My Beetle

[DR WATSON]

Muds if I catch someone knocking on my car, he soon will be knocking on heavens door Lol

[ADZ]

lol yeah when i first saw it i said the same thing there's no door handles it works with a remote pop out and electric windows....lol

[sean]

Hello ADZ.

What happens if your battery is flat or even worse if the ciruit fails to those switches? How do you open the doors?

[ADZ]

there's an alternate lever hidden to open the doors .......

[Drusky]

I've never seen one of these before. Moulded? Am I corrrect in understanding that this is a beetle that has been encased in fg using a mould? Are all the bits encased? Why not just make moulded parts instead?

[ADZ]

its a first for me too hahahahaha the car was sent to beetle beauties before i bought it so the previous owner probably wanted it this way but i kinda like it i havent seen another one like it

[riaanj]

Boet that looks really nice hey, I'm not a big fan of the moulding in of the wings, but your car is beautifull..

[Muderick]

I think the term moulded or moulding is misused and misunderstood here.

ADZ I am almost positive that this car is not moulded in one piece like a full on moulded one piece front end for a drag or race beetle. If it was your entire car would be made from fibre glass (perish the thought ), and this would be much much worse in the end.

What happened here is that the fenders, if they are metal, were either welded onto the body, the seams filled, and then filled with body filler/putty. Same applies to the front fenders against the front apron, as well as at the rear apron. Also looks like the runner boards were joined to the fenders in the same manner. Please make sure nobody stands on them. ...

Having done these kind of custom tom-foolery to beetles about 20 years ago, I know that you will seldomly be locked out, even when the battery is low. The door will open 95% of the time, as if the correct solenoid is used, it only requires a fraction of the power you would normally think it would use to open the door. When the remote is depressed, the solenoid simply releases causing the electrical circuit to be interrupted. Good quality new rubber will always ensure that the door immediately pushes away from the door frame, allowing you to pull on the door handle to open it further...

My mate Ichraam who used to build these gadgets even had a silicone keypad which was adhered to his pop out window, just behind the door post, which could be used to key in a PIN to open the door in the event the remotes battery vrekked or the remote conked out. His volla could also be remotely started from inside his house... provided it was left in neutral. The bug also started with an encrypted credit card, so yes keyless entry and starting way way before the Mercs did it... All thanks to his job in the SAS Navy...

Aaahh! the good old days...

[ADZ]

pop outs on the rear window that would be cool damn didnt know this until now well you learn new things everyday i guess but that really cool .........credit card entry hahahahaha

[Bratjie]

Tell us a bit about your engine also?

[Hloni]

After the engine, how about more pics.

Man, the paintwork looks nice from here.

[CooP]

I like it, really smooooooth.

More pics please

[ADZ]

hi guys i will post more pic's soon the engine is a 1600 golf motor not really happy with it though not what i had expected in terms of power and its got a carb on now was thinking of the mp9 fuel injection system but i have decided to saving up to do the rotary conversion by a professional hopefully soon

i also have some kak with the water pipes had ran it underneath the car but its to low so over bumps it damages the piping

[ADZ]

the paint work is really nice just that it has a few fine scratches at the right tail light from a dog jumping on it but other than that it nice even better after i polish her up

[Phillip]

Nice one I like it. ill leave the motor and put a 36 weber on there. Ull def feel the diff.