Smiley wrote:Great work as always Joel. I always enjoy reading your little tech improvements.
This comes at a good time as the 'el Cheapo generic Narva headlights in my Baja have started to die. The chrome is peeling off the inside because they have been full of water too many times while offroading.
Have been looking around to see what to get to replace them, I think these are the go 👍
Smiley 😎
You can get them from Repco young man. i just got a set for my 68
😎
steff..................
Life with out a v-dub is no life at all!!!!!
DubCrazy wrote:Smiley wrote:Great work as always Joel. I always enjoy reading your little tech improvements.
This comes at a good time as the 'el Cheapo generic Narva headlights in my Baja have started to die. The chrome is peeling off the inside because they have been full of water too many times while offroading.
Have been looking around to see what to get to replace them, I think these are the go 👍
Smiley 😎
You can get them from Repco young man. i just got a set for my 68
😎
steff..................
That's where I got the crappy ones that are in it. Might have to go down and see the old man and see what else they have in stock.
Smiley
😎If you said I was a Volkswagen man, you'd be right.
Smiley, I've bought them all through Ebay through various sellers.
Just look for LED strips.
I've got 3 different kinds around the car, they're cheap and effective.
I change all my guage back lights over to blue LEDs. I had to adapt the fittings for some of the guages to take them though, and I added 2 exra to the speedo (total 4).
From your ole' mate Jeff
Jeffrey and Joel you superbug Boys with your mean 1303's always on the same wave lenth as me looks great guys keep it up. L.E.D's all tha way = )
From Dylan
Hey Joel,
What model Beetle did you get your wiper switch from that had the intermittent functionality build into it?
Did you have to cut open your steering coloum and ignition barrel to suit the switch's new travel downwards instead of just going upwards?
It's just the standard replacement one, they all come with the intermittent provision now, its a direct fit.
It's exactly the same as the original, just the original didn't have the contacts in it.
I really dislike driving lights on bugs, makes them look like they are wearing a pair of monocles but I finally bit the bullet and put some spotties on mine.
People who can remember back to Valla in the late 90s may remember I had some 7" Narvas on the front of my old Sbug but they really do ruin the look of a bug.
But unfortunately the days are getting shorter and I encounter a bit of wildlife on the roads where I live and most of you have seen what happened to Jeffs bug a couple of days ago as a result of a roo encounter at night.
I'm pleased as punch with the performance of the new headlights on the bug but even the best car headlights are still no match for a pair of pencil beam driving lights.
And I'm spoiled everytime I drive my other cars as both of them have spotties so I fitted some to the bug aswell.
While they are all clean and in order of ride height 😂
I like to be able to see about 1/2km ahead of me and normal car headlights just don't have that kinda range
I have struck a few roos on the road at night around here but cows are the big worry, all you see is the eyes at the last minute.
I've fitted some Hella 140s and am quite pleased with them,
They aren't huge f**k off spotties but the range is still about 350m.
And they don't stand out too badly,
especially with the covers on.
hit an emu the other day in the truck and it looked like someone threw a pillow in the wood chipper! rolled a ute evading a calf, bent the shit out of my straight as vh commie hitting a wombat, put a small hole in the front guard of my 68 from a kookaburra beak. but never have i hit a crow! and i try and get them! good lights make the world of diffrence!
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C'mon Joel where are the night shots showing us your light patterns?
mactaylor wrote:hit an emu the other day in the truck and it looked like someone threw a pillow in the wood chipper! rolled a ute evading a calf, bent the shit out of my straight as vh commie hitting a wombat, put a small hole in the front guard of my 68 from a kookaburra beak. but never have i hit a crow! and i try and get them! good lights make the world of diffrence!
I learned very early when still on my Ls never swerve for animals.
I came over a crest and somebodies big fat domestic pet goose was in the middle of the road.
I was in my first 71 Sbug and swerved, got 2 wheels off onto the loose stuff and nearly came a cropper.
That was all it took, unless it's something big like a cow or I can safely swerve I just clobber and hope for the best.
I've hit 2 roos 1 possum, 2 crows and about 3 million bunnies and all have only done minor damage.
