Date:         Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:20:40 -0500
Reply-To:     mrvolkswagen@HOTMAIL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Chris S <mrvolkswagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: window tint (F)
Comments: To: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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> one thing to remember: metal tint films WILL block radar, so if
> you like gizmos and use a radar detector, and you put it up high
> behind some tint, the detector won't pick up any signals!! :(

Since it is Friday:

Riiiiiiiight, Joel.... this would of special interest to the owners of
diesel Vanagons which exceed the speed limit rather regularly, when dropped
from a nearby cliff, or the semi-anemic 1.9L Westfalia in full camp garb
chuggin up a North Carolina hill in third gear.  Perhaps the Tiico-nauts
will note it as their trusty Valentine revenue-collection-avoidance device
vibrates off the windshield (sorry, cheap shot, had to take it, Friday
disclaimer!) when they hit 4000 rpm.

Hey, is that a tuning fork? Why, no, it's my Tiico alternator bracket!

Maybe there's a new use for this metallic tint, since it does reflect
short-length radiation so well.  You could rig your microwave oven to
operate with its door open and use it to heat the entire interior of the
Vanagon while camping.  Well, at least the occupants would feel hot and the
sausages left on the table would cook in time for breakfast... then you
could have your dead cat for lunch (oh, lighten up).

Fortune cookie reads:   "That was not chicken."

Chris S.
'85 Westy
www.knology.net/~vw/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers