Aircooled VW South Africa

HR, is your windscreen cracked?

No Ron, I think its a fold in the sticker you can see.

Took her for a spin, FINALLY!

karmakoma wrote:Took her for a spin, FINALLY!

Mooi man! Nou mis ek darem vir ou Betty hoor!

Toemaar Beetlefanatic, just a couple of days left then you are back in sunny SA. Vasbyt, min dae.

Maybe you can bring the splitty out of storage and we can dice Slowest dice of 2009! no sorry, second slowest, we should be able to beat Luka Badoer

Been making aluminum door panels for the bug. one is finish. Recovered in the SP door panel vinyl. got my Xplode speaker in as well. Using Golf door panel clips to hold them on, far better than those cheap and nasty beetle clips. got nice stiff panels now that the vinyl looks good on and that wont want to fall off when those cheap beetle clips fail, and no modifications to the door were needed!

JamesD69 wrote:Been making aluminum door panels for the bug. one is finish. Recovered in the SP door panel vinyl. got my Xplode speaker in as well. Using Golf door panel clips to hold them on, far better than those cheap and nasty beetle clips. got nice stiff panels now that the vinyl looks good on and that wont want to fall off when those cheap beetle clips fail, and no modifications to the door were needed!

i had the opposite problem with my door panels. if the holes of the door does not align perfectecly with the door panel those golf clips wont work. at least the panel wont fit straight. i found that the reason for the design of the beetle clips is, so that it alows u to align the door panel perfectly by turning the clips around the hole of the d/panel. i had to replace the golf ones with the original ones. u can buy them new at most upholster shops

farhaad.sonday wrote:

JamesD69 wrote:Been making aluminum door panels for the bug. one is finish. Recovered in the SP door panel vinyl. got my Xplode speaker in as well. Using Golf door panel clips to hold them on, far better than those cheap and nasty beetle clips. got nice stiff panels now that the vinyl looks good on and that wont want to fall off when those cheap beetle clips fail, and no modifications to the door were needed!

i had the opposite problem with my door panels. if the holes of the door does not align perfectecly with the door panel those golf clips wont work. at least the panel wont fit straight. i found that the reason for the design of the beetle clips is, so that it alows u to align the door panel perfectly by turning the clips around the hole of the d/panel. i had to replace the golf ones with the original ones. u can buy them new at most upholster shops

I cut my own panels and took all the measurements and mine fit perfectly. those clips have a 1mm play in any direction so that should be plenty? 2mm tolerance is huge! put 8 clips in per panel. 3 on each side so that the panel follows the contour of the door and one in the middle at the top and one down off center by the speaker.

making your own d/panel and aligning the holes of the d/panel to those of the door would justify the golf clips. but in my case my old d/panels was used as templates, so i had to use the orig. ones. there was a definate reason why vw designed those clips, i can see why but it would have been alot easier if they used your approach as everything else on the car is quite simple and straight forward

well its been a while. took a few updated interior pics. will hav to upload it at work as the reception here at my mom's is sommer . only 2g. wtf must i do with 2g. anywayz. thort id take ol '66 for a spin around the block after pumping up the rear flat tyre at the garage down the road. i got quite shy on this little trip to the garage coz of all the attention i got. a guy that was washing his new c-class merc at the garage came over to me and could not stop asking q's about the restoration of my beetle. for a while i think he completely forgot bout his car . i could not understand wat the petrol attendants was saying, but it was definately somthing about the beetle and almost every car that pulled up on the forecourt stopped and stared. my mom's neighbour saw me commimg back and ran over with his cousin, taking pics with there fones. he calls his dad and another ou toppie and before i new it the driveway looked like a gathering, all appreciating what the beetle was build for, THE PEOPLE'S CAR.

fantastic way to end off wat was an awesome weekend.

Looked her up the rear, fone in hand. Eish...bloody cousin, still waiting! l need the bug ovr da w\end, hope my stuff comes thru.

What did you do on your car today?

Well, I STOLE mine today...

(I'll try to keep a long story short)

Went with the Khaki Cruiser to Eastgate this afternoon to go and look for the Sunday paper. I have two bunches of keys, one with the car keys and one with the house/gate/garage keys and a spare for the Khaki Cruiser.

I grabbed the house keys and when I got down to the car realised that I didn't have the car keys with me. Because I knew I had a spare key on that bunch I thought no problem, so I drove to Eastgate with the house keys.

I stopped the car in the parking area, and got out. Locked the door, and then thought perhaps I should put the gorilla lock on the steering wheel, just in case. I unlocked the car again, turned the steering wheel till it locked, and put the gorilla on. I then went into Eastgate, got my paper, walked around a bit and then went back to the car about an hour later.

It was then when I got behind the wheel that I realised that I DID NOT have the gorilla lock key with me!
What to do? It is more than 15km walk home and back to the car, and there wasn't anyone that I could call. There is NO way that you can take the gorilla off without damaging the steering wheel.

With the gorilla hooked into the steering wheel, the one end pushes against the windscreen, making steering impossible. I sat a few minutes in the car, not knowing what to do till I got a plan!

So I went into Checkers (that was just about to close) and bought a hacksaw in the hardware department. Got back to the car, and sawed the part off that prevents the steering wheel from turning... surprisingly easy

Drove the car back home, got the correct keys, unlocked the remains of the gorilla, and threw it away!

The weird thing is that no-one even bothered to ask what I was doing in broad daylight sawing off the gorilla lock!

Pine wrote: Well, I STOLE mine today...

The weird thing is that no-one even bothered to ask what I was doing in broad daylight sawing off the gorilla lock!

Would they have believed your story anyway?

Don't think so...

Hloni wrote:

Pine wrote: Well, I STOLE mine today...

The weird thing is that no-one even bothered to ask what I was doing in broad daylight sawing off the gorilla lock!

Would they have believed your story anyway?

Pine wrote:Don't think so...

Oom Pine, jy is a skelem! People like you should be shot, stealing acvws!!!!