist to make it "yours" or go the Q car route - looks like a 1.4, badged as 1.4, on steel rims BUT slightly lowered, uprated brakes, with a 1.8T engine or VR6 hiding under the bonnet  :evil:

Then go out and scare some Scoobies  :wink:
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: eightyeightmph on 24 September 2008, 10:51
I don't get the appeal? Why but big bulbus rounded bumpers onto an otherwise straigt edged, angled body panel car?? :undecided:

Couldn't look more out of place if you tried?

That pic you posted isn't a Vento front end either? Just as well though as I think they look pretty awful! :sick:

As said, just concentrate on making the car as tidy as possible? Lowered, nice wheels, & very very clean! :wink:

Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Rmachines on 24 September 2008, 12:05
Golfs fit into body kits like a fat man in a thong... its not rite. 

The only one i could just about tollerate was the Vento front, because its the closest one to OEM i guess, but i wouldnt mind that one,  i dont like the rear bumpers,  Smoothed stock ones look sh*t loads better.  :smiley:
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Guy on 24 September 2008, 13:03
please please please don't do this... either front or back... it will look awful



however... if you do then please pop up some pics as i could do with a laugh! :afro:
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: LazyLunatic on 24 September 2008, 17:32
i think thats a no then m8.......

LL ;)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Dan34 on 24 September 2008, 17:41
wow you guys have successfully killed off his bodykit idea lol :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

But seariously like88 said just lower it and keep it clean its the best way to go i think. dont go OTT in my opinion

well thats my thoughts anyway  :smiley:

Dan

PS LL u got a valver yet? lol
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: LazyLunatic on 24 September 2008, 18:21
no valver yet, saving up a load, so when i buy it, i aint using all my money and if decide to sell the 1.4 then i will have extra cash from that too!

having a clean car with great bodywork is hard enough! No rust? - you've done it :afro:

LL ;)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: MrTurner on 24 September 2008, 18:28
Err...  No?

If you do it, you must be prepared that whatever you spend you will not get back, and also, as you can see by the number of people saying no, your market is severly limited come sale time, propably making the car worth less than a standard one.

Unless you have money you can afford to throw away, be very careful wth big body mods.  IMO, keep them so you can return to standard come resale time.

But of course, you might just want to do it for the hell of it anyway.  I did once (and never again to this extent!).

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k298/leighturner/CarandBiketoSell001.jpg)
(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k298/leighturner/CarandBike002.jpg)
(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k298/leighturner/CarandBike005.jpg)

"hello, yes, taxi for one".
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: LazyLunatic on 24 September 2008, 20:33
taxi for one!! lol!!!!

nothing wrong with the fiesta m8, suits the car ..... good job it aint a dub :angry: :afro:

LL ;)
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: Rmachines on 24 September 2008, 21:05
Im going to laugh at that fiesta and then run.

I like the paint tho actualy they suit it more than golfs, i mean that one looks quite nice.  as much as i hate my self for saying it  :laugh:   

deffo not a golf thing tho  :smiley:
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: MrTurner on 24 September 2008, 21:07

nothing wrong with the fiesta m8
The spending of 10k getting it new and approximatly 6k modding it to sell it for £1k (ok, was 7 years old by then..), was the wrong thing about it!
Title: Re: bumper, oppion plz
Post by: LazyLunatic on 24 September 2008, 21:57

nothing wrong with the fiesta m8
The spending of 10k getting it new and approximatly 6k modding it to sell it for £1k (ok, was 7 years old by then..), was the wrong thing about it!

ahhhhh, now i see - defo a serious taxi for one. cya m8!

LL :laugh: