Date:         Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:05:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Chuck Reisinger <chuckphoto@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Chuck Reisinger <chuckphoto@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: westfalia-enterprises.com....anyone heard of them???
Comments: To: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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Key words = Fully Restored.....they are nice Westy's...but not Fully
Restored.....

On Sep 4, 2005, at 8:42 AM, John Bange wrote:

>>
>> I think there is a newly renamed dealership in Van Nuys, CA....if this
>> is the one I'm thinking about....I'd forget IT....!
>
>
> But read the customer testimonials!
>
> "A week after I got my van, I took it from Valencia, CA all the way to
> Phenox, AZ and it drove like a champ! On one of the 12 hour streches, I
> looked down to see how fast my Westy was going. I was astonished to
> see the
> 90 MPH read out."
>
> I'd get that speedometer adjusted if I was him. It's lying pretty
> hard! PS:
> it's spelled "Phoenix". I don't know which is worse. Him misspelling it
> originally, or them posting it and not knowing.
>
> "This van was no joke at all. I have only had one problem since. After
> telling Kevin what was happening with my car over the phone, he told
> me it
> must be the idle slave cylender "
>
> Idle slave cylinder...yeah, that's it. Your figgin-cam lobe extension
> is a
> bit wobbly too. I suggest a manual transmission filter change and
> timing
> belt replacement. I'm not sure which is more suspicious: that they
> call the
> idle stabilizer valve a "slave cylinder", or that they diagnosed it
> over
> then phone.
>
>
> For every kind of salesman there is a customer, though.
> Or a PT Barnum put it, there's a sucker born every minute.
>