1970 1500 Bug - Weight?? · Aussieveedubbers

justbrett Casual Dubber

37 posts · joined Oct 2007 · 12 Mar 2008, 1:53 pm

#636470

Gday All

I just spoke with our local rego guys (ACT) regarding the weight of my 1500 bug to see what kind of mischeif I can get up to when replacing an engine, keeping in mind the restrictions in place under the NCOP.

They came back and told me that the 1500's weighed 775 kgs and that's the weight they would use when assessing the cars and any conversion.

Does anyone know if this is accurate? Seems awful light to me.

Cheers

Brett

one4 Seriously Crusin Dubber

130 posts · joined Oct 2005 · 12 Mar 2008, 1:58 pm

#636472

I was using the weight of 840 kg but that just what I found on Wikipedia.

Richard

greasykitchen Officially Full-On Dubber

375 posts · joined Dec 2007 · 12 Mar 2008, 1:59 pm

#636473

Sounds about right - can't remember off the top of my head, but I would have thought about 800kg. I might be wrong though.

If I find the owner's manual for my Beetle I'll post what it says. Beetles are very light.

'76 Golf

boof2332 Custom Title Time!

1,210 posts · joined May 2004 · 12 Mar 2008, 2:17 pm

#636474

My rego papers on the wrx bug say 810kg. On the weigh bridge for engineering it had to be 860kg and it was 910 on the day..slight assistance.

Matt

greasykitchen Officially Full-On Dubber

375 posts · joined Dec 2007 · 14 Mar 2008, 11:15 am

#636680

For what it's worth the Instruction manual for my beetle says that a 1971 ish 1300 bug weighs 820kg.

By comparison, my golf apparently weighs only 780kg.

'76 Golf

justbrett Casual Dubber

37 posts · joined Oct 2007 · 14 Mar 2008, 11:44 am

#636686

Cheers guys, seems like it might be accurate then.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 14 Mar 2008, 12:22 pm

#636688

Hi

I'm sure that this has been brought up on here before. Do a search on here, maybe someone has VW glove box handbook that you can show to your local authorities as proof, cant you register in NSW. The ACT weight will really affect anything that you wish to do.

Steve

ratbug aka toddy101

439 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 16 Mar 2008, 8:33 pm

#636986

I rung up the RTA (NSW) and gave them a few chassis numbers, they looked them up and told me the respective original weights.

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1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 17 Mar 2008, 5:29 pm

#637097

ratbug wrote:I rung up the RTA (NSW) and gave them a few chassis numbers, they looked them up and told me the respective original weights.

And? Don't keep us in suspense