Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:09:38 -1000
Reply-To: Scott <SCOTTDANIEL@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott <SCOTTDANIEL@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: German Engineering
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Re whether or not it's a hidden feature ..
For Europeans ..probably not.
for American driver's ...when no car, even thousands of impot4ed VW's,
had a turn signal switch that became a parking light switch for one side
of the car., and only After the engine shut off.
just not logical for American driver's ..it's 'too german'.
I'll see if I can think of any hidden features in American cars..
well here's one ..my first car, a 1956 Chevy ..
the gas cap is behind the left tail light ..
part of the tail light area .. a piece of metal, is a lever sort of, to
twist, and the entire light assembly flips down to reveal the filler
neck and gas cap.
but in lighting controls...can't think of one yet.
What you grow up with and get used to I suppose.
On that same car the interior light could be turned on by twisting the
pull-on, push off main light swtich.
so to be fair ..
here's a BRILLIANT piece of german engineering..
how the camshaft sprocket is mounted to the camshaft on a diesel vanagon
and many of those 1.6 and 1.9 diesesl engines.
the sprocket sits on a wide taper on the cam shaft.
No indexing key is used ( altho ..there is a notch for one in the
camshaft..confusing things, making people think a key might be missing
there. )
the sprocket is secured by one bolt.
Since the taper is so wide, the sprocket easily jumps off the camshaft
with one tap of a hammer after the bolt is removed ..very slick.
additionally ...with no splines or a key ..the sprocket fits on the cam
anywhere..
which means it can be priscely indexed to the camshaft in any position
to accommodate slight changes in timing belt length due to stretch over
time. Very nice !
Absolutely THE Best cam sprocket mounting sytem system in any type or
brand of car I have ever seen,
and I've pretty much worked on all of them.
On 08/16/2016 06:56 AM, KI4TLF wrote:
> Even now a lot are made that way. In most German small towns, the streets were made for wagons and the parking is half on the road in front of residences. It leaves a tight one lane down the middle at night. Most of these smaller towns don't have street lights either, so the left side parking lights act as guides for the open lane.
>
> GregM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Roy Nicholl
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 6:42 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: German Engineering
>
> It’s not a hidden feature, any more than turn signals or daytime running lights … it is just outside the normal North American experience. If you lived in Europe at the time these vehicles were manufactured, it was an expected behaviour.
>
>> On 16-Aug-2016, at 03:19, Scott <SCOTTDANIEL@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
>>
>> there is no question about the purpose of this feature.
>>
>> my criticsim is about how it's a hidden feature ..
>> and one could return to a car with depleted battery, not realizing the
>> turn signal switch of some porsche cars has this hidden feature.
>>
>> I'm glad to have small parking lights on one side or the other..
>> WHEN I TELL THEM to be on, such as my Mercedes has.
>>
>> On 08/15/2016 03:23 PM, Edward Maglott wrote:
>>> it's for parking on the side of a road or street where your car may
>>> be sticking out into the travel lane a little. it illuminates the
>>> front and rear marker lights dimly on that side so other drivers will
>>> see the car at night.
>>> Edward (had a 914 once with this confusing feature)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> And what feature is this?
>>>>
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
>>>> Behalf Of Dan N
>>>> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 9:22 AM
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Subject: Re: German Engineering
>>>>
>>>> French cars have that feature too...
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