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• Re: lonely in Portugal
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:14:09 -0800
  ...I was in Lisbon earlier this year, and this coming summer, we are planning a van trip to Italy. Malcolm ________________________________ From: Arkady Mirvis <arkadymirvis...
• Kombi question again
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 1 Oct 1996 12:51:44 -0700
  ...It has "Transporter" badges, no seats, and transporter instruments (read that as minimal instruments -- no trip-odometer, no clock, no tach, no nothing). It...
• Re: HELP: Heads Rebuild: No Compression
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:40:20 -0400
  ...No Compression With one week to go before a planned 3k trip to the Great SouthWest, I have a dilemma. Buy plane tickets and...
• Tire Size Information (was: Re: Wheels & Deals)
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:02:14 EDT
  ...On my Syncro the odometer overstated the actual miles driven. With the 27" tires I have on it now the odometer is within 0...
• Re: Clutch Slave Piston Seal installation
  Historical mailing list - Thomas D. Hanlon
  Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:54:35 -0700
  ...My Westy is at > that > > stage in the life cycle. > > > > Tom Hanlon > > Palm Springs, CA > > 84 Westfalia > > 179,000 miles on odometer
• Re: 85' Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:16:02 -0600
  ...you shouldn't reset the trip > meter > while moving until it was too late. So now my odometer doesn't work. > Any > idea where...
• Re: Tire size question
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:34:52 -0500
  ...The odometer is calibrated > to the factory tire size. The odometer does not read distance travelled, > but rotations of the wheel, and converts that...
• Re: Westy camping at USGP--gripe
  Historical mailing list - Mark Kreuzer
  Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:53:36 -0500
  ...It took us about 4 trips to indy before we refined our way in/out and where to camp. Mark Kreuzer 85' Westy -----Original...
• Re: Report: gas mileage, in town, 1.9L AT
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schwaia
  Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:42:44 -0700
  ...And it's probably reported off the vehicle's odometer. Until someone buys me and installs for me more accurate sensors, that's what...
• Re: Instrument Cluster Woes
  Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
  Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:19:54 -0800
  ...The odometer is stuck at 204242. The trip odo doesn't work > either. I'd > love to have a functioning odo again. > > Thanks, ladies...
• Re: should I get a new transmission?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:47:04 -0700
  ...should I get a new transmission? > > > Hi, > > I'm going to take a 3 week road trip in September. My '85 is running well...
• Re: 200K on original engine?!?
  Historical mailing list - Randy Charrette
  Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:10:06 -0500
  ...This is a daily driver and road trip vehicle (We run the heck out of it!).</P> <P>Randy Charrette</P> <P>Longmont, CO...
• Re: Living the Compleat Vanagon Experience.
  Historical mailing list - Jeff
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:08:26 -0700
  ...Sigh. > Then about a month ago I blew the headlight switch. > Yesterday the odometer/trip meter seized up. I think I have a spare...
• Re: Oil Leaks due to Synthetics-Air cooled Vanagons!
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 20 May 2003 19:41:36 -0700
  ...Back when I drove air cooled busses most pre trip > maintenance consisted of a valve job and then praying while on the > trip. > Now...
• Inuvik Expedition - Pr.Rupert BC to Costa Mesa CA
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:37:07 -0700
  ...We rap about Type2's and the Inuvik trip then watch a videotape movie starring Julia Ormond, R.Gere and S.Connery. It's...
• Re: Coil-itis
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:20:27 -0700
  ...may or may not read my travel post from yesterday - great trip down the > Olympic Peninsula and halfway down Oregon coast. At the heart...
• more stuff for sale
  Historical mailing list - Seth Bruggeman
  Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:07:05 -0800
  ...is fit for the screw-on style speedo cable, has no trip odometer, and currently reads 48935.4 miles...can't guarantee working order...
• Re: another odometer repair
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:49:11 -0400
  ...In researching all the ways people fix > these I came across the thing again about "do not reset the trip odo while > the van...
• Re: Engine bearing rattle at warm restart
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 21 May 2006 23:33:00 -0400
  ...On 10 day trip used little if any oil. Compression test healthy/even. Heads were replaced by PO, engine had some kind of "rebuild...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Vince S
  Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:08:47 -0700
  ...next trip. When my TriStar says 94km/h on the speedometer I am really doing 100km/h - to get the true odometer, multiply distance...
• Re: mpg, was Retro-f. F.I.
