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 vw54
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:46 PM |
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What Killed Australian Volkswagens
I started a new project a few weeks ago, and have discovered a little rust in this " Best Ever " 1976 model
I would like to find the engineer or marketing people ( most proberly a market person you carnt havea noisy car ) that advise on injecting this killer
foam into the rear window pillars and strangle the shit out of them.
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:46 PM |
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Passengers side
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:48 PM |
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Killer foam
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:48 PM |
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more Killer stuff
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:49 PM |
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After scrapping it all out with some home made hooks it nearly filled up a hugh garbage bin
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:50 PM |
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The start of repairs
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:51 PM |
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and the cut of rust panels
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 01:53 PM |
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You and me both Dave, my 73 was exactly the same....
The rust had gone all the way to the wheel arch and we had to do our biggest rust repair yet, which included 2 bolt holes .
Strangely, my 73 also had real nasty rust under the rear windows rubbers, we had to repair one side, and replace about 400mm on the other side.
Evil killer foam.
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 02:07 PM |
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Mmmm thats a bigger repair than mine maybe VW used extra corrosive foam in the L Bugs as ive seen a few other similar
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 03:46 PM |
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my sons super was the same...rust was so bad in the end we decided to throw the body...
dubless. 
 And who the helled parked the Mitsubishi "Prancer" under my
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 06:13 PM |
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Ive only seen 1 71 n on body shell that had no RUST
and the reason was It was built on a Monday when they had run out out FOAM shit to squirt in there...
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| posted on October 6th, 2005 at 09:13 PM |
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Another orange bug Dave !
Keeping it real !
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| posted on October 7th, 2005 at 07:45 AM |
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yeah ANOTHER Orange I will have to Re spray the whole car .... but dont want to change the colour maybe if it was white ...
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| posted on October 7th, 2005 at 12:33 PM |
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Yeah, but mine was the second time repair..... the previous owners had stick welded a piece of 1.6mm flat plate in there and about an inch of bog over
the top of it....... nasty. Shame i didnt take any more photos, the whole shed was covered in about an eigth of an inch of bog dust.....
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| posted on October 7th, 2005 at 01:51 PM |
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I don't know if the difference is because mine is a convertible or because it was made in Germany. Ours had the spare cut off material from the roof
lining cut in to little triangular pieces and then the roof padding was sewn in to the middle of the triangles. This made a nice little pillow that
was then pushed up in to the cavity at the C pillar.
No rust in ours and still with sound deadening. I have kept them so I can make new ones for when we re-assemble her. I can take photos of them over
the weekend if anyone wants to see what they look like.
Yogie
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| posted on October 12th, 2005 at 08:53 AM |
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Mine is going that way. I just can't afford to get it fixed at the moment. That foam really was a very stupid idea...
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| posted on October 12th, 2005 at 11:06 AM |
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roof lining cut in to little triangular pieces and then the roof padding was sewn in to the middle of the triangles.
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Yeah they did that with the early models makes heaps of difference
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I just can't afford to get it fixed at the moment.
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If you can make up so long hook and did the stuff out of there before it makes it worse will help in the long run
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| posted on October 14th, 2005 at 11:30 PM |
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Hi
When I bought my old yellow bug it was only 6 months old, it was only after a few years and slight pimples started to appear, so dragged a lot of it
out with a wire coathanger. The other place my car had rust was the flange for the rear mudguards, where the beading fits up, it almost rotted right
through, a good way to fix this in hindsight would be to remove the mudguards every spring and treat the area with fish oil.
Steve
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| posted on February 10th, 2006 at 03:06 PM |
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Another fine example
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| posted on February 10th, 2006 at 03:50 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vw54
Ive only seen 1 71 n on body shell that had no RUST
and the reason was It was built on a Monday when they had run out out FOAM shit to squirt in there...
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Our 71 has original paint on the roof and no rust. I have checked and the foam is still in there. Trust me the hook is almost ready to go in there.
One of Fleurs friends was lucky too, her L bug had a small amount of rust there just the lip un the edge. I told her what to do, and she did it
herself with a coathanger. :P
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| posted on February 10th, 2006 at 04:36 PM |
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phh, yet we brag on about how good and well built theres cars are. 
(ô_!_/ô) (ô_!_/ô)
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| posted on February 10th, 2006 at 05:50 PM |
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phh, yet we brag on about how good and well built theres cars are.
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Still better than some models of vehicles (un-named at this stage) that I have worked on with rust holes in the roof after 3 years, rust holes in the
lower front guards after 2 years, new transmissions before two years. Interiors that fall apart within 12 months.
That was the glorious 80's manufacturing.
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| posted on February 10th, 2006 at 06:47 PM |
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my 69 had some foam hooked it out with a coat hanger then i was getting that fluffy material stuff,should i hook as much of that out also????
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| posted on February 10th, 2006 at 07:37 PM |
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but the the advertising man was right ... it sold by the bucket load ... since when do advertising people actually know or care about the product,
they just want their 40% mark-up and free lunch (he said, bitter and twisited, but wiser).
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