Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:05:08 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: VW Trends and Eurospec
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So Herman, does this mean that if your power chip goes down you are SOL?
It appears to me that this type of conversion (where you only have one source
for parts) puts you into a situation where failure of a non-replaceable part
would really mess you up. Put you back to square one.
That is the thing that worries me about some conversions. Not close enought to
the main stream for me to be comfortable.
John Rodgers
"88 GL Driver
HERMANN DE BOER wrote:
> 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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