[T3] [T3} Beauty Rings

[Jim Adney]

On 2 Jul 2013 at 16:22, Gary Forsmo wrote:

> The (October purchase) 1969 Square wheels came with the beauty rings
> and the gray, valve stem inserts.

Does anyone else have trim rings with grey valve stem grommets that 
they believe are original to a car that's a '68 or later?

I believe the trim rings were part of a kit that came shipped along 
with the car, but only installed by the dealer during dealer prep. 
The kits included things like the outside mirrors, the license plate 
brackets & hardware, the trim rings, and (I suspect) the hub caps. 
It's possible that the seat belts were also in this kit, but I 
suspect those were factory installed. Anybody know?

Basically, the kits contained all the external things that might get 
be easily damaged or vandalized in transit.

There's always a chance that the parts the dealer put on your car 
were not the actual parts that came in the kit that was shipped 
inside it. Parts could have been scrounged to repair another car and 
then replaced with replacement parts from the distributor. Almost 
anything is possible at that point.

Other accessories, like air conditioning, radios, antennas, luggage 
racks, trunk lights, etc. were all US made and dealer installed. So 
those items do not appear on the VWAG parts lists and they tend to 
vary a lot over the years.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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