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BBT Olivier and his team changed the passage between some BBT warehouse aisles.

With the transformation of the BBT Car collection building into SWT warehouse we still had to line up all alleys between the aisles.

Looks easy, but imagine all tension on the shelving after 12 years of intensive use…

The result is just stunning and for sure, this helps for smoother, faster and before all a more safe work surrounding for the BBT order picking crew!

Great job Olivier, well done!

Its just a perfect Sunday to check out some prototype pictures scored by Jos lately on the internet…

For all of us to enjoy….

The war in Ukraine keeps  filling up our newspapers.
Raised and living with moral values man can only confess this is a stain on humanity.

This should not happen anymore in 2022.
Also Covid seems to be back with lockdowns in big cities like Shanghai (26million people).

Inflation is roaring, and headlines news is not too much positive.
But unemployment is lowest in ages, in USA even the lowest since 1968!

More positive news you find here below, a lot of new products to make your Volkswagen life an easier one.

We carry the headliners for your standard beetle in white color since longer time HERE
We now extend this line also with black color headliners for standard beetle.

Standard beetles carried only a small square headliner and had the sides of your roof, B pillars and around rear and rear quarter windows uncovered but painted metal.
Very typical and so much closer to the initial idea of a basic car that a beetle should be.

BBT standard headliners  come with the cardboard flaps, exactly like original, for easy installation.
Standard headliners are a perfect finish especially for Cal Look Beetles!

Back to the basics!

2903-105 Headliner (Standard) – Beetle -07/71 black (138cm)
2903-115 Headliner(Standaard) – Beetle 08/71- black (135cm)

Bay window lovers beware!
Keep your passenger cool as well as yourself!

For 76-79 Bay window models Volkswagen replaced both fresh air control handles on your dashboard by a single handle only.
Hence they connected the left and right fresh air flap with a lousy rubber/plastic connector.

We all know seventies plastic does not live forever (except in oceans)
The original poor plastic connector tends to age, brake, crush and even pulverize.

This makes the right flap will not operate properly anymore or doesn’t open at all.
These days are over now as our brand new connector opens both of your air flaps at the same time.

Just keeps you and your passenger in the same flow, air flow that is…:)

0725-525 connector front fresh air flap – Bus 08/76-07/79

Karmann Ghia restorers attention please!

BBT now stocks  the inner part of the rear wheel arches for this most beautiful Volkswagen model.

The outer wheel arch repair panel we  stock already long time HERE
All other Karmann Ghia repair panels you can find HERE

0889-105 Wheelarch rear inner left – Karmann Ghia
0889-106 Wheelarch rear inner right – Karmann Ghia

Attention Wide Five lovers.
Attention tire, wheel and workshops alike.

Stop the problems you experience trying to balance  of a 5 x 205 lug wheel.
BBT now offers a simple adapter plate to bolt on the wheel fitting to most wheel balancers.

Or if your tire shop doesn’t carry our adapter plate buy one for yourself.
So you can take your own adapter plate to any tire shop and never suffer from impossible  balance of your cool Wide Fives anymore.

Wide Five rules!

1152-000 Adapter plate wheel balancing machine 5×205

In our VDO line we now add  the VDO vision rev counter.
0-8000rpm monitor it all!

Universal use for all 4, 6 or 8 cylinder engines.
Other VDO gauges and VDO sensors in the BBT range you can find HERE

2603-500 Revolution counter VDO “VISION” 8000RPM (52 mm)

Finally arrived back in our stocks!

This pre-heater tube is a real necessity when you drive your beloved late model air-cooled Volkswagen in colder weather.
This pre-heater tube guides the warm air of your (air) cooling system into your air cleaner, so your air/fuel mixture gets a necessary temperature to avoid your inlet manifold to freeze up.

Frozen inlet manifolds prevent your engine from proper idling and get an extra ordinary bad mileage on your gas.
The acceleration of the mixture in your inlet manifold makes cooling down the inlet manifold quite a bit, even that much it really does not have to freeze to get your manifold frozen!

So a good working original pre-heater set up is a real necessity!

All pre-heater and heater hoses and installation necessities can be found HERE

2219-100 Pre-heater pipe to aircleaner Type 1

Back on popular demand!

8950-106 Rear window – Bus 08/63-07/79 no heating – green

Stay healthy, stay safe, keep breathing and keep on Buggin’

Happy weekend from all of us here @ BBT HQ.