Trivial Indeed......... (Page 1 of 2)

Hiya Darby,

You know, at first I thought that was exactly what was going on.  Then I looked at the red.  It does not appear to be a VW exterior color.  Rather it appears to be universal warning red.  And the two red bolt heads are painted exactly as the bolt heads with the exterior color (in my case L620 Savanna Beige).  To top it off, I have noticed this same phenomena in two other Bugs.

Not exactly an earthshaking problem by any means.  But I am curious.

They're all the same color on my car. Course my car is red though. lol

jim

Nah more likely here is that the 8.8 bolt was bought from Napa they have red and Blue .
  But when removeing the Hinge bracket's be aware that the back bolt <<< Dont strip it , fold , spindle or Mutilate $$$$$
  Another tip here on Deck Lidd Hinges is that they strip out !
Quick repair here is to lay the Hinge bolt hole over a flat anvil and lightly pound it flat again !
  Then Re- tapp with a Tapp or if you dont have a Tapp you can use a self tapping engine tinn screw !
  Work's Great !
  Even hitt one with a Torch then Hosed off to Re- Harden the Thread's on one !
    Just like New ! Then Add a 10 .8 Better than New !
                                                                       Sean

Just 2 different car's ! Wire brush them or replace with 10.8 << Lil more tensile strenght in the thread's !
  Smash thread's back flat on the hinge ! Tapp thread's with Engine tinn tapp it's the painted blue one in my top Drawer ?
  6mm x 100 Drill 13/64 Tapp << think this is the one cost is like 7 buck's every Bugg owner need's this tapp ! Engine Tinn , etc .
  But dont un-nessessarily tap the hinge thread's ! Pound flat again on anvil try the Self Tapping engine tinn screw first !
  Then if it start's to chew resort to the tapp ! Often it will just take the screw , and therefore eliminate's the loss of meat associated with cuttin new thread's with the tapp !
  Use a New self tapping screw ya cheap ------- Lmao Not that Old chewed up screw oil caked screw !
  See Not so trivial there indeed  Book !
  The rear screw hole that hold's the Deck Lidd bracket's the screw hole in the car back against the firewall !
  Only advice I can Give, to these is dont screw them up !!! LMAO , Then tear's , Then eeeerily LMAO again !
                                          Sean

Hiya Sean,

I'm pretty sure at this point that it is not a case just two different cars.  This car, when it came into my hands, was just about pristine under the body (the fenders and outer body had seen their share of parking lot dings and dents).  Further, take a look at Old's reply.  That would tend to confirm that red headed bolts were used (for some reason - at some point in VW production) in attaching the decklid.

You guys are reading way too much into this.  There isn't a manufacturing co anywhere that would waste their time painting such insignificant screws for absolutely no reason.
Every original paint car I've seen had all 4 screws painted body colour.
Mechanics remove deck lids all the time.  Like if they want to swap out the oil cooler without pulling the engine.  Screws get lost and replaced all the time.  So much that my local dealer actually has a charge on every invoice for misc screws

Last edited by Bruce (2009-05-01 19:56:13)