Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 07:26:52 -0700
Reply-To: mike <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: mike <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
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Don't get on the guy for putting out a safety warning!
He's being a good citizen.
Get on him for taking his van to a detail shop. This is an obvious breach
of the van contract we all signed before we were allowed to buy our vans:
It's complicated, I know, all 328 pages of it but bottom line is we must do
everything ourselves that we have the technical ability to do [Terry, darn
it, leave that comment unsaid!] so RGS is in breach of contract.
Shame on you!
Thanks for the warning though. Actually where I live if I were driving in
MPH what the speedo says in KPH I'd just be keeping up with the traffic
flow.
Mike
> From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
> Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
> Reply-To: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
> Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:17:56 -0400
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
>
> You're kidding, right.
>
> Please tell me you are kidding.
>
> --gmb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> Of Ronald Gregory Smithers
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 8:58 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
>
> 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
>
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