Stainless Nut & Bolt Kits for Things (USA) / Trekkers (U

HairyYeti · Post by **HairyYeti** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:53 am

This is the second one we've assembled - based on my brothers 73/74 181.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-Thing-Trekker- ... dZViewItem

We are in the UK but do ship global.

Kubelmann · Post by **Kubelmann** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:25 am

I recently purchased a set of 12 of the ss door hinge bolts with allen head. Nice hardware adn it was shipped from the UK quickly. I am able to reccomend this source of parts. K-mann

IanEpperson · Post by **IanEpperson** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:22 am

I added a link to their site to veewiki.

http://veewiki.com/BodyWork

Kubelmann · Post by **Kubelmann** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:57 pm

The bolts I bought to attach a hard top to the car. Includng shipping it ended up costing $1 per bolt. They are nice quality. I suspect the Thing hardware kit would be a good idea for a resto project. It is around $93 usd plus shipping. It is listed as 49 UK pounds. The fender bolts and washers would be nice to avoid the problems of rusted in place fender bolts. Many of us have spent countless hours drilling out and retapping broken fender bolts.... I have collected up a huge pile of original fender bolts but bought stainless washers for my fender resto on my two Things. If I had found this guy I would have just bought his kit. I paid about $.10 per washer at Home Depot. Each Thing takes 32 washer to do the four fenders. That comes to about $4 just for washers..

I installed my hardtop yesterday using the ss bolts. They use a 5 mm allen tool to install. The bolts worked very nicely..

HairyYeti · Post by **HairyYeti** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:24 am

Thanks for the positive comments guys - it's nice to see our hard work and perseverance is being well received.

We are in the process of launching some Karmann-Ghia kits at this very moment.

If anyone has suggestions for things they would like to see from people lilke ourselves then feel free to 'pipe-up' on this thread and we'll see what we can do.

Our up-to-date range can be found on www.volksbolts.com
The sites a little basic, but then we are enthusiastic amateurs.!

We may post a blog on the web-site covering our Rover P4 engine re-build when time allows. It's been a tricky one.!

Regards to all.

Alan & Lyn Baxter, Kenilworth, U.K.

Kubelmann · Post by **Kubelmann** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:01 am

Can you find ss screws that would hold the headlight ring in place that is somewhat longer than the stock screw. I have trouble getting that screw started because it is just a bit too short. But if it was about 10 -12 mm longer it would be perfect. Thanks..