HOW TO REALLY IMPROVE YOUR BEETLE WITHOUT EMPTYING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. A host of low budget, cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter’s performance and handling. Dollying the rest up is your baby. (Btw, did I mention it’s cheap?) Most of the procedures described can be done by a handy woman (or even a man) with the parts currently residing on the average drive-to-work banger. P.S. All work should be carried out in consultation with a reliable workshop manual wrt torque settings, gaps, procedures, sequences, disassembly, reassembly, where to hide the leftover parts etc. Tina accepts no responsibility for anything resulting from you or anybody else trying anything as described (or not) in this document whatsoever – but if it works or you end up with some amusing stories to tell your (or someone else’s) grandchildren, please feel free to drop me a line. (No death threats please.)