Sounds like something's not right. You should have no such problems. Karl Wolz Sent from my electronic umbilicus On Apr 10, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Arlene K Sondergaard <asonder@USGS.GOV> wrote: > I had my A/C recharged on my 87 Wolfsburg automatic and found a loss of > power resulted when using it. > I couldnt drive the Gifford Pinchot forest roads using it because of > overheating also. > > Cut the belt off. > Power fine, no overheating, on forest service rds. > We still use the system--the fan runs the length of the roof-good > circulation. > Much better than nothing. > > Arlene > 1987 Wolfsburg Carat > Washougal Wa > > > > From: > Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> > To: > vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: > 04/10/2012 09:58 AM > Subject: > Re: I'm back . . .A/C and beyond. > Sent by: > Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> > > > > I also have A/C in my '87 and would not want to be without it. > > On a trip to the NW, joining a buch of others of "us" a few years > ago, we drove miles and miles of the backroads into and around > Mt. St. Helens. It was a very hot time, and many of the roads were > inside tall trees, dusty, no breeze at all, so sort of suffocating. > > After the first day of this, I rolled up the windows and ran the A/C > and created my little heaven environment. The oppressive > nature of the high humidity AND heat was way too much for > this van cowboy, and the A/C made the driving part of the days > much more than tolerable. Sleeping at night, a different story. > > I tend to drive around the intermountain region with the A/C > off and windows down, but am very grateful to have good, > working A/C to rely on. It has been converted to 134 and does > a very good job of cooling. I don't think the cabin has ever been > above the low 70's (I have a "weather station" in my van, so > the temp differential between external ambient and internal > is no guessing game. > > Bob |
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