My golf comes with two tone white paint....at no extra cost!!

[Maverick]

Its not that bad.....its more a case where todays manufactures are cutting cost by not colour matching the bumpers and given that they are plastic and not metal they take on a darker colour then the rest of the car.

You can't get a spot on match between paint on plastic and metal, they dry at different rates, different temperature and so on. The bumpers are painted separately to the car but this is the case in most if not all manufacturers and the paint will be from the same batch and manufacturer so will be spot on. Metallic paints are worse as the different drying times mean the pigments rise to the surface and the flakes settle more.

[speedie01]

Build quality is better then ever.



This can be adjusted. See your dealer.



Known issue. See your dealer.



What is your source of this revelation?

Colour matching plastic parts is near impossible for a multitude of reasons.
-Plastic is a different material to the rest of the car and the pigments settle differently resulting in a darker or lighter finish.
-Temperature, when the car's metal body is hotter the bumper will look darker and the same when the car's metal body is cooler the bumper will look lighter.
-Bumpers require a flex additive that changes the constancy of the paint a little and results in slight differences in curing time.



There's a name for this medical condition...... hyper something.... chill out and enjoy the car, you have a few minor faults and that's it.

The dealer can't fix the tail gate as its the actual panel thats at fault & its not major enough to warrant panel work that would require the whole tail gate being repainted

i was told by a manager that works at a major Mazda dealership who is the husband of a my friend.... he also said that all manufactures do it.....

While i agree that it may be near impossible to colour match 100% the pastic parts it sure is a lot more obvious on todays new cars. It was very hard to pick on my new cars of pasted years which were a 1989 Honda and 1999 Subaru. On the golf the bumper looks darker at all times regardless of what temperature the metal body is at......it will be more or less obvious depending on the light conditions.