NickH-D's 87 GTi MK2

[molegti]

Small bumpers, put it back original. You may even make some money from the front bumper - some people have no taste.

[NickH-D]

Small bumpers, put it back original. You may even make some money from the front bumper - some people have no taste.

haha, had to chuckle a little.

to befair, the guy who fitted it original obviously bought it, so somebody else out there may do!

Will stick the bumper up on ebay once I get my originals.

[NickH-D]

New set of original bumpers, pristine condition, £26 including splitters

[russ-vdub]

I gotta break the trend and think that you paid too much. the money for a re-spray is well more than 3 times what you paid for it, surely you could of a got a cleaner, less chavved up one for £800ish?

Mechanically sound or not thats guna cost some money to get it looking right - Unless of course you are just guna respray yourself?

EDIT: just read your guna get it down pro, plus you gotta get some decent rims - easily another £500 :/

[NickH-D]

Well its been a little while, but a bit of progress has been made on the golf..

The fugly bumpers have been removed and a set of original gti small bumpers have been fitted, although I need new spacers to get them fitted 100% but it already looks so much better. I've also managed to swap out the wheels, the black ones are sat on my 60plate corsa for now, which actually go with the car pretty well, and the golf is now sat on 15" steelies.

I am looking to do paintwork myself now, my theory is I cannot make it any worse, so I'm going to give it a crack, I've done odd panels and spoilers before so I'll just take the golf panel by panel, may even try a small respray on the wheels too once colour has been confirmed.

Will try and put up a pic or two, but work is finally underway!

[NickH-D]

Original front (in process of selling)

Original rear

how it used to be..

Front Bumper and Grill off

Original small bumper fitted (needs spacers)

Rear Bumper Removed

Original small bumper fitted (needs spacers)

How it sits at the moment

Bodywork is still scruffy, that will be next

[Mr_Orange]

Looking 100 times better 

[NickH-D]

Thanks,

I intend to get some bits together to try out my bodywork restoration, I'll probably use the bonnet as my starting point as it has a little rust on the front lip (not alot by any means, just a small bubble), but it will at least see what kind of finish I can achieve before I tackle the rest of the car

[dom]

Glad you've got rid of those horrible bumpers, looks much much better