New girl!

Just recently got a 2 ltr beetle, wanting to go to meets etc and get my car noticed, soo thought I'd join and see what's happening

welcome!

thanks! Theres a meet on Sunday isn't there? In peterlee?

hi welcome yea there is its just up from catipillar where abouts u from :)and nice car lol

Hey thanks! And I'm from blackhall ah right! I'll have to come up on Sunday, ill feel crap as i dont know anybody who goes haha and aw thanks

Hey welcome. Finally registered eh? Just come along, we a friendly bunch (apart from Steven but he too lazy to get out of his car) lol

Yeaahh finally lol! Yeah I'm gunna come on Sunday and ah lol! Lazy as eh :p haha

hey and welcome. get some pics up of the bug!

Hey and thanks, I tried to earlier but it wouldn't let me, I'll have to try later off the laptop

use something like photobucket to put your pics up

Thanks I'll try it

Welcome, what have you done to your bettle so far?

In all honesty, not a lot! just cleaned her up really and sorted her out she was absolutely disgusting when i got it, I've only had her like a week or so lol!

yea dont worry bout not knowin anybody will be gd to have a beetle apart ov dubascrub aswell got any plans for it then and should get dubascrub sticker on:D

Yeahh I was looking at the dubascrub stickers the other day ha, I wanna lower it abit, but I've been advised not to, bigger wheeles, paint the break calIpers yellow, I did want a bonnet bra, but one of the lads off here said it'll make a mess if any stones or anything gets under it, so I'm not gunna bother lol! I'm after advise and what not to do to her as I'm fairly new to all of this lol!

I would lower it, 17 or 18" wheels and nothing bigger. That would be all I would say. Lowering is the main part of making the car sit nice and look nice so that should be your first mod. And coilovers not springs. I was the one who said no the bra unless its for tits

Yeahh the wheeles I've got on now are way too small, so that's a definite lol! The only thing is, they look like steelies when they're going round so in two minds weather to do them a different colour. An yeahh a few people's told me to get coilovers instead of springs if I was gunna lower her, and lol!

Well they probably 16" that's on at the min? They only look small because your car will be high. Once it's lowered they won't look bad. I would get some audi TT comps or something, think them wheels would suit it well.

Yeahh tbf I'm not sure if they're 15" or 16" but yeah I've been looking at some Audi sr 4 or 8, wheels on eBay they're 17" but they're silver so I'll need to get them sprayed but they'd look better than what I've got

TT comps on this would look sweet and coilovers are a must haha everyone hears about the horror stories when lowering a car but the way I see it is that theres enough people who've done it and there will be many more to come. it wouldn't happen if it was that bad? you just have to be careful and read up on it as much as possible before doing so and anyone on here would be more than happy to help.

just don't ask Jak cos his car gives people nose bleeds... or Sloanes because your wheel will fall off haha

Yeahhh I think I'll end up lowering her, and I'll have a look at the tt comps, cheers I've got a slow puncture and I've just had to pump it up by foot, as it was practically on the kerb ha what do I do or go to get the puncture fixed?

either get to down to a garage and get it repaired or get one of them temp tyre repair can things which you spray into the valve and it seals the gap kinda like a get you home fix

get yourself a thread started for... does the bug have a name?

Right, I'll go get it sorted tomorrow lol! Cheers and yeah she's called Lotte ha

Welcome to the forum

A slow puncture could just mean the tire needs reseating, happened to me a few times and is much cheaper than a full repair/new tire