mine werent natural rust and got alot of love from peeps

you know what annoyed me,there was a guy at edition with a yellow lupo,rusty bonnet,roof rack full o shite,sticker in every window and he was going round it polishing it and i mean really going at it..............dont get that!

i love this car, it just looks so abused but not in this 'LOOK I"VE DRAWN A COCK ON MY BONNET AND HAVE A ROOF RACK" kinda way

rat look cars work so much better when they are made to look like its natural imo.

it would be better with some thing like a G40 in it but the same could be said about a lot of cars

cheers man that was always the idea

IMO the rat look is for people who want attention who haven't got the money (or sense) to do something nice.

a lot of 'proper' rats have as much money put into them as full on show cars

Tbh, I like it on new and old motors. But u do have to be a dubber to understand it.

Why?

I'm sure anyone can understand a bonnet is rusty

son- "omg its magic how do they do that and what is it?"

dad- "thats a dubber secret we will never know son"

You know what the funniest thing about this car is? The "rusty" bit at the front underneath the grille is PLASTIC!!!

You know what the funniest thing about this car is? The "rusty" bit at the front underneath the grille is PLASTIC!!!

Beat you by five days

The thing about that Golf is, the bumper's rusty and it's plastic?!? Assume it's a wrap.

people that spray matt black with a fast 10min halfords paint special does my head in

I like toby's satin steel blue though. and various other well thought out satin colours

Its just the rushed jobs done on the cheap then declair it as "rat" that annoy me

I'm doing mine matt black for a variety of reasons, none of which involve rat look:

1) I genuinely like the finish - also no cars in my area are matt, black or otherwise.

2) I can spray matt. (can't spray laquer competently)

3) I beleive that I can acheive a better standard than other non-proffesionally done matt cars - I remove each panel to spray it and will not tolerate any sort of uneven/patchy-ness

4) It's much cheaper than a pro respray and allows me to smooth/de-rust as I please. Also I am not under the illusion that my polo is worth ploughing £1500 into for a respray in storm grey, yes I have a sexy ass MJ retrim with recaros, BBS RSs, a decent base engine (valver) and a nice boot install (thanks to a mate and his fabrication skills) but at the end of the day, to a potential buyer, it is a 'souped up polo innit' and thus worth about a month or so's wages. Why spend almost the value of the car again on a chequebook respray when i can put in some time, use up some bored weekends and ultimately be able to look at my car and say "I created that, by myself. (with some help from friends )"

I would be most fucked off if anyone called my finished product 'rat' just because it's matt.

Well put.