GTI mesh grille for lower section.

[Sharkie]

I actually like the Caracterre front bar. Would look good on any Polo including the GTI. Probably especially the GTI with the matching honeycomb grill.

If it was available at a good price I'd buy it.

[Bubu]

This may be of some interest to some of you:

http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/store/p...=8008&xSec=266

[Bubu]

Ignore the above post ^^^.

Have a look at this one instead:

http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/vw%20po...2/styling.html

[naughty]

we get the caractere stuff pretty freely here in South Africa - my problem with it is that it can land up looking very ordinary like this



or it can look terrific depending on the installation of it and the job done to integrate it ie parts of the kit were used here



in South Africa we dont get the GTI in three door form - hence these are the 1.9 TDI but using the GTI front grille in the black one

looking at that black one though you can see that the honeycomb mesh on the grille has a bigger pattern than the one in the bumper - so it doesnt match very nicely in real life - i can get the caractere bumper very easily even though its a bit pricey - but its very available but it doesnt match what im imagining on the car

id love to be able to do what someone posted on a link to a german site where some guy took the golf 5 gti grilles and modded them into his polo grilles and made it look like this



hers some of his in progress pics

from this type of thing



to finish it off to this standard



heres a link to that thread - discussion is in german though - but you can see the pics easily enough - pics start on page 2 - but in case anyone can read german this is page one - BTW i didnt find this - it was linked here by someone in another thread about colour coded bumpers

http://forum.polo9n.info/viewtopic.p...84280474ee2189

[GT3]

This has been discussed in a previous thread:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...t=10498&page=3

[danno2908]

http://forum.polo9n.info/viewtopic.p...84280474ee2189

Hmm I dont seem to be able to go to that website. Am I the only one?

[Sharkie]

I've been playing with this a bit as well.

Got hold of a set of GTI std grills and started modifying. Almost done 1 now. Not the same size mesh though. See a current state below, need to finish it off still (when I have time) The difference in weight is very noticable. Some improvement in the power to weight ratio there ....

[naughty]

Hmm I dont seem to be able to go to that website. Am I the only one?

well dont worry too much about it cos i cant get in now either - but i have posted some of his pics - and you can see the job he did of modifying those grilles