Grey Golf is too grey

My new Quartet is grey on the inside, grey on the outside. It has a navy roof, which, when folded down, is grubby white on the inside. I've only taken photos with the cover over the hood, as I haven't had time yet to glue down the bit of the white hood that balloons out when driving. And this is what gave me this idea.

My car is too grey! I was thinking of getting some brighter car seat colours, as you can see from the pics below, the interior also has a fair bit of black. So, black, grey, navy and white: there's too many colours going on in my opinion.

I was thinking of maybe getting black seat covers (boring I know, but it will match the black bits of the interior at least), and coupling that with a change to the inner (currently white) roof. Is there a product I can apply to dye it to navy as well? Or black? Alternatively, anyone got any opinions about covering the entire thing with something else? Eg, I could branch out to red, and couple it with red car seat covers.

So, what do you reckon? Here are some picks of current boring grey:

The paintwork is good at least:

8)  I personally think it looks spot on…..only thing i would change would be the wheels as im not keen on the "snow flake" alloys

Nice pussy too  :wink:
Bert

car looks alright to me, did you sell your rivage ok ?  looks like the cat's father was a racoon  :wink:

Really? Nobody thinks it's too monochrome? It's a bit uglier when the white interior bit of the roof is down, although I do like the navy roof on the outside when it's up.

The pussy's name is Polly. Nobody knows who her dad is…possibly not even her mum  :cry:

I don't like the snow flake alloys either. I preferred my Rivage ones, and considered swapping them, but the Rivage wouldn't be a Rivage without the 15" wheels. Bit of a bummer, as the new wheels are 14" and I now have a set of 15" snow tyres! Ah well.

The Rivage is still for sale. Luckily, my ex boyfriend and his new girlfriend are lovely lovely people who are minding it off-road for me  

Looks ok to me :wink:

nice original condition.

dibbler

Looks good Choccy

personally i like it as it is

how many mk1s have you seen in france btw?

are there any oettingers still knocking around?

There are loads of mk1 hard tops in France. There's a really nice green one that drives by my place most days. It has chrome handles that just suit it perfectly.

Quite a few cabbies around too, but they're mostly in pretty bad shape (except for this one black one locally, which has a beautiful interior and exterior, but the back window still has the black vinyl roof in its place!). Lots of white ones with rust coming through and torn up seats.

I can't say I've ever seen an Oettinger unfortunately. In fact, finding my GTI (cabbies were called GLIs here to differentiate, so technically, I've got a GLI) was pretty difficult.  I haven't seen many GTI/GLIs at all.

dibbler said

Looks ok to me :wink:

nice original condition.

dibbler

Thanks! The guy who owned it before me bought it from the showroom back in 1990.

its original, keep it that way, those wheels would be lush refurbed, with the alloy polished.

otherwise
bling white interior + bbs splitties!

So, don't dye or re-cover the internal roof, even though the Quartet came with various roof colour options, but refurb the wheels?

I'm sensing a flaw in your 'keep it original' logic there  :wink:

Bling white interior would get dirty very quickly. I wonder if I can make the interior roof grey…has anyone ever dyed this bit before?

The_Chocoholic said

So, don't dye or re-cover the internal roof, even though the Quartet came with various roof colour options, but refurb the wheels?

I'm sensing a flaw in your 'keep it original' logic there  :wink:

not really cos assumin no ones altered it b4 u then the original buyer must have chosen the all grey scheme

Well, all grey except for the navy roof with white inner roof (whatever that bit's called)! The white really looks wrong. I'll take a photo later and post it.

The original buyer also chose to leave the wheels the way they are…did he not?  :twisted:

yes they are theright wheels, avus's

maybe the roofs been changed tho, thats to be expected really, is it vinyl or mohair

thinkin about it,
the roof may well have been white as the headlining is.

The roof is in pretty good nick if it's the original (a vinyl one), but then, the car has been garaged its entire life, so I'm guessing it's still the original. The Quartetts came with all sorts of roof combos options. They even drew pictures of each one in the brochure!:

Info: Quartett Brochure | VW Vortex - Volkswagen Forum

i know, i sent you le linky!!
seriously tho, theres no way thats the original roof
have u ever seen a piece of 20yr old vinyl?

Can't say I have. Maybe he decided white was too hard to keep clean. Therefore, I feel it's my duty to do something about the white on the inside!

Whattayareckon?

Ooh, forgot to take a pic. Will try to tomorrow…

white roofs are the dogs danglys imo

just cant see a blue roofed, white headlined grey golf being chosen as an option,
can defo see a sweet white roofed, white headlined grey golf tho

photoshop it