Lowered Super Beetle tow bar?

[nworegonman]

Hi All,
Now that I have lowered my 79 super, I am hitting the brackets sticking down for the tow bar.
Any reason not to fabricate something that uses the Bumper shock hardware on the bumper side? I was thinking something that I could hang fog lights on and have the brackets to clip on the tow bar?
Are those shocks going to move much or come apart? Would I need to pull them and replace with solid steel?
Thoughts and ideas appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick

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[dennismcd707]

I just wanted to add my two cents about lowered Super Beetles. I have one, and I wish the previous owner never lowered it. Why? I honestly don't think it makes the car look any better, or cooler, and being so low to the ground creates a few problems for me. I can't turn around in someone's driveway without scraping my sway bar. When I get towed, my exhaust system gets dragged on the cement during initial hook up. If I want to look at something under the car, or heaven forbid I have to actually work on something underneath, because it's so low it makes it difficult. And lastly, just using a floor jack is tricky. I had to get one that worked specifically on low profile vehicles, and there's not a lot of safe places to set it. I love my Bug, but I just wish it wasn't so low to the ground. Even backing out of my driveway is an issue, and it's a little tiny curb. I can't go faster than .0007 miles per hour, or my exhaust scrapes. Just a royal P.I.T.A.

But, hey! It's got that Cal look!
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[nworegonman]

I get the point on dragging! I did not lower the back. I just like the look of the rake and I was in there adding disk brakes and solving the "death shake" with bushings and struts etc. So that is the way I went.

Still looking for anyone's experience on towing from the bumper.

[Buggeee]

[Buggeee]

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/search.php?searc...=titleonly

There are two short discussions on the topic.
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[Buggeee]

Frome those other two discussions, this is the comment that makes sense to me:

[Buggeee]

All things considered, I will continue to trailer my lowered Super Duper.
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