to de-arch or not...whats everybody's opinions!

[boneybradley]

as said in title...i am thinking of removing the plastic arches and fitting cl side strips (or similar?)..... any body have pictures of a pearl black mk3 with these removed (on standard wheels) and what does every body think about doing this... My neighbour has a vr6 without and that looks 

oh and please dont say look in the mk3 picture section as I seem to spend loads of time in their on auto pilot deleting old threads!!

[golfmk31993]

de-arch it, and sell me the arches, i have the money waiting in my paypal account to send imediatly,

thanks

[ace]

yeah i would say deffo de-arch. my bro-in-law on his mk3 16v had it de-arched, looks soooo much better imo. freshens the car up as well!!!!!

[mark3valver]

take the arches off and then see the state of things underneath and then decide IF its even a possibility...

I dare not take mine off......

[kells]

im old skool. not a fan of the de arched look, i have however had mine off to look behind and mine arches are all good

[boneybradley]

im old skool. not a fan of the de arched look, i have however had mine off to look behind and mine arches are all good

yeah my arches are good... I am just fed up of cleaning them to keep them black unless theres a miracle product out there? I've tried everything exept the heat gun idea and lets just say i can see fire with that!!

[Vdubbster]

The first one I removed had a rust bubble :-(

At least it wasn't the last one, that would have been really annoying

[GavGti]

just get them sprayed black

prob gonna do that to mine

[mark3valver]

just get them sprayed black

prob gonna do that to mine

not a fan of that at all... looks very mid 90's MK2 to me....

if the arches come off then I would get smooth bumpers and side trim else it makes your cal look like a cl......

[ollie6n]

I think it looks nice but I'm stayin with the OEM look till I can get the arches pulled out to accomodate some nice rims!