Finding Parts

Finding Beetle parts around the Pretoria area wasn't such an easy task as one would think. After all there is thousands of Beetles on the road in every day use in South Africa. There is however Volkswagen and Beetle specialised shops such as Volksparts. The main problem is the availability of restoration parts. Shops have lots of fancy new shiny bling bling parts for pimp my ride kind of Beetles that at the end of the day are far from the original look. There are also lots of restoration parts available by order but the delivery times are very long and usually shops cannot even confirm when the parts will arrive. Shops usually seem to have "keeping no stock" policy  and everything is ordered from Europe. They order one or two pieces of each part and when they arrive after weeks of waiting period they also are sold almost immediately and we are back in the waiting game.

We have used the local shops but in addition we have also ordered parts directly from Europe. Fortunately we are in that position that our European friends can bring parts to us as they are visiting South Africa relatively often. By this way we have access to parts and accessories that are more challenging or sometimes impossible  to get from South Africa. Please note if you order parts outside South Africa there most probably will be tax added at the customs.

It is also advisable to visit scrap yards in order to find parts one is missing. For example we were told that it is close to impossible to get a trim for the front window but a visit to the Pretoria Volkspares' scrap yard proved the opposite and we walked out with a perfect trim.

One can also find parts from Junkmail.