I was
in touch with a small company (more like a shop, really) that specializes in
adoption the AirLift kits for VWs. They have full air suspension kits for
the bug, Karmann Ghia and Split Window Bus. Initially they seemed very
interested to make a kit for the Vanagon/Syncro. They even came to San
Francisco for a meeting. Steve Schwenk, Warren Chapman, Jeanny Maly and a
few others were there also. After this meeting they went completely
quiet. They haven't returned a phone call since. At this point I
gave up on this company and have not found another shop that does stuff like
this. A full air suspension would also be pretty pricey. We were
talking between $1500 and $2000 for a complete kit, depending on what options
you wanted.
I
think with the kits that are offered through the group purchase you are able to
get a very effective, simple and inexpensive add-on to your rear
suspension. You'll get lots of ride improvement for your $$. The
system is easily tuned to your application
camper/non-camper/loaded/empty/on-road/off-road/etc.etc.
I
really love this system and would like to give listees the chance to get one
also at a reasonable price. As I said in an earlier mail, there is no
money in this for me. We have the chance to cut our the middle man with
this purchase.
Best,
Peter
This kit sounds like a great idea,
but in my view the job is only half completed if we are talking about the rear
of the vehicle only.
It has always been my view that the AirLift or
Firestone kits were fantastic, but the trick was in adapting whatever these
companies offered into something that was workable on the front of the syncro
as well as the rear.
Has anybody done any work in this area? Peter,
can you weigh in on this topic?
At 11:02 AM 11/15/00 -0800, you
wrote:
Just wanted to let you all know
that the AirLift group purchase is very close to becoming reality. So
far I have 43 orders. I need 3 more takers for kit 1 and 4 more takers
for kit 2. Anybody else want to get in on this? Dose anybody who
ordered kit 1 want to upgrade to kit 2?
Cheers,
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
Buettner, Peter
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000
10:54 AM
> To: 'Vanagon List (E-mail)'; Syncro
List (E-mail);
> 'SyncroSA@egroups.com'
> Cc: 'caravana@topica.com'
>
Subject: air suspension group purchase
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm organizing a group
purchase for air suspension kits by
> Air
Lift. There has been quite a bit of discussion about
> these kit on the Vanagon list in the past months. I also
> wrote a test report earlier this year (see
links below). You
> can check these
resources for more info on these kits. I
>
want to keep the bandwidth low and so I'm not going to go
> into more detail here.
>
> I have some orders already and have contacted
these people
> via private email. If you're
interested in this group
> purchase and have not
received a private email from me please
> read on
and respond.
>
> There
are two kits to choose from. Kit 1 contains air bags
> only and kit 2 contains the air bags with compressor and a
> dual-gauge control panel. Group purchase
prices are $50 for
> kit 1 (about 50% off the
retail price) and $150 for kit 2
> plus
shipping. These prices are based on an order for
> 30xkit1 and 20xkit2. At this point I don't have this many
> orders so there might be some changes.
I'm not making any
> money off this
purchase. Please don't expect full customer
> service from me and be patient if it takes me a while to
> respond to your inquiries.
>
> Air Lift is official sponsor of the
Caravana Pan Americana
> 2000. Jeanne, Ron
and Tyler have the kits installed in South
>
America right now. Maybe they can give us a report of their
> impressions.
>
> I have installed the full compression kit in my
Syncro Westy
> this spring and it's been working
great ever since. Please
> drop me a line
if you'd like some pictures of the installation.
>
> Links:
>
Air Lift http://www.airliftcompany.com/
> Test article http://www.vanagon.com/syncros/technica/airlift-test/
> Caravana http://vanagon.com/journeys/caravana/index.html
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
>
>
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