Product description

In many of our classic Volkswagens, the brake drum or disc is a complete unit that is mounted on the front or rear axle with bearings or keyways. The advantage is that you renew everything immediately and the disadvantage is the higher production price, a single disc is simply cheaper to produce as a whole. Volkswagen began using freewheel hubs on the rear of the Volkswagen Type 3 in 1965, and in 1970 also applied this method to the Bay Window Bus at the front and rear. At the model change for the VW Vanagon, this system was kept at the rear while the front received the complete brake disc in the old fashioned way, except for the four-wheel drive Syncro version. Even the Volkswagen Beetle changed in 1994, the complete front brake discs were replaced by a wheel hub with a separate brake disc.

Wheel hubs do not present a major problem, the reason for their replacement is often damaged keyways or curved wheel hubs. Damaged keyways only occur if there is play, i.e. if the hub nut has become loose, which is usually due to the hub nut being tightened without the use of a torque wrench. A bent wheel hub almost always has a collision as a story.

The front wheel hubs of the Volkswagen Bus have been professionally overhauled. So you're dealing with an original Volkswagen part that's about to take on a second life. These wheel hubs still contain the old bearings, which must be removed and replaced with new ones.

All rear wheel hubs are new and like the front ones are delivered per piece.