QUOTE(wonkipop @ Dec 28 2020, 03:32 PM)
scanned my glovebox manual.
- tool kit (plastic bag) in front trunk.
jack in rear trunk.
lists breaker bar with the towing hook in the front trunk.
but on a 74, no way does the breaker bar fit in the plastic bag with the rubber band. i think with a 74 it goes with the jack where i found mine. probably does not apply to earlier cars (different jack?, in different spot?).
only extra thought is, if breaker bar was in front trunk was outside plastic bag but attached to took kit externally with rubber band. breaker bar wedges kit inside spare wheel then to stop it rattling about? but i found mine in rear trunk with jack.
yes, the jack is a good quality item. its the plastic handle pop in screw driver that made me raise an eyebrow. also vw included a hub cap puller just like my old vw squareback tool kit had. except no hub caps on a 74 (vw steel sport wheels that year). the bean counters missed an opportunity to save 2 cents or maybe upgrade the screwdriver. i'm guessing the hub cap puller was in there because these kits were standard vw issue for bugs, 412s etc?
Click to view attachmentBrent - Ditto with Wonki-OZ - mine was in front trunk inside spare as in the manual, & I bouught my 73 from the OO in 1975, which was where it was when I got mine. However - unlike your pic of the spare, my OO had been the victim of the dealer's rip-off the alloy spare scam, & the spare was a Steelie with 4 original version Riviera's - which back then I liked the 5 s[poke design.
It would've been the 2L Fuchs x5, but we think in talking with the PCNA Service RM who was at the local SoCal dealers in 1969-78, he thinks that the new dealer pulled off all 5 of the 2L Fuchs due to the wheel recall on the early 73 914s, & just put on cheaper Riviera's which were popular then, & sold the incorrect non-self-centering 2L Fuchs to a 1970-72 914/4 owner for parts. Rick said that happened all the time, as well as stealing the alloy spares, get 4 & sell it at 100% profit to another 914 owenr (same with the 911s & 91s).
So for now - put the tool kit & bar wherever you feel it best works for you, as it can also fit with the jack under the rubber straps - all of which you'll need to change a flat!
And like Wonki - mine originally had the Dunlop SP57s, but they were replaced with Semperit 401s, & the SP57 spare - which I later replaced due to age because I actually drove my 914 all the time as my only car 1975-85.
If I'd only known then .... !
Cheers!
Tom
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