Should I get it colour coded?

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:03 pm

Hi all,

Need some opinions. After seeing a load of GTIs and that yesterday at PoloShow, it makes me want to get all mine colour coded so it looks even better.

What do you guys think?

Here is what is looks like before and after:

Cheers!

NOZ · Post by **NOZ** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:05 pm

No question mate, get it done cos it proves the looks so much for very little work

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:10 pm

I say yes

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:21 pm

Like I said a long time ago. YES !!!

MaxZ · Post by **MaxZ** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:57 pm

Smooth it!

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:58 pm

I did it in my sig smoothed:

Looks quite intriguing!

Ollie_R · Post by **Ollie_R** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:00 pm

Nooooo!

Black bumpstrips FTW!

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:01 pm

MaxZ wrote:Smooth it!

I was going to say... if you intend to smooth the front and rear bumpers at any point in the future, do it before spending your money on colour-coding the bump strips. Otherwise it is just throwing away money IMHO.

Best bet mate is to look out on eBay and at breaker's yards for red GTis being broken, and snap up the bump strips from them for next to nothing!

Also, colour-code the centres of your RX2s red

just a thought...

Cheers

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:03 pm

I was gonna do the RX2 centres red originally, but i have a small secret up my sleve for the winter....all will be revealed in due course!!!!

Breaker yard for a red GTI would do just the trick may have to keep on the look out.

Smoothing is a step too far for me. I wouldnt want to do it, purely becuase of the fact it may crack and Id have to start again from square one!

Im gonna see how much work want for the strips brand new (was something like Â£150 before i started working at VW

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ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:26 pm

The only reason it would crack is if like me, you hit someone.

Either that or a dodgy bodyshop, any good bodyshop should be competent enough to smooth it and have it stay smooth forever.

Bepe · Post by **Bepe** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:06 am

no, smooth it all!

Biddle · Post by **Biddle** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:53 pm

The man from Del Monte.... he say yes!!

Tetsuo_83 · Post by **Tetsuo_83** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:54 pm

Dont colour code those strips anyway.... the paint will just flake off eventually. unless you go about removing the textured finish, which would afford you a GTi by the time your done!

Breakers as someone said earlier... but the GTi wasnt the only colour coded one, plenty of 1.4's and TDi's were colour coded too. Or just buy the primed rubstrips from VW.

(take the GTi badge off by the way)

Post by **alexperkins** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:49 pm

lol GTI badge stays no matter what haha!. Im gonna keep it standard me thinks and just put my money towards a better cause - a real gti

Thanks for all the opinions guys....if it comes to the point where i have a red S or SE or GTI polo available to me being broken, ill defo get all the strips then

Dee-vub · Post by **Dee-vub** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:39 am

i said keep them black

And also think the GTI badge should be lost personally, but up to you

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