Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:41:53 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Turning off rear heater
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> As for your broken electric windows, I had the same problem when I first
> bought my vanagon. I paid someone 50$ for the manual crank regulator
> assembly and replaced the busted electric window regulators. That was the
> very first "upgrade" I did to my vanagon.
>
>
> -Ry
> http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
>
> Thread modification....
One of the reasons I chose my particular vanagon (besides it being VW
inline four powered and having a 5sp) was that it was equipped with power
Nothing. I find it inconvenient to have power windows. I do have to have
em in some vehicles, they are the 'norm' after all, and often the only
option.
With non-power windows you can raise or lower them without the ignition key
being on or at the Acc. position. So when I am camped or doing something
else in my vehicle and want the window near me up or down, I just wind it up
or down without having to go round to or crawl through the vehicle interior
to the drivers position (after finding and inserting the keys) to be allowed
to move the window with the little button. Moving the window (or activating
the power door locks) is also dependent on not having the Vehicle battery
disconnected or switched off...you have to 'fix' that to use those power
features, too.
Some vehicles have all kinds of other features tethered into having that
key in the slot..Lights that dim inside, Dingers, automatic door lockers.
So sometimes when you just want to move the glass in the door opening but
you have to insert the key to do so, you must endure or work around a bunch
of unintended consequences, too
..my 'dentist's wife's' Porsche..a 928 gt...it did lots of stuff when you
stuck the key in the slot or removed it...raised all the windows, locked the
doors automatically, armed the alarm etc. And the seat would 'remember' a
bunch of adjustments for each driver and configure itself, automatically
when the key went in...When something went haywire with that electrical
system there was three full volumes (Bently book sized) on the electrical
system and over 80 interconnected relays in the 'power center'.. the worst
ever 'power equipped vehicle'...but incredibly fun when it worked sometimes.
No, I looked long and hard to find a 'No AC, no power steering, no power
windows, door locks, etc etc' vanagon. I'd probably pay double to leave
that stuff off...rather than working around all those 'convenience and
comfort' options that really aren't so convenient when they break or you
don't have/want the vehicle's power turned on..
Don Hanson
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