Official Mexican / Brazilian Beetles - All years

[hopkin]

[GArBa]

[plagos_g]

En route to a local (national) event .
Will be adding pictures when I take some.
XV Junta Nacional de Beetlefriends, Talca 2020
Lots of mexi and Brazilian ones should be there

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1998 Volkswagen Sedan (MexiBeetle, daily drive)
1987 Volkswagen Kombi (crew cab, br)

[Gerrelt]

Here in the Netherlands they are switching from E5 to E10 fuel (instead of 5% ethanol itnow has 10% ethanol).
I wonder if our 1600i's are already prepared for ethanol fuel? Weren't they using ethanol in the fuel for a long time in Mexico?
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[GArBa]

For sure in Brazil. Mexico, no idea.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[hopkin]

[Antonio Trejo]

In Mexico City the ethanol fuel is banned, due environmental regulations, but in the 31 mexican states the ethanol (10%) can be find it in any gas station.
Many of my customers change the rubber fuel hoses often when they use ethanol in the Sedan 1600i, it looks like the ethanol cracks the rubber quickly.
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Parts VW
"From Volkswagen of Mexico factory..."
Genuine VW Sedan parts
Genuine VW Ultima Edition parts
Genuine VW Type 2 watercooled parts

[Gerrelt]

Thanks guys! I shouldn't be a problem then.
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[hopkin]

[A Dog Called Bear]

Thanks for the BeetlesUK flyer hopkin, that's great to see! Do you have any more B-UK material, or is any hosted somewhere on TheSamba?

And thanks for the pic of the rat's nest of wiring on the bulkhead, no wonder there's an underbonnet cover on there. I should also say your car looks in concours condition, definitely the cleanest I've seen.

Some paperwork came with my car in relation to the 'Sterling Touch' immobiliser that was fitted in the UK when the car was new in 2001, which is odd because I'd assumed the immobiliser was already fitted to the Mexican-spec bugs. My guess is that the Mex-immobiliser might have been replaced with a UK-recognised immobiliser as an insurance requirement.

Also as I suspected, from your pic and a feel around the back of the dashboard through my radio opening, a full, deep, original '60s glovebox would be out of the question but I'd at least like to re-use an original, functioning lid (with chrome lock-catch and chrome strip) and try to fabricate something very shallow behind it. The blanking plate that BeetlesUK fitted to fill the glovebox hole is just a plain sheet of metal with no curvature to the edges, so even a non-opening original lid would look better.

So that I don't clog-up the Mexi-Thread entirely I think I'll start a dedicated project thread (based on type1japan's thread you pointed me towards and a 2014 thread by demon1018) about the overall build for the car (the general backdating bits)...

New build thread: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=730346

...I'll still post here on the Mexican-thread for the Mexi-specific help I need.

[hopkin]

[A Dog Called Bear]

Brilliant flyers - many thanks - duly saved them all to my Mac.

Looks like my first owner stumped up a little extra for the black paint, the BeetlesUK-branded overmats, cigarette lighter, front & rear heated screen, and the immobiliser (which seems to be on the options list despite the car being built with one in Mexico).

I really hope he also bought the underbody protection.

[hopkin]

Both importers have immobilizer as an option, seems odd to be an offered as an option when the original cars came with the immobilizer. I wonder why, it can't be an MOT reason, as it is offered as an option, so that implies that it wasn't required (ie keep the original).

Probably something we will never know.
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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

[Antonio Trejo]

Back in the day, there were for sale brand new Sedans at the dealership with "transponder" (immobilizer) and with out transponder, the price difference was less $1000 mex pesos.
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Parts VW
"From Volkswagen of Mexico factory..."
Genuine VW Sedan parts
Genuine VW Ultima Edition parts
Genuine VW Type 2 watercooled parts

[GArBa]

[hopkin]

[GArBa]

No sorry... I meant the number plate light, how is it connecded to its harness inside the housing above the plate itself. I've already crimped on the plug side terminals of my new harness and wanted to prepare in advance the tooling to make the other end in the garage.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
-------------------------
moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[hopkin]

There is no connector under the license plate cover:

This is the connector at the other end of the cable (red arrow):

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

[hopkin]

I picked up a couple binders full of brochures, adverts, etc for (mostly) Mexican Beetles, some US, German and Brazilian stuff. The collection spans decades of stuff from the '50s through end of production.

I haven't counted it all yet, looks like about 100 different items in the collection.

Way too much to post here, but we don't see to much about the Brazilian Beetles, so here's a brochure (dated 10/95):

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1971 Super Beetle (past)
1971 Super Beetle (past)
1974 SunBug (past)
1972 914 (past)
1991 Honda Civic (Original Owner)
1996 'Open Air' Mexican Beetle (current)
2015 Golf (current)
2017 Dune Edition (daughter's car)

[GArBa]