hood questions about cabby

hi all,

im going to order a new hood for my cabriolet mk1 but not sure what colour to get.
It is sapphire metallic (grey) and currently has a grey hood with 2 rips in and a black hood cover so was thinking of ordering a black hood? what do you think?

also do you know of any good fitters around Surrey/London area? Dont fancy doing it myself!

Thanks

I'd order black. I have a navy hood on my grey cabby, which looks nice, but I'd still prefer black…

I only know a good fitter in Cambridge. There was a thread on here a while back covering lots of hood fitters. It might be worth doing a quick search.

I think the grey hood goes nicely with the sapphire blue. Heres my old '88 cabby with its new grey hood on….

thats exactly how mine looks now. I change my mind everyday!
last week i was adament i wanted beige and a beige cover but now i this its a terrible idea! lol
i want it to look the bees knees so thought i would ask on here!

Oh no! Don't do beige! That'll just wash out the grey and get dirty really easily too!

I'm sorry I don't have a photo of mine with the navy roof, but it does look quite nice when the roof is up. The car isn't here at the moment (long story, but I'm now driving a Saxo for a week euch). I'll post a pic with the roof up when I get it back late next week if you don't plan on ordering one in that time.

I've got a grey cabby with a black hood and it looks fine. I was tempted to go for a burgandy hood when I changed mine but eventually decided to stick with black. problem is that you don't know what these colours are going to look like until you actually see them on the car - you can photoshop them, but that only gives you a rough idea. You can't go wrong with black though. Personally that's what I'd go for.

Dark blue mohair looks good imo.

Definitely dark blue!

 

And have a go yourself! Use Ross's brilliant step by step guide and you'll be fine - and you'll save stacks of cash  

where can the step by step guide be found on changing the hood?

I think that grey one looks amazing and a bit different, loads have black hoods - or the navy would be nice.

This is the ross guide, fantastic help  

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vw_golf_nutter said

hi all,

im going to order a new hood for my cabriolet mk1 but not sure what colour to get.
It is sapphire metallic (grey) and currently has a grey hood with 2 rips in and a black hood cover so was thinking of ordering a black hood? what do you think?

also do you know of any good fitters around Surrey/London area? Dont fancy doing it myself!

Thanks

Hi, i had a black mohair and black headlining fitted by Sort-Tops, they were quite helpful, came out to me at work in reading and fitted on site, I'm no expert, but they did a top class job..
their website is www.sort-tops.co.uk and they are based in croydon but only charged me a ?25 call out fee and that was to reading…

Mine was ?481 fitted and supplied blue mohair  :wink:

Hi, i had a black mohair and black headlining fitted by Sort-Tops, they were quite helpful, came out to me at work in reading and fitted on site, I'm no expert, but they did a top class job..
their website is www.sort-tops.co.uk and they are based in croydon but only charged me a ?25 call out fee and that was to reading…

whoops, hit the wrong key   , that should have been www.soft-tops.co.uk just found the receipt, it was ?350 for a black mohair, plus i also paid ?250 for all headlining as well

I'm well impressed with the job they've done

thats great, thanks for the link. im going to ring them first thing. still cant decide on the colour- AAAGGGHHHH! will just see what colour comes outta my mouth first! lol

get a nice rouge.

i will buy your roof cover off you and you can put the money to a new upholstery….nae bother.

tones x

hi everybody as u can see im new to all this, but grateful to be among you!!
a new hood wud be a dream, but for now im gunna scrub some life into my original but wud like advice on how to, its in cud shape but mucky
also, AUTOCAB, the alloys on your gti (pictured earlier) are they gti loys? i only ask cause i have the same on my  auto cab and as i know nothin about what the cars og spec was im after all the info i can get! :dontknow:

you will get a better response if you start your own thread and ask the questions!
this thread relates to the question -what colour hood for my cabrio.

cheers fella, thought while hoods was on the agenda, id slip it in!
it wud be
navy blue for me , or cream. cream looks dirty quicker tho