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…

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!

Is Tik-Tok dangerous?
CEO Shou Zi Chew tried to explain the US congress it isn’t.

Maybe CEO’s from Facebook, Twitter, Google and others should be heard as well.
Fact is that too many data mining companies start knowing more about us and our behavior as we do ourselves.

Facebook and Burn-out are two words invented on the same day.
Chinese, American or any other app, its user responsibility what data to share.

But using all App’s with necessary caution is a valuable advice!
BBT website is not a data mining App, don’t worry..

We’re just here to make our VW lives more enjoyable.
Welcome to our weekly News….

This is the lock that keep your bay window sliding door in the open position as long as you want it to be.
We have the spring (HERE) and rubber (HERE) available longer time.

Now we supply the complete unit for your easy VW life, replace, plug and play.
All the parts for your sliding door you can find HERE

7570-000 Sliding door lock mechanism rear complete – Bus 08/67-07/79 (LHD)

Beetles up to 1953 and buses up to 1966 had their brake fluid reservoir mounted directly onto their brake master cylinder.
Between the brake master cylinder and its reservoir was this ring to avoid leaking and strengthen up the bottom of your reservoir.

It’s recommended to replace this ring every time you take the reservoir and master cylinder apart.

1257-212 Seal brake fluid reservoir – Bus -07/66, Beetle -12/53

Besides the ivory white wiper switch knob with 4mm internal thread (HERE) we stock now the same knob also in black color.

2444-146 Wiper switch knob Black (4mm) – Beetle 10/52-07/61, Bus 3/55-07/65

All of our switch knobs you can find HERE

We updated the strength of our 65-67 front brake drums.
In cooperation with prime brake drum manufacturer OMC in Italy we changed the tooling to add metal where the windings are.

This makes the thread hole 9mm deep exactly like original.
This results in more windings and more strength.

Safety before all!
Another BBT exclusive.

1284 Front brake drum 5×205 – Beetle/KG 08/65-07/67, Type181

Over 16 tons of brake drums received this week, so we have all Top Quality OMC brake drums back in stock!

1283 Front brake drum 5×205 – Beetle/kG 10/57-07/65

1286 Front brake drum – 1302/1303

BBT News Team hopes you enjoy first spring weekend fully!