Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:36:57 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Camper/Multivan Supplement to Volkswagen Owner's Manual
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I just went out and measured Dixie's mattresses so we could have some real
knowledge instead of hearsay.
On a 1986 Pop-top Westy Weekender the lower berth is 46" wide and the upper
is 47 1/2" wide - not a lot wider up top and a solid foot from being queen
sized! =)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> ---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The bottom bed has a big bite out of it from the camping stuff. The
> > top bed has less of a bite out of it because of the inward curvature
> > of the walls of the van. Conventional widsom is that the top is
> > "queen" and the bottom is "double." I doubt that's exactly true.
>
> Well, my perception was that the top was several inches wider than the
> bottom. However, the figure given in the book is that it is only 0.8 inch
> wider. That is quite a lot less than the difference between a "double" and
> a "queen" mattress. My wife likes to sleep between sheets with blankets
> when it is not cold enough to require a sleeping bag. She puts "double bed"
> sheets on the bottom mattress, and they fit pretty well. They probably
> would work up top, too, though the mattress is really thin. We've never
> slept up there ourselves.
>
> > The problem with your manual no doubt happened at the contractor's
> > print shop on Monday morning after New Year's. But I've seen it happen
> > plenty of times. Look at the pages and see if the ones in French are
> > connected through the binding with another page in French.
>
> Yes, but some of those have English on the reverse side, some have French,
> so the mistake may have been in printing as well as in assembling.
>
> I did learn that the manual was available in a French language version and
> an English language version by looking in the owner's manual for ordering
> information.
>
> >Somebody
> > just picked up a press sheet , which was probably "ganged" with both
> > languages, checked it for quality and put it back down the wrong way
> > around. You may have the only one in existence!
>
> I should offer it for sale to collectors, right :-).
>
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> > > I've been meaning to try to find an answer to this question. My
> supplement, referenced in the post subject, has some pages in English, some
> in French. These pages are not duplicates -- some information is in French
> only, some in English only. At first I thought this was because some
> installations are Canadian only, but some of the French pages refer to
> things that are in my U.S. model, and some English pages describe items that
> occur only in the Canadian model, such as the smoke detector. Of course, to
> serve all Canadian owners, the entire manual should be printed in both
> English and French.
> > >
> > > I suppose that my manual is just a bastard, containing a mismatch of
> English and French language versions. Does anyone know if the manuals were
> available in Canada in French versions? If so, maybe my manual just got
> pages mixed at the print shop.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, on page 35 of this manual, the ground clearance is
> listed as "75.0 in. (190 mm)." Wow! Of course, 190 mm is approximately
> 7.48 inches, so I guess the listing is a typo for 7.50 in.
> > >
> > > Apropos a discussion of some time back, this page also lists the bed
> dimensions, as follows:
> > >
> > > "upper 72.8 x 48.0 in (1850 x 1220 mm)
> > > lower 74.0 x 47.2 in (1880 x 1200 mm)"
> > >
> > > So, the upper is very slightly wider, and very slightly shorter,
> according to VW.
> > >
> > > I thought that I remembered a greater difference in width than that;
> others thought the two were the same width. These data seem to vindicate
> both opinions, in that the upper is wider, but very little.
> > >
> > > David McNeely
> > >
>
> --
> David McNeely
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
Crescent Beach, BC
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