How to Buy a Classic VW Beetle Bug Part 1
Hi guys, Crissy again from classic VWBugs.com and today’s tip, this is a pretty good one, what to look out for before buying your first Volkswagen or your first Volkswagen. In general, whether it is a Guia or a thing or any bug. I am going to take my camera and I am going to get behind it and I am going to go around this car over here, a 68 Bug, and show you some of the crucial areas that have rust, rot, or prone to needing repair in a bug which should give you a heads up before actually perking down your money to pick one of these, little bad boys up. Alright, I am going to grab my camera and would have to go around the clock.
Okay, what are the first things of course you want to look out for is if there is any sort of surface rust on the car. VWs are known to rust and they are known to getting some, if the paint is not taking cared of, let me look with any other car, I mean they are known to getting surface rust so make sure it is the first thing you check out. So if there is any sort of blemishes in the paint and what not and you should be good to go. Also check out your bumpers, check out the top pipes, I will rust the day the day off, because if the top pipes are pretty rusty sometimes these muffles underneath might be rusted and that might need repair. Something like this for the 68Bug we have here is a pop out windows. A lot of times inside the pop out widow areas inside here, inside the sill there is always rust in there. This one is pretty clean and so, now one of the other areas that I want to point now is down here in the rear quarters down in this section. Check along here, a lot of times you will see bubbling in here and you will see a lot of rust here. Now, this is the heads up for heater channel work and heater channel work, I am going to show you in a second. If you see any sort of bubbling here, that is a good indication that the areas that these running boards are bolted into are also rotted.
So you have to check it, sometimes you want to bring a piece of cardboard with you to lie down on the ground and check underneath, underneath the running boards. So you could see what is going on over here. These are pretty strong, if you do wiggle them up and down and you can not hear any cracking. That is a good indication that it is still pretty solid but what I am going to show you is that, I am sorry, here is your heater channels all along here, this is basically the frame in the structure of the bug and they are known to rot here at the corners, so you want to check this, you also want to check over here at this corners and even the hinges at the top in that area over there, that is just known for rusting along that over here but lots of time the water will sit down on the corners here and start rusting all this out and you want to check and feel the structures here and see if you feel any holes whatsoever and a lot of times you will have the host up in the front area here where the heat vent is because the heat section are here that rusts a lot. So you want to check this out and you wanted to check it all the way to back here and even under the back seat where the battery is. The battery area is definitely known for rotting. You just pick up this back seat area here and underneath the battery. There is a pan and usually that pan will rot from with the battery as if over the years. So you want to check that out.
You also want to check out, you are on the back fender back in here. I do not know if you could see it here with this video but it might be a little too dark but the heater channel actually was welded to the back pole here right next to where the fender is bolted into and usually that has some holes in it and if that have holes in it that usually means the heat channel all away up to where I showed you is gone. Heating channel is known for going on this car, so if it keeps here and you see that, that is the reason.
And then usually if the heating channels are gone, it means a lot of times it took all over the floor pans and if the floor pans are gone and they are goi
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