Opinions Please!

[em2evol]

Hi everyone

I've just got a quote for painting my side skirts and rear valance on my GTI... I'm definitely going with the painted rear valance but what are your opinions on painted side skirts on GTIs?

I was thinking about perhaps just leaving them, was wondering what people think looks better...

Cheers

[candyman]

Painted rear only for me, but as they say its all a matter of choice......

[VC]

painting them what colour?

[em2evol]

Black (i.e body coloured) 

[VC]

mine are colour coded on mine as standard, what do yours look like now then? (this is where i dont know enuff about the gti  )

[WhiteGTI]

On a black car it will probably be ok to leave the skirts as the black bumper plastic, whereas with mine its either everything done, or none done! But I still think that on any colour it looks the best if everything was colour-coded.

[182_blue]

if your doing the back, i would do the sides

[prepree]

I think it depends on the colour of car, but as yours is black you could get away with jus the back, as candy said with CW i think its all or nothing but etto

[RedRobin]

....

Personally I think the GTI looks much better with colour coded skirts etc, but it's slightly colour sensitive. I've never liked the deep black plastic Ka-style rear on the GTI.

The Ed30 (and R32) looks much better imo.

The problem is that if you do one, you end up doing front, back, and sides!

Welcome to the forum!! You have been warned about the slippery slope! : -

[JPC]

Yep, id say get the lot done too

[tony_danza]

Do the lot, including the front.

There's a natural line that runs through the car's side on a rake, if you look. Anything other than full coding breaks this up and looks messy IMO.

I think it also depends on colour.
White/red/silver contrast nicely with the black and look better.. Others like blue/black look much better fully coded.

[VC]

after some google images research i have to agree with the guys above 

get the colour on! 

[T88OMM]

I will echo evrybody else's thoughts, the whole lot has to be done. If you just do the back the rest of the car will look mismatched 

[joesgti]

whole lot defo, thats why i waited to fit any bits wanted it all CC

[em2evol]

Ok cool, seems the general opinion is that my original plan of painting the sides and rear is a goodun!

I did ask the bodyshop about painting the front splitter / lip too but he said it wasn't worth it...  I'm thinking I should just tell him I want that bit done too now... can't be too much extra seeing as it seems the smallest bit ever!

And before all of this, I thought about getting a Rieger front splitter... but that's too expensive... and the Votex splitter... is that any different at all from standard? Doesn't look it...