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 1303Steve
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| posted on September 15th, 2013 at 12:40 PM |
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Hi
I have a roll of bumper tape, I could bring some down to you at the German Autofest. Its like wide pinstripe. You mightl find that the electrical tape
will wilt in summer.
The headlights on Aussies cars are different to US cars, they are the same as European cars so US sites wont help with reassembly.
You can buy bulbs from Narva with the correct pins for your bases.
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| posted on September 15th, 2013 at 01:34 PM |
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I've got the same offset pin bulbs in my rear blinkers, I just filed down one of the pins.
They have been in about 7 years now.
THose old 3 screw headlights are prick to get back together, getting those metal clips that hold the chrome ring to the plastic bezel up around the
top is a nightmare.
I used to use a small a screwdriver through the hole of the clip to lever it up into place.
You can get new semi sealed headlights that bolt straight in pretty cheap,
I got the shits with my original 3 screw headlights and replaced them with semi sealeds about 13 years ago and never looked back.
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| posted on September 15th, 2013 at 08:05 PM |
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My issue turned out to be that one of the little prongs that the adjusting screw went though was missing. Also realised this morning that this would
be far easier to do with the headlights disconnected, so did that and got them nicely reassembled on my dining table! So now it's all reassembled
and good to go. Just need a service and a new fan belt and we're all set for summer cruising and car shows!
It doesn't really look any different to the day I bought it, but it feels good to know I've improved it. A couple of photos out and about today:
Had the usual stream of idiots desperate to beat me into Form One Lane merges etc but much more relaxed out and about today. This was, in part,
enforced by a flat to the floor in top gear maximum of 70km/h (40mph or so). Tank was nearly empty this morning and while I thought at first I might
just be running out of fuel when it started chugging a bit, it persisted after a refill. I'm guessing some crap from the bottom of the tank has
blocked the fuel filter - hopefully I can sort it one night this week or Saturday morning, as there is a VW cruise Saturday arvo ahead of German Auto
Display on Sunday. (It's OK at lower RPM but seems to hit a wall halfway up the rev range, so I'm thinking fuel starvation problem - any other
suggestions?)
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| posted on September 15th, 2013 at 08:07 PM |
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posted by 1303Steve
Hi
I have a roll of bumper tape, I could bring some down to you at the German Autofest. Its like wide pinstripe. You mightl find that the electrical tape
will wilt in summer.
The headlights on Aussies cars are different to US cars, they are the same as European cars so US sites wont help with reassembly.
You can buy bulbs from Narva with the correct pins for your bases.
Steve
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Appreciate the offer but no need on the tape - it's cheap and relatively easy to just re-do if summer causes problems.
I may chase down the correct bulb at some point by my filed down ones appear to be working well!
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| posted on September 20th, 2013 at 08:21 PM |
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Looking excellent Marco! Well done. Where did you take those photos? It looks like Pine Island??
My good mate Bruce will be leading the cruise tomorrow. He has a white Beetle that he calls "Otto" that he said he'd be driving.
We are still hoping to get along to the show on Sunday.
James
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| posted on September 21st, 2013 at 11:04 PM |
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It was Pine Island, well spotted! Car behaved itself on the cruise today - thought I might need to pull out when it looked like dying on a test run
this morning but then it all came good and stayed that way for the day.
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| posted on September 22nd, 2013 at 08:37 PM |
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Show day today - German Auto Display. To give myself something to do all day I volunteered to help marshal the VWs into position, which was actually
pretty good as I got to check everything out as it came in and chat with some of the blokes who have been doing the car show thing for a while. (I
think I've been to every car show in Canberra except the French one, but it was the first time I'd entered one). Good crowd, these VW types - in
general everyone was relaxed and friendly and had a good day.
    My kids thought it was the Best Thing Ever to be
able to go to a car show and actually sit in one of the cars (because we own it, but still...) 
My car was by no means a show shopper (well duh!) but still fun to see people checking the car out and a few people taking photos, poking their head
inside etc. So yeah, a good day.
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| posted on January 20th, 2014 at 12:35 PM |
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How would I describe yesterday's efforts.....perhaps like this:
Steel bumpers are tough. Steel bumpers are sturdy. Steel bumpers don't flinch when you hit them. Steel bumpers are as good as useless when you miss
the bumper and collect the panel instead 
I'd taken the bug out for a drive earlier today and when a planned second trip had to be canned because of Hailstorm Out Of Nowhere, I decided to put
it back in the garage for the day. My 6 and 3 year old kids jumped in for the ride.
To understand what happened next, you need to know that I have space for this car in my garage that is only very slightly larger than the car itself,
which requires some precision and concentration when reversing into the garage. Instead of precision and concentration, today I had a 3 year old
helping me steer and a 6 year old who'd found the logbook in the glovebox and was asking me what it was all about. I knew my entry angle was a bit
off, so after I'd reversed a little bit, all the while talking to the boys and answering questions while Mr 3 did his best to stop the steering wheel
from turning, I went forward again to straighten up for another go. Goodo, except that I could only go a very short distance forward because I
was....stuck? How?
Without hearing or feeling anything (noisy rear engined car remember), I'd managed to collect the side of my garage door opening with the rear
mudguard, and then in coming forwards again the corner of the bumper had become snagged on the same door opening, like so:
In snagging the corner of the bumper, it had moved the bumper out of alignment and as I was in a hurry to get the car inside, my options seemed to be
to try and move the car sideways or take the bumper off. I took the bumper off.
Damage not as bad as first thought once I had it back in the garage and could take a proper look:
...but still, frankly, embarrassing. Not annoyed or angry or anything like that, just felt like a bit of a dick really. However, as my 6 year old
has been asking me about times I'd bent cars only last week, he was delighted to be told he'd just been a participant in bending some panel
work....kids! 
