On January 14, 2000 Jay Pasturan wrote:

I bought my 1999 new beetle in May of last year. Ever since then  I took out  all the red and yellow markers (such as blacked out rear lights and whited out the front side markers) and made it to it's best just silver and black.  I put in super hight white lights like the mercedez white type (changed all 8 lights in the front). I also put up 18 inch TSW trophy tires that matches the color of the paint and added a nuespeed intake...I also did some interior work on it. My next plan sometime soon is to drop it at 1.4 inches with nuespeed high performance springs and get an exhaust for it   (but still looking for the best exhaust with the best performance without too much loudness). I might think of putting in some N02. So far I love my new beetle and had never gotten any problems with it at 26,000 miles in 8 months.