« Reply #1 on: 10 November 2009, 17:48 »
My rear bumper isn't finished that well. Thats probably a clue to why they made the mk5 one the way they did in the first place (despite it's inherant ugliness). Mine has the paint peeling off at the bottom inside the wheelarch where grit, gravel and water blast it. Considering it's only done 6000 miles it's not very clever and I've never bothered to take it back to VW as they would just claim it was something I'd driven through. Considering it gets mostly used on motorways and dual carriageways rather than farm tracks I think I'd have a hell of a job proving that I hadn't been rallying it somewhere. It was probably started at the PDI if they steam cleaned wax out of that area using a high pressure washer.
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