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peter87 Officially Full-On Dubber

259 posts · joined Mar 2012 ·

#910368
Hey guys,

I emailed an american company regarding the wiring loom for my 63 beetle and apparently i can use a LHD wiring loom on my RHD beetle. I'm not really 100% sold on the idea and was after your opinions.

matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#910386
Iy won't fit without modification, something to do with wires on the LH side and the steering wheel on the right.

What model car and what's wrong with the wiring? I always try and repair/restore the original.
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE

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

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#910397
peter87 wrote:Hey guys,

I emailed an american company regarding the wiring loom for my 63 beetle and apparently i can use a LHD wiring loom on my RHD beetle. I'm not really 100% sold on the idea and was after your opinions.
Naturally it won't do the job without lots of MODIFICATIONS.

Firstly North Americian Beetles have entirely different wiring looms to other countries

this could be made to work if the steering wheel and fusebox and brake master cylinder were all on the same side... as USA beetles... but they aren't..

UNLESS...
Now I'm not sure where the loom runs in a 1963 beetle??
If it ran along the floor on the RHS... from front to rear.. then the wires would all be just too long... [as they would be made long enough to go to the fusebox etc... which is located on the LHS of USA beetles]
which would be OK...

if the wiring loom ran on the LHS of the car...
Its a lot of money to pay for a wiring loom that has to be cut up and extended...
If You can do all that Yourself...
Then make up Your own wiring loom using trailer 7 & 5 wire cables..
Colors will be incorrect naturally, but just mark the wires as You go...

No easy solution I'm afraid...
You could buy a RHD wiring loom from the UK..
If They make them over there...??
as far as i know they used the same wiring loom as We did..


Some one on here said to use TARNOFF on the terminals to clean the terminals and connectors...
but if someone has cut and added wires etc.. best to just renew them... You cannot solder old contaminated wires either..

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

peter87 Officially Full-On Dubber

259 posts · joined Mar 2012 ·

#910400
The wiring i originally had was repaired as the idiots who owned it before me used an extension cord or something. I got a quote from an auto electrician and he said it would cost close to 2 grand to re wire the entire car. The wiring i have at the moment ran through the roof of the car. I'm thinking JK for the wiring loom but it is still a little pricey and can't justify spending over 500 on it. Anyway thanks for your comments guys 🙂

Peter

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

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#910403
its just a time consuming fiddly job wiring a car...

what side of the roof did the wiring go thru?

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

peter87 Officially Full-On Dubber

259 posts · joined Mar 2012 ·

#910404
the left hand side. The wiring is really crappy and it has so many earths in places where it is not needed.

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

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#910407
Hi Peter

Earthing is what breaks down in old cars first...
I earthed every light fitting etc when I rewired My beetle.
Means My beetles lights etc all work perfectly due to a perfect electrical system

I wired up My Son's 56 beetle using the original wiring and had to earth everything to get them to work properly..
My Son didn't want any extra holes drilled etc so made My job very difficult... and He had a lot of problems early on until I earthed everything.. without drilling any extra holes... lol

so using 5 wire trailer cable You can run it to each tail light and earth each light... and use plastic screw in connector strips [Narva Hella] but use the VW wiring system..
as I wired everything seperate but now I have about 50+ wires behind the dash... lol

wrap a piece of masking tape near the end of each wire with a label or number etc...

an earth connection thru a rusty screw or bolt and contaminated copper wire connection isn't good..
just do one or two wires at a time...

cheers

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

peter87 Officially Full-On Dubber

259 posts · joined Mar 2012 ·

#910408
i'm going to give it a shot, thanks for the advice again 🙂

matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#910424
Grab a used harness from a wreck, fit and do any repairs reguired. I'd do a stock beetle rewire for 1/2 what you've been quoted.
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
OFF-ROAD,CIRCUIT,DRAG,STREET,ENDURANCE

Herbie Down Under VW club of Victoria

152 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#910535
Theres new RHD wiring looms on EBAY. CAme across them the other day whilst I was looking for LHD looms. Brand new in the correct colors. Roughly around $200 to $260
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Herbie Down Under VW club of Victoria

152 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#910538
I can't find them at this moment but I have seen them as recently as 2 months ago. Keep checking and I'm sure youll see it soon.
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Lucky Phil Wolfsburg Wizard

480 posts · joined Aug 2010 ·

#911669
peter87 wrote:the left hand side. The wiring is really crappy and it has so many earths in places where it is not needed.
You can't have too many earths!