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It’s winter in Western Europe.
Snow, ice, and freezing temperatures.

It’s an extreme winter in Scandinavia.
Loads of snow, extremely freezing and too much ice.

It is almost spring weather in south of Spain.
BBT customers send us pictures from their lunch on their patio…

Nothing we can do about the weather.
But we can help with parts for your Classic Volkswagen.

This week again we have a couple of real cool releases for you lined up.
Welcome to the BBT News.

Most Bay Window Westfalia campers had always an unbelievable beautiful upholstery.
Beautiful, checkered colors, to match the woodgrain interiors.

As nothing last forever,  we now offer our brand new (re)production as a perfect replacement.
Several reproductions were already on the market, but nothing that could carry our interest.

We bring you bright colors, wear-resistant, economically priced and fire retardant.
That last one is especially important and even mandatory in camper vans.

This upholstery is specially woven for us and meets all our requirements.
We have a cool quantity breakdown on rolls of 50 meters.

But we sell also per running meter on a width of 150cm in all five original colors.
Logically, we will not accept returns for custom-delivered lengths.

Perfect to bring that scruffy interior back to factory standards.
Or are you creative enough to make accessories, cushions, purses or?

6460-200 Westfalia upholstery orange – Bus 08/67-07/79 (per metre) BBT
6460-210 Westfalia upholstery yellow/green – Bus 08/67-07/79 (per metre) BBT
6460-220 Westfalia upholstery green/green – Bus 08/67-07/79 (per metre) BBT
6460-230 Westfalia upholstery blue/green – Bus 08/67-07/79 (per metre) BBT
6460-240 Westfalia upholstery brown/beige – Bus 08/67-07/79 (per metre) BBT

Making tooling can be tricky…

This tooling was ordered over 10 years ago.
Major surprise when we got the phone call three months ago it was finally ready!

This plug sits in the lower part of the B pillar on all bay window buses and T25/T3/Vanagon.
It is meant to seal the holes after treating the cavities for corrosion prevention.

Easy installation. Four needed per car.
Insert the plug and tap the top in with a hammer.

The other plug for your Bay window B-Pillar & door step you find HERE
The white plugs in the rear corner of your Bay window HERE

0716-810 Plug in B-Pillar, lower – Bus 08/67-07/92 BBT

Totally unhappy with what was available we made our own valve cover gaskets.
Quality is a main issue, we teamed up with a very experienced cork gasket maker.

Testing being more important than producing we evaluated multiple samples on different test cars and engines over the last couple of years.
Perfect fit, to stay in place and no leaks that were our targets.

Several combinations later, changing the mixture of rubber, cork, density, and pressure temperatures we got the positive results we had been looking for.
Even without any sealer if  used in combination with BBT valve cover HERE and BBT valve cover clip HERE

Finally, a valve cover gasket our beloved Volkswagens deserved.
And because of the quantity produced we can offer at competitive prices with very cool quantity breakdowns, order yours now!

1770-01 Valve cover gasket – Type1 (top quality) BBT

BBT News team wishes you a cozy and warm winter weekend.

Some new rubbers for T25/T3/Vanagon, and a  new production for split window beetle parts.
This week we show that we cover all volkswagen models that came with air-cooled engines.

Very early till very last models, we might have the parts you need.
Let us introduce you to our new “harvest” of this week.

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T25/T3/Vanagon Syncro models have a completely different fuel tank and filler set up than  their regular brothers.
The gas tank being in the back, makes that the filler neck moved also to the rear part of your ride.

Kept in place with a rubber to its bracket to avoid unnecessary vibrations and a precise fit.
We now bring you  this very specific rubber for the Syncro filler neck.

Another proud BBT production to get these rubbers in an excellent quality at a fair price.
Other fuel neck rubbers and derivates you can find HERE

0492-865 Filler neck seal Synco – Bus 10/84-07/92

Also T25/T3/Vanagon pick-up models don’t escape our attention.
We made the rubber seals for the treasure chest doorhandle.
Fits single as double cab treasure chest doorhandles.

0723-730 Seal Treasure chest door handle large – Bus 05/79/07/92 BBT
0723-735 Seal Treasure chest door handle small – Bus 05/79/07/92 BBT

Beside our premium brake drum line from OMC, we also work hard on our house brand brake drums.
High quality brake drums made in Brazil by a large brake drum manufacturer.

BBT brake drums  come in their custom designed boxes.
For 2024, we plan significant expansion of our range private label brake drums.

1289-001 Rear brake drum – Bus 08/70-07/79 BBT

Battery cover mounting kits for your split window beetle or barndoor bus, we sold out too long ago, are BACK!
We had to make brand new tooling as the old tooling was badly stored.

Quiet a challenge but we succeeded again and finished this project.
Making these necessary items back available.

0637-9 Batterycover mountingkit – Beetle -09/52 (pair) BBT

We updated our 4 Watt bulbs for parking lights.
Because the wrong design of the old badge where the collar plied outside, they did not fit early reflectors.

We changed that design and are now happy to offer these with a perfect fit for all headlight reflectors.
Plenty of stock and cool quantity breakdowns.

Buy yours now.
BBT stocks all necessary bulbs for your air-cooled Volkswagen HERE

0661-10 Bulb 6 volt 4W (pair)
0661-20 Bulb 12 volt 4W (pair)

Large production of Sintermetal bearings arrived on our shelves last week.
All sizes are back available.
Complete list of our Type 1 main bearings and all their sizes HERE

1607-100 Main bearings Type1 1.00 crankshaft/STD case
1609-0-20 Main bearings Type1 STD crankshaft/0.50 case (thrust -2mm)
1609-075 Main bearings Type1 0.75 crankshaft/0.50 case
1610-050 Main bearings Type1 0.50 crankshaft/0.75 case
1611-0-20 Main bearings Type1 STD crankshaft/1.00 case (thrust -2mm)
1611-025-20 Main bearings Type1 0.25 crankshaft/1.00 case (thrust -2mm)
1612-025-20 Main bearings Type1 0.25 crankshaft/1.50 case (thrust -2mm)
1612-025-21 Main bearings Type1 0.25 crankshaft/1.50 case (thrust -1mm)
1612-050-20 Main bearings Type1 0.50 crankshaft/1.50 case (thrust -2mm)

BBT News team wishes you a cool, cozy and relaxed weekend!

Welcome to 2024 !
Let us wish you a good health, lot of success, fortune and a lot of VW fun.

The VW fun part we will help what we can where we can.
Every week new and better products.

The BBT products train doesn’t stop going on, no, it doesn’t slow down.
There’s a lot in the pipeline for 2024!

We take a flying start with that.
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When VW do Brazil quits production for the door check rod for bay window buses a mere 10 years ago, supply dried up soon.
With no sources left BBT decided to team up and start our own production.

This was not an easy one and took us four years to finish as we wanted it.
We needed the right tension on the spring, the correct looks, the prefect density on the rubber and many more details to be correct at once.

Another BBT exclusively made with proud for you.
Door stops for beetle and early bus you find HERE

0438-65 Door check rod – Bus 08/67-07/77 SWT

We add a third quality of floorplates for beetle.
Our Economy floor plate too thin, our OE Quality too expensive for many.

We teamed up with IGP and bring you this 1mm thick floor plate with a better paint finish right in between.
We care for your Volkswagen from the bottom up!

BBT complete floor plate line HERE

0854-005 Floor plate left (1.00mm) – Beetle -07/70
0855-005 Floor plate right (1.00mm) – Beetle -07/70

0854-105 Floor panel left (1.00mm) – Beetle 08/70-07/72
0855-105 Floor panel right (1.00mm) – Beetle 08/70-07/72

0854-355 Floor plate with seat hump left (1.00mm) – Beetle 08/72-
0855-355 Floor plate with seat hump right (1.00mm) – Beetle 08/72-

The 1968 model year was one of these model years the beetle had loads updates.
One update was the fuel tank breather.

The rubber that connects the breather pipe with the fuel tank during first 6 months for the 68-model year was discontinued and VW already changed the design after 6 months.

BBT tooled up and brings back this specific 6-months only rubber.
High quality, with correct dimensions, made after a German NOS part.

The BBT T-connector for the fuel tank breather HERE
Beetle fuel tank breather hoses HERE

0492-245 Rubber boot fuel tank breather pipe – Beetle, KG 08/67-12/67 BBT

Early beetles always had a weak spot in the BBT hearts.
We bring back the dash pod mounting kits for split window beetle, Early Pre-A Porsche and barndoor buses.

Complete new production on brand new tooling.

2685 Dash pod mountingkit  Kever -10/52, Bus -03/55 BBT

Wishing everyone a great weekend !