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Date:   Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:01:54 -0700
Reply-To:   Brent Christensen <bpchristensen@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Brent Christensen <bpchristensen@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:   Re: your opinion please - part 2
Comments:   To: Jim Fritz <jfritz@DECORAH.K12.IA.US>

Woe to he who useth HTML on the list...

That being said, I have factory cruise control in Klaus, and it works very well. However, since it doesn;t know ahead of time when a big grade is coming up, I usually have to step on the gas in anticipation of the upcoming grade, then when the grade flattens out, I just take my foot off the gas, and voila - back to cruising speed.

(This is not an issue with cars that have adequate power to climb grades in 5th gear...)

Also: DON'T ever shift gears while the cruise control is engaged!!! This is tempting sometimes in the afore mentioned grade-climbing scenario. Evidently, the VW cruise control doesn't have a clutch interlock/kill switch. (At least according to my owners manual)

Brent Christensen '89 Syncro Westy "Klaus" '95 Cherokee Sport

----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Fritz Sent: Sunday, June 06, 1999 7:46 AM Subject: Re: your opinion please - part 2

Reply to: RE: your opinion please - part 2

Jim says:

Sorry, I meant to add this and hit send too quickly.....to those of you with OEM cruise controls...are you satisfied with the performance, build, maintenance of your system? Will it hold on long grades?

I searched the archives and it seems that the aftermarket Zemco brand has turned into the Audiovox brand, which is now the Equus brand. Does anybody know if the brand name has changed again? Most of the posts to the archives were several years old. >Volks, > >Well, after a long search I've finally located 1 (and only 1) complete OEM >VW cruise control - complete with everything from stem to stern. I gulped when >the guy said he wanted $300 for it. He "says" that it comes from the same >model/year (89 Westy) as mine. > >My question: Is this highway robbery, about the right price for OEM, or what? > >TIA >Jim in Iowa >91 Passat Wagon GL >89 Westy >66 Beetle > >RFC822 header >----------------------------------- > >Return-Path: <owner-vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> >Received: from gerry.gerry.vanagon.com (207.194.220.240) by decorah.k12.ia.us > with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 1.3.1); Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:24:04 -0500 >Received: from gerry (207.194.220.240) by gerry.gerry.vanagon.com (LSMTP >Lite for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.93952E50@gerry.gerry.vanagon.com>; 6 Jun >1999 7:24:13 -0700 >Received: from GERRY.VANAGON.COM by GERRY.VANAGON.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release > 1.8c) with spool id 154903 for vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM; Sun, 6 Jun > 1999 07:24:10 -0700 >Received: from decorah.k12.ia.us (156.46.52.20) by gerry.gerry.vanagon.com > (LSMTP Lite for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id > <0.8B9EC260@gerry.gerry.vanagon.com>; 6 Jun 1999 7:24:00 -0700 >Received: from 198.49.28.138 by decorah.k12.ia.us with SMTP (Eudora Internet > Mail Server 1.3.1); Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:22:18 -0500 >X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 1.5.2 (Mac) >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-Ascii" >Message-ID: <1283461558-45027564@decorah.k12.ia.us> >Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:28:00 -0500 >Reply-To: Jim Fritz <jfritz@DECORAH.K12.IA.US> >Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> >From: Jim Fritz <jfritz@DECORAH.K12.IA.US> >Subject: your opinion please >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >


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