Date:         Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:57:51 -0330
Reply-To:     Bob Norman <B.Norman@THEZONE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Bob Norman <B.Norman@THEZONE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Gripes
Comments: To: "vanagon@VANAGON.COM" <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
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I've got lights on my heater controls... it's just that my heat exchangers
are rusted out and all the cables are seized. However, even if they weren't,
I'd need an Egyptologist to decipher the Sanskrit that VW uses to identify
which lever does what.

While i'm at it, Where does anybody place a cup in an early Vanagon? Lots of
surfaces... none that are horizontal, plumb or square.

Bob Norman
'81 Westy
Gander, NF
Canada

Hajasz wrote:

> econdly, NOTHING is perfect
> Feel free to add to the gripe list.
>
> 1. The #@!% plastic parts in the cooling system, please find the
> engineer who thought this was a good idea and let him fix them on the
> side of the interstate when it is raining.
>
> 2. The Captain's Chair Arm "Warning your armrest will self destruct in
> 30 seconds.... Make that 10."
>
> 3. The footwells that attract rust. Here was one problem that should
> have been left behind with the good old Microbus.
>
> 4. No lights on the heat or AC controls but the cigarette lighter gets a
> nice green halo... maybe a disgruntled smoker in design at VW. "Make me
> smoke outside, just try to set your heat at night"
>
> But I guess compared to a cramped Astrovan, these pale in comparison.
> Steve Hajasz
> 90 Vanagon GL
> 90 Vanagon (I'm working on it)
> 84 Rabbit Convertab