Skip to content
Aussieveedubbers

VW type 3 Collapsible steering wheel...

0 likes
Share Share on Facebook Share on X Share on Reddit
Log in to reply

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#852072


Hi

I have always used collapsible steering wheels on My VWs since they came out in 1972-3 in type 3s..

Many VW owners will NOT know that these were designed to collapse when they hit Your Chest...

well, if it Did hit Your chest....

LEE


1 attachment · Log in to view

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Andy Andy\'s Adventures

2,820 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#852094
Didn't supers (strut front end) have a collapsing steering wheel also?

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#852105
It was an ADR to have the collapsible wheel hub.
They were in all of them after 11/71 - Standard Beelte, Sbug, Lbug, type3, Karmann Ghia all used that same steering wheel.

Kombis stayed with the old solid hub 2 spoke wheel but it's not facing your chest and head, and a collapsible hub wouldn't spare you any injuries in a frontal impact collision anyway.