Hello all, I have got a 1967 beetle with wide five wheels. I have just got hold of a disc brake front end with 2 inch drop spindles and still want to run my wide 5 mags. Can you buy adapters to do this? is there any issues with safety by useing them? how much am I looking at for 2 for the front only? Does anyone have some second hand forsale in Adelaide? Thanks Gary

adaptors arent road legal. the only wide five discs i know about are the vintage kits

So can I replace to rotors with a wide five set? will they fit without changing anything else? Cheers Gary

You can get wide-5 rotors, but the advice I got was that they won't fit with dropped spindles. Also, your calipers might not fit different rotors.

Your best bet is to do what I did: buy a full wide-5 disk kit (rotors, calipers, everything) and fit it to an adjustable front beam with normal wide-5 spindles.
This way you get everything you want: you can keep the wide-5 rims, you can lower the car, and you have disc brakes.

Is this new beam linkpin or balljoint?

The frame head mounting for link pin beams is different to balljoint, you cant just bolt a late BJ beam into an early LP bug.

I've heard of people "panel beating" the mounts to fit which you may get away with in SA with no inspections but there will always be that hmmmm factor there