Date:         Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:41:53 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Rebuilding Vanagon Electric Windows or How To Go Into Debt
              Quickly
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Brent,

I don't know about alternatives, but I recently took a dead bosch
vanagon window motor to see if they could fix it. They said they
couldn't rebuild it. But as someone on the list commented, anything
made by a human can be fixed by a human. But you might have to find
just the right human. I'll bet you end up buying a new motor with your
remaining limbs, but I sure want to hear about it if you do find an
alternative.

Jim

On Apr 27, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Brent Weide's Yahoo Account wrote:

> Anyone have any inside information on a good reasonable way to rebuild
> or replace vanagon electric window motors and switches?  With vw
> replacement motors costing roughly as much as a left arm and leg, I
> would rather go with an alternate design which'll last longer if one
> exists.
> Both of the Multivan's I've purchased and reworked (a 90 and now a 91)
> have had power windows which operated at a very slow speed as if the
> motors were wearing out.  Now I know that the vanagon is a
> patiencemobile but would very much like to get the window rolled down
> before my trip is over once in a while!!!
>
> Anyone got any tips?
> Thanks,
> Brent
>
>
> Brent Weide
> Portland, Oregon
> http://www.weidefamily.net/vanagon/
>