Official Mexican / Brazilian Beetles - All years

[Beetlebaum]

[GArBa]

[hopkin]

[Bennym777]

They call those wheels ‘ecologico’ here!

I wonder if they work better cooling front disc brakes?

They sell mini hub caps for them in chrome or black.

I have also seen people just put the chrome strip on the outside of them, looks pretty cool (see pic).

They also look good widened.

Seem to be the cheapest wheel for sale used here, is also pretty random which vochos have them!

[GArBa]

as promised, here's the pic of the VIN tag on the B pillar of my bug:

while I was taking it, I told myself "well, you may as well take pics of the other VIN/ID numbers' locations on the car and post them all".
And so I did:

Usual location below the rear seat (if your bug is a USofA re-pan you would not have these); if you still have the factory sticker down there it will list again your VIN and engine number together (better than ordering a birth certificate):

engine number is of course also on the engine:

every ACD engine I've seen has the same "crooked" digits. it looks like the numbers were hand-punched on the block.

need another VIN? it is again stamped on the body inside the front luggage compartment, just above the fuel tank:

as in Bob's case, this last VIN is usually the only one left on re-panned bugs sold in the USA.

additionally, in the back apron you'll find the production code:

in conjunction with the model year letter in the VIN this tells you the date of manufacture of your car.

lastly (here I'm recycling old pics) euro-imported beetles had VIN plates in the spare wheel well made by the importer, either in metal as on hopkin's car on with a simple laminated paper as in my car here:

note that all such plates had "Volkswagen AG" as the manufacturer instead of "Volkswagen de México, S.A. de C.V.". Not sure of the reason of this fact.

I made a better-looking VIN plate in the style of the contemporary VW VIN Stickers (again, just laminated paper)

hope someone finds this useful!
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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]

Great pics Garba! Thanks...

Your VIN tag on the pillar is the same as mine, the VIN tag on the white Beetle I saw in San Diego was different.

I don't have the production sticker on the tunnel. I noticed that they painted the inside of your car, leaving the area around the VIN with the grey.

My car has just the grey paint in that area, with the colour of my car its hard to notice the grey paint being different from the silver/gold (champagne) paint.

(There was a discussion earlier on this thread about whether or not VW of Mexico painted the inside of the cars).

I also made up a newer VIN tag (like the one in your picture) from the files you sent me a couple years ago. I was going to have a metal one made up but I never got around to it.

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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)

[Sotobaggins]

Amazon carries 2 types a VW type and a generic see links
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Parts-315272-Traile...2PHPS0JMZN

https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Parts-187153-Reprod...S9CBH6A8N5
Sorry just click the link I was going to put a picture...Sam[/img]
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2001 Ultima Clasico Edicion Mexibeetle
2003 Black GTI 1.8T

[hopkin]

Ouch! on the price of the second link.
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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)

[Gerrelt]

I've had an laser engraving shop create me two replicas of the type plates for my beetle:

I used free progam Inkscape to replicate the design, and send them a file in a certain format. They used the file to laser engrave the plates.
I know they can do an inverse (black background - silver letters) too. That way you could replicate the original sticker in metal quite accurately.
They actually send me one of the plates inverse by accident.

I can send you the inkscape file if you want to give it a try. I used a engraving shop in Germany (via eBay), but I guess there should be one around your area too.
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[GArBa]

is that program capable of reading other file formats? IIRC mine was a photoshop image (I've it temporarly lost the file, I'm sure it's somewhere in one of my HDs but I'm not sure which one... )
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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

[AlmostHeavenWV_VW]

Question over here from the German cousin I'm looking into putting a oil filter pump combo on my 73 standard beetle

Could anyone confirm/take a picture of the mounting of the OEM spin on oil filter & pump combo?

Mainly I'm interested to know whether the pump uses studs in the case with bolts to hold the pump or uses bolts ran directly into the engine case?


Many thanks in advance!
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1973 Standard Beetle
1600DP AK case
Solex 34PICT3 Carb
Bosch DVDA 205AJ Distributor

[GArBa]

studs. I don't have a pic of mine right now but this photo of hopkin's car is quite clear:

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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

[AlmostHeavenWV_VW]

[GArBa]

I think it was in a different thread, found it in his gallery.
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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

[Sotobaggins]

Now watchout because if you use a stock Mexican oil filter adapter it might not fit, try an EMPI of a brand used by a parts company like CIP1 or Amazon for the pump and filter kit
Sam
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2001 Ultima Clasico Edicion Mexibeetle
2003 Black GTI 1.8T

[Sotobaggins]

found one on amazon check link below
https://www.amazon.com/EMPI-9206-7-Full-Flow-Filte...+73+beetle
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2001 Ultima Clasico Edicion Mexibeetle
2003 Black GTI 1.8T

[Gerrelt]

[GArBa]

thanks, if it needs a vector it works the same as the laser engravers we have at work and it won't work with my file.
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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

[AlmostHeavenWV_VW]

[hopkin]

Here's some photos from Antonio's Gallery that show the adapter:

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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)