I must admit though the spotties have dramatically improved my game of splat-rat.
Out of the 38 properties down my road 18 of them are other macadamia plantations so you can imagine there almost needs to be traffic lights for the rats going across the road at night.
Cam, once there is a night where I can see more than 4 foot in the fog I'll light them up
😂Maybe you need to add foggies as well, and then some DRLs and you'll be all sorted. VW's version of a Christmas tree
I actually do have some projector foglights but they only fit without my kamei on and these new lights work that well I don't need them.
That and the poor old subi alternator was starting to load up abit with 130w high beams and 55w foggies without adding 100w spotties aswell, especially so if it was raining so the wipers were on and the a/c to keep the windscreen clear.
It might be time for a new challenge for you. You've upgraded all the VW stuff, might be time to start upgrading the Subi stuff? 🙅
cam070 wrote:might be time to start upgrading the Subi stuff? 🙅
Funny you should say that
keep watching this space
😉Joel wrote:That and the poor old subi alternator was starting to load up abit
Put a proper 120A Bosch alternator on there haha.
You know, I think it's about time for this car got featured in VWMA.
Just a thought.
2.0slow 92 MK2
Made in Germany, Assembled in Africa, 'Migrated' to Australia
The stock one is 85amp, just this one is getting abit tired, the Liberty was pretty loaded up with electrical toys plus all my crap like the stereo, power windows, a/c etc work it fairly hard
dying 4 year old battery isnt helping either.
It's far from magazine material.
I wouldn't want a show car, I can't see the point of owning a car you cant drive at any time without paranoia of scratches etc.
Murphys law has it the more effort you put in make it pretty the more soccer mums and their bastard little kids open doors and hit with trolleys.
Nissan speedo needles fit VW speedos
A neighbour of mine has a bunch of cars sitting on his farm going for scrap shortly so I had a scavage around seeing if anything good was worth grabbing.
I was curious to see what KMs a Nissan van had and saw that needle.
I thought hey, you match my tach and water temp gauge needles perfectly.
Low and behold it fit my speedo needle spline 🤓
More rice for your bug!
Small doses of oriental are good for you.
Thought you knew 😉
I'm of Chinese decent, not sure how I should take that LOL
Oh goddamn it foot in mouth much 😊
Joel!!!!
You Should have told me earlyer boii bout the speedo needle! 😂 P.s i got a nice screw to make that speedo look mint and clean it up nicely (will hit the post shorty).
From Dylan
It was only a recent discovery
as in 8 hours ago
Yes, tip for the day people, speedo face screws are very easy to lose.
Oh Shit, far out and you got it installed already far out. looks amazing, just matches soo well looks mad.
From Dylan
How hard is it to take out the speedo Joel?
Want to do what Jeff did and have blue LEDs behind the stock tacho.
I haven't seen anything involving your door panels, are they just stock or what's the go?
Hi Joel
Is the speedo still accurate? I understood that the weight of the needle is crucial to accuracy.
Steve
Sebastian i can help you out here. Im another one o the superbug boys and have done alot of work with L Bugs. The speedo is held in by a rubber seal that secures the speedo to the dash. Once you lever the speedo out with a screw driver or something simmilar (be carefull not to damage the dash) Then you will see the little bulbs behind and they slide out and they are a round holder with a single wire coming out the back. So if you want blue LED bulbs you do what Jeff did and went to Auto barn and borght the bulbs but then had to buy new holders im pretty sure because they are a different holder called (wedge type holder) Good Luck with it mate, Shame your not here on the North Coast of NSW us Superbug boys Joel, Myself and Jeff could Help you out.
From Dylan
1303Steve wrote:Hi Joel
Is the speedo still accurate? I understood that the weight of the needle is crucial to accuracy.
Steve
Well spotted.
yes that needle has a brass weight 100x bigger than the one the stock needle has.
When I first put it on to stock alignment position which works for the stock needle it was a good 10km/h fast.
But after some tweaking around with the positioning and running up and down the road with the GPS I've got it pretty well spot on now across the board.
well upto 110 anyway haven't been over that yet.
Back tracking a little, but I think the spot lights look pretty good Joel!
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