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Originally Posted by sidecarphil
no they were available from 1988
but i have a big bumper 1989 car and my mate has a 1991 16v with small bumpers from factory
weird LOL
you can tell it is a later 1989 car because the front doors have no quater glass this was changed half way through 1989
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BB were from 1990
model year so you could order them latter part of 1989 on a G-plate.
Deleted front quarter glass and revised indicator/wiper stalks were first seen around August 1988 (E-plate) - at least in the UK - on the "Campaign" GTI. Also I think this is the time when VW moved the wipers to a RHD fitting
but at the same time gave us the infamous grommet rot spot
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Here's one if the link works
http://www.vwgolfmk2.co.uk/modules.p...t=6083&start=0
I'm pretty sure any cars with small bumpers registered later than a G-plate will be old-stock. There are plenty of G-platers out there with big
and small bumpers as that was the changeover year. Just like with RC cars everybody wants the latest thing so it was quite common for people to ignore small bumper Golfs that were already built instead preferring to spec their own new BB version, hence some small bumper cars did sit about for quite a while. I guess it affected valvers more because they cost more and no one likes to spend big money on old news. Same thing happened when the Mk3 came out, buyers ignored the "old" Mk2 in favour of the flash new 2-litre Mk3 (idiots - isn't hindsight brilliant) which is why there were quite a few registered on a 92-93K, when the earliest Mk3's are on a J. There were even a small number of L-platers.
I could witter on about Golfs all day - love the idea of 'em, just not the reality (running a 17 year old car 20,000 miles a year is too much like hard work).