Fitting new seat runner brackets

Although the floor was entirely new, it had the wrong seat runner on it. When fitting the correct runners for the original seats, a few correcting bits where needed.

Rear body mounting panel replacement - drivers side

The state of the area before. Several holes around the mounting point exist.


After holding the panel up and a lot of thinking, the first cut is made.







Bad metal removed.



The replacement panel was trimmed to fit.






For some reason the actual mounting point was too low compared to the rest of the panel. In order to make it fit we cut part of it off and welded it on a bit higher up.



Once the panel was fitted a replacement part was made for the inner corner.



All that is left is the missing section which can be better replaced when the body comes off. Some further welding from below will be done at this time.

Rear body mounting panel replacement - drivers side

Both rear support panel had to be modified. The bracket that attaches the body to the chasis was in the wrong place, so it was moved up an inch or so.







Annoyingly, but typical of beetles the corners of the boot floor had rotted away. It is possible to get a boot floor section and a rear cross member which would make up most of this but there would still be gaps to fill in. I can't remember which but one of these was also out of stock. So we made these sections from scratch.



The passenger side had a similar problem.


The view from below.

Rear body mounting panel replacement - passenger side

The passenger side rear mounting point needed replacing. The replacement panel from VW Heritage was pretty rubbish. The mounting point was the wrong height and it took alot of adapting to fit.


The mounting point was cut off and welded in place after the panel was fitted.


Some inner bits needed replacing. None of the panels available covered the corners so patches where made.





The panel didn't quite cover all the bad metal. The patch was added towards the rear.