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• Re: TINTED WINDOWS
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:23:47 -0600
  ...The ammoniated cleaners, when it gets on the plastic in the dash or side pannels or other plastics kills the oils. And plastic without...
• "Clear Tape" on wheel well
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Klender
  Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:38:37 EDT
  ...It will soften the plastic up. My brother owns a Sign Shop and showed me this years ago. 2. The Clear plastic tape can...
• <no subject>
  Historical mailing list - Todd Kaderabek
  Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:33:33 -0400
  ...bumper for '87 I was fortunate enough that the PO did me the glorious favor of removing all that extraneous, useless plastic junk. He...
• Re: oil filler tube removal
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:48:48 -0700
  --- Owen <olists@THEBRANDS.ORG> wrote: > The top half is plastic. Can this slide off > or do I have to unbolt the whole assembly at...
• Re: Speedometer Disassembly Question
  Historical mailing list - Doug Fitz-Randolph
  Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:31:00 -0400
  ...I've >> removed the four screws holding the clear plastic >> assembly to the black >> plastic housing, and it seems like the only thing >> holding...
• Re: vinal plastic paint
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:12:15 -0500
  ...It comes in a plastic spray that perfectly restores interior stuff like headliners. I found a local service that will scan a part with...
• Re: Anyone repaired plastic coolant tubes??
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:14:57 -0700
  ...I removed > the broken plastic, sanded the metal, and recreated the missing > plastic and flange out of JB weld, which wasn't have but...
• Re: Interior panel plastic retainer clip availability
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:04:38 EST
  ...the 20s... > > thats cold enough to snap plastic like glass. :<( use a hairdryer to warm the plastic or just wait for a warmer day...
• Re: Heater flap foam replacement detail
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:54:14 -0600
  ...Should I > > (a) leave the plastic there, and stick my foam to the plastic? > > (b) remove the plastic and stick my foam to the...
• Re: Brown paint for interior plastic parts
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:35:50 -0700
  ...Doug Fitz-Randolph <fitzr@SUSCOM-MAINE.NET> Some of the brown plastic pieces - e.g. defroster vents - on my '82 were quite faded. I...
• Re: failing brown plastic parts in early vanagons was: Re: pick n pull
  Historical mailing list - Woody Halsey
  Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:06:43 -0400
  ...for some reason the brown plastic VW used does NOT hold up to the UV rays.. black plastic does fine..brown plastic turns to...
• Battery re-installation
  Historical mailing list - M=
  Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:00:43 -0500
  ...This was caused by the plastic protective cover not fitting correctly on the post (would not push down far enough). Does this mean I...
• Re: Fuses
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:42:48 -0400
  Our local Wal*Mart and FLAPS have the "Plastic" VW fuses which I'll use in a pinch. The ceramic ones are better, though...
• hard plastic fuel lines??
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:23:12 -0700
  ...This hard plastic tube went into the engine compartment. Is this standard? thanks matthew 84 weekender
• Re: Manual Window Regulator. Plastic Square; Most Common Failure Point?
  Historical mailing list - John Goubeaux
  Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:42:51 -0700
  ...https://www.vanagain.com/shop/plastic-part-window-regulator/ On 8/9/17 11:56 AM, Neil N wrote: > Hi all. > > From my limited...
• Re: Paint the plastic bumper extensions?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:08:22 -0800
  Sorry , 'any black paint' won't really stay on plastic, especially the extra slippery kind that bumper caps are. I posted earlier about a...
• Re: Coolant Pipe Around Engine Bay Opening
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sat, 17 Oct 2020 10:06:16 -0700
  there are 2 kinds, one in metal and one plastic... I don't know when they switched to plastic... one of my vans has...
• Plastic ftting on the botton of the sink drain ???
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:19:42 -0700
  ...while gently pursuading the waste line off the bottom of the plastic drain it snaped the 20 year old plastic fitting that the little...
• Re: Q:how to install the plastic front window trim
  Historical mailing list - BILL
  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 16:45:23 -0600
  ...I had the new plastic chrome trim (picked up at local dealer for a little over $6) installed at the glass shop when they...
• Re: Rear Heater leak, removing the plastic shroud.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:57:58 -0500
  ...We removed the six screws around the plastic shroud that covers the hoses and heater core, but were unable to remove the plastic cover...
