Date:         Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:41:24 -0600
Reply-To:     bhs73@SPYMAC.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Edwards <bhs73@SPYMAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: Agony of defeat . . .
In-Reply-To:  <a05111b05bd7f2e64e575@[192.168.0.10]>

In <a05111b05bd7f2e64e575@[192.168.0.10]>, on 09/28/04 at 08:12 AM,
   Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM> said:

>>O.K., I give up!  I bought an '89 Vanagon (Wolfburg edition) last December,
>>assuming that, in time, all would be revealed to me.  I even bought the
>>Bentley manual to speed up the process.  But I still haven't been able to
>>find the brake fluid reservoir.  The manual shows it under the driver's
>>side floor mat, but it's not there--unless it's that thingy that I've been
>>pouring windshield washer fluid into.  So where is it?


>        Did you READ the owner's manual? Under "Vehicle Care" (page 108
>in my
>        copy)and "Barke Fluid" it very clearly shows a picture of the
>        exposed reservoir, saying:

Actually, there is no indication that he even had an owner's manual to
READ, and I doubt there is any mention in there are Barke Fluid anyway.

>        Some times it actually pays to RTFM!


This time honored method of swearing without swearing only applies if one
actually has access to the F&%$ing  manual in the first place.

Lacking such a booklet, that is one reason the list is such a nice
resource, until someone gets in someone else's face when it is totally
uneccesary.

Mark