Quality Parts and Tech Info for Classic Aircooled Volkswagen Enthusiasts
We are in the midst of renovating our site!
Our online store will re-open on WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12th with some exciting updates and improvements to your parts shopping experience.
If you already have an order in process with us, don't panic!
We are still processing and shipping orders from our warehouse as normal even while our site is offline.
We sincerely appreciate your patience while we are doing these site upgrades.
OUR ONLINE CHECKOUT is TEMPORARILY PAUSED/CLOSED until FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16th at 12:00pm NOON (MST).
ALREADY SUBMITTED ORDER REQUESTS ARE BEING FULFILLED/SHIPPED as product availability allows
We are sorry for the inconvenience of this TEMPORARY closure of our online checkout. We are severely short-staffed, and our inventory is depleted. For these reasons we are temporarily and periodically halting the acceptance of new orders, while we focus our resources instead during that time to catch up on the existing backlog of delayed/backordered order requests.
ORDER FULFILLMENT DELAYS: Many popular products are delayed or in short supply. Restock ETAs for backordered items are often either unavailable, or unreliable. We continue to answer emails as best we can, but we are operating with insufficient staff, so please be patient. We are also undergoing a company downsize and restructure in the hope our business will be able to recover from the challenges and setbacks we have faced these past two unusual years. Your understanding is appreciated while our company works to do what we still can to serve the aircooled VW hobby.
**If you decide to wait until our online checkout resumes accepting new orders, we recommend to copy and paste to save the items in your cart (that includes links back to the item listings), just in case your browser does not save your cart.**
Our checkout system will re-open to accept new order requests again on FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16th at 12:00pm NOON (MST)
NOTICE
Please read this notice and only continue if you are willing to abide by our updated backorder acquisition and fulfillment terms of service.
Supply-chain disruptions have hampered our ability to acquire/restock items reliably. Additionally, a lack of backorder ETA information is a frustrating "new normal" for our hobby. As a result, we have had to change our BACKORDER ACQUISITION TERMS OF SERVICE. We are now only fulfilling order requests for items that are able to be acquired within 3 weeks IF we are able to get them. Longer than 3 weeks backorders WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY CANCELLED. Made-to-order, Special-Order, and Direct-shipped items may take longer than 30 days, and will NOT be auto-canceled, and will be fulfilled in the longer, as-advertised timeframe.
On the next page, you will be prompted to select a BACKORDER HANDLING INSTRUCTION for your Order Request. In every case, you are NOT CHARGED for out-of-stock items (we ONLY charge for items that are available to be shipped in a timely or reasonably reliable timeframe). If you select the "3 week backorder fulfillment option", you can email to cancel un-shipped/un-paid items at any time as long as they are not direct-shipped, special order or made/machined-to-order.
Currently our response time to emails is slow (we are severely short-staffed). Please trust that even when we can't reply to your email promptly, we are continuing to work to fulfill your Order Request as best we can, and we will contact you once we have any new information that is not already posted in your online Order Progress/History area in your customer account.
Please only continue if you are prepared to be PATIENT. Some of the items in your cart might be out-of-stock, and if that is the case, within a day or two we will post itemized stock status information to your account and/or email you to let you know. We appreciate your continued support and understanding.
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After installing an exhaust on my bug, I all of a sudden had terrible lag on take off, making my bug undriveable. I was going to re jet my 34 pict 3, but an SVDA was recommended by John at aircooled.net- and I took a chance on this economy model. I replaced the cap and rotor with Bosch parts, and the points with electronic ignition. Timed it at 7.5 BTDC at idle, and it runs great now.
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Bruck Svda
November 8, 2012
Reviewer:
Joel Herrera from Harlingen, TX United States
Out of the box, distributor looked well made and clean. On further inspection, the inner alignment tab on the rotor was broken off/ poorly molded, and points looked a little cheap. No worries, i replaced the cap, rotor and points with the mostly new Bosch units from my 009. The distributor itself looks well manufactured and assembled. Installed and running in less than 20 minutes. The difference from the 009 is night and day. Smooth, crisp power from idle, engine is running cooler, ill have to check my gas mileage after i fill my tank.
No more 009 flat spot! 
