No curves. The repops from Bus Depot is very close. The tubes are slightly different diameter and no P/N on the end pieces. Besides that, noone's going to notice unless they dismantle them from your van. I think it was less than $55. At that price it wasn't worth hassling with missing OEM pieces. BenT sent from my electronic leash On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Oxroad <oxroad@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > I have all the 5 oem VW mounts for the rear window jail bars for my Vanagon > (the four "end" pieces and the longer middle piece). > > Is there anything special as far as curves or finish or whatever about the > NLA VW bars that complete the kit or can I just find a supplier of metric > sized aluminum dowels to finish off the kit? > The aluminum rods at my local hardware store are American sizing and without > some tweeking they are a little smaller than the receiving brackets and wold > rattle. > > I see in ETKA even when VW offered the bars their note is bars com XXmm long > then "cut to size." > > Thanks, > Jeff > 83.5 Westy > LA,CA |
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