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1991 Volkswagen Polo II [Typ 86C] 
Ep. 2.21Class: Cars, Wagon — Model origin: 
![1991 Volkswagen Polo II [Typ 86C]](i001024601.jpg)
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◊ 2017-04-18 13:00 |
![[Image: icesaroni-s02e21-isegretisonocomeicerealinellatte2984.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/icesaroni-s02e21-isegretisonocomeicerealinellatte2984.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-06-17 14:27 |
1992-94 indicator. |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:15 |
How was it previously? |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:17 |
Without  1991: ![[Image: s-l1600.6.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/16833/s-l1600.6.jpg) 1992: ![[Image: s-l1600-1.2.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/16833/s-l1600-1.2.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:19 |
The side repeater? I believe in Italy it was mandatory since many years... |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:24 |
Oh but not in Italy, here all Polos had the side indicators as mandatory here (the same as pre-1991 ones): https://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzossc/17311568480 -- Last edit: 2022-06-17 15:25:06 |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:28 |
^That one has 3 point rear seatbelts which were introduced for MY 1992 (my reference is from September 1991) so I think it might be a very early 1992. The Italian repeater thing I knew already. -- Last edit: 2022-06-17 15:28:24 |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:38 |
These are same pictures expect for the blinker lights on 1991, because 1992 has it. .gif ":)") -- Last edit: 2022-06-17 15:38:58 |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:39 |
I haven't found any older here a 1990 pre-facelift one with the same indicator and rear hanging seatbelt: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzossc/8342025333 Btw, I think the rear seatbelt thing would not be so reliable for cars sold here because they weren't still (always) standard for new cars back then, and it became mandatory for new cars in 1993 IIRC and for all non-historic and/or predisposed ones in 2000, so most cars that didn't have rear seatbelts had to be retrofitted in order to pass the inspection. I have to check when they became standard on Polos here .gif ";)") -- Last edit: 2022-06-17 15:44:50 |
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◊ 2022-06-17 15:40 |
Other way around, 1992 has it, 1991 doesn't. |
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◊ 2022-06-18 16:12 |
Update on this after some checking. Rear seatbelts became mandatory here for all new cars registered after 26/04/1990 (not 1993), however most manufacturers conformed in the preceding year (the law was announced in 1989). So, facelifted Polos all had rear seatbelts, pre-facelifted ones had them standard since late 1989 (before were an option). The fact is, that I can't locate any Polos of such period here without visible 3 point seatbelts hanging, both late pre-facelift or early facelift ones; so I think when they became standard all had such type of seatbelt. The ones prior to the mandate and without the option anyway had to be equipped with rear seatbelts in 2000, so by then I believe most people opted for 3 point ones, and indeed the ones surviving usually have those. Then, on a November 1990 issue of Quattroruote magazine I found a brief test drive of the new Polos, with Wolfsburg registered cars without side indicators but with visible rear seatbelts: ![[Image: img_20220618_140424.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/29161/img_20220618_140424.jpg) ![[Image: img_20220618_140454.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/29161/img_20220618_140454.jpg) So, are we really sure that, even in Germany, 1991 ones didn't have 3 point seatbelts, or maybe they were an option (or simply in the first brochure they used pre-production cars, or in not definitive form)? Also on the same issue there's a commercial for the new Polo with a coupé with side indicators and visible rear seatbelt (I'm not including it because the image was split in two pages and such details are not very well visible without "hurting" the magazine, which is in precarious condition) |
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