31 january 2020 - NEW
We enjoyed some beautiful winter days, while Bob and Jerry enjoy hot and humid summer days in Brazil, visiting suppliers and manufacturers….
We all can enjoy BBT News this week, with cool new products, which we like to introduce with this weekly Friday BBT NEWS edition…
We had the green corner windows already longer in our program, but now we like to present the clear ones as well…
They fit all 15 and 23 window buses including the Brazilian made 15 windows…
Sold each….
8949-710 Corner window – Bus 03/55-07/63 clear (1)
We like to present also the rocker under the sliding door for the T25/T3 or Vanagon (what’s in a name?)
The rocker for the left side (non sliding door) we already supplied for a longer time under BBT ref 0892-300, and now we enlarged our vanagon program with the right side. This is the rocker under the sliding door…
This rocker comes complete with the profile that holds the sliding door rubber below.
0892-301 Sill right – Bus 05/79-07/92
The seal for the sliding door can be found HERE
The treated plugs which hold the bolt for your security belts was already longer time available under BBT shop part n° W776-ZVW20PLUG, but out of popular demand we brought them into our general program.
This is an adaptor plug from the large 24 mm hole to the later 7/16”, but can also be welded in . We supply them with the proper bolt and washer for a correct installation of your safety belts.
Safety for everything…. Now you can install safety belts in any old classic car, that was not previewed to have these necessary safety devices…
Sold per set of one bolt and one plug.
0573-200 Seat belt adapter plug – Beetle 62-65, Bus 62-67
Following products came back in stock after a longer time being unavailable…
0909-500 Support clutch cable tube Beetle 72-74
1239-47 Emergency brake support rod right – Bus 02/73-07/79
1239-961 Emergency brake support right – Beetle/KG 10/57-
1239-890 Emergency brake handle left – Beetle 09/57-
1239-891 Emergency brake handle right – Beetle 09/57-
Various items are being removed from stock to make room for new ones. Of some items there is only 1 left in stock. So be quick, because GONE = GONE Prices excl. VAT
Air jet, Dellorto DRLA
2193-1-170 = Ø 170
2193-1-205 = Ø 205
2193-1-210 = Ø 210
2193-1-220 = Ø 220
6,55 euro
Air jet, Weber progressive
2193-2-185 = Ø 185
2193-2-195 = Ø 195
1,49 euro
2194-1-170 Fuel jet, Dellorto DRLA Ø 170
2,55 euro
2195-3-070 Idle jet, IDA Ø 070
2,95 euro
BBT NEWS team wishes you a very relax winter weekend… and for Bob and Jerry a way to hot and extreme humid Brazilian adventure weekend, ah!
PS don’t mess up Bob and Jerry with Tom and Jerry they’re from different comics…:)
30 january 2020 - BBT Travels
We visited some serious injection factories who make all kind of neat stuff for all and new cars, for OE (assembly lines) as for aftermarket… and now they understand they have a third market, the Classic car market…
Very interesting products been discussed and development of other products has been evaluated… good things to come….)
Unbelievable we need this kind of big machines to make parts for our beetles and buses, always wonder how they did it in 1951?
A mix of pictures from several factories we visited….
We always like our manufacturers employe happy people, and that was for sure her, they all waved to us!
These girls assemble small parts, whole day long…. for us, to put on our Volkswagens!
We saw big injection machines, these machines You need to make all kind of plastic, for an example the side protection plates for 73-76 beetle seats….:)
We saw even bigger injection machines, these are for large parts, currently this machine don’t make parts for us yet…
This is the inside of an injection machine, man can only wonder what such a tooling cost…:)
Something completely else… a pneumatic assembly machine for door switches, one model only, 6000pcs a day…. crazy!
What we’re cooking today Jerry?
An eagle view from an injection machine set up… three machines, one operator….
We visited several lab’s, quality control, material evaluation, production quality etc etc… this one was really impressive, as it was really ultra clean!
Something else again…:) very well organised factory make electrical components mainly, this visit was a blast!
Springs, who need springs? this is a fully CNC operated Spring making machines, all kind of springs….:)
We saw raw material in tons and tons, good factories protect themselves in Brazil with inventory, because the market tendencies are way more volatile as for an example in Europa its necessary to think ahead and has a huge inventory, what start with raw material off course, here for 6 months.
Off course it’s also a guarantee for your workers they have at least six more months work!
This a part of a tooling department from one of our suppliers. The days that Brasil had only dirty small factories hardly under a roof are over.
Brasil now a days is a modern economy with lots of modern factories…
If You like tooling, well check them out here… as Jerry did…:)
These tooling make a lot of Volkswagen parts …..
Oh inventory is real necessary as said before, also from finished product!
This is IGP, one of our suppliers for fenders, floorplates etc… the factory is on both sides of the streets…:)
We we’re kind a late so we didn’t make a factory tour, only had a boring meeting regarding some quality issues, but, we came out with a cool new plan… stay tuned for updates…:)
Tha way back to the city; Sao Paolo skyline or part there off… crazy city, crazy people, crazy business, we just love it….
Happy we’re working again on better parts, and help out problems for the entire VW community…
we continue our travel report on saturday as tomorrow (friday) we have the weekly BBT NEWS with all new arrivals for the week… so a lot o come…:)
29 january 2020 - Cars for Sale
