how is btlmex?

They operated on "Mexican Time", which means they ordered your parts (that they were supposed to have in stock) whenever they got around to it (weeks or months later). This meant they sometimes didn't ship your stuff for 4-6 months. And if you asked about it, that slowed them down further.

No surprise to me. I liked Miguel, but you can't run a business in the US like that, period.

John Aircooled.Net Inc.

Oddly, I had little problem with them. Yes, it took a couple of weeks to get the parts, but they only carried obscure things........i used them to buy the Mexican beetle decklid rubber...the kind that attached to the lip of the hood and decklid, and brand new fully loaded vacuum canister bosch distributors.those dizzy's were only $80 or so..............

I tried to get engines on about 4-5 occasions, and each time gave up after

John

It might not be laziness, but a financial issue. To stock up costs a lot of money up front, and then maintaining stock under the current tax laws is a huge liability (and totally wrong, IMHO.) I suspect that Btlmex was simply hanging in there with a "just in time" approach - you order, they order or drive their own truck down there, then wait and wait. It's too bad, really. One might dream that our relationship with Mexico would open direct trade with the factory, but then we have to look to VW and Mexico for cooperation and that's expensive, too.

We stock them Ben, ready to ship same day. But when we buy they ship same day (when we re-stock).

John Aircooled.Net Inc.

Does anyone have any experience (or information) with the OEM heater boxes that Btlmex sells?

Thanks,

yes; they have phenominal heat if you live in Mexico; all you ever need. If you live somewhere that it actually gets COLD, you are better off with units with full finnage on the inside.

While this is humorous (and may seem like I'm making a jab, I am not), it is completely true. This is one main difference between the cheap heater boxes and the good ones that cost almost 2X as much.

John Aircooled.Net Inc.

they are decent, they just have no finnage on the inside of the heaterbox shrouding, outside the pipe.

John Aircooled.Net Inc.

I figured as such. Just hoped there might be an outside chance that they were decent boxes.

Thanks for the reply.

-- Scott

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