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 bajachris88
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 01:38 PM |
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Whats ur fav window rubbers: Black rubber cal-look? Or chrome trimmed delux style?
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?
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 01:56 PM |
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cal
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 03:00 PM |
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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.
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 03:40 PM |
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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.
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 05:28 PM |
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both
depends on the car and whats been done to it
but they BOTH must be fitted correctly otherwise they look crap
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 06:42 PM |
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as previously stated depends.
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 06:45 PM |
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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.
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| posted on April 20th, 2010 at 09:51 PM |
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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
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| posted on April 21st, 2010 at 12:33 AM |
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Defo cal on later models and GL's. But chrome on front quarters and pop outs is an issue to me.
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| posted on April 21st, 2010 at 05:53 AM |
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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
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| posted on April 21st, 2010 at 06:42 AM |
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Both styles look good but I guess it comes down to personal preference, for me it's the chrome look
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| posted on April 21st, 2010 at 08:15 AM |
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didnt know you could get them,well there ya go. Yeh
the chrome looks better on the earlies.
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| posted on April 21st, 2010 at 08:27 AM |
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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
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| posted on April 21st, 2010 at 08:51 PM |
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I have the same issue joel, everything is blacked out except the window frames etc. Looks funna, and oh the rims are crohme.
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