• Re:fuel pump spacer stuck
  Historical mailing list - Steve Hoge
  Mon, 06 Nov 95 07:26:03 0800
  How 'bout spearing that plastic with a hot something-or-other (red hot bicycle spoke?) that would melt into the plastic...let cool...twist...
• Re: Front Grill Spray Paint Recommendations
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Wed, 9 May 2012 10:28:29 -0400
  I used plastic specific Fusion black paint with extremely good results. 8 years later it still looks great. Just make sure you clean the...
• Re: End caps, steel vs. plastic
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:33:46 -0600
  Did anybody respond to this? I would love to find something more durable than those disposable cheapy plastic end caps. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From...
• the science behind the clutch
  Historical mailing list - David White
  Fri, 6 Jul 2012 21:45:19 -0700
  ...The other day I blew plastic line. It had appeared to blow where the plastic line is connected to the barbed fittings on both...
• Re: Honey I shrunk the coolant pipes
  Historical mailing list - Milo's Kitchen
  Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:31:40 -0500
  Hi Jim, Have you checked to see if the metal insert in the plastic pipe end (forming the bead) is moving out of the...
• Interior panel plastic retainer clip availability
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Olson
  Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:01:41 -0700
  I'm going to be taking out the interior panels of my 85 vanagon and wonder if anyone knows a source for the plastic...
• Re: re. It's Alive! It's Alive!, power window plastic clip
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:25:30 -0700
  ...Gary Lee wrote: >Mike wrote: >I need to buy one of the plastic parts which attaches to the bottom of the >window frame and...
• Recommendation needed for exterior plastic black paint for grill
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 30 May 2022 10:14:44 -0400
  ...Anyone have a recommendation for black paint to be used to restore the front black plastic grill on a vanagon? I went to clean...
• vanagon interior sidepanel plastic
  Historical mailing list - alan sinclair
  Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:01:38 -0700
  ...The plastic sheeting that's glued onto the interior side panels (and the 'ceiling' and inside the cupboards) has perished and so we're...
• Suggestions for heater housing repair product needed
  Historical mailing list - email99
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:19:23 -0500
  I need to make some repairs to my black plastic heater housing and I don't know what product is appropriate. Basically some of...
• Re: Recommendation needed for exterior plastic black paint for grill
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 30 May 2022 07:38:57 -0700
  ...That being said, Someone on the Volvo FB group suggested wiping graying plastic with linseed oil and I tried it on the cladding on...
• Re: Paint the plastic bumper extensions?
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:30:00 -0500
  ...If you go out and just spray some paint on your plastic parts, without some prep, yes, I'm sure it will peel off...
• Re: Pad over engine & Fire extinguisher
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 12:17:31 PDT
  > Concerning the engine lid though, all later models (87+) I've seen came wth > the plastic lid, while and 82 diesel's I saw...
• Re: Suggestions for heater housing repair product needed
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:08:23 EST
  ...I've seen > plastic repairs made that are very durable and seem to have been done > with the same type of plastic that the...
• Re: Syncro Gas/FuelTank material
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:33:26 -0600
  ...ABS plastic can have success by taking a piepce of ABS plastic pipe and and a Shure form rasp and shaving it down so...
• Re: failing brown plastic parts in early vanagons was: Re: pick n pull
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:30:51 -0700
  ...for some reason the brown plastic VW used does NOT hold up to the UV rays.. black plastic does fine..brown plastic turns to...
• Re: Plastic parts making
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Thu, 3 Mar 2016 02:46:58 +0000
  ...Plastic parts making A few years ago there was someone here that mentioned having plastic forming capabilities.  (Was it John Rogers? I can’t...
• Re: Power Window Trouble
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Mon, 17 Dec 2001 06:05:36 EST
  ...Most likely what has happened is one or both of the PLASTIC cables guides and the PLASTIC corner guides of the cable track mechanism...
• Re: Steel fuel line adapter & curtain springs
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:41:32 -0400
  OK, here's the real story ! Those plastic lines, ABS plastic I presume, as I have yet to encounter any of it deteriorating so...
• Re: Gas tank leaking
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:32:08 -0800
  The cross over tube consists of: - long plastic tube - two plastic fittings (one on each side) - pops into tank, and connects plastic tube to...
