Front End Collection, Need Your Vote!

mpm T2 TDI · Sep 5, 2012

If you want a street tough look it's 4 + lower center opening of 3 (which stand alone is nice subtle look). Might need a complete ground effects all the way around...

If you want off road look it's 6 + brush bar an skid plate in stainless from 5 (which stand alone could be functional for parking here in NYC)

...2 then 1

What are you thinking out back?

volkswagendude · Sep 5, 2012

mpm T2 TDI said:
If you want a street tough look it's 4 + lower center opening of 3 (which stand alone is nice subtle look). Might need a complete ground effects all the way around...

If you want off road look it's 6 + brush bar an skid plate in stainless from 5 (which stand alone could be functional for parking here in NYC)

...2 then 1

What are you thinking out back?

Ok, I like your talk here, finally someone on the same wavelength!

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Ok let's get serious for a sec, what exactly did you mean by,

" .....If you want a street tough look it's 4 + lower center opening of 3....".

This confuses me a bit because both 4 and 3 have the same chrome grille, which would mean that a 4 + centre opening of 3 would basically = to 3 again!

No?!

Ok, to directly answer your question of what I was thinking of for the rear, here is an actual picture of the rear view of #4 below.

johnsc2 · Sep 5, 2012

#2, 4 and 6 are all the Caractere front bumper piece with various combos of grills on top and fender flares, #5 is a W12 front with the OEM flares and a aftermarket ABT or Caractere grill, #1 looks like the abt front bumper piece and #3 looks almost stock. As much as I like the Caractere stuff, I would say go for #5. That is exactly what I would do if I had enough $$ to burn as that kit is extremely expensive!! Your probably looking at the $5-8K by the time its said and done... but sexy!!! If I had a newer touareg such as a 2008 or so I would go for the Caractere kit as I think that one looks better than the w12 but that is just my opinion. Its your ride, do what you like cuz at the end of the day you are the one that has to look at it (and pay for it

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catalystgod · Sep 5, 2012

Can't you make it a poll?

I vote 3 and 4.

noobytoogy · Sep 5, 2012

volkswagendude said:
I would still like you guys to LIST ALL 6 even if you don't like some of them! Maybe you like only one and hate all the others equally you say to yourselves! It doesn't apply in this experiment of mine.

Let us take it from the top. If you had to choose, at gun point say , all 6 in order of your preferred sequence, in what order would you place them in?!

3.

The rest are sh*t.

Now pull the ****ing trigger!

volkswagendude · Sep 5, 2012

I never said I was buying any of these front ends (wink).

This is an experiment, too hard to describe here as to what the problem is and conclusion(s) I'm guessing, so just roll with it

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mpm T2 TDI · Sep 5, 2012

volkswagendude said:
Ok, I like your talk here, finally someone on the same wavelength! .

Ok let's get serious for a sec, what exactly did you mean by,

" .....If you want a street tough look it's 4 + lower center opening of 3....".

This confuses me a bit because both 4 and 3 have the same chrome grille, which would mean that a 4 + centre opening of 3 would basically = to 3 again! No?!

Ok, to directly answer your question of what I was thinking of for the rear, here is an actual picture of the rear view of #4 below.

Looks like te mid-center grill is blacked out. I prefer stainless. Back looks awesome. But I see wheel flares on the ft end picture. That becomes a big deal doing it all the way around. Too much work even with my brotherly discount at his shop

So my vote is 3 with the matching rear stainless without the rest. They are factory options, right?

German_Zenzi · Sep 5, 2012

Hi.
I vote 2,4 or 6! ;-)

cookie · Sep 6, 2012

3 for me too

volkswagendude · Sep 17, 2012

Well.....

I have decided to keep the present front end look of #3, which as most of you probably figured out, is mine

. However for the rear, I've decided to go with what I posted above in post#22.

Now the question is, which shade (read which colour code) of silver do I elect to go with?

I want the brightest silver, almost metal looking from a distance, in order to show the piece off, and contrast the black PDC sensors off for good measure.

johnsc2 · Sep 17, 2012

I want to get that rear piece as well but its not available for us in the USA with pdc

volkswagendude · Sep 17, 2012

johnsc2 said:
I want to get that rear piece as well but its not available for us in the USA with pdc

Who did you call? I don't want to insist, but whoever told you this is full of it.

