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wannathing
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 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: Tilt steering wheel |
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I was wondering if anyone has put a tilt steering wheel into a Thing. I am a tall sort of guy, and have a little trouble at times getting under the wheel. I have though of a smaller diameter wheel, but thought that maybe a tilt column with the stock wheel would be nice.
Also, any pros and cons concerning the non-vacuum distributor, compared to the stock vacuum distributor.
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15 windowdelux
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I went the smaller steering wheel route when I had my thing. It worked ok for me.
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germansupplyscott
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i have a similar problem, i have to do a funny movement with my foot in order to get into the car. i have a smaller wheel, but i want the car to be original. it is driven 90% of the time by my wife, who has no trouble getting in.
as for the distributor, stay with the original single or dual vacuum unit. the mechanical only will not perform well for street driving.
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mattt
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| germansupplyscott wrote: |
i have a similar problem, i have to do a funny movement with my foot in order to get into the car. i have a smaller wheel, but i want the car to be original. it is driven 90% of the time by my wife, who has no trouble getting in.
as for the distributor, stay with the original single or dual vacuum unit. the mechanical only will not perform well for street driving. |
I looked around for a VW tilt steering column, and never found one. I was mainly looking in the 80s VWs, because I think the earlier VWs never had tilt. I have yet to see one VW with tilt steering. I only looked for VW tilt columns hoping the it would ease the wiring issues.
If you went totally aftermarket and built it to work,,,,okay, but I never ran across any VW with tilt. Does anyone know of any VW with tilt steering? Id like to have it. |
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Pinky
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I thought I heard of someone putting in and modifying a rabbit column to get an intermitent wiper position in their Thing, I dunno if the column had tilt though. I know that airkewld.com offers some sort of adjustable column, but I remember it being pretty pricey. Their marketing is pretty lame, but I've heard fairly good reviews of their products. A few years back there was a fella that modified an oldsmobile column for his black 67 bug- I think he was from maine...
anyway- for what it's worth.... hope this is any help 
-The Pink One |
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wannathing
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| You are correct. i went to the site and looked for the column. They are a special order, and they have to build it for ya. $800.00. I think the smaller wheel option would be the best idea. Thanks all. |
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mattt
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you mentioned the Golf/rabbit column going in a Thing. thingtech.com That was Thomas A. that did that. It didnt have tilt though. I dont think he ever got the intermittent feature working, not sure though.
I checked out Air"Kewl'd"s site. Lame, and a rip off to boot. I recognized those tilt columns. ididit.com makes those columns, and they run around $300 if I remember correctly. Im on an Early Bronco list & someone ran a mass buy on those a while back & got the price down into the low to mid $200 range. So, eff AirKewl'd........ and get it without the sore ass included.
ididit.com or BCbroncos.com
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I thought I heard of someone putting in and modifying a rabbit column to get an intermitent wiper position in their Thing, I dunno if the column had tilt though. I know that airkewld.com offers some sort of adjustable column, but I remember it being pretty pricey. Their marketing is pretty lame, but I've heard fairly good reviews of their products. A few years back there was a fella that modified an oldsmobile column for his black 67 bug- I think he was from maine...
anyway- for what it's worth.... hope this is any help
-The Pink One |
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Airkewld
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thanks alot for all those wonderful comments "Matt". It really puts a smile on my face. As for the coloumn that is on my website, I installed one into a customers car, from ididit, and i include the borgeson joints, the superbeetle coupler, the steering wheel adapter and the mount to hold it into place. But as anyone who talk to me, (communication), I am not selling them because they are to pricey. We are in the process of building a tilt coloumn for around $300 and that will include every thing that you need to install it
Thanks again Matt for the effn comments! I look forward to doing a ton of business with you!
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mattt
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| Airkewld wrote: |
thanks alot for all those wonderful comments "Matt". It really puts a smile on my face. As for the coloumn that is on my website, I installed one into a customers car, from ididit, and i include the borgeson joints, the superbeetle coupler, the steering wheel adapter and the mount to hold it into place. But as anyone who talk to me, (communication), I am not selling them because they are to pricey. We are in the process of building a tilt coloumn for around $300 and that will include every thing that you need to install it
Thanks again Matt for the effn comments! I look forward to doing a ton of business with you! |
I was simply pointing out that the tilt column you list on your site is available from the mfg. for substantially less coin. It did not specify on your website that you include additional parts with the column such as,,,,,"borgeson joints, the superbeetle coupler, the steering wheel adapter and the mount to hold it into place." I suppose that could drive the price up a bit. No problem on the effn comments, they are just my observations. I dont think we have any pending business, do we?
"Matt" |
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Big Luni
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| The Mexican Bugs from the 80's on up have the same steering wheels as the Golfs & Jettas from the same year. I'm not sure what the column is like, but maybe tilt was an option on later cars. It's worth checking into with BeetleMex or someone like that... |
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Pinky
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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the late model mexi-bug steering shafts have a smaller spleen- no idea about tilt though...
-Pinky |
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