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change of front?
« on: December 08, 2010, 01:40:15 pm »
i,m thinking of changing the front grill of the car..... i already have the osir front grill/fog light covers and splitter-which i,m keeping!!
 and i reaaaaly want the osir front grill peice like neil had but they are a lot of dosh ,prob too much for me for the next 7-9 months
so was thinking of the grill top and bottom like dis.......


but i,m wondering if i,m losing the whole GTI personna if i do?
anyone wanna pitch in their thoughts?
.......................runs and hides lol :jumping:
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Re: change of front?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2010, 02:38:49 pm »
I think that car looks the badgers nadgers.  And its good to be different.

If you like it, do it!!!

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PS im not biased in anyway with the grills  :signLOL:

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2010, 02:44:36 pm »
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I think that the example of the black Mk5 you show is excellent. I don't much like it when folks mix the slatted grills with the honeycombe ones.

The only consideration then becomes that your GTI no longer looks like a GTI and if you put a GTI badge on it looks like a Golf pretending to be a GTI.

I do think that Neil's solution is a much better one but it is a much more expensive one.


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Re: change of front?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2010, 03:12:29 pm »
Do what YOU want to do Matsu!!   And its only grilles,they can be swapped around very easily so you can chop and change as much as you want!!

I have a pre facelift GT TDI and changed the front to the new GT SPORT (like your first photo shows) but I did for a while (much to Robins disgust!!!  :signLOL: ) run with the main GT grille and the lower 3 GTI grilles AKA the Golf Speed Edition below



AFAIK it was a limited edition only in Germany but I might be talking rubbish!!  :rolleye:

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2010, 03:41:13 pm »
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Nothing worse than seeing LED tail lights on a Golf GT though, Lee  :P  :evilgrin:  :laugh:


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Re: change of front?
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 03:46:53 pm »
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Re: change of front?
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2010, 03:56:25 pm »
Matsu go for it mate,  The US boys love it I sold my original GT grilles to a guy in the US for his GTI and its all the rage over there,

I was running with GTI grilles but wanted to get away from the GTI theme has I only have the GTtdi so went down the GT sport grilles.

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2010, 04:31:41 pm »
Matsu go for it mate,  The US boys love it I sold my original GT grilles to a guy in the US for his GTI and its all the rage over there,

I was running with GTI grilles but wanted to get away from the GTI theme has I only have the GTtdi so went down the GT sport grilles.

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2010, 05:30:35 pm »
well done morty, that is lovely  :happy2:
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Re: change of front?
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2010, 10:39:40 pm »
Cheers John_o

GTSport yes its a eddy spoiler got it off a forum member when he was putting his car back to standard.

I had just had it detailed from chip20 on this forum. And it was ready for VWFestival the next day.

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2010, 08:52:31 am »
morty that looks stunning...very classy finish.

is it gti enough for me tho lol.
oh gawd... lots to think about... and you havent helped at alll :evilgrin: :drinking:

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2010, 12:35:25 pm »

oh gawd... lots to think about... and you havent helped at alll :evilgrin: :drinking:

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Re: change of front?
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2010, 02:15:06 pm »


this front and these wheels.....summer 2011
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Re: change of front?
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2010, 05:47:24 pm »
Sorry mate :grin:

Whichever way you go it'll look the dogs do da's mate especially with them wheels and the osir front :happy2:

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