How did you obtain and register it? I've wanted a Mexican beetle forever!
Infamous VW positive camber!Originally Posted by VWGirl
How did you obtain and register it? I've wanted a Mexican beetle forever!
Infamous VW positive camber!
infamous NEGATIVE camber indeed... but yes, when you lift a VW off the ground... especially with a swing axle, the wheels tuck in... I try to explain this to the guys at the alignment shop and the insist that my car must have been wrecked (even before it was, which didn't at all affect the rear)
I found it at a car show in manassas VA, it was owned by a shop in NC... they bought it from someone in OH... it was imported from CA... and delivered to me at my home in FL... that's really about all I know... but it is legally registered and insured as a 98 vw beetle with its mexican vin... which consequently is in no database
Apparently even though I met the terms of the Old School forum
"All pre-1985 cars fall in this category. This includes later years for models that were first built in 1985.
In other words, if you have a 1986 Civic (square back), you'd be included because it is the same model as the 1985 model. This was really generated towards the old school import scene and not Japanese cars. Any import. BMWs, Volvos, anything pre-1985."
I still don't qualify
Yet again someone that wants to classify my car as a "new beetle"... I guess you should talk to my insurance company who has it insured as a classic car... I bet most of the ones in the old school forum aren't insured as classics!
Negative on the negative ghost writer, that there is positive.
I'm thinking you people need sleep... first my thread gets moved from the CORRECT old school forum... FYI my car is most closely resembled to the US spec 1968 model year with a swingaxle... and at VW shows unless there is an import class... as mine is NOT US spec and NOT OBDII compliant... it would go in the beetle 68 and up class... so it's a classic car and based on a body style from 1938... or 68, or 72... but it's not based on ANYTHING 85 or later...
THEN... you make some ludicrous comment about VW's being infamous for positive camber... which VW's come stock set to NEGATIVE camber... and everyone knows this... so I go along with the first guy thinking he is joking about my cars ass end being lifted in the air, so i jokingly make a comment about the idiots at the tire shop not knowing what the hell they are talking about... and then you come along and act like I don't know wtf I am talking about?
Guess what... the car in that picture has no engine in it... I pulled it out with 4 bolts... it is sitting on a jack at the time of the pic... how many cars do you know that raise up a bit with the engine out because the suspension is set based on having the weight of the engine in it... well guess what!!!! VW's are set like that too!
God it pisses me off when "car people" don't know what the fuck they are talking about! And yes the whole moving my old school car out of the old school forum where it belonged along with the other assinine comments has set me off to rant like this.
Now please... come back and make some educated comments about my car!
**steps off soap box**
Wow! To think you were the very first female I sent a friends request to on myspace in 4+ years without personally knowing them first...only because I thought you were a pretty cool chick to be as knowledgeable about your own car(s) as you are.I'm thinking you people need sleep... first my thread gets moved from the CORRECT old school forum... FYI my car is most closely resembled to the US spec 1968 model year with a swingaxle... and at VW shows unless there is an import class... as mine is NOT US spec and NOT OBDII compliant... it would go in the beetle 68 and up class... so it's a classic car and based on a body style from 1938... or 68, or 72... but it's not based on ANYTHING 85 or later...
THEN... you make some ludicrous comment about VW's being infamous for positive camber... which VW's come stock set to NEGATIVE camber... and everyone knows this... so I go along with the first guy thinking he is joking about my cars ass end being lifted in the air, so i jokingly make a comment about the idiots at the tire shop not knowing what the hell they are talking about... and then you come along and act like I don't know wtf I am talking about?
Guess what... the car in that picture has no engine in it... I pulled it out with 4 bolts... it is sitting on a jack at the time of the pic... how many cars do you know that raise up a bit with the engine out because the suspension is set based on having the weight of the engine in it... well guess what!!!! VW's are set like that too!
God it pisses me off when "car people" don't know what the fuck they are talking about! And yes the whole moving my old school car out of the old school forum where it belonged along with the other assinine comments has set me off to rant like this.
Now please... come back and make some educated comments about my car!
**steps off soap box**
You done fucked up now. With that attitude you need to stick your head in the trunk of that car and let someone slam it on your face repeatedly until you get some sense knocked in you.
Allow me to school you on the difference between positive and negative camber. Sit down and shut the fuck up. Cunt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camber_angle
Do I need to keep going?
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