Tigger73's 125TSI Tiguan Build Thread

[tigger73]

Not sure about stainless steel but plastic replacement can be found for much better price than at the dealers:

2010- VW Tiguan Front Bumper Grill Central Grille | eBay

You're right the dealers will do the plastic one for $189 pick up from down the road. But the polished stainless one does look nice. If I have to change it anyway I'd consider the upgrade.

I believe the link for the grille you posted is for the updated 2012 model Tig. I need the honeycomb one for the 2008-2011 (pre facelift) model. I'm pretty sure the ebay grille won't fit my older model.

[aussietig]

If you do go down the UK route, then double check whether the price quoted includes VAT?

As a non-UK resident you should not need to pay the 20% VAT.

[tigger73]

It was a nice sunny day on a long weekend. All jobs done. Too much time on my hands. A bit of a slow news day on the Tiguan thread so I thought I'd open up some discussion on debadging/rebadging.

Recently debadged my car to give a nice clean boot:



Now considering putting something back on.... jury is out at the moment



or maybe



or perhaps



now this is getting a little silly...



So I'm laying down the challenge to anyone that can come up with anything better... winner gets the honour and glory of having their badge idea on my boot!!!

So the letters available are: T, I, G, U, A, N, T, S, I (red) oh and if you like you can use the 2.0.

I'd even consider cutting the 0 off the 2.0 to make the letter "O" but obviously this is a one-way option.

Anyone coming up with a 9 letter word wins a VWWatercooled sticker.

[MGV]

Haha!
I had some fun doing the exact same thing, about 6 months ago! Almost put 'I TUG' on with blutac, just for a photo...

I did cut the 2.0 in half & smoothed off the rough bits & considered just having T 2. T 4 would be better, though. May have to steal a 4 off an A4...

[Tigger]

so not much happens in adelaide i see!?

i thought i was unique turning mine into a GTI and badging it as such??
(would post a pic from before but cant remember how to do so) it is on my signature anyway.

How about:
ANTI GUS Know anyone named Gus????

[Tigger]

or ANTI GUSTO?

[tigger73]

Wow the first 9 letter word. So we have our first winner!!!!



Somehow I don't think it's going to become a permanent fixture!!!!

[Fred Nurk]

N0T GTI?

Edit: Forum's doing something funny with the case.

[tigger73]

A couple of others I thought of....



and maybe this is giving away what is to come but couldn't resist....



Though the last one is cheating a bit as I've added another letter.

[tigger73]

OK last couple and then I'm done



and then because it's not