Tossing up between.

1) black cal look standard rubbers

2) Grooved window rubbers for chrome trim.

What do u like? Why do u like? what takes ur fancy?

Chris.

black cal-look:



Chrome trimmed rubbers:

cal

Depends on the car - sometimes you need the chrome to give it a lift, othertimes the cal look is better so it blends in with the car colour/style better. Mostly I reckon the chrome looks better though.

You only looking at black cal look? You can (or could) get it in other colours - white at least. Just a thought.

I like chrome on earlies for that stock classic look but prefer cal rubbers on lates to complete that black plastic look that they havegoing on.
The exception being a cal look early.
I love a beetle that is tastfully underdone, lowered and a sleeper. None of the chrome dress up stuff hanging of it, no racks, shiney aftermarket rims and so on. Sometimes the best dress up items are the ones you leave off.

both

depends on the car and whats been done to it

but they BOTH must be fitted correctly otherwise they look crap

as previously stated depends.

I prefer the seals with bright trim inserts on 'classic' style cars. Even if they are stock, modified or rat.

The cal look rubbers suit late Beetles, darker colours and 'German look' or 'Aero look' Beetles for me.

Don't forget the Cal look as in your first photo has the single piece front window. Bit harder to do the Cal look when keeping the little flipper window, but definitely not impossible.

As to which I prefer, depends on the car, colour and other fittings.

Kev

Defo cal on later models and GL's. But chrome on front quarters and pop outs is an issue to me.

strip the chrome on the 1/4s & pop outs, spray gloss black & its all good

no chrome, purely cos ive seen soooo many bad examples, late cal early chrome is usually the way it goes though but depends heavily on the rest of the car

Both styles look good but I guess it comes down to personal preference, for me it's the chrome look

didnt know you could get them,well there ya go.Yeh the chrome looks better on the earlies.

some germanlook/callook bugs can pull of the OEM rubbers nicely
especially with popouts






where as others are right at home with cal rubbers and blacked out door trim








one thing for certain though, nothing sticks out more than a dark bug with cal rubbers, tinted windows and original chrome door window trim
blacking out mine is on my to-do list
cant see chrome window rubbers suiting baja bugs though

I have the same issue joel, everything is blacked out except the window frames etc. Looks funna, and oh the rims are crohme.