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Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:02 pm

Couple fender questions and please point me to the thread if (which I'm sure they have) been asked before.

1. Only the rear fenders on my 11/52 zwitter have the dimples between the bolt holes that secure the fender to the body, Question is, are all four fenders supposed to be dimpled?

2. I saw a beautiful 50 split today at a show but none of the fenders had these dimples but the rear did have the dimples for the tail lights. Question is when did they start and stop putting in the "between bolt dimples"

Thanks, Bill

Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:12 pm

Fronts don't have the dash-dot-dash-dot indentations....

Rears do.

This applies through Ovals as far as I know, I'm not sure what year this stopped?

Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:32 am

I think it stopped in 1960. The '50 you saw must have had later fenders with the indentations added.

Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:50 am

There where somewhen around 1960 rear fenders produced by VW that had the dimple for the split taillight but not the raised areas between the bolt holes. They ran out of the old style ones and produced some to keep on the spare parts supply.

Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:42 am

usariemen wrote: There where somewhen around 1960 rear fenders produced by VW that had the dimple for the split taillight but not the raised areas between the bolt holes. They ran out of the old style ones and produced some to keep on the spare parts supply.

I wondered if that was a possibility but had never heard of it.

Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:49 pm

usariemen wrote: There where somewhen around 1960 rear fenders produced by VW that had the dimple for the split taillight but not the raised areas between the bolt holes. They ran out of the old style ones and produced some to keep on the spare parts supply.

Yes, I saw those for sale in Hückeswagen last week!

Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:36 pm

Comparing the actual shap of the dimples of an oval fender with that of a split fender, the dimples are a different shape at the ends as well.

Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:13 pm

I wonder why they stopped dimpling? I suppose like most changes it was dictated by "fundage", they added strength but at a cost that was no longer justifyable (extra tooling & extra process).