VANAGON archives -- August 2007, week 1 (#177)

Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:06:46 -0700 Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Ripoff on Vancouver Island Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: <6F0AB5CE-8396-4929-9943-63E9B6CAA21D@uvic.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

malahat will let you strip pats on your own ... hmm not the day i was there ... but then again they didnt have the fiberglass bumper i was looking for ... will say this though ... there is a repair shop right before the malahat scrap yard ... i think it might be called hog heaven and he does vw stuff... he once did some very huge repairs for me all reasonable cause i broke down on my way down the high way ... limped in with a jurry rig and he did a fine job of repairing .. as i say reasonable too ... to the blowin off steam guy ... i feel for ya man ... seek a little zen ... before pressing send ... ;-) try the partsplace in flint michigan ... they have a catolog o parts ... yours

On 8/2/07, Alistair Bell <albell@uvic.ca> wrote: > > Malahat is funny, sometimes you get real good deals, sometimes not. I > found the best route is to go there, strip the parts yourself. If > there is one "big ticket item", load up with smaller stuff and they > make good deals on package. > > I find them to be pretty good overall. > > Alistair > > '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94 > http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/ > > On 2-Aug-07, at 12:50 PM, Christopher Gronski wrote: > > I called Malahat Auto Parts looking for a drivers side middle sliding > window for a westfalia and he quoted me $250 plus shipping. Crazy! Do > these guys not know what things go for in the real world? > > Chris >

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