MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: sub39h on December 07, 2011, 10:51:45 pm
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hi guys,
there's a guy who lives in the same block of flats as me who drives a B8 A4 S-Line. i think he's got a dual exhaust Milly recently, so it looks like one of the V6 cars (rather than twin exhausts on one side like the 4 cyl models)
BUT
he's also put an S4 badge on it :confused:
don't get me wrong, it's a nice A4. but i thought that anyone who would care enough to notice an S4 would also notice that this isn't an S4 so what's the point?
i'm not gonna say it "grinds my gears" or whatever, because it doesn't. (reps however, do. i don't understand why ppl make their SDIs or 1.6s look ike S3s or GTIs or whatever else.) with said exception of reps i'd say you should do what you like with the car, but putting badges on it to make it look like a car it's not seems a bit pointless. what do you guys think?
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Things like this annoy me aswell and I just giggle at the poor people that have to do this
But on the other hand the people that don't know much about cars will just think its the real deal
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The debate has been had many a time on here and I think the general feeling was that people can do what they like to their cars but putting a badge on claiming its something it isn't is just dumb!
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i know what you mean about badging it up to make it look like something its not, but each to there own.
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Used to see it ALL the time in the late 90's with BMW M3's :stupid:
(M3's with 1.6 exhausts and beige cloth interiors)
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It's like putting the gti front end on a diesel and leaving the badges on
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When you say badged as something do you mean along the lines of.......
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fx211%2Fdegudodger%2F26062006118.jpg&hash=8bc4fc56b0d6cd817d4461834e733fa7e054b16a)
:signLOL:
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The debate has been had many a time on here and I think the general feeling was that people can do what they like to their cars but putting a badge on claiming its something it isn't is just dumb!
worst one i've ever seen was a guy on Audi-Sport who wanted to put the new "SUPERCHARGED" wing badges from the higher powered V6 TFSI A6s on his wings instead of his S-Line ones. it didn't make ANY sense! he drove a 1.4T and NONE OF THE 8Ps ARE EVEN SUPERCHARGED. had a massive arguement with him about it lol.
yeah ETTO and all that, but if someone's doing something retarded somebody needs to educate them
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When you say badged as something do you mean along the lines of.......
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fx211%2Fdegudodger%2F26062006118.jpg&hash=8bc4fc56b0d6cd817d4461834e733fa7e054b16a)
^that's worse. Merc roundel isn't even in the middle!!!
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It's like putting the gti front end on a diesel and leaving the badges on
When I fitted my GTI front end I made sure the GTI badge was removed, I did consider the GT TDI grill But at the time I preferred the red insert on the GTI grill, it is very much each to there own, but one things for sure when I had my Astra cab I fitted a v6 vectra lump in it but didn't/forgot to remove the 1.6 badge, it would raise a smile when Saco owners tried and failed off the lights
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I've seen a 500bhp S3 with a TDI badge on - now that's worth doing! :signLOL:
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he's also put an S4 badge on it :confused:
:sick:
My GTI is my first car that has a badge on it (just because it's obvious it's a GTI
and I like the red 'GTI' + rabbit from the US 2001 anniversary). Formely I always
praticed some kind of understatement.
I remember when I was a child some GTI owners liked to put a GTD badge on
their cars or just a 'Golf' or 'Rabbit'. That's the way to go !!
:wink:
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When you say badged as something do you mean along the lines of.......
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fx211%2Fdegudodger%2F26062006118.jpg&hash=8bc4fc56b0d6cd817d4461834e733fa7e054b16a)
:signLOL:
What car is it anyway??? :sick:
Is it one of those sanyokingkong ones???
I've seen a few of those 4x4 where they've swapped to merc badges :confused:
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Seat Toledo I think
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I've seen a 500bhp S3 with a TDI badge on - now that's worth doing! :signLOL:
Was it white by any chance, lad in the North East owns it?
