What a busy, busy day I had yesterday and I learned something very important. Everyone, check your speedometers!!!! They may be showing the speed in kilometers per hour and that is ***much*** different from miles per hour!

My dear friend, Thor, and I tried to take the Vanagon to be detail cleaned and polished yesterday. After driving on the four lane highway for a few miles, Thor, who was following me, started to flash the headlights like an insane man. Not knowing what was wrong and more than a ***little*** panicked, it was all I could do to pull over without wrecking. I jumped out expecting something to be drastically wrong only to be told by Thor, in a rather snippy tone, that I was driving too slowly. Although I kept going faster and faster, this same scene was acted out by us twice more in ten miles. By the third time we stopped, Thor was having a ***hissyfit****!!! As I thought I had been driving at an absolutely terrifying 85 miles per hour, we decided that my speedometer must be broken.

Instead of the car detail shop, we dropped the Vanagon at the Volkswagen dealership. My spirits were lifted when we returned to pick up the Vanagon because there is nothing wrong with the speedometer mechanism. :) It is only that the speedometer shows the speed as kilometers per hour which is slower than miles per hour. Look on the face of your speedometer; if it says "km/h", drive faster. I know this is hard to believe, but it will show 100 (!!!!) when you are going sixty miles per hour. Paco, the mechanic, explained it all to me. Also, he was very excited about my van and he would like to buy it whenever I sell it. You meet the ***nicest*** people when you are driving a Vanagon!

Pinky