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Sharp64
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 Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:20 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Sadly, that price really isn't that out of line. No one is reproducing quality 67 hubcaps currently. The good "German" ones for late bugs and domed ones for wide 5's are closing in on a $100 each new. I'm running $20 dollar Brazilian VW caps on mine. Personally, I think they look fine. Only a hardcore VW purist could tell the difference between the $20 dollar cap and the $200 NOS one.
I have a 67 bug but wouldn't pay that unless the bug was show worthy and a trailer queen which I'd never own. |
In my opinion you could buy a used original set and have them restored and rechromed for far less. |
I tried to get my original hubcaps rechromed on my 67 at a shop in Mesa. I had the bumpers at the chrome shop to get fixed and replated. I asked him about straightening and re-chroming my hub caps. He laughed and said they don't do hubcaps anymore due to the high cost that people were not willing to pay.
I know the cost to straighten my bumpers and rechrome them about made me gag. Chroming parts has just gotten stupid pricy.
I wonder if anyone reading this has had their caps done and how much? |
EPA regulations have made it cost prohibitive to say the least. When looking around I was told there was only one place here in Florida that still did chroming and they were one of the few in the entire southeast. Spacecoast Plating.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:40 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Sadly, that price really isn't that out of line. No one is reproducing quality 67 hubcaps currently. The good "German" ones for late bugs and domed ones for wide 5's are closing in on a $100 each new. I'm running $20 dollar Brazilian VW caps on mine. Personally, I think they look fine. Only a hardcore VW purist could tell the difference between the $20 dollar cap and the $200 NOS one.
I have a 67 bug but wouldn't pay that unless the bug was show worthy and a trailer queen which I'd never own. |
In my opinion you could buy a used original set and have them restored and rechromed for far less. |
I tried to get my original hubcaps rechromed on my 67 at a shop in Mesa. I had the bumpers at the chrome shop to get fixed and replated. I asked him about straightening and re-chroming my hub caps. He laughed and said they don't do hubcaps anymore due to the high cost that people were not willing to pay.
I know the cost to straighten my bumpers and rechrome them about made me gag. Chroming parts has just gotten stupid pricy.
I wonder if anyone reading this has had their caps done and how much? |
Ok, that is fair, I haven't done any chroming in quite a while and have never done hubcaps.
I've heard there are some places in AZ that simply take it to Mexico in batches.  I don't know the details though.
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turbotype1
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Creamsicle anyone??
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This new fad of get it the lowest, or run it with the worst looks, (patina) isn't cool, it's for the hey everyone look at me crowd, i'm driving a beat down ratty, unsafe, VW, how cool am I ???...your not....
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kinkerstinker
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| ^^ wow. This thread makes me realize how lucky i was to fall into my 65 for as cheap as I did. I've been trying to help a buddy find a pre 67, in the $3,000 range, in the north east, that isnt a total basket case. It hasn't been going well haha |
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jays58s
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:22 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Lol, wow, sounds like someone got the shaft. |
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stale air
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Lol, wow, sounds like someone got the shaft. |
Actually, it looks like someone tried to jump into the shitina fad, (redone interior, crusty on the outside) thinking they had a winner, and failed. 15k? 
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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^^^ .... This
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This new fad of get it the lowest, or run it with the worst looks, (patina) isn't cool, it's for the hey everyone look at me crowd, i'm driving a beat down ratty, unsafe, VW, how cool am I ???...your not....
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:06 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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It seems to me that they would have included a few details.
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Johnous
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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| Actually, it looks like someone tried to jump into the shitina fad, (redone interior, crusty on the outside) thinking they had a winner, and failed. 15k? |
Indeed. Trim-less windshields are in this season! Very kind of them to omit the carpet as well, you know as a courtesy so you can inspect the replaced floors. |
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kinkerstinker
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| Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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"NO RUST!"
pretty sure you can see a hole in the floor in the one picture. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2039567 
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This new fad of get it the lowest, or run it with the worst looks, (patina) isn't cool, it's for the hey everyone look at me crowd, i'm driving a beat down ratty, unsafe, VW, how cool am I ???...your not....
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Sharp64
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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wcfvw69
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Oh the irony.. Isn't the seller a regular contributor to this thread?!?! 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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While that price tag is insane, the fact that NOS versions of those things even still exist is pretty insane, so I don't mind the price tag... since I don't have a need to buy it myself.  If I did have a 1960 Beetle that was restoring and "needed" those.... I'd be interested for sure, but I'd be haggling instead of "buy it now".
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| Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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Find a set of decent used ones, let alone NOS. You need to take into consideration that they're a ONE YEAR ONLY part, AND NOS. With that said, and I've seen a lot worse being posted. I'd spend this on a set of visors before I spent $800 on NOS '66/67 hubcaps lol. These are just one of those parts that aren't reproduced, so someone looking to restore a '60 bug as correct as possible would see something like this as a score to have even found these in NOS condition. |
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turbotype1
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 3:58 am Post subject: Re: Official whine about Beetles and parts for sale topic |
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$200 per hubcap is insane for anything unless it's something super rare, and 67's are far from rare. |
$450 for visors is insane for anything unless it's for something super rare, and 60's are far from rare.....
See what I did there? Good luck with sale
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