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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:45 pm    Post subject: after market mirror driver side Reply with quote

is there any after market mirror's out there that will cover the hole that look better then stock,
something similar to this
http://www.jbugs.com/product/4590.html

not sure of the mounting on this and hate to spend the money and find out it don't work.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that wont cover the hole, it mounts below.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's what i thought. I know i have seen some similar but i just can't seem to remember where that would fit a bug.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can mount baby turbos to cover up the stock mounting hole.

That;s how I mounted them on my black Beetle, not to cover up the hole but to get them at a useable height.

When you have the base horizontal along the body crease they are too low to be any good as mirrors

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joel i knew i could count on you coming up with something.

baby turbo's hmmm ok i will start searching i like that


thanks again
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The 90's called. They want their mirror back! Wink Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy Very Happy
but it beats the 70's look

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DrummerDaveB wrote:
The 80's called. They want their mirror back! Wink Laughing


Fixed it for you.

Ron, baby turbos are the same mirrors as the Jbugs link you posted.
Those are just a cheaper knock off of the original Vitalonis.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joel the avatar picture you have does it have those mirrors?
looks like it.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:23 pm    Post subject: Re: after market mirror driver side Reply with quote

Ron G wrote:
better than stock


such a funny phrase. but I used to have a set of those mirrors, PO covered the hole with bondo and some mesh. worked pretty damn well.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ron G wrote:
Joel the avatar picture you have does it have those mirrors?
looks like it.


Same brand (Vitaloni) but different model.

Those are Californias, they are a bit more rounded than Baby turbos but the base of them doesn't cover the old mirror hole.
Although on my White bug you can't really see it in the pics but I just have stock plastic blanking plugs in my mirror holes.

I didn't want to weld them up.

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