Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:54:16 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] etka on line with registration
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dear importer
... Unless
you are willing to make these sort of compromises, you have no
business owning a graymarket import. ..
ben couldnt have said it any better ...
i had our weird machine at Go westy and they said they had never seen
anything like it before ...
Scott in medford oregon said ... one sweet ride ...
anyway ... mine is so odd that the online etka i sent around shows a flat
air filter ... mine is round like a tube
indeed vw etka and a knowledgeable vanagon parts man could not make heads or
tails of my requests ...
so i knew one thing ... that industrial applications have tube like filters
.. so off to tractor supply store in ohio where i was visting ...
turns out a John Dear filter is the same ... right down to the plastic
spacer ...
spent half an hour with measure tape in hand and my filter cartridge /...
if you are looking to own a vehicle that will not show up on a parts catalog
... you need to know how to search ...
and be creative ...
my model has a fuel enrichment cable ...
the handle pulled off ... while in vancouver, bc i went to a vw /euro parts
store
the guy got very weird when i walked in with the parts number ...
he said he would not order until i should him my full documentation of
import ...
as if he was the vw /border services police...????
i told him it would be very unlikely i would show him any such documents ...
(i even have original service records from da fadder land )
those are nobodies business to see either ...
i will order parts or find at a wreckers sometime somewhere some day
i placed a marine fuel filter in place when i could not locate the OEM
sealed canister
and so it goes ...
yours
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
> When you own a vehicle not officially imported to your location, you
> need to learn how to order with the corresponding part number. Unless
> you are willing to make these sort of compromises, you have no
> business owning a graymarket import.
>
> There are VW dealers with cooperative parts managers such as Rennie
> Wible at Santa monica VW. I've gotten non-parts from him several times
> before. Same can be said of our list vendors. You have to do some
> homework if you want to play with the big boys.
>
> ;-)
>
>
>
> BenT
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:50 AM, "Charles Nighbor"
>
> <cnighbor1@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I am concerned that when I walk in a VW Parts counter and tell what
>> I have he will throw up his hands and say
>> we do not stock those parts has not on our computer. Normally they
>> throw model and go to that part of VW. What will they do with an
>> overseas VW????? Yes I agree the same but will computer know it.
>> than how to do a scan on these. Most scans go by vin number
>> So how will that work
>> Charles
>> ----
>>
>
--
roger w
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