• Re: Plastic Fuel Lines
  Historical mailing list - Dan Eggert
  Fri, 11 May 2001 10:49:42 -0500
  I cut the plastic fuel lines on mine a while back and they did start to leak. I found another set off of an...
• Re: Oil leak at filler tube
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:50:33 -0700
  On the WBX the plastic is not supposed to be separated from the metal tube. It has been my experience that when there is...
• plastic parts
  Historical mailing list - David Higginbotham
  Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:34:34 -0400
  I need some plastic parts. I need the clip that holds the sun visor to the windshield, not the hinge part but the stabilizing...
• Fuel Tank Grommets/Plastic Pieces
  Historical mailing list - Randy Nunes
  Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:59:46 -0700
  ...The cross over plastic T piececonnector , a plastic piece which secures the line from the overflow to the gas tank were broken, the lines...
• Re: blue plastic circuit board
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 30 May 2001 18:24:53 -0600
  ...besides the broken plastic all over the cluster >housing, i noticed the blue plastic looked kind of funny, stretched, if >you will. i lifted...
• Re: Paint the plastic bumper extensions?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:04:08 -0800
  ...Cause those normal paints come off plastic where I live, after a while. And I thought that someone might like knowing about a 'real...
• Re: Rear Heater leak, removing the plastic shroud.
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:36:39 -0500
  ...We removed the six screws around the plastic shroud that covers the hoses and heater core, but were unable to remove the plastic cover...
• Re: making obsolete plastic parts.? Re: '80-'84 westy plastic pass Curtain rod cover
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:34:45 -0700
  > >regarding reproducing the '80-'84 westy right rear plastic curtain rod cover >- well i have a few "donors" here.. i just need to locate...
• Re: COLLAPSIBLE OIL TUBE
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:19:02 -0700
  i've only seen plastic on cheap rebuilds. VW of CANADA used metal ones. These wer push rod tubes btw and not oil filler...
• Re: Another Vanagon Burns Up
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:10:05 EST
  In a message dated 3/31/05 2:06:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, JordanVw@AOL.COM writes: > > Plastic? I thought they were fiberglass...
• Re: Interior panel plastic retainer clip availability
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:43:01 -0700
  > I'm going to be taking out the interior panels of my 85 vanagon and > wonder if anyone knows a source for the plastic...
• Manual Window Regulator. Plastic Square; Most Common Failure Point?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 9 Aug 2017 11:56:58 -0700
  ...From my limited experience, and from what I've read, one common failure point is the square plastic piece that rides along the metal...
• Re: dash heater flaps
  Historical mailing list - Mike B
  Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:31:54 -0500
  ...Should I >> =20 >> (a) leave the plastic there, and stick my foam to the plastic? >> =20 >> (b) remove the plastic and stick my foam...
• Re: pop top staples vs screws, was Re: [vanagon] Fwd: Pop-Top Canvas Replacement Video
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:31:37 -0700
  ...Is your top fiberglas or plastic? If plastic, I'm hazard a guess that it's been replaced at some point. My '82 was...
• Fule line leaks
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Zygmunt
  Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:47:02 -0800
  ...1) rubber junctions - used to connect between different lines (ie fuel pump to plastic line) 2) plastic tube - used to run from the fuel...
• Instrument cluster - clear plastic cover removal
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:09:56 -0800
  I have my van's instrument cluster out (repairing the odometer, and epoxying the cracked plastic shroud around the speedo housing). I'd like...
• Re: Speedometer house repair suggestions ?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:20:08 -0700
  re VW didn't understand plastics and plastics engineering as well as they thought they did. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET...
• Re: Seat track plastic inserts source?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:06:44 EDT
  ...jjmojo@BLAZENET.NET writes: > Anyone know where you can get the plastic inserts that fit into the > seat track that keeps everything tight and...
• Re: Q:how to install the plastic front window trim
  Historical mailing list - BILL
  Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:05:29 -0600
  > A question for those who have been there: > > I bought new (WCM) front window plastic trim from Ron Salmon when we > were en route...
• Re: Anyone repaired plastic coolant tubes??
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:11:39 -0700
  ...I removed > > the broken plastic, sanded the metal, and recreated the missing > > plastic and flange out of JB weld, which wasn't have but...