underwhelmd
Veteran Member
With the relatively nicer weather, I have started the 98 beetle project with some seriousness.
When I took delivery of it, it was a failed project the previous owner took on so it needs a lot of work. I'm ok with that because it's fun to drive with the lift and bigger tires. There are several in the local junkyards I can scrounge from. The doors will be staying black because I am putting my company name on them.
A spot of rust ahead of the rear fender above the rocker that needs to be fixed asap.
215/65/16 3" taller than stock?
lots of room
runs ok. 380,000KM on it. I removed an inline coolant heater that was leaking badly. The hose coming off the overflow bottle is leaking as well....that's next. It runs at 89C on the highway all day. Mileage is not great with those tires.
Needs a complete dash and center console and and and. The previous owner was going to install a cage because he had plans on rally racing it here... full stop when it was not a fast car. at all. by then the plastics were all thrown out-
Needs hatch struts. The blanket is because I have a dog that sheds a bit.
It is currently still leaking some power steering fluid. In the process of fixing that.
CEL is on for a glow plug harness fault... may fix it, may not.
I will definitely be putting smaller tires on it for summer by at least an inch lower to get some gearing back and make it more reasonable in 5th gear.
When I took delivery of it, it was a failed project the previous owner took on so it needs a lot of work. I'm ok with that because it's fun to drive with the lift and bigger tires. There are several in the local junkyards I can scrounge from. The doors will be staying black because I am putting my company name on them.
A spot of rust ahead of the rear fender above the rocker that needs to be fixed asap.
215/65/16 3" taller than stock?
lots of room
runs ok. 380,000KM on it. I removed an inline coolant heater that was leaking badly. The hose coming off the overflow bottle is leaking as well....that's next. It runs at 89C on the highway all day. Mileage is not great with those tires.
Needs a complete dash and center console and and and. The previous owner was going to install a cage because he had plans on rally racing it here... full stop when it was not a fast car. at all. by then the plastics were all thrown out-
Needs hatch struts. The blanket is because I have a dog that sheds a bit.
It is currently still leaking some power steering fluid. In the process of fixing that.
CEL is on for a glow plug harness fault... may fix it, may not.
I will definitely be putting smaller tires on it for summer by at least an inch lower to get some gearing back and make it more reasonable in 5th gear.