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:02:00 -0700
  ...Go fishing, disconnect the odometer. Go get a bottle of "Night Train", ask your kid for a joint and whip out the old Sam...
• Re: Potts new Vanagon(s)
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:10:06 +0000
  ...Camping trips, groceries, hauling lumber and > firewood, beach trips and sign equipment service work year round in > downtown Toronto, Kingston, Windsor, London, and Barrie...
• Re: Life after speedometer, why do they break?
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:51:11 +1100
  ...Also, I'd be another one who has often zero-ed the trip meter whilst in motion and has suffered no ill effects after...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:25:12 -0600
  ...next trip. When my TriStar says 94km/h on > the speedometer I am really doing 100km/h - to get the true odometer, > multiply distance...
• Trip Report Bus Fusion
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:22:13 -0400
  ...No real stress though as my 84 was running great and could have made the trip. Dennis was very helpful describing the way to...
• Re: Westy LuggageRack Noise Speedometer accuracy
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:04:23 -0500
  ...My calculations show about 4 miles difference per 50 miles consistently on trips. So I actually go 54 miles per 50. Speed is just...
• Re: Unforseen, but very nice...Improved accuracy of Gas Guage.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:28:48 -0700
  ...I have always used my trip odometer to keep track of my fuel, for this reason. But now the silly gas gauge MAY be...
• Re: American Knowhow vs German engineering vs British electrics
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:24:35 -0700
  ...pudgy, you can't easily reach through it to poke the trip odometer. The ABS systems make it impossible to lock up the wheels...
• Re: lonely in Portugal
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Mentzer
  Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:52:11 -0500
  ...My, 1987 Westy (brought from USA, odometer reading 52 k miles), once I stop attracts many on-lookers. In Portugal the year the vehicle...
• Re: lonely in Portugal
  Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
  Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:41:07 +0200
  ...My, 1987 Westy > (brought from USA, odometer reading 52 k miles), once I stop attracts many > on-lookers. In Portugal the year the vehicle...
• Re: Premium parts donor bought, soon to be in custody
  Historical mailing list - frank n. furter
  Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:00:24 -0700
  ...Sometimes the > odometer goes bad and the > unit must be replaced with a new one that starts out > at 0 miles! Also > someone on...
• FS 86 Westy GL - Austin, TX
  Historical mailing list - karl
  Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:08:57 -0800
  ...I've taken it on several long trips with no problems. I'm the second owner, and the van has only ever lived in...
• My First Westy!
  Historical mailing list - stacy beard
  Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:12:09 -0700
  ...70 mph on the highway, 30-35 up steeper hills (think Yosemite) - Broken odometer @ just over 110K, estimated mileage 118K. Do you recommend getting...
• Re: Living the Compleat Vanagon Experience.
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:18:48 -0400
  ...Sigh. >> Then about a month ago I blew the headlight switch. >> Yesterday the odometer/trip meter seized up. I think I have a spare...
• For Sale: '80 Vanagon w/Chevy V6 engine
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:25:00 -0800 (PST)
  ...All gauges work except the 4-digit trip odometer, and even the engine temp gauge the PO put in the dash seems accurate, now...
• Model Summary for 1988 Vanagon USA
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:11:52 -0500
  ...Interior Padded instrument panel Speedometer with trip odometer Tachometer Fuel level gage Coolant temperature gage Digital LCD clock Illuminated vanity mirror Illuminated lockable glove...
• Re: Report: gas mileage, in town, 1.9L AT
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:38:28 -0700
  ...And it's probably reported off the vehicle's > odometer. Until someone buys me and installs for me more accurate sensors, > that's what...
• MPG redux
  Historical mailing list - mordo
  Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:38:25 -0400
  ...Shorter than stock tires will generate more miles on the odometer than are really traveled thereby skewing the mpg to the high side as...
• Re: '86 Westy Price?
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 1 Apr 2007 21:44:37 EDT
  ...The odometer doesn't tell the whole > story, though, because I had Volks Cafe (Santa Cruz) install a Tiico engine > and rebuilt transmission 6...
• Re: Propane and refrigerator success
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:35:44 -0700
  ...AM Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> And not resetting the trip odometer while the van is moving? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at...
• Re: Gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Wed, 30 Nov 94 08:39:13 CST
  ...highest was about 25 mpg (slow flat trip) and in winter it would get down (in city traffic) to about 15-16 or so...
