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 DubCrazy
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 10:11 PM |
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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 
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You can get them from Repco young man. i just got a set for my 68
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 10:46 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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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
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You can get them from Repco young man. i just got a set for my 68
steff..................
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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.
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| posted on April 21st, 2011 at 11:09 PM |
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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.
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| posted on April 22nd, 2011 at 08:58 PM |
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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
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| posted on April 22nd, 2011 at 09:23 PM |
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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 =
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| posted on April 22nd, 2011 at 10:14 PM |
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Wiper Setup
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?
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| posted on April 22nd, 2011 at 10:20 PM |
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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.
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| posted on June 5th, 2011 at 08:51 PM |
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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.
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| posted on June 6th, 2011 at 09:01 AM |
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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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| posted on June 6th, 2011 at 08:30 PM |
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C'mon Joel where are the night shots showing us your light patterns?
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| posted on June 9th, 2011 at 09:17 AM |
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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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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
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| posted on June 9th, 2011 at 10:14 AM |
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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
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| posted on June 9th, 2011 at 05:53 PM |
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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.
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| posted on June 9th, 2011 at 06:54 PM |
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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? 
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| posted on June 9th, 2011 at 07:13 PM |
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might be time to start upgrading the Subi stuff?
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Funny you should say that
keep watching this space 
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| posted on June 15th, 2011 at 05:48 PM |
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That and the poor old subi alternator was starting to load up abit
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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.
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| posted on June 15th, 2011 at 07:58 PM |
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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.
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 01:30 PM |
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Todays useless trivia
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 
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 02:55 PM |
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More rice for your bug!
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 06:14 PM |
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Small doses of oriental are good for you.
Thought you knew
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 08:51 PM |
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I'm of Chinese decent, not sure how I should take that LOL
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 08:56 PM |
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Oh goddamn it foot in mouth much 
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 08:58 PM |
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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
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 09:00 PM |
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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.
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 09:04 PM |
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Oh Shit, far out and you got it installed already far out. looks amazing, just matches soo well looks mad.
From Dylan
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| posted on June 29th, 2011 at 09:35 PM |
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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?
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 08:49 AM |
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Hi Joel
Is the speedo still accurate? I understood that the weight of the needle is crucial to accuracy.
Steve
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 09:35 AM |
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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.
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 11:43 AM |
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Hi Joel
Is the speedo still accurate? I understood that the weight of the needle is crucial to accuracy.
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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.
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 11:47 AM |
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Back tracking a little, but I think the spot lights look pretty good Joel!
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