MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: VC on January 04, 2010, 03:24:42 pm
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I keep getting told there are 'spats' but to me thats normally something along the lines of plastic wheel arches not an addition to the front bumper
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Canards?
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Fins?
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canards, fins, splitters, spats... is one of these the definitive answer?
i asked VW, but the phone went quiet while he hummed his way though the parts computer and then said "i'd ask on the internet or google it sir"
yay VW :grin:
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Never knowingly noticed those ever before VC!
Are you planning on smoothing them out or something? :smiley:
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they are little fins that help push the front end up when going fast ish fat git :P
i think they are called canards too
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Never knowingly noticed those ever before VC!
Are you planning on smoothing them out or something? :smiley:
if the bodyshop ever give me my prototype splitter back i need to have a second mold made so i can alter it to fit the GTI. but the gti doesnt have these 'thingies' so i need to know what they are called so i can buy a pair to glue to the inside of the splitter and create a second splitter that will fit the gti which doesnt have them
the current splitter is designed to cover over them on the r32
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they are little fins that help push the front end up when going fast ish fat git :P
i think they are called canards too
shes my heavy fridge and i love her :booty: :grin:
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WIKI:
In aeronautics, canard (French for duck) is an airframe configuration of fixed- wing aircraft in which the horizontal stabilizer is ahead of the main wing
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I'd still say canard, although in this case I think it's asthetics rather than for purpose - just to tie in with the skirts.
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definately form over function, cos the R32 isnt heavy enough without VW sticking more to the front of the car :grin:
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as they are just a "bump" in the mold of the R32 front bumper, you cannot buy them seperatly, you need the complete front bumper to get them :jumping:
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Looks like they're far'canard' to explain.....
Sorry, I'll get my coat...
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DAn
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Splitters according to OSIR.
http://homepage.mac.com/risowu/OSIR/SPHYRNAR32.htm
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Splitters according to OSIR.
http://homepage.mac.com/risowu/OSIR/SPHYRNAR32.htm
just a thin shell to 3m ontop of the bump on the bumper, it's not a part that replaces the original ones.
copied from the osir link "Carbon add-on corner spliters for MKV R32"
I have bought and fitted my own R32 front bumper and it is NOT a part on it's own. :rolleye:
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Splitters according to OSIR.
http://homepage.mac.com/risowu/OSIR/SPHYRNAR32.htm
just a thin shell to 3m ontop of the bump on the bumper, it's not a part that replaces the original ones.
copied from the osir link "Carbon add-on corner spliters for MKV R32"
I have bought and fitted my own R32 front bumper and it is NOT a part on it's own. :rolleye:
LOL, I knew that, I was just trying to get at what they maybe called by VW as VC wanted :happy2:
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my bad, i apologies Hurdy :notworthy:
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Splitters according to OSIR.
http://homepage.mac.com/risowu/OSIR/SPHYRNAR32.htm
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Price: $239.99!!
reality check for OSIR aisle three :signLOL: :signLOL:
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osir seems quite overpriced imo also :happy2:
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just a bit! thats just stoooopid money for what your buying, pained me buying the OSIR parts i have on the car now...but that...for what they are... :grin: