Used tdi tan paint & interior in need

Pics of Beetle wet hide the skin peel look

Here is the color. In the pics it is wet and you can't see the sunburn peel. I don't have interior pics yet but it is pretty bad. There are holes in the carpet, seats and black sticky filmy stuff on everything even the tan parts.

Here are the interior pic. It is so damaged I am unsure where to begin with the cleaning and repairs. Everything is filthy and damaged. I am going to have to find replacement parts for some things for sure. Any suggestions and thoughts would be welcome!
Shanna

Thanks for your beetle rescue. She's a diamond in the rough, but a diamond sure enough.

Our Interiors are pretty fun to restore. you get a chance to flex your craft muscles that's for sure. I don't know what your budget is, but the seats are easy to replace. chances are you can find a decent set of seats at the salvage yard , at a reasonable price.

The door cards are removable. you will have to remove the door panel, take the plastic welds holding the card together off with a utility knife or a dremel tool, but be careful...don't wanna cut yourself. we have a good number of interior mod threads here on the org, to give you some ideas on the different fabrics used to recover the door cards.

if the carpet is too far gone, you might even have good fortune to find one out of a salvage car. A good vacuuming and shampoo, and the carpet looks like new.. I lucked out and found some black carpet...yes I had a tan interior, had being the key word. there are companies out there that the sell new carpet if you want to go that route.

then there is the sticky substance on the dash & pretty much the whole interior. VW's "soft touch" interior was a major fail. Search for " interior painting, watch me work". this thread will give you the ins and outs on removing the sticky stuff, as well as. Painting & resurfacing methods.

I know I've thrown a lot out for you to chew on. I guess you'll have to triage what's more important to start with.

also, we have a good group of North Carolina beetlr owners... maybe you can hook up with some of them and they can assist you with various parts and even help with your projects- we're friendly like that

staying tuned for this adventure that's for sure. All the best to you.

Thanks for the support folks! I am sure there are some parts I am going to have to buy but funds are in short supply so I am going to need to get things decent with very little resources and a lot of elbow grease.

I spent a lot of time today scrubbing the tan parts of the Beetle today. They are cleaning up very slowly with a scubbing pad and degreaser. Everything seems to have been taken apart at some time because everything is loose, broken and missing pieces. The wolves that pulled the interior apart broke all sorts of parts. I am wondering if bondo can repair some of the broken plastic of the center console. Has anyone tried this?

Shanna

More Questions

This switch doesn't stay completely and I am worried that it will break. The clips seem to be there but the bottom doesn't seem to want to stay clipped into the door. If I force it, I might end up having to buy one. I have the same issue with the ring around the latch to open the door.

so many things to learn

I think the little clips pictured above are cracked but I feel like the should hold...

anybody know what color my bug is? This is what the tag in the wheel well looks like.
I think L ? ? T is what I can figure. It is dark blue and in some light purplish.