Afternoon all,

I'm due to collect my vRS this weekend, and I've already seen some pictures on here of cars with their door and bumper rubbing strips body colour coded.

It's a silver one I've bought, so I'm wondering how this has been done in the past? Painted, coated etc? I'm not really sure.

Painting may flake off possibly, due to them being plastic? I'd want them to wear pretty well, but I'm not planning on them getting bashed about etc.

Any ideas or thoughts? And yes, yes, I'd not have had this problem if I'd bought a black one!

Cheers,

Nath

Remove door mouldings with a heat gun and some tar remover

Keep bumpers black as it looks best on a silver for a bit of contrast

They will have been taken off, rubbed down then given a lot of layers of paint and lacquer to blend in with the rest of the paint. And yep as said keep them black, it looks better on a silver car

Remove door mouldings with a heat gun and some tar remover

Ah, so no nasty clips, just stuck on? I'll see what i think after i actually get it. They will most probably stay black

I'd not have had this problem if I'd bought a black one!

Silver FTW!

What the hell is that video?

mate that video is proper homo who wasted their time making that??

Silver FTW!

that made me chuckle

I have just removed my side mouldings today on my silver vrs check my build thread.

I was thinking of doing the bumper strips in gloss black

Omg what a gay video!

How many times did the silver car want to go

From 2nd to 3rd lol

I have just removed my side mouldings today on my silver vrs check my build thread.

I was thinking of doing the bumper strips in gloss black

If you do them in gloss black - let me know!

I'm tempted to take mine off and re-do them as they've had a hard life. Lol

At first i wanted to leave them black but then i decided to remove/paint them. I think it looks beter this way

Before

After

Dont like the silver bumpers bud - no offence

No worries, if every car would look the same then none will be special

off topic: I need 17" spiders....

Why does it have 16's? I thought that was an estate thing?

hmm i thought 17" were optional. Or maybe because it's an early 2001 model... This is a good reason for me to go with 17" Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2

hmm i thought 17" were optional. Or maybe because it's an early 2001 model... This is a good reason for me to go with 17" Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2

18's

Had them on my mk4 golf (same chassis as octy vrs) and they looked tremendous

Looks great indeed. I saw also pics of stevie wonder's car with 18" TD's... I have time to decide until winter/next spring, as i have a long term plan for my toy.

p.s: sorry for hijacking this thread

At first i wanted to leave them black but then i decided to remove/paint them. I think it looks beter this way

u know what, i actually like that.. looks more modern i think.

thanks! my thoughts exactly.

Like the TD 1.2s. I remember having a set in silver on my first car (a Fiesta) so they must have been around for donkeys years!

Colour coded a big no no for me. The car seems to lose its identity with them done.

Just keep em black with bumper gel. Works great.

Dare to be different. Enhance other parts... black vinyl on B & C pillars, black wheels, tint rear windows... and so on.

I'll try my bumper strips soon... might be different with blue.

Stickerbomb bumper/rub strips?

Hmmm, after seeing the one with the side bits removed but the bumper strips left black, I'm having a change of heart. I really like the look of that.