Date:         Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:10:31 -0800
Reply-To:     River Clan <ri@RIVERCLAN.ORG>
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From:         River Clan <ri@RIVERCLAN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Look What I Found/eBay"carat" FS
Comments: To: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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We have had MAJOR problems with ZS Imports/Vanamania through the
Grease Works shop with no relief. We received 3 supposedly 'ready to
run' 60km 1.6td motors via eBay. They were missing parts, frozen up,
and none of them had any compression. They all required full
rebuilds. Boring, new pistons. Frozen turbos.

Bad injection pumps. They offered to replace the Injection Pump. Sent
off the old one, Vic says he never got it. I never received it back
from the mail either. Isn't that bizarre.

It's been a bad scene. We had thought about pursuing it since it was
$4500 worth of junk engines, but just due to believing in karma...
knowing the world will take care of itself is enough.

We also needed those 1.6td's pretty bad... but this bad? <sigh>

Be careful!

Ri



On Mar 28, 2006, at 7:42 AM, John Bange wrote:

>> These guys seem to have tons of stuff, but I'm wondering why, in
>> my albeit
>> short tenure on the list, I have never before seen these folks
>> mentioned.  Is there a history here?
>>
>
> ZS Imports/Vanamania comes up from time to time. He's probably most
> well
> known for his ebay sales. He's got a big yard out in Pahrump,
> Nevada with a
> bunch of German vehicles, mostly VW, and a warehouse full of parts.
> Occasionally he puts up a questionable import for auction, but
> other than
> that, not much to say.I understand he's had health problems in the
> last year
> or so and has tried several times to sell his entire "collection"
> at one
> shot, but man, who's gonna buy something like that, particularly
> when you
> have to haul it all away?
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>