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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#414846
I started a new project a few weeks ago, and have discovered a little rust in this " Best Ever " 1976 model

I would like to find the engineer or marketing people ( most proberly a market person you carnt havea noisy car ) that advise on injecting this killer foam into the rear window pillars and strangle the shit out of them.

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#414850
more Killer stuff

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#414851
After scrapping it all out with some home made hooks it nearly filled up a hugh garbage bin

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#414852
The start of repairs

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#414853
and the cut of rust panels

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Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#414854
You and me both Dave, my 73 was exactly the same....

The rust had gone all the way to the wheel arch and we had to do our biggest rust repair yet, which included 2 bolt holes .

Strangely, my 73 also had real nasty rust under the rear windows rubbers, we had to repair one side, and replace about 400mm on the other side.

Evil killer foam.

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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Mmmm thats a bigger repair than mine maybe VW used extra corrosive foam in the L Bugs as ive seen a few other similar
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bugeyedbabe Wheres her VW heart on her sleeve

3,945 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#414883
my sons super was the same...rust was so bad in the end we decided to throw the body...
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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#414934
Ive only seen 1 71 n on body shell that had no RUST

and the reason was It was built on a Monday when they had run out out FOAM shit to squirt in there...
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silver Dangerous when poked

2,169 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#415007
Another orange bug Dave !
Keeping it real !

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#415119
yeah ANOTHER Orange I will have to Re spray the whole car .... but dont want to change the colour maybe if it was white ...
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Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#415169
Yeah, but mine was the second time repair..... the previous owners had stick welded a piece of 1.6mm flat plate in there and about an inch of bog over the top of it....... nasty. Shame i didnt take any more photos, the whole shed was covered in about an eigth of an inch of bog dust.....

Yogie Moderator Custom Title Time!

1,608 posts · joined Jun 2003 ·

#415179
I don't know if the difference is because mine is a convertible or because it was made in Germany. Ours had the spare cut off material from the roof lining cut in to little triangular pieces and then the roof padding was sewn in to the middle of the triangles. This made a nice little pillow that was then pushed up in to the cavity at the C pillar.

No rust in ours and still with sound deadening. I have kept them so I can make new ones for when we re-assemble her. I can take photos of them over the weekend if anyone wants to see what they look like.

Yogie

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602 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#416634
Mine is going that way. I just can't afford to get it fixed at the moment. That foam really was a very stupid idea...

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

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#416667
roof lining cut in to little triangular pieces and then the roof padding was sewn in to the middle of the triangles.
Yeah they did that with the early models makes heaps of difference

I just can't afford to get it fixed at the moment.
If you can make up so long hook and did the stuff out of there before it makes it worse will help in the long run
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1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

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Hi

When I bought my old yellow bug it was only 6 months old, it was only after a few years and slight pimples started to appear, so dragged a lot of it out with a wire coathanger. The other place my car had rust was the flange for the rear mudguards, where the beading fits up, it almost rotted right through, a good way to fix this in hindsight would be to remove the mudguards every spring and treat the area with fish oil.

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helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body

7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

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vw54 wrote:Ive only seen 1 71 n on body shell that had no RUST

and the reason was It was built on a Monday when they had run out out FOAM shit to squirt in there...
Our 71 has original paint on the roof and no rust. I have checked and the foam is still in there. Trust me the hook is almost ready to go in there.

One of Fleurs friends was lucky too, her L bug had a small amount of rust there just the lip un the edge. I told her what to do, and she did it herself with a coathanger. :P
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6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#455093
phh, yet we brag on about how good and well built theres cars are. 🤪
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helbus Administrator Mad fabricator, paint and body

7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#455117
bajachris88 wrote:phh, yet we brag on about how good and well built theres cars are. 🤪
Still better than some models of vehicles (un-named at this stage) that I have worked on with rust holes in the roof after 3 years, rust holes in the lower front guards after 2 years, new transmissions before two years. Interiors that fall apart within 12 months.

That was the glorious 80's manufacturing.
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4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 ·

#455141
my 69 had some foam hooked it out with a coat hanger then i was getting that fluffy material stuff,should i hook as much of that out also????
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