RE: ID'ing VR6's -- WAS Re: Almost as bad as sticker mods

["Cooley, Christopher" <Christopher.Cooley@bactc.com>]

I usually look at the exhaust.  What goes in must come out.


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Khan M. Klatt [SMTP:kmk@pacificrim.net]
	Sent:	Thursday, June 18, 1998 9:52 PM
	To:	jettaglx@igtc.COM
	Subject:	ID'ing VR6's -- WAS Re: Almost as bad as sticker
mods

	At 3:04 PM -0700 6/18/98, Jeff Newton wrote:
	>Guys I saw something yesterday that bothered me.  It was a 4cyl
Jetta
	>K2 (basically a GT with a roof rack and snowboard/skis) and the
only
	>mod this guy made was a VR6 badge on the front grill!
	>
	>If the guy wanted a VR6 then he should have bought one, not
pretend.
	>If he wanted to make the car look faster, how about some bigger
wheels
	>or perf exhaust?  Adding the VR6 badge to a 4cyl is just as bad
as
	>the huge sticker mods in my books.
	>
	>Am I right or is the stress of work effecting my normally
positive
	>outlook?

	I've learned to pick out the elements that signal a sure fire
VR6 under the
	hood.

	The only ones I've found are the five lug wheels (hard to see
when you're
	driving), or if you've got a keen eye, the 15" wheels (the
fourbangers got
	14"'s).

	You can try to see if the Jetta has the following combination:
fog lights,
	darkened lenses, black rocker panel covers, spoiler, and center
mounted
	roof antenna, and if so it could be a GT, Trek, or Wolfsburg
edition.
	Usually, those are a giveaway by their badges or lack thereof.
If they only
	have SOME of these, then it's really a GL that's been upgraded
with fogs,
	etc.

	Of course, the big giveaway is the huge grin on the other
drivers' face. If
	it matches yours, then he's got a GLX too!

	-Khan