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Seat Toledo I think
Ahhh Seat-Benz :grin:
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I've seen a 500bhp S3 with a TDI badge on - now that's worth doing! :signLOL:
Was it white by any chance, lad in the North East owns it?
Is it running on TD 1.2s?
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JohnnyC's old S3 I believe. :driver:
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I've seen a 500bhp S3 with a TDI badge on - now that's worth doing! :signLOL:
Was it white by any chance, lad in the North East owns it?
Is it running on TD 1.2s?
No idea mate, I'm not a wheel man.
If it's the same one, I was in it a couple of years ago, rapid.
That's when rebadging is funny!
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There's pics on the net of eastern eu and middle east putting different manufacturer badges on cars, worst I've seen was either a merc or bm badge on an r8 iirc
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So many nobs do it round my way!! Really grinds me!!
Young lad has a MK6 1.4 that has the worst rep GTI kit on I have ever seen and two jap style exhausts that stick out of the arse end about 12 inches! Guess what, it is badged up as a GTI. He goes round every ragging the sh*t out of it and tries to race me at every possible opportunity :fighting: :fighting:
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So many nobs do it round my way!! Really grinds me!!
Young lad has a MK6 1.4 that has the worst rep GTI kit on I have ever seen and two jap style exhausts that stick out of the arse end about 12 inches! Guess what, it is badged up as a GTI. He goes round every ragging the sh*t out of it and tries to race me at every possible opportunity :fighting: :fighting:
Not much of a race waving goodbye to him tho is it :happy2:
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i'd have had 'im in my 1.6 :P
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Guy near me has a horrible body kit on his TDI. When he saw my GTI he said his was an 'Edition 30 so was a bit quicker then mine'. Didnt tell him that they never made a diesel edition 30 but keeps me amused :happy2:
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Seat Toledo I think
Rich - Correct :happy2:
Shame i don't have any photos of the front, trust me when i say it was fugly!
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How about Optimus Prime, cleverly disguised as a mini metro? :chicken:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barryboys.co.uk%2Fphotos15%2F610b6efd5a0754a89db05f9897aad07e.jpg&hash=95ff639425fcf2c0efdeee1336b0104aa7eadee8)
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:mad: Thats just wrong
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Oooh, a 6R4.... Not! :stupid:
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Funny thing is tho that metro body kit prob cost about £800 the tiger seal used to bond it on prob cost more than the car was worth
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What has seen can't be unseen!! :confused: :sick:
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After seeing and working on a genuine 6R4 on mc rallying crap could ever look like the 100k genuine item
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Bucket seats, harnesses and rusty windscreen wipers :grin:
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How about Optimus Prime, cleverly disguised as a mini metro? :chicken:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barryboys.co.uk%2Fphotos15%2F610b6efd5a0754a89db05f9897aad07e.jpg&hash=95ff639425fcf2c0efdeee1336b0104aa7eadee8)
:grin: Optimus prime :grin:
I love how the wheels fill the arches.... just perfect!
Got the offset just right :congrats:
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spacers needed for that more door 6r4 will weight more than the car :evilgrin:
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S3 with rs3 badge today!
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JohnnyC's old S3 I believe. :driver:
Sounds like everyone is talking about his old S3, a lad called Dan I think. There was a funny story on the Megane Sport forums about a lad 'having a go' after seeing the TDI badge :signLOL:
Think he was selling or has sold it from what I was reading a while ago on Audi-sport.
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JohnnyC's old S3 I believe. :driver:
Sounds like everyone is talking about his old S3, a lad called Dan I think. There was a funny story on the Megane Sport forums about a lad 'having a go' after seeing the TDI badge :signLOL:
Think he was selling or has sold it from what I was reading a while ago on Audi-sport.
Aye that's the one.
Still got it I believe.
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up for 21k or swap for standard s3 for him to sell. 580hp I hear.
Saw a crappy mk2 TT V6 badged up as a TTRS. Lucky for him I was in my van and not the RS or he might have felt more of a numpty :signLOL: