Welcome to BBT’s Friday Product Update…

Now that Bob and Jerry are visiting our Brazilian suppliers and manufacturers, it doesn’t mean our purchase department is taking it easy.

To complete our range of wiring harnesses we now have the missing ones for VW beetle convertibles AND for 181… We know the pictures all look the same or about, but if you click on the picture it guides you directly to the right product in our online catalogue!

Are you ready to order?

0692-5859 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1958-59

0692-6060 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1960

0692-6161 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1961

0692-6264 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1962-64

0692-7171 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1971

0692-7272 Wiring harness Beetle Convertible 1972

0693-181 Main wiring harness Type 181

They were  for a long time unavailable, but now we have  these cool products back in stock !

0307 Cal-Look front window rubber Super Beetle 73-

0343-1 Outer pop-out seal (pair) Beetle -64

7417 Side Window seal fixed – Bus -07/67

1130 Brakeline bend tool

 We have these cool vent wing locks in our program since 2014, but…. we’ve found out that our description wasn’t very accurate!

We tested and fitted on to our buses to figure exactly out what it’s all about…

0517-950 and 0517-955 are for center and rear side ventwing  for your Bay window, our 0517-05 and 0517-06 are for the front vent wings (yes, the ones in your cab doors), these are the same as for Beetle 68- and type 3 71-

0517-950 Ventwing lock middle and rear – Bus 08/67-07/79 left

0517-955 Ventwing lock middle and rear – Bus 08/67-07/79 right

The BBT FPU team wishes you all a fantastic weekend, and to Bob and Jerry safe travels!!

Yesterday we visit five more factories, and yes, we really worked hard on new and existing product lines!

First we visit the factory that is making for us the new camgear for our 30 DIN (36 SAE) HP okrasa camshafts…

Samples been displayed upon arrival in the meeting room!

The machine park was amazing!

Jerry got the whole explanation from Eloah!!

78 years and still going strong! Who told You working shouldn’t be good for you?

Next we went to a factory that makes only king and link pin components, we’re working on a big project with this company…

They have their own copper foundry for the bushing… like yesterday… this is not soup, but fluid copper!

From there we went to a factory that does specialise in forged bolts and nuts….

Fuscas as they call beetles over here are still everywhere, this yellow sunshine beetle we spotted on a parking of a shopping mall!

The bumper factory didn’t like pictures too much… respect, but our trusty supplier Universal (Locks and small parts) didn’t mind, we visit their state of the art distribution centre… 600 orders a day! Driven on latest technology!

Jerry tried to mess up there central computer centre…. believe me or not over 500 devices been connected here!

The export team that ALWAYS helps us out…is glad to pose with us!

State of the art building too… 12.000m2! Can you spot Jerry in the picture?

and back to the hotel… we spot this little Kombi just down the road!

Tomorrow another day and more visits, so stay tuned!

Our second day in Brazil started in carburetor factory Brosol….

Right at the assembly lines! Up to 400 different parts goes into one carburetor!

Quality control does matter for a carburetor production process! Every single carburetor is vacuum AND fluid tested even in different airflow and even in different gears!!

The testing lady works 43 years in this factory!

Busy assembly lines, produce up to 3000 carburetors a month!!

Mandatory picture…

Walter, the man who’s right from me in the picture, is the plant engineer and work 55(!) years for this factory, he’s the walking carburetor encyclopedia!

Next….We visited the push rod tube manufacturer, first we stick a BBT sticker to the owner, Mr Wilson, his Fusca…

The main machine in the production of push rod tubes… every 6 seconds a push rod comes out!

I can operate a machine like that…. LOL!

Final pressing…

….and liquid pressure test of every of our push rods!

This company makes also a lot of pulleys etc… excentre stamp presses enough… oh yes they’re still my favourite machinery!

The original VW blueprint is still the holy bible for the production!

The cut away gives us the right views of the inner structure… what can be improved???

Next we go to a factory specialised in Alu and Zinc Alloy pressure injection… very wide product range… as long as its aluminum or zinc alloy…:)

This is NOT soup! This is liquid aluminum!!

Enough half products and castings to fill an entire warehouse!!

Main reason for this visit was our production of ignition steering locks, for split window bus and for beetle… we getting close! Two more internal parts to develop and we can start assembly process development…

This will be a BBT exclusive product!

Ok lunch!! Let’s get some Brazilian BBQ…. what called Churascaria… ever heard of Picanha? It’s the best beef money can buy!

Up to the next factory… we lined up behind this cool Vw model we don’t have in Europe…

This factory makes our window winder mechanisms… bullet proof and super solid! A couple of euro’s more expensive as the Chinese crap on the market.

We follow these for years and don’t get returns at all! The BBT window regulators do work like they supposed to do… hope You buy them already?

we came here to understand the production process and for sure we’re impressed by the incredible nice organised production process!

They even have their own zinc facilities!

Assembly was well thought out and again very well organised with a very good lay out… Up to 6000(!) window regulators a day, very impressive!

Every window regulator is fully tested on its own!

Last factory make BBT bumper brackets, unfortunately no pictures allowed. sorry…:(

Tomorrow we see more productions, so stay tuned! we’re not home yet!