14 april 2023 - NEW
Did you digest your Easter eggs all well?
Besides the eggs around Easter the new season starts to drive our beloved Volkswagen classic cars.
Let us see what is new this week to make that drive more enjoyable.
Welcome to the BBT News.
We received our new fuel tanks for split window bus.
Perfect fit and finish, at least as good than the more expensive tank from Wolfsburg West we carry HERE
Our new gas tanks come with the hole for a fuel sender. For early buses without fuel gauge, you use our fuel sender hole blocking plate 0492-915
0492-900 Fuel tank – Bus 03/55-07/67
Out of the remains of the Dieter Schmidt Lorenz company we got this large stash of NOS fuel tank connection elbows for beetle and bus.
We decided to offer these cool NOS elbows without gasket, filter or nut just as VW always did.
0492-101 Fuel tank connection NOS – Beetle/KG, Bus -01/74, Type181, Type3
Complete fuel tank connection kits we offer HERE
BBT offers a wide range of fuel tanks, mounting hardware, connections etc. HERE
We came across of a forgotten box from our ever last Volkswagen do Brazil factory delivery.
For one reason or another these never made it into our system.
Our mistake but your gain as you can buy again these top notch window felts for your bay window bus quarter lights now.
Because of the specific shape these only fit Bay window buses and are slightly different than BBT # 7066
The box even contained a nice quantity but stocks are limited.
Sold each on a first come first serve base.
7540 Window felt quarterlight – Bus 08/67-07/79 – VW do Brazil (1)
We received again the complete clutch cross shaft kits with many other long time backorders…
1524-05 Cross shaft kit (HD) Type1 61-70
1524-06 Cross shaft kit (HD) Type1 71-72
1524-25 Cross shaft kit (HD) Type2 68-70
1524-26 Cross shaft kit (HD) Type2 71-75
1489-550 Washer for mounting bolt Swing gear box
BBT news team wishes you a fine weekend, enjoy your Volkswagens as we will do.
7 april 2023 - NEW
Was covid just a reset button economically?
What did Covid do? Is there really before, during and after?
Sometimes it feels like we started all over again, isn’t it?
Everything looks and feels so different.
Before Covid, seems like pre-Historic, such a long time ago….
Now after Covid, or can we say “Post Covid”, energy, worldwide shipping, exchange rates etc are regulating or kind of.
Inflation seems heading in the right direction…. or kind of.
The only exception seems prices, many things became much more expensive.
The price of eggs raised 300% in three years’ time, in Belgium at least.
We might count ourselves happy with VW parts, price increases are still affordable.
We @ BBT, just continue what we have always done, creating more possibilities to enjoy our VW hobby the right way.
Our purchase team is fighting every day to keep things available and affordable.
We study each product over en over again, checking on quality, availability, and price, in that order.
That way we can sink prices from time to time too.
No general price rise @ BBT.
This way we try to be your favorite brand supplying the parts you really need for your beloved Volkswagen.
Welcome to the BBT News.
We came across a parts lot of these very specific heater cables for your late Bay window bus.
This is the cable regulating the warm air flow and runs from dashboard to the heat distributor central down under your bus.
The central down under heat distributor regulates the air for front or rear cabin.
For deluxe models that is.
These cables are absolutely NOS Germany.
Make that heater work, properly!
0931-610 Heater cable air distributor under – Bus 08/75-07/79 LHD – 2515mm NOS
More heater cables you can find HERE
Need to Nose?
Beetle license lights up to 1963 nicknamed “nose”, because that’s exactly how they look!
Knowing nothing about otorhinolaryngology we still managed to get all components for our beetle noses!
Today we add the small rubber between lens and housing for 58-63 noses.
0749-120 License plate light seal – Beetle 08/57-07/63
Rubber between housing and engine lid HERE
The separate lens is HERE or a complete new nose you find HERE
We made the bumper bracket spacer up to 1967 with an extra eye stamped in one piece.
This eye mounts different accessories as fog or reverse lights easily.
On semaphore cars these brackets are perfectly used for extra blinkers too.
Regular bumper bracket spacers up to 1967 you find HERE
0009-120 Bumper bracket spacer with bracket – Beetle -07/67 (TQ)
Details do matter!
Being 100% symmetric before we remade these wiper shaft grommets with an extra buffer lip outside and one conical inside.
The buffer lip makes sure that water is kept out and the conical inside helps at mounting.
We now made them exactly as Volkswagen used to make them back in the day.
For perfect fit and finish.
Detail is necessary, also in our smaller parts!
All together for a better (VW) world!
2425 Grommet wipershaft – Beetle/KG 07/69-, Bus 08/67-07/79, Type3
All our wiper shaft grommets can be found HERE
Massive arrivals, over 300 backorders arrived last two weeks.
Some examples below, but don’t forget to check our website to check availability.
0438-201 Door lock catch left front door – Bus 12/63-07/66
0438-202 Door lock catch right front door – Bus 12/63-07/66
0438-600 Door check strap cargo door – Bus -12/60
Do you know anti-theft shifter locks need a special shifter boot?
We now ave them back available !
Our range of anti-theft shifter locks you can find HERE
0527-500 Seal on anti-theft on shifter
The taillight housing holder for 55-61 taillights came back in as well.
All of our bulb holders for early taillights HERE
0626-550 Taillight housing holder left – Beetle 08/55-08/61
0627-550 Taillight housing holder right – Beetle 08/55-08/61
BBT News team wishesyou a very enjoyable early spring weekend…
31 märz 2023 - NEW
No buzz, no hush but every week real VW stuff.
Welcome to the BBT News.
We enlarge our stock style shifter and shifter components program.
This week our new shifter bases have arrived.
Two models to choose from, Beetle or Bus.
We currently work on complete shifter kits for split and bay window bus
0510-010 Shifter base – Beetle 08/52-, KG, Type3, Type181
0510-015 Shifter base – Bus 50-07/79
The proper shifter springs, lock out plate and slide ring you can find HERE
Complete Beetle shifter kits you can find HERE
“Shock pads” mount between chassis and body near the rear axle.
Every car body is different, especially after intensive welding.
Different size of shock pad can be necessary to level out the body correctly to the chassis.
In certain circumstances you can adjust door gaps with larger or smaller shock pads, especially with convertibles.
We supply 10 & 17mm shock pads for longer time, we now add 7mm thick shock pads.
The 7mm thick shock pads can be just enough where 10 or 17mm is too much.
No more rubber cutting, BBT brings the right parts for the right solutions.
0704-090 Shock pad body/chassis 7mm (4)
0704-095 Shock pad body/chassis 7mm – eccentric hole (4)
Other shock pads you do find HERE
We improved our door panel clips for Bay window bus.
Not really happy with what we had we made a new production from 100% NOS clips.
Our new clips tend to hold better in the door.
Only perfect is good enough for our Volkswagens, right?
0409-550 Door panel clips front and rear – Bus 07/67-07/79
Our complete family door panel clips and their seals HERE
We get a load of containers in and some real long backorders arrived last week, but…
more to come I see several more containers with long delays finally arriving…
3506 Seat padding front backrest – Beetle 08/76-07/79
3523 Seat padding 1/3 front backrest T2 68-74
3555 Seat padding rear bottom – Beetle 08/55-07/64
3565 Seat padding rear bottom T1 -72 Convertible
The BBT News team wishes you a splendid weekend!