Any advice on some good exterior body mods i can do to my mk3 gti.

[frank galager]

The bumpers/plastic work does suffer the 'fade to grey' with age..there's lots of comments on here about how to get them back to black if that's what you want, temporarilly that is or more permanent with a spray job.

I was thinking of spraying them to match the rest of the body, Is that me being stupid or can it be done?

But the rest of the plastic does need a bit of love i will look in to that cheers.

[frank galager]

Sparying the wheels is easy peasy and you could paint the calipers red while youre there.  

Heres how I did mine -

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=173605.0

Cool cheers, im doing pads an discs next weekend, plus fitting the coilcovers so i can do the lot while im there. Hmmm but what colour! gonna do the calipers red i thing. but not sure on the wheels.

[frank galager]

linseed oil can work wonders on the plastics.

Linseed oil. ok might go and grab some now see how it does cheers.

[Christo77]

Boiled linseed oil..from the diy hardware store like Wickes.
It does a pretty good job and better than a lot of stuff but it does leave streaky lines when it rains and if you do the rear spoiler it'll leave the rear window with a bit of a sticky residue mess as it runs off, that's what i found anyways..
It's not bad at all though.

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[Khare]

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[Jimmy Filth]

Painting the plastics is troublesome as they're textured to need to be smoothed first.  A lot of work involved in that, so unless you're doing it yourself it is expensive in labour costs.

As far as chin spoilers go, everyone and their uncle goes for the VR6 (with good reason, they look great) but there are other options...
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=178674.msg1678701#msg1678701

Venom motorsport do good prices on exhausts.  I think a cat back miltek system is under £300.

Changing the grill for a debadged one, or painting the badge is another option.  Or a Vento front end?  Can all be got as genuine VW stuff.  It's a big mod, that's stunning and isn't in your face.

Google Lamin-X, they do tints for lights and such, good simple mod.

debadge the back and de-wiper the tailgate, pressed plates, smoked or clear foglights...  All can be got on ebay...

[danmusic24]

going back to first picture! how come you have three bins and i only have two? whats the brown one for? ps luv the car 

[frank galager]

going back to first picture! how come you have three bins and i only have two? whats the brown one for? ps luv the car 

LOL the brown ones for kitchen waste food ect.

Thanks bought it as an in-between car and now I can't bring myself to get rid of it only wish id got a 16v never mind.

[frank galager]

Painting the plastics is troublesome as they're textured to need to be smoothed first.  A lot of work involved in that, so unless you're doing it yourself it is expensive in labour costs.

As far as chin spoilers go, everyone and their uncle goes for the VR6 (with good reason, they look great) but there are other options...
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=178674.msg1678701#msg1678701

Venom motorsport do good prices on exhausts.  I think a cat back miltek system is under £300.

Changing the grill for a debadged one, or painting the badge is another option.  Or a Vento front end?  Can all be got as genuine VW stuff.  It's a big mod, that's stunning and isn't in your face.

Google Lamin-X, they do tints for lights and such, good simple mod.

debadge the back and de-wiper the tailgate, pressed plates, smoked or clear foglights...  All can be got on ebay...

Cool thanks for the input think you def swayed me on the chin spoiller, gonna try and get either a b3 duckbill or the ABT i'll see what i can get hold of.

The vento front end mod i've looked in to something i might do once i've done the wheels an exhaust ect.

Also gonna look in to some new lights. cheers.