Change the shock absorber on a VW Beetle.

[Coolvw52]

This afternoon, I took care of my beetle.
I need to change the shock absorber because he was too old (39 years old  ).


Pics :

Right side of the beetle, the shock absorber is on left of this pic :




The head bolt had a lot of rust  :




The old absorber is out :




The new one with the old :




The new one, right and left side :






I haven't any new headbolt, i need to find one stainless new.

I used about 2 hours to change this part.

 

[clutch]

Cool stuff Julien.

Does the Beetle just have a shock absorber per wheel? I assume it uses a leaf spring/torsion bar setup instead of a coil over sprint system

[Coolvw52]

There's only one shock absorber, this one is useful to prevent vibrations in the direction.





 

[S POWRD]

Wow man, for being 40 years old the underside of your car is CLEAN. Don't run into much salt in France haha.