I did buy the last piece they had in stock in the whole of Canada BTW, so I suppose I got lucky

. I'm sure though they can order it from the homeland. Anything is possible when you show the goods $$$, unless we are talking serious components like supercharger tuning programs, etc..

johnsc2 · Sep 17, 2012

Could you pm me the part number? I asked two of the dealships around me and they said its not availablewith park sensors here, even though I see pictures of them from Europe.

volkswagendude · Sep 17, 2012

Ok, here it is, but as always, things can get complicated as is sometimes the case with the 'dude, so bare with me carefully. On my invoice, the part# is CARVT7L-02PS (w/o Tow-w/Park). The one I have IS with tow, so they have listed the wrong part# on the invoice. The right part# would be CARVT7L-02TPS with the provision for tow.

Both those part#'s listed above though, are with the park sensors. FWIW, whether you order it with or without tow won't make a whole hell of a difference, since you can pop the provision out on the tow version anyways.

mpm T2 TDI · Sep 17, 2012

volkswagendude said:
Well.....

I have decided to keep the present front end look of #3, which as most of you probably figured out, is mine . However for the rear, I've decided to go with what I posted above in post#22.

Now the question is, which shade (read which colour code) of silver do I elect to go with?
I want the brightest silver, almost metal looking from a distance, in order to show the piece off, and contrast the black PDC sensors off for good measure.

I prefer brushed stainless look, but I'd match your front bright bits for consistency.

Btw, are these the factory stainless options I've seen on sime sites for big $s or the plastic ones?

volkswagendude · Sep 17, 2012

mpm T2 TDI said:
I prefer brushed stainless look, but I'd match your front bright bits for consistency.

Btw, are these the factory stainless options I've seen on sime sites for big $s or the plastic ones?

That rear centre valance piece, which essentially is a cover, is made by Caractere, so it's not "factory". It is made from what seems to be a quite durable and heavy, plastic urethane. Purely cosmetic of course, it does somewhat give off the skid plate look, although this is far from the reason why I've elected to go with this piece.

Is there a paint that will offer the brushed stainless look? One of my buddies owns a body shop, but I need to do the legwork, and find the paint so that he can order it. Any ideas?

You mentioned matching up the front bits for consistency, this makes sense, but it is tricky to execute this and get away with it. Which ones would you paint to match?

mpm T2 TDI · Sep 17, 2012

volkswagendude said:
That rear centre valance piece, which essentially is a cover, is made by Caractere, so it's not "factory". It is made from what seems to be a quite durable and heavy, plastic urethane. Purely cosmetic of course, it does somewhat give off the skid plate look, although this is far from the reason why I've elected to go with this piece.

Is there a paint that will offer the brushed stainless look? One of my buddies owns a body shop, but I need to do the legwork, and find the paint so that he can order it. Any ideas?

You mentioned matching up the front bits for consistency, this makes sense, but it is tricky to execute this and get away with it. Which ones would you paint to match?

Is there a front piece also available? I've toyed with the idea of doing sometime similar.

Regarding colors/painting, the short answer is yes. Any quality shop could paint it any way you want. I'll have to look again at the #3 pic but I think you had a chrome center and lower grill. So it might make sense to go one brighter side. If you did the front piece you could match them and call it a day.

Can't wait to see some pics!

volkswagendude · Sep 17, 2012

mpm T2 TDI said:
Is there a front piece also available? I've toyed with the idea of doing sometime similar.

Regarding colors/painting, the short answer is yes. Any quality shop could paint it any way you want. I'll have to look again at the #3 pic but I think you had a chrome center and lower grill. So it might make sense to go one brighter side. If you did the front piece you could match them and call it a day.

Can't wait to see some pics!

#2 #4 and #6 on the first page would be the Caractere front, to match the rear. Specifically to the actual picture of that rear in post #22 on the previous page, would be this one below, which is the same ride in fact:

volkswagendude · Sep 17, 2012

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^As you can see, the lower front of the Caractere is painted silver as well.

I've decided to stay with #3, stock looking chrome centre grille and lower chrome ring.

I need to do the legwork(I like to do this keeps everyone out of trouble

), and find the precise paint colour so that my buddy can go ahead and professionally paint the lower valance. He had a few ideas, like a particular "Honda Silver" which he claims is bright enough, but I need to be spot on with this, and feel that there are better options than "honda silver"

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I was thinking something like this what do you guys think? Either this Krylon: Products: Premium Metallic or this Krylon: Products: Brushed Metallic .

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