Help I Cant Decide What To Do With My Front End !

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

basically, car goes in bodyshop tomorrow to have all my old rallye style arches removed and the gti kit refitted, however i cant decide on the front end ......standard (apart from the auto bonnet i have already fitted) or like this ......... Picture

 

my car is miami blue already and has that bumper already fitted but i have standard valance ready to fit ...help !!!

 

 

 

my front end looks like this at the moment .....Picture

 

p.s sorry about the size of the pics (linked now instead - Anthony)

Edited May 12, 2006 by Anthony

[Rob Turbo 3]

Stick the standard valance on, then sell that one to me!

[Banjo 1]

Po po alert for picy size. No offence but your car looks gash, its not an m3, the brows look w*nk, the grill wouldn’t look quite so bad if it fitted properly and didn’t look like it was made by a monkey, all your missing is some nice neon’s to finished her off. Infact that looks like a nice green nova next to it in the pics..

I thought the idea of modifying your car was to be individual? So why buy a load of tat out of a magazine so you can look like everyone else?!?

Edited May 12, 2006 by Banjo

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

No offence but your car looks gash

well i guess thats answered my question ! looks like im goin 100% back to standard bar the bonnet !

 

when i did this nearly 4 years ago ...it WAS original. Know what you mean about the mirrors etc, cant wait to get them off and the standard units back on

[Banjo 1]

Good lad

[roland rat 11]

totally argee with banjo.the only way to improve a standard 205 gti is with a auto bonnet imho.plus when you go to sell it it wont only appeal to the tupperware turbo gang!ha ha

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

Comments are a bit harsh on here and not the way to welcome a newcomer!

 

Chris, your car has the age related mods on it, which can date a car. The St Tropez front valance is viewed as an acceptable mod on here by many. I like the smoothed bumpers but they won't work with the standard GTI arches like they do with the Rallye arches.

 

If you are putting GTI kit on and getting everything repainted as I assume a full respray is in order with the Rallye arches coming off, I would try and return it to standard as it will have more value that way. Modded cars are peoples personal tastes and the money that is spend often devalues a car as it is less saleable.

 

Pop the bits you take off on ebay as you will get some cash back for them. Gutmann style grilles traditionally bend in the middle too. The original Gutmann ones don't, but they are not fibreglass copies.

 

Hope this helps

[rooster 0]

 

 

this is my front end its simaler to yours but its all moulded to the bumper

 

its coming off next week and a new front black bumper is going on with a pheonix lower valence ive just refurbed

 

it dont look as good as that anymore as its all stonechipped and covered in dead flys

[hengti 2]

got to agree with the other Henry's comments ! - always personal choice

 

of the two, the 'current' piccie looks much smoother to me than the alternative - nice R5 look to it

 

 

rooster - you're doing the right thing fixing the cheesy grin on yours though!

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

cheers guys, yeah i had thought that it was looking a bit dated now..

 

Henry : yes its all going to come off and back to black bumpers and inserts (spent a small fortune in the last 2 weeks getting all the standard arches bumpers badges etc )., the only thing i couldnt decide on was whether to go 100% standard (red trims and standard lower valence) or the chrome trims and still keep just my st tropez lower valence (but everythingelse standard, hence the first pic of the car in the mag from 5 years ago )

 

Oh and bits are in ebay now if anyones interested

[Banjo 1]

I'm sure he can take a bit of a dig like a man Henry, and by the looks of it has come to his sences

[tom_m 0]

I thought the idea of modifying your car was to be individual? So why buy a load of tat out of a magazine so you can look like everyone else?!?

 

so instead he has to have his car standard to fit in here instead, tell me how is that different?

 

IMO the other style quad lights and a san tropez look great, maybe a 3 bar grill to finish it off. at the end of the day its YOUR car, YOU have to drive it, make it look like YOU want.

 

beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there are always going to be nay sayers, as long as you are happy with it thats all that matters!

Edited May 15, 2006 by tom_m

[Ric Handley 0]

This is My Front End

 

Similar to the magazine one but with the full quad lights (which i think look alot better).

 

As said - do what you what, but i'd only do mods which you can reverse easily! (i regret getting that awful boot done now).

 

Cheers

 

Ric

[DaveW 6]

you lier Ric you love it as it looks rudde

[Guest Tidybri]

I have 2 agree original is the best it looks so good you dont need to add all the mods some people do i mean wots wrong with this i smile every time i see it???

[DaveW 6]

standard 205 gti's are awsome standard but a nicely done modded one can look top too

[24seven 104]

The 205 was designed by Pininfarina, who are responsible for some of the best loking cars in automotive history, including a number of Alfa Romeos, Ferrari F40 and even the legendary Ferrari 250. I think it's fair to say that the way they (not Peugeot ) intended the 205 to look is the best way.

[jackherer 543]

The 205 was designed by Pininfarina

 

No it wasn't. Who did you hear that from? Jeremy Clarkson?

[24seven 104]

No it wasn't. Who did you hear that from? Jeremy Clarkson?

 

http://www.pininfarina.it/eng/history/cronologia.php

 

Check 1983. If I'm not mistaken pininfarina designed a few peugeots, aside from the 205, and also partly assembled the 205 cabriolet.

Edited May 28, 2006 by 24Seven

[chris 417 mi 34 2 Cars]

Well mines back to standard now and was at fcs yesterday on the pgac bit ! (miami blue L reg non sunroof)

[GlasgowRob 0]

cheers guys, yeah i had thought that it was looking a bit dated now..

 

Henry : yes its all going to come off and back to black bumpers and inserts (spent a small fortune in the last 2 weeks getting all the standard arches bumpers badges etc )., the only thing i couldnt decide on was whether to go 100% standard (red trims and standard lower valence) or the chrome trims and still keep just my st tropez lower valence (but everythingelse standard, hence the first pic of the car in the mag from 5 years ago )

 

Oh and bits are in ebay now if anyones interested

 

 

Stock looks with a hint of guttman all the way