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kirk1015
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Location: New Jersey
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 Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Tried my hand at putting in carpet today. This set (TMI charcoal) came with the car when I bought it almost 3 years ago. FINALLY got around to it. I only
glued the kick panels, Used Velcro to hold the floor in place
with the jute padding underneath it.
Also put on some window decals. I may be removing one or two, not sure which yet. It looks a little crowded.
When I'm on Vacation in April I'm probably going to attack the
window rubber.
CRITIQUE is greatly wanted and appreciated.
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unclewede
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Location: Oxnard, CA
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:27 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| ^Do NOT trust that basket to hold anything liquid in place!!! |
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kirk1015
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Location: New Jersey
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| unclewede wrote: |
| ^Do NOT trust that basket to hold anything liquid in place!!! |
I never trust that thing. When I get a cup of coffee at WAWA or Dunkin' Donuts, I make sure to drink enough
of it before getting back in the car.
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heimlich 
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Location: Houston, Texas
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Nice stickers. That must be what a new York garage looks like. It probably costs a pretty penny too.
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Glenn
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| kawfee wrote: |
| Nice stickers. That must be what a new York garage looks like. It probably costs a pretty penny too. |
"Location: New Jersey"
Here's a New York (Long Island) garage.
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Glenn
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heimlich
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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That's a good size garage. I've heard of parking spaces in NYC costing the same as a house here.
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Glenn
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| kawfee wrote: |
| That's a good size garage. I've heard of parking spaces in NYC costing the same as a house here. |
it came with an attached house.
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kirk1015
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Location: New Jersey
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| kawfee wrote: |
| Nice stickers. That must be what a new York garage looks like. It probably costs a pretty penny too. |
Beautiful Lawn Glenn.
Thanks. Actually, it did cost a pretty penny. $30,000 just to lift the house
and build a new foundation.
My house was ALMOST destroyed by Sandy in 2012. The house (living space)
sits 8 feet above this garage.
Here is the outside 3 years ago. I no longer own the Geettle (Golf/Jetta/Beetle)
on the right any longer.
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heimlich
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Glenn wrote: |
| kawfee wrote: |
| That's a good size garage. I've heard of parking spaces in NYC costing the same as a house here. |
it came with an attached house.
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That's good looking especially that nice new driveway.
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mukluk
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Can't say there's really much of anything to critique, the carpet install looks pretty sharp. In your driveway shot though, you seem to have spat out a tail pipe baffle. 
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kirk1015
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| mukluk wrote: |
| Can't say there's really much of anything to critique, the carpet install looks pretty sharp. In your driveway shot though, you seem to have spat out a tail pipe baffle. |
Thanks, I cheated somewhat and used industrial strength velcro on the floor on both sides. This way I can take the carpet up to clean/inspect under there.
That shot was taken 3 years ago when I just bought the car. Since then
the car has a new muffler and two new tail pipes. Knew that when I
bought it. I actually looks like it has a turd sticking out. 
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AlmostHeavenWV_VW
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| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:30 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Not today, but the last thing I did was chock the wheels, take the bug out of gear, and take the parking brake off.
Waiting on her 'blanket' (car cover) to come in the mail and she'll be down for her 'long winter's nap'.
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Bennym777
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Bit of a tune up of the Digifant:
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joey1320
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AlmostHeavenWV_VW
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Location: WV
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| Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 6:38 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Not too much exciting, but I did get me a battery powered motion sensor light for the front trunk. Took the light and glued a magnet to the back and put it on the underside of the hood.
Lift the hood and viola! Lighted cargo area.
Bonus help with lighting the front when working on electrical etc.
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unclewede
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Location: Oxnard, CA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 11:35 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Replaced the fuel overflow hoses. Smell "evaporated" Put a match to the old ones, but didn't flame as much as I had hoped. |
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Bennym777
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| Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Put new chrome bumpers, fog lights, chrome trim and new steering wheel (never liked the modern Vw ones, feel disconnected from the car:
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MERKURmeow
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Joined: December 19, 2017
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Location: SF Bay area
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:36 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Fancy new shift knob!
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AlmostHeavenWV_VW
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Location: WV
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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Still have salt covered roads here in WV, so I can only do a few small things on the Bug. Continued with my battery powered lights and magnets idea to add two touch activated lights for the front foot wells. Also included photos of the trunk light I did the other day too. (phone wasn't dead today so I could actually take a picture  )
Also been working to clean up and create a reproduction dealer decal of the VW dealership which originally sold my Bug in 1973 from a picture of the OG decal uploaded here on TheSamba. Finished it today and put magnetic tape on the back and stuck it on above the decklid latch. I think it looks pretty good!
Shout out to Gary for uploading that picture of the decal. Thanks wherever you are!
footwell lights
front trunk motion activated light
repro dealer decal
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Vanillagurilla
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:12 am Post subject: Re: What did you do to your Bug Today? |
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| Replaced the stub axle bearings on the passenger side, hate drive line work lol. I've also been fighting with my carbs, it doesn't like to run on a cold start when it's cold. Thinking I need to step up the idle and air jets, I even tried putting bags around the filters as a choke when it was raining the other day but it ran the same, runs great above 2k rpm lol. |
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