-----Original = Message-----
From: Dave Baker <djbaker@SPRYNET.COM>
To:= vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM&g= t;
Date: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: = Instrument panel is disintegrating!

Interesting.  When I got my 85 Westy this = past June, I noted that the plastic on the inside rear view mirror was = deteriorating in similar fashion.  Just crumbling.  Do you park your = machine in bright sunlight possibly?  Could head be a contributing factor?

 

Dave in KC

 

----- Original Message ----- =

From: Gary Stearns

To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM =

Sent: Friday, December = 08, 2000 8:05 AM

Subject: Instrument panel = is disintegrating!

Help!  The instrument panel in our '88 = is slowly fracturing itself into dust.  Last spring, just small = cracks around the screws that hold it down.  Then the screw holes = completely broke off.  After fabricating clips to replace the broken = holes, now the panel is fracturing behind the speedometer.  I have = little shards of plastic falling out all the time.  I suspect that = simple body flex is the basic culprit, slightly moving the dashboard = and inst. panel (I do hear a lot of creaking and groaning up there on = uneven roads).  Anyone else experience this?  Should I be = worried about the body itself?  I always thought that the basic = stucture was real rugged. Now I am wondering.

 

Gary