Roof Trouble

Hello all,

I've got a 1990 Gti karmann cab in white. The roof is in dire need of replacement. The existing one is black vinyl, and as the car has had 7 owners i'm unsure its the original. I'm desperate to find out whether this is the right colour,as i've been on carhoodsdirect.com and they have white vinyl down as the original. Can anybody help me please?? :dontknow:

I have a '91 with a white vinyl roof and personally think it looks best in white. That's not to say there's anything wrong with a black one!

Provided it keeps the rain out who cares? Have a look at other peoples cars and decide which colour you prefer.

Go for white :shhh:  

Tian

Its difficult to say what it came with. I think customers could choose the combination of body colour, hood colour and material on the seats.

The Quartett is probably the car you have…
http://www.golf1cabrio…ogues.php?page=catalogues

The colour will combinations will depend on the seat fabric. It looks like in these brochures the combinations available changed in 1990 along with the seat fabrics abailable. I think these are the colour combinations…

If you have a 1988-1990 car with any of these colour seats (see middle row of coloured squares)…

Then the combinations will be…

If you have a 1990-1993? with these seat patterns…

Then you have these combinations…


When I changed my roof on my sapphire blue'88 cabrio I discovered remains of the original hood which was black. It had been changed with a grey one at some point which suited the car better I think.

Its decision time! Almost like buying a new car and looking through brochures! Shame they aren't in english :wink:

Ross,
great post that. Almost worth having one of those pics as wallpaper.


Tian :wink:

Awesome, Thanks for your help. Really impressed with this website. Brilliant! Where do you get all this info from? Think the black one is the right one but i prefer white. Just need the cash now. Off work till 11th so pleanty of time to play about on the car. Happy new year all!!