• Re: State Your Age / addicted to VW
  Historical mailing list - tmiller
  Tue, 11 May 2004 23:11:11 -0400
  ...Picked up my first VW day before Thanksgiving 1980 - 1981 Rabbit Diesel LS Sold the Rabbit to my neighbor with 300K on the odometer...
• 82 Diesel Westy For Sale: Boo Hoo!
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Fri, 1 May 1998 11:28:18 -0500
  ...Top speed 63 MPH, it is a Westy Diesel! Odometer OOC Engine protection plate has some separation near bolt holes causing it to rattle...
• Broke down in Omaha
  Historical mailing list - Kragen Sitaker
  Thu, 8 Jun 2006 18:08:07 -0400
  ...It's been a pretty amazing trip so far. At the moment, we're up in Minneapolis in a rental car, which gets 23mpg...
• The continuing adventures of The Vanagon Retrofit
  Historical mailing list - John Tullier
  Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:06:10 -0700
  ...Driving without this gauge functional is far from pleasurable, especially since my trip meter and odometer or broken. And lastly, does anyone know how...
• Re: Gas Mileage
  Historical mailing list - Jason Kirk
  Fri, 21 May 2004 09:21:25 -0700
  I can't currently calculate my MPG due to a broken odometer. My question is this: Who the hell cares? Does all of this...
• FS- For Sale 86 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Anthony A. Luscre
  Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:31:04 -0400
  ...The Bad- On it last trip (3 years ago) it lost power about a mile from home. I limped it into driveway and was...
• Re: new trip proposal!
  Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
  Sun, 23 Apr 1995 08:12:46 -0700 (PDT)
  ...use) your compass, odometer, and caution. Wouldn't summer/early fall be real hot? If you want a longer trip, I can't say...
• Re: Vanagon gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:49:53 -0600
  ...But now I never reset the odometer while the vehicle is moving. Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver pete owsianowski wrote: >I always peg...
• Re: 86 2.1 L clunking noise under load
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:54:18 -0400
  ...With this trip, we have put about 2500 miles on him, but this was the longest and most strenuous trip we've been on...
• Re: Hello
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:51:29 -0800
  ...Hopefully very soon I will > post some trip reports myself. > > Ciao Dean > -- > "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the > liberty...
• TIRES
  Historical mailing list - Arkady Mirvis
  Tue, 11 May 2010 08:06:39 +0100
  ...That with 18,000 miles on odometer and the camper being subjected to the sun only during trips. A tireman suggested to replace them...
• Re: Syncro vs automatic gaz consumption, with same engine and tires!
  Historical mailing list - pedro dos santos
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:04:41 -0700
  ...actual kilometres of the vehicule, and also the > kilometers of the trip > > odometer that I put to zero at each fill up (the one...
• Re: Strange electrical problem: Headlights don't work (among other things)
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:30:33 -0700
  ...But, the trip odometer works, so that's a good substitute. ;) Jon On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, jon wrote: > I'll reply to my...
• 1979 'Falia goes on the block (Atlanta, GA area)
  Historical mailing list - Mark A Kunkel
  Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:26:19 -0500 (CDT)
  ...After only a half a dozen camping trips this summer, I want it to find a good home. Some details, in case you're...
• Re: Potts new Vanagon(s)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:30:39 -0500
  ...Camping trips, groceries, hauling lumber and >> firewood, beach trips and sign equipment service work year round in >> downtown Toronto, Kingston, Windsor, London, and Barrie...
• From Ennui to Tedium ... & Return
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 24 Jan 95 15:27:49 CST
  ...By the calibrated odometer, it's a 102-mi and 2-hr journey north to Downey and a 102-mi and 2-hr trip...
• Re: New to List
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:30:42 -0800
  ...the > years � flashing oil light, dripping heads, stopped odometer, parking > garage problems, camping equipment questions, trip reports, practical > advice and opinions, etc. > > I find...
• 87 Wolfsburg GL For Sale here first
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Camealy
  Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:39:02 -0500
  ...What a laugh! -Fuel guage stopped responding, never worried about it because it was never very accurate at low levels and odometer and trip...
• My first Westy trip! Questions and Thank You!
  Historical mailing list - Dan Wohlers
  Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:16:37 -0700
  This past weekend I was able to take my �new� Westy out for a camping trip. I found my Vanagon in a local newspaper...