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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
Comments: To: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@bulley-hewlett.com>
In-Reply-To:  <002401c1f8ee$44024970$aa231a42@gumby>
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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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