Date:         Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:01:33 -0700
Reply-To:     François  
              Vézina <fvezina@sfu.ca>
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From:         François  
              Vézina <fvezina@sfu.ca>
Subject:      This guy is a good men he saved my van! (read!)
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I have to tell this story about a great guy.

  Last weekend we went to the Okanagan in B.C. Can. with our 81 van. 
Suddently I had trouble to climb the hills (tremendous lost of power) 
I had to down shift all the way to the second gear running at 50 
km/h. My van was stalling all the time and I had to wait about half 
an hour to start it again. That was petty bad. ( I have a 4 years old 
kid!).  I looked in the yellow pages to find a garage but I was 
afraid that there was nobody that is used to volks. In Summerland (in 
the Okanagan valley) there is this guy Klaus. He runs the Valley west 
Auto Wrecking (scrap yard). I called his 1 800 line (1-800-644-5441). 
He said that he was over-loaded but he would do his best to put us 
back on the road. After 200km at 60km/h I got there and he started to 
look at my van. He found after a couple of tests that one of my 
pistons had no compression at all! Shit! I said. He knew we were 
supposed to go back home that day. He had no time to do it! (half the 
staff is working on saturdays). Well he started to pull apart my 
engine and did not stop before 10h00 pm. He got us a rebuilt engine 
head from another van in the yard and changed the whole thing. Now my 
van is working just fine and the oil change is done. He worked 10h00 
on my van until everything was done.  In extra I got about 150$ worth 
of used parts for free (mud flap, tap, screen etc. He have A LOT OF 
WESTFALIA PARTS). Total cost 800$ and no charges for the gaskests and 
other few little things. This guy is very nice. We borrowed his own 
van so my son could go at the beach.  Just think about it the shop 
was closed at 7h00  and he kept working on it untill 10h00! He is 
really human. That was not a money matter at all he just wanted to 
help. And he did.

I told him that I would send this mail to the list because I really 
appreciated what he did.

Thank's again Klaus.

François
François Vézina M.Sc.

Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby BC.
V5A 1S6

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