Date:         Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:17:47 -0800
Reply-To:     Ty Graham <tyg@MICROSOFT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Ty Graham <tyg@MICROSOFT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Winkler 4-wheel disc brakes
Comments: To: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>, vanagon@VANAGON.COM

I can find a German speaking person to call them.

Can someone please post a Phone, Fax, and Address.

I think I am needing these 4 wheel discs.


Thank you in advance

Ty Graham
86 Synchro Doublecab

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 5:45 AM
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Winkler 4-wheel disc brakes



At 02:20 PM 12/2/98 -0800, Per Lindgren wrote:

>Can someone please tell me how to get a Winkler catalog, and what is it? I
am very curious now, as it is referred to all the time. I've searched the

>net, I cant even seem to find anything useful


I classic, German, contra-entrepreneurial style, Winkler (of Herne Germany)
is woefully unaware of how Americans expect service-minded organizations
should operate. For example, unless you speak German and call them directly
on the phone, they typically won't respond (or take forever to do so) to
email, faxes, or letters.


Detlev Hanschke has been trying to get permission to publish the Winkler
catalog on the web (I've even offered to help him do the conversion) -- and
Winkler's only concern is that it might "cut into his business" because he
sells those catalogs at a profit. Go figure!!! (who said German's weren't a
bit crazy -- they'd double their business if they gave the information away
for free!). Achh!


Cheers,



Michael J. Sullivan

Director of Catalog Design

Open Market, Inc.


'87 GL Syncro Westfalia "Sunny"

'89 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Wagon "Wizard"


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