Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:40:28 -0600
Reply-To: HERMANN DE BOER <hdeboer@BSSD.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: HERMANN DE BOER <hdeboer@BSSD.NET>
Subject: Re: VW Trends and Eurospec
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Ben,
thanks for putting a positive spin on the article. I am very pleased with
my conversion, and believe that a lot of the problems with the eurospec kit
were created by backyard mechanics. My guy said that the kit was good, but
not perfect, and he took the liberty to improve some things. Maybe that is
why I haven't had any problems with the inline.
However, on a negative note, I have never been able to get a response from
Eurospec re: power chip and camshaft.
Cheers,
Hermann de Boer
87 Westy GL (245 000 miles)
15 000 miles on Eurospec so far
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Tan
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: 1/21/00 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: VW Trends and Eurospec
I picked-up a copy to see this article for myself. If you read carefully
in
the section titled "The Truth About Conversions", the author does say
that
the conversion is no longer in existence. However, this does not
necessarily
mean the company is out of business. Also, the author was indicating his
preference for the Eurospec kit in large part because it is CARB
(California
Air Resources Board). Not to mention he has personal experience with the
company. I'm sure we all endorse our mechanics who consistently
performed
good work us despite other people having problems with them, right? BTW
CARB
approval is critical to us who have to register our cars in the Golden
State.
Regarding the matter of media exposure: Well, it's all about money.
Friendly
and knowledgeable as our list preferred vendors are, they probably have
never
taken out any advertising with VW Trends. When they first printed the
Eurospec Conversion article, they got Eurospec to take-out a good size
ad.
Trends obviously has a business history with Eurospec and probably
pursuing
future business. They make this philosophy very clear whenever they
answer
tech questions.."check with one of our advertisers.." Did you notice
they
mentioned FGA there too?
On the matter of Ken's comment about Eurospec distributors: You may be
partially correct. However, I have been dealing with this vendor since
1978
and they have always been above board with me. There is the possibility
that
Eurospec is doing business only with a few select distributors. They may
be
keeping a low profile for reasons unknown. I will check with my vendor
and
get back to the list on this. As of 01/18/00, I was advised that I can
order
anything I want from Eurospec's product line in any quantity I want. I
was
even shown what appeared to be a current Eurospec Suggested Price List.
Lastly, I do not work for nor am I affiliated in any manner with
Eurospec
and/or it's distributors.
BenT
San Francisco
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