Hi, I'm going nuts trying to do anything with my Westfalia here in Switzerland. Back home (Canada), I could just say I had a Vanagon '86 and everyone knew whether they had the right parts for it. Here it seems there are so many types of VW busses that they want all sorts of details I have no idea about. For example, Vanagon doesn't even exist here, so I'm at a loss to give them a model name they might recognize. Then they want to know how many cc the motor has.. ok, so I should know this.. but I don't. What I'm looking for now in a hurry is a starter as mine seized on the *boat* trip over from Canada to Belgium (anybody care to try and explain why it would seize while it's not even running??) I was hoping not to have to drive around to the sparse scrapyards around, since you apparently can't cannibalize wrecks yourself here but have to buy the parts at the counter. I was hoping to let my fingers do the walking and the dialling and just go to the place with the right part/price. Can someone advise me as to what I need to ask for (i.e. what years/models will do)?
Thanks a bunch. Please cc me directly as I have difficulty keeping up with the flow of mail from the list and store it in a file 'till I find time. Darie '86 Vanagon 'Hubdach' Camper
|
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.