Carbon Fibre / Smoothed Nose

[CocoPops]

Where can I get a mk5 GTI nose in either carbon fibre or smoothed (no number plate mountings).

There is a CF one on ebay.. from US tho

[candy turbo]

here !
              06-07 VW Golf GTi gti Carbon Fiber Grill grille - RARE Item number: 270160277822

[CocoPops]

Cheers Candy, but that one has number plate holes in it by the looks of the pic.

[182_blue]

Where are you going to be putting the plate ?

[WhiteGTI]

Where are you going to be putting the plate ?

x2 

[CocoPops]

I'm thinking...
something like this...

My poor attempt... lol

3/4 plate (the image is correctly scaled, so that's how big a 3/4 plate would be)

[WhiteGTI]

I too have thought of this numerous times, but discarded it for two reasons:

Firstly, if you attach it to the holes in the lower front grille, then the shape of the body angles the plate, and it looks a bit weird. Where would you be looking to attach it to Coco?

Secondly, when looking at it, I cant help but picturing a rabbit with its front teeth out!!

ETTO though 

A guy at a local meet I go to has put a 3/4 plate right in the centre of that lower front grille - as well as blocking air to the radiator, it looks fecking bad!

I just dont know of a decent front numberplate solution really, apart from JoesGTI but that is kinda illegal :S

Although give me time, I may post up tomorrow something that might be worth considering...........

[CocoPops]

Yeah, like I say, it's just ideas currently, although I do like the idea of the smooth nose.

What about a square plate, ala Evo 6, covering one of the black grills? (but not covering the fog light etc)

[WhiteGTI]

Yeah, like I say, it's just ideas currently, although I do like the idea of the smooth nose.

What about a square plate, ala Evo 6, covering one of the black grills? (but not covering the fog light etc)

Definitely - the whole smooth nose concept makes the front of the car look great! Sorry to pounce on your ideas - hope it didnt come out like that.

Yeah would love to see a pic of an evo6 type grille in the location that you've said - but my photoshop skills let me down unfortunately!  :embarassed:

[182_blue]

yeh its really hard to do and remain legal and also not make look a bit naff, be interested to see what people come up with