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How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« on: March 22, 2017, 08:09:02 pm »
There are three cars advertised at the moment, one with leather and two with cloth wing back seats.

The one with the leather is a strange spec', very basic but with those seats, (and it is very expensive).

One with the cloth seats looks ropey and not loved, the other one has some obvious front end damage.

How rare are the seats and should we just keep looking until the right car comes along.

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2017, 10:41:47 pm »
There are three cars advertised at the moment, one with leather and two with cloth wing back seats.

The one with the leather is a strange spec', very basic but with those seats, (and it is very expensive).

One with the cloth seats looks ropey and not loved, the other one has some obvious front end damage.

How rare are the seats and should we just keep looking until the right car comes along.


Do you have a link ?

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2017, 09:53:29 am »
Wing backs are very rare and sell on here for 1K - 2K roughly


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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2017, 11:17:58 am »
Cloth wingbacks are even rarer, not sure if they fetch more or less than leather though.

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2017, 01:08:03 pm »
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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2017, 01:50:57 pm »
I will have some heated gti wingbacks forsale soon .

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2017, 02:44:17 pm »
Ive got heated leather "GTI" badged wingback seats in mine - cant say ive seen many other GTI's with them installed
However they are absolutely lovely to sit in

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2017, 04:39:14 pm »
I didn't know they were even an option in the GTI.  I thought just the R32 got them!


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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2017, 04:43:14 pm »
I didn't know they were even an option in the GTI.  I thought just the R32 got them!

They weren't from what I knew either, I got my hands on a catalogue of optional extras a while back and they're not in it.

I figured R32 only and if anyone had embroidered GTI into the headrest that it was a recreation.

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2017, 04:52:58 pm »
I didn't know they were even an option in the GTI.  I thought just the R32 got them!

They weren't from what I knew either, I got my hands on a catalogue of optional extras a while back and they're not in it.

I figured R32 only and if anyone had embroidered GTI into the headrest that it was a recreation.

Yeah I could have sworn Vienna leather, plain cloth and tartan were the GTI choices.  And Tartan or nothing for the Ed30  :grin:

My mate had the Wingbacks in his R32 and as StuF says, amazing seats.  I didn't know he specced them at the time and thought, wow, VW were generous putting those Recaros in it as standard!


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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2017, 05:25:55 pm »
I have only seen them as factory options on the gerybearky cars 05/06 Or they've been re-trimmed and retrofitted....

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2017, 10:09:46 pm »
I have only seen them as factory options on the gerybearky cars 05/06 Or they've been re-trimmed and retrofitted....

Mine's an 07, factory fitted GTi embossed wingbacks.


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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2017, 10:50:37 pm »
mines a 07 and has factory cloth wingbacks

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2017, 08:04:59 am »
Yep mines an 08 with factory fitted leather wingbacks - although to be fair the car is pretty high spec. The only thing it doesnt seem to have is folding wing mirrors everything else is installed. Maybe VW threw all the options on because the MK6 was due out when it was sold?

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Re: How rare are the GTI wing back seats.
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2017, 08:45:09 am »
When Yeovil VW had a mk5 GTI demonstrator, it had the cloth tartan wingbacks. I remember thinking if only I had 20k to spend...
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