I love to tinker with my Vanagon. My favorite thing to do is to make everything work as it did when it was on the showroom floor. This past weekend I spent an inordinate amount of time making the fasten seatbelts light work. I found the relay (without a buzzer), and it comes on when I put the key in the ignition, then off when I turn the key. That's not right. Anyway, my point is that a detail that most people would overlook is a challenge that I pursue until I get closure (if you want to know why, read some work by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). Most people wouldn't care about this. Then, when I get it to stock, I modify it. Call it a sickness. The most important rule of Vanagon ownership is: never drive it farther than you can afford to have it towed, back, if something should happen. That's basically between $1.00 and $2.00 a mile. Mark |
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