Mk2 Tiguan pictures of your car

[tigger73]

Finally, since taking delivery of the Wolfsburg in Feb, I have been plotting out a series of mods for the car which have now all been executed.


> Mk 7.5 R exhaust
> Wheel arch colour matched
> Front grill dechrome wrapped

Interested in your thoughts on the Mk7.5 exhaust... and also the wife's opinion. Did you do a res delete at the same time?

How did you go about getting the wheel arch trims colour coded? Paint? Wrap?

I don't mind the blacked out grille on the white car but not sure about blacking out the grille on a black car.

[GreyGoose_X]

Highly recommend the mods - its completely changed my view of (an already) handsome car to one that I am very fond of now!

Will put my hand up for grocery runs, for sure

Wow lovely mods! It might take me a while to getting around to doing mine [emoji3064]

Car looks great! If I were you I would keep it for yourself and buy the wife a not so looking car [emoji3]


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Black Wolfsburg with panoroof arrived late Feb 2019. Yes, it’s a wicked colour & well worth the wait.....[emoji7]

[GreyGoose_X]

I kept the res. But I've also taken the valves away, so its a res + permanently opened valves. Farts on upshift above 3k is very pronounced, and the tone has dropped to a deep rumble on idle (just like the Golf R). I've only heard the car from the inside whilst driving, but I know the Tiguan is also good with sound deadening. Few folks have commented about the big difference in tone from the outside. And then you have the backend looks...c'mon!

WRT wheel arches - I pulled them out and had them professionally colour matched. More $$ but I wanted it to look as OEM as I could. I also avoided the wrap option as colour matching is much harder (esp on Oryx) and also didn't want to deal with the peeling if I could help with that.

Are you close to doing the exhaust upgrade?

Interested in your thoughts on the Mk7.5 exhaust... and also the wife's opinion. Did you do a res delete at the same time?

How did you go about getting the wheel arch trims colour coded? Paint? Wrap?

I don't mind the blacked out grille on the white car but not sure about blacking out the grille on a black car.

[tigger73]

WRT wheel arches - I pulled them out and had them professionally colour matched. More $$ but I wanted it to look as OEM as I could. I also avoided the wrap option as colour matching is much harder (esp on Oryx) and also didn't want to deal with the peeling if I could help with that.

Are you close to doing the exhaust upgrade?

Wheel arches look good. How did they prepare the plastic? Did they fill/sand the plastics first to remove the textured finish or just paint straight on and end up with orange peel effect?

Exhaust upgrade will be happening after I finish tuning - which has taken a bit longer than first planned.

[GreyGoose_X]

Thanks. Yes, they sanded and filled to prep with 3 layer paint on top. Zero orange peel - as smooth as the rest of the car. With the arches colour coded, the width appears slightly wider with the r-line arch flare. Only thing now is that it could do with some 20mm spacers but I'm not going there.

Wheel arches look good. How did they prepare the plastic? Did they fill/sand the plastics first to remove the textured finish or just paint straight on and end up with orange peel effect?

Exhaust upgrade will be happening after I finish tuning - which has taken a bit longer than first planned.

[tigger73]

Thanks. Yes, they sanded and filled to prep with 3 layer paint on top. Zero orange peel - as smooth as the rest of the car. With the arches colour coded, the width appears slightly wider with the r-line arch flare. Only thing now is that it could do with some 20mm spacers but I'm not going there.

Sounds good. How much did that set you back?

I have a Sportline with grey plastic trims all around so it would be considerably more work.


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[GreyGoose_X]

$100 per arch. I thought was reasonable even with the Sydney tax.

Sounds good. How much did that set you back?

I have a Sportline with grey plastic trims all around so it would be considerably more work.


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[GreyGoose_X]

Weather was too good not to take a few snaps. She’s looking a little muscular in some angles:










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[Orpheus2k]

Weather was too good not to take a few snaps. She’s looking a little muscular in some angles:










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Making me jealous of your white Wolfy! If you take the photo shot at ground level it will look even more muscular [emoji9]

I took this photo next to a white R-line (sun was not in the best shot for a photo I’m afraid....)






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Black Wolfsburg with panoroof arrived late Feb 2019. Yes, it’s a wicked colour & well worth the wait.....[emoji7]

[INASNT]

Weather was too good not to take a few snaps. She’s looking a little muscular in some angles:










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I was going to get my arches painted gloss black... First tried to wrap them but wrap wont stick...

[tigger73]

I was going to get my arches painted gloss black... First tried to wrap them but wrap wont stick...

Plasti-dip works too but won't get it to body colour/finish. I tried Forever Black but it didn't last well and didn't stick and has started to peel/flake.

Painting on an R-line is the way to go as 90% of the trim pieces are painted from factory and it's only the wheel arches that need doing.

[elisiX]

Any Atlantic Blue owners?

Would love to see some pictures and hear your thoughts.

[phonebooth]

After a bath today

[Triple6]

Pics of mine up here and across the drink.

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[FastMitch]

What's with the 4 pipe exhaust. Looks nice!

Was that an after market option ?