Not sure yet, but might be
Currently will be staying on campus hostel before finding outside house
If u go down melaka, see a yellow + white beetle, that would be me then

wanna ask, roughly how much is it to fully overhaul a beetle engine?

depends on what fully overhaul means to u. the picture i posted on previous post (the red one) costs around RM30k, everything new and fully import from Germany. Total cost of rebuild the entire car around RM50k

This post has been edited by stormlcc: Oct 8 2011, 03:57 AM

This hobby really sucks up money

But i think ur quotations was a bit too high wont it?

i top overhaul my engine about RM3k.

Fully overhaul, it needs to see if you would need to replace your crank etc parts or not, but RM30k is too much. It depends to who u go to and what kinda parts you buy. Since @stormlcc purchase parts from oversea, i have no comments. But if you purchase parts locally, and if you personally go and buy them (and bargain ofcourse), you'll save alot.

If you needs to know where to purchase parts, i can bring you.

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Added on October 12, 2011, 1:38 pmas mentioned before, i can't see your picture, so i might be wrong.
but based on your reply, i was guessing RM30k u used to OVERHAUL your whole CAR, incase of misleading info, i think AlexLee777 is asking about overhauling just an engine.
not even including gearbox. Hence i dun think it will be such expensive.

This post has been edited by askar_lcy: Oct 12 2011, 01:38 PM

just to be clear, that's NOT my car....haha and i don't have THAT kind of cash to spend on a car. FYI, ALL the parts, ALL of them including the engine, gearbox, shafts, suspension parts (the ENTIRE suspension), bush, rubbers, interior parts, carpets, seats, doors, hood, even the glove box was IMPORTED DIRECTLY FROM GERMANY by container. basically the whole car is NEW made in Malaysia by parts from Germany. It took years of planning and months of preparation to rebuild. The entire process of rebuilding took almost half a year.

And I don't mean to be misleading (sorry), i'm just answering the question of how much that car cost for rebuilding.

well, it's great to know that there're such enthusiast in m'sia still.
and definitely good to know the price to do such crazy things, obviously i would want to do the same thing too if i have the cash, it's crazy, but it's not stupid, as what it pays lasts for a life time. i salute the owner for doing it. Hope that the local mechanic did also a superb job to par the parts imported. i often heard that m'sian mech are too ego with their limited knowledge, as u know, as we are able to gather all information from internet nowadays, most of the time the hobbyist is much more knowledgeable than the mech in the sense of knowing what can pair with what and how it can perform, ofcourse it still need the mechanic knowledge to do the physical tuning, so when the particular hobbyist inquire some mechanic, the mechanic who don't know, simply don't want to know more and say that can't be done and say whatever on the net is bull shit. that's so saddening for our country, as well as for the VW scene.
so if an owner is rich and he found a mechanic who're keen enough to dig the net together with the owner to upgrade the car, by all means, i feel the cash to pay for that is worth it.

yea, love this LOVE BUG....but can't find it at any 2nd hand car dealer....
very comfortable....i remembered when i sat in it for the 1st time few years ago....

Guys, any ideas good places at melaka for spare parts or anything related to bug?
I just reach melaka and moving to hostel..

There's a warehouse in jonker(closed at evening and on sunday) which distribute some parts all over Malaysia.
It's solely selling VW stuff. the shop is Lai Kam Wah but it's not easy to see if you did not put much attention.
the only thing that i can tell is that this shop is located in between two indian antique shops.

Thanks bro..
Going there to look for something

look for what..i might have...
clearing out my store room as have to move house

Looking for exhaust..
My exhaust is in bad condition
U have? Even a 2nd hand one also can...
How bout u pm me things u want to sell..
Maybe i'm interested?

hohoho...exhaust i dun have
buy from the shop i tell u ba, german made around rm450 for the 1.3cc one

Yup, ask already
Thinking to find 2nd handed one for now
Money is in pinch
Buy new one later

ur exhaust totally can't use already?
exhaust buy 2nd hand one is useless, especially when u're looking at the stock exhaust. i did that just like u too. bought from a seller that the exhaust seem very nice, but after 4months using it, the exhaust started to spit metal...the silencer in the exhaust tip started to drop due to rust. and then the sound is like machine gun.

anyway i tend to speed everyday so that might be the reason the rust silencer broken in short period.

yeah can said too much holes and latest one i just hit a divider when i'm reversing the beetle
seems like almost going to break now...
so i have to find temporary exhaust for now, coz i'm travelling from kluang to melaka..
just now i'm drive from melaka to kluang, so far have no problem, just sometimes have jerking problems..
and the worst is inside car smells bad, the smoke from exhaust seems to be entered inside

hahaha..that happens to me as well as my exhaust also 2nd hand...super noisy + smelly...
sigh...somemore i like to speed
i think jerking is not caused by the exhaust tho..
have u checked your plug?

All the plugs was new...
By the way the jerking was not noticeable anymore..
Maybe coz the holes become bigger

I'm looking for VW for my pre-wedding photo shooting in PJ on 29 Nov. Anyone willing to lend his/her car?