Ah well. No big deal really, and hey, I wanted a project and now I have something to get stuck into. I don't know if the panel is worth fixing - I
think it's beyond my meagre panelbeating skills, and my experience with panel shops in the past has been its cheaper to get them to paint a
replacement panel than to beat a bent one back into shape and then paint it (which this needs, the paint is cracked and flaking off where I hit
it).
Took the panel off late tonight and as suspected, nothing beyond superficial damage. (Bonus: looks more like a project car now). It's not very
thick metal, a Beetle mudguard, so probably no surprise that a fairly slow reversing hit was enough to bend it.
Anyway, I'll get this sorted one way or another and I think I need to give myself just a little more room to park this car and maybe stick to driving
it in nose first. Will get some prices on replacement panels vs repair and go from there.
Long post for a minor shunt but maybe someone will get some amusement at my expense
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| posted on February 2nd, 2014 at 04:25 PM |
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Good news on that panel: can be repaired rather than replaced, so it's been dropped off with a bloke who is, by reputation, handy with panel work on
older cars and should be all sorted within a week of so.
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| posted on February 2nd, 2014 at 06:57 PM |
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No laughing matter, glad you can get it fixed OK and everyone is OK
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| posted on February 15th, 2014 at 07:02 PM |
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More self inflicted issues. Turns out when you put your battery in the wrong way around, it lets the magic smoke out of your voltage regulator
I have no idea why I didn't check more carefully. I'd sat the battery in its spot a few weeks ago without reconnecting it (and the wrong way around,
for some unknown reason) and when I went to reconnect it, I assumed it was correct. You would think the fact that I had trouble getting the clamp onto
the terminal might have been a clue to stop and check, but no. If nothing else, for the rest of eternity I will know that earth straps go on negative
terminals...
All I can say is that it was early in the morning and I'm not a morning person. And I'm a bit of a numpty.
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| posted on February 15th, 2014 at 07:28 PM |
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Thinking about this some more: this car already had a faulty generator and now a faulty voltage regulator too.
Alternator conversion time? I'm sure I've read somewhere that the alternator conversion eliminates the need for the voltage regulator?
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| posted on February 16th, 2014 at 07:58 AM |
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OK now I'm confused. The voltage regulator I blew up is one of these:
I also have another one, which was replaced earlier, which looks the same as that but has an extra wire coming out of it and different connectors
(more of a 'prong' type than the screw type pictured there). When I search the part number for the one I fried, they seem to go for $225. Ouch.
But if I just search the VW parts sites for a voltage regulator for a 12v Beetle with a generator, I get this part:
...which sells for a much more pleasant sounding $63.50, but has the same type of 'prong' connectors as the older one out of my car. So it looks
like when the voltage regulator was last replaced, someone changed the connectors to suit the newer Bosch regulator with the screw-in connectors.
I'm guessing I'd need to change them back again if I want to use the cheaper regulator?
Electrical stuff, ugh...this is a complete mystery world to me, might as well be rocket science.
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| posted on February 16th, 2014 at 10:47 AM |
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Check your samba thread, I left a more long winded answer there, but long story short, screw style terminals= 6volt, spade style 12volt and the flat
ones are just the new solid state version.
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| posted on February 16th, 2014 at 02:58 PM |
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Thanks
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| posted on February 24th, 2014 at 03:08 PM |
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Repaired panel is back from the panel beater and looks excellent, they've done a great job of it. Classic Garage Bodyworks in Fyshwick, ACT for
anyone local to the area. Back on the car now:
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| posted on March 30th, 2014 at 08:38 PM |
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As of yesterday I've owned this car for a year - who'd have thought!
Just some fiddling about with the little stuff this weekend. I noticed when I bought the car that a few of the rubber seals were shot, like so:
...and I'd been meaning to get on to it, but when this sort of thing started happening my anti-untidy-car gene cried "enough!":
So I ordered new bonnet and decklid seals ($15 and $11 respectively, I love the price of parts for this car!) and set to work yesterday. The seals
themselves are held in by a metal lip that goes around the boot/engine bay, and a how-to video I watched suggested I might need to lever up on the lip
itself to release the seal. No problem at all with the engine bay seal - old one came off easily and the new one went in just as easily:
Boot seal wasn't quite as easy, and the screwdriver was needed to pry the lip up a little to release the seal - I must admit I cringed having to do
this in such an untidy way:
...and you can see some evidence of the problem I discovered (that I forgot to snap a pic of) when I lifted the seal off, which is that it traps
moisture. There's a little bit of rust all the way around the lip which needs a cleanup before I'll be happy to put the new seal on. It's not
serious, but there's all these minor spots of rust everywhere you look around this car. Seems a shame to allow a car which has survived 42 years of
regular use to slowly succumb to minor rust like this, so I think better to stop it than ignore it.
Anyway, the bonnet seal came off [I]in one tidy piece[/I] in the end.
I think I'll order new seals for the front indicators and number plate light, and maybe both doors as well - all of them are either UV damaged or
torn, and detract from what is now a far tidier car than the one I drove home a year ago.
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| posted on October 30th, 2014 at 09:46 PM |
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And so it came to pass that it was time to move on. When I pulled this car out of the garage last month and realised I hadn't driven it since May,
and I felt like I'd done everything to it that I could, or wanted to, do I knew it was time to sell.
Fortunately I've found an enthusiastic buyer who knows Beetles well and I'm confident will give it a good home. He's picking it up tomorrow.
It's been fun. I'm going to miss this car.
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