At 22:30 10/2/99 , Mark Drillock wrote: >I purchased a zippered screen for the sliding door of my vanagon. There >is no way that I can see to make it fit properly. Has anyone installed >one of these in a manor that they find acceptable and if so, what year >and model vanagon did it fit? Mine is too wide for the opening and the >top snaps do not coincide with locations where a snap can be mounted. >Also on the upper front side there is a zig that appears to be intended >to clear the passenger side seat belt anchor. The problem is that it >lines up with the lower anchor position, not the one that has the seat >belt normally attached. > >Mark Mark, I have the same trouble. Every few weeks I haul the thing out and try to figure out how it could possibly fit, and I just can't do it. My wife and I thought of maybe shortening it a few inches by folding somewhere in the middle and tack-sewing, but we're reluctant to do that. Ron, can you resolve this for us? It's a nicely made screen and I'd really like it to work, but it simply seems impossible. I have an '84 P27 (full camper) Westy. david David Beierl - Providence, RI '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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