What is a bodykit? GTI asks Dizzie

[VeeDubGTI16v]

DTM is that like OEM

[S11EPS]

Why 'non-dtm'?

It could be argued that anything that deviates from the standard specification of the base car is a bodykit - hence when a vehicle that is lauched (a new GTi for example) that deviates from the standard base model, any magazine referring to it calls it a bodykit, including bumpers.

Using that as the benchmark, I would consider MK2 Big bumpers to be classed as a bodykit.

[Dizzie]

if you look at a mk2 with the 'small bumpers' and then look at one with the 'big bumpers' they look completely different due to the extensions front, back and sides that the later kit gives.

mine was orginally born (back in Jan 1987) with small bumpers and in white   later in it's live with was graced with a paint job (thank god) and the later style 'big bumpers' that changed the look complete. I know this for sure cos a) they weren't around in 1987 afaik and b) half the bloody wings only have 1 hole instead of 2!  

The pikey that did the swap forgot to change the arches and add the sil skirts   I shall be doing this with G60 items soon - to give a wider look

are we actually sure VW call them big bumpers or is that a name they adopted somewhere along the line?

Black_gti states (and I quote):  
<GTI> bodykit extends a bumper
<GTI> bodykit has side skirts
<GTI> bodykit has cutout for exhaust
<GTI> bodykit extends below the bumpers and is a plastic skirt below the door sills
<GTI> bodykits are either black plastic, or better still ... bodycoloured

so really he classed big bumpers are a bodykit there.
although in his first post containing the log form chat he left out half of those details!

[Overseer]

i class a bodykit as "a multiple piece deviation from standard OEM equipment"

so cars that came fitted with big bumpers dont have a body kit.

but adding big bumpers to a car that didnt come with them is adding a body kit..


get me?

[gibby]

are we actually sure VW call them big bumpers or is that a name they adopted somewhere along the line?

I can't see the top VW bosses in the late eighties describing the newer mk2 as a big bumper model, but you never know   I reckon it was just the public that used the bumpers to differentiate the newer mk2 models from the older ones.

[Dizzie]

but adding big bumpers to a car that didnt come with them is adding a body kit..

so mine's got a bodykit then

[Overseer]

yup

[Dizzie]

but black_gti's mk3 came like that therefore his isnt' a bodykit  

[vixteris]

so anyone know when the clipper kit first arrived as im assuming mine was added later and also a bodykit?  

[Overseer]

^ dont get what you're saying

but black_gti's mk3 came like that therefore his isnt' a bodykit  

yup also.