Date:         Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:20:14 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Driver's door lock info?
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>

Not mine.  If I could, I would have locked the keys in many times.  Mercedes
is the same way.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:49 PM
Subject: Driver's door lock info?


> (it was not a VW which
> >requires a key to lock the drivers door). I asked her why she didn't use
> >her key to lock her car..."it takes too much time".
> >
>
> Using the key to lock the car wears the lock twice as fast as if you
> didn't. The VWs can be locked without the key, but you have to pull the
> outer release while pushing the lock-knob down. Or at least the pre1980
VWs
> did...now that I think of it, my Vanagon won't do this, but I'd thought it
> was a faulty mechanism.
>
> So I ask others: should you be able to lock a Vanagon driver's door
without
> the key?
>
>
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Molluscophile
> 69 VW Kombi-Corvair
> 75 VW Kombi (ex Toyota 3.5 V8)
> 84 VW T3 Caravelle GL/SVX
> 85 Mitsubishi Sigma Super Saloon 2.0
> 86 Toyota Corolla DX 1.8 diesel (410000km plus 30000+ rewound, going
strong)
> 89 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (508000 km plus 30000+rewound,going
> strong)