Repairing a broken New Beetle door handle with Dieselgeek Beetlebrace
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2013
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Finally, a product and a how-to for repairing the failure prone New Beetle inside door handle. Details of the preparation for reinforcing the broken New Beetle door handle with epoxy are given before the final installation of the new Dieselgeek Beetlebrace kit. This video gives the viewer the ability to save hundreds if not more than a thousand dollars to save the original interior door panel or panels after the inside handle has cracked or broken. - Авто та транспорт
Just want to say that I ordered this kit, and this turned out to be a super easy job. A few tips, though:
1) The kit doesn't come with any instructions. The two videos are the only thing for reference.
2) Buy some JB weld glue before starting the job.
3) A Dremel tool is useful (and I love my Dremel tool, believe me!), but if you don't feel like buying one for this job, rough sand paper for cleaning out the hole, and a hacksaw blade for fixing up the cover should work fine.
4) The video doesn't describe how to remove the handle cover, but it's quite easy if you're careful, using a large, flat blade screwdriver... just insert the blade in the gap and twist a little, then slide the blade down to release the entire cover.
5 ) The video doesn't show that you need to remove the two large phillips screws before adding the strap. The screws in my door were in pretty tight and it was helpful to use a large phillips screwdriver to undo them.
6) The bolts are metric allen head. I used my metric allen bike wrench and it worked perfectly.
Other than that, the quality of the materials is very good, and it installed a lot easier than I expected.
Thanks for making the fixes so we can keep these cars on the road!
Love the seam in the door cover upholstery at 0:08 seconds.
Thank you for this, I have just ordered Beetle braces for both doors from you guys.
Thanks for this. I ordered the kit.
Thx a lot man for the info and quick respond.
How about a video on replacing the pleather on the door card. Thanks, Dave.
Where is part 2?
How important is it to use the JB Weld? I ordered this product and put it on temporarily without it and it seems to work just fine.
I’m confused about the “inside spacer” you mentioned. I see tiny rings inside to hold, but they look difficult to get out. Does the spacer tube and screw provided in the kit meet the length of the hole without the Inside spacer? I just bought your kit and don’t want to get it wrong. Is the inside spacer what your screw is locking into?
Thanks for the video, I want to ask you that, how or from where I can buy metal strip and the screws?
Can you give me the type of Jb WELD used? There are several types. Thanks.
Jim, do you remove the original screws inside the handle,
Thanks Jim, the bottom on passenger handle housing is gone, probably fell down inside. I have filled the hole with liquid nails put the metal tube in filled the tube with same and pushed the bolt in. Hopefully this will hold together as the break was on the top. The other bolts screwed in perfectly.. Thank you so much for this fix, I have been driving my car around for a year VW had no idea how to fix. Love your work !