VANAGON archives -- January 2005, week 4 (#86)

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:44:54 +1300 Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> Subject: Re: Beware- plastic is like glass in these subzero temps... In-Reply-To: <141.3ddfe0b3.2f241f8e@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii

>here in SE PA its 8 degrees and snowing hard... i got in my audi and start it >up to move it for the snow plows...and CRACK!! the dash cracked, right >before my eyes because of the subzero temps... i was very >bummed..my interior was >mint condition before.. >i hate this weather...plastic gets so brittle..

GERMAN plastic does. Anyone had this happen with a Japanese car? I doubt it would.

Luckily for all youse cold-weather Vanagonites, these vans don't have soft-plastic dashes... -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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