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  • FS
    Historical mailing list - Vwghost
    Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:51:35 -0500
    Basement cleaning Engine compartment cover 15.00 Windshield 50.00 Rear interior Covers 40.00 black & silver side sliding windows black set 65.00...
  • Looking for Curtains - 1982 to 1984 Westy
    Historical mailing list - Christian Pelletier
    Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:03:13 -0700
    ...I need only one half for the side window, and one for the sliding door. And also maybe the one that goes around the...
  • Re: How do I remove the sliding window catch - 82 westy
    Historical mailing list - George Goff
    Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:27:27 EDT
    In a message dated 7/3/05 8:29:36 PM, rrecardo@WEBTV.NET writes: << A Magnet work OK George ? >> I don't think...
  • Finally In the process of painting our 87 Westy Installing new pop top canvas etc
    Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
    Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:38:18 -0700
    HI Have our 87 Westy in for a total re paint job taking out the windows etc a few questions 1.Planning on buying...
  • Fw: FS....84 westy Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Scott Charles
    Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:20:28 -0800
    ...be recovered ) $ 25.00 for the set ---Side sliding window. $ 75.00. Front vent windows $ 25.00 each ---Custom rubber Floor mats ( front and...
  • 84 88 parting
    Historical mailing list - dawn
    Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:29:14 -0700
    ...spare tire pan carpet seats vents windows door panels lights tail lights fuel tank doors hatch sliding windows and frames this vanagon had a...
  • Re: headlight covers; side door screen; awning
    Historical mailing list - Ian Webb
    Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:16:25 -0800
    Laurie Loeb wrote: > > Today I saw the coolest factory screen for the entire opening of the sliding > door on an '84 Westy Wolfsburg. Where...
  • Re: window screens and curtain question
    Historical mailing list - Dave L
    Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:05:28 -0400
    ...you mean to install them in the doors' windows ? The screens are for the sliding windows just behind the door. If you already knew...
  • Re: Window Trim
    Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
    Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:15:57 -0700
    ...it. > > Dish soap and water gets sticky too quick, to allow sliding stuff > around, while mounting glass or installing mouldings. > > This is my professional...
  • Re: Westy fridge fan on, but fridge is off (I think)
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
    Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:03:30 -0700
    ...compartment, and (depending on year) the vents on the rear side windows. M --- Vince S <gipsyflies@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > There isn't a cool...
  • Re: buckling sliding door panel
    Historical mailing list - Nicholas Wilson
    Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:21:30 -0700
    ...camper, '66 21-window sunroof microbus camper, '70 Westy At 11:06 PM 6/24/01 -0500, you wrote: >My sliding door panel rubs...
  • Re: Spiffing up the sliding glass frames
    Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
    Thu, 19 May 2005 06:31:48 EDT
    ...Surely there's someone here who's actually pulled a side window, no? Anyone? The sliding side windows are the hardest ones to remove...
  • Bentley, engine, trans, Westy parts For Sale!
    Historical mailing list - CARY CHIANG
    Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:17:25 MST
    ...Front table & arm $85 windshield/front windows privacy curtain $35 rear hatch insect screen $35 weekender rear closet and side table sliding side windows...
  • Re: 50 50 slider in a Westy?
    Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
    Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:22:48 -0700
    ...s side 70/30 window (the > > sliding part broke) with a 50/50. Someone sold me a bus window (y'all > > helped me figure...
  • Re: Clips for RainWind Guard...
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:59:04 -0500
    ...the window down slightly for fresh air, and no longer get wet, if it happens to be raining. But that constant sliding down is...
  • Re: Westy screens
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:57:16 -0500
    ...side, one in the sliding > door.) I'm quite pleased with it, as, like the original, it allows the > window to be opened (or...
  • Re: Sliding door lock...
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 15 Jul 1995 06:29:24 -0400
    In a message dated 95-07-14 10:27:50 EDT, you write: >> Does anybody know how to fix the sliding door lock on...
  • Re: Looking for glass
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:16:43 -0500
    ...a fine piece of Sierra granite. > He/she/they broke the sliding window on the slider door. So far, no one > (VW, glass shops...
  • FS....84 westy Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Scott Charles
    Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:59:09 -0700
    ...Extra parts...sold with or separately. ---Front seats ( need to be recovered ) ---Side sliding window. ---Custom rubber Floor mats ( front and back ) Great for...
  • Temp/vent control lever panel...
    Historical mailing list - James Shinosky
    Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:09:12 EST
    ...Million thanks to those helped me with interior speedo/tacho interior window cleaning and night instrument illuminating light bulb color ideas... I painted the...
  • Removing internal window rubber
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
    Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:00:28 -0500
    ...the window frames on the vehicle but rather the rubber WITHIN the window frame that seals the edges of the sliding windows to the...
  • door grease - '84 Westy Wolfy
    Historical mailing list - Matthew Snook
    Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:34:25 -0700
    ...Inside the door is a sliding window guide and the guiderail. The guide had jumped off the rail, and would jam against it about...
  • Re: Sliding window keeps breaking - '85 GL
    Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
    Wed, 23 Feb 2000 04:14:32 +0100
    ...Over 100 1997+ Passat Wagons, and an unknown number of EVs have had problems with the rear windows. The glass shatters, or rather explodes...
  • 91 Westy - Sliding Door Pops Open While Driving
    Historical mailing list - Jahan Byrne
    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:27:32 -0800
    ...windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>As I am driving, the sliding door...
  • Re: Wind noise
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:26:36 EST
    ...It took awhile but the center of that rubber window track that the window slides into and seals in came apart from the rest...
  • Re: Genuine VW Parts
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:03:43 -0500
    http://www.vagcat.com/epc/cat/vw/T2/1991/78/56/888046/ Looks like part of the sliding window assembly, channel for the fixed...
  • Crew Cab Part Numbers?
    Historical mailing list - Tim McDermott
    Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:28:40 -0500
    Hello, I a looking for information on obtaining the part number for the sliding window assembly for a crew cab. I have a parts...
  • Westy screens
    Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:58:05 -0400
    ...side, one in the sliding door.) I'm quite pleased with it, as, like the original, it allows the window to be opened (or...
  • Bad tint job rant / any advice?
    Historical mailing list - Dr.Chris
    Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:04:01 -0500
    ...Thankfully I removed all the hardware from the sliding windows so at least I think they will come out OK. In a bunch of...
  • Re: reversing sliding side windows
    Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
    Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:31:09 -0800
    I got the jalousie windows but I can't build the new frames needed and the one metal shop I went to wants $200...
  • Re: vanagon tows vanagon(almost)
    Historical mailing list - John Carpenter
    Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:28:42 EDT
    ...behind the sliding doorm, sealed the bottom of the engine bay >for more storage space, even used the driver side sliding windows on the...
  • Re: double door
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Overmyer
    Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:13:00 +1100
    ...The double sliding door option is usually found on T3 Transporter models, particularly the panelvans and sometimes the window vans workhorses for the obvious...
  • Re: replacing window glass seals
    Historical mailing list - JRodgers
    Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:02:38 -0600
    ...The WORST experience of all of the was last spring trying to replace the seal o n my sliding door window. The first seal...
  • Re: What kind of sliding window is not a vanagon window but looks a whole heck of a lot like one?
    Historical mailing list - Julianna Elligsen
    Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:52:51 -0800
    ...Whatever it is. > > The vanagon window is about 47x17 inches, and this is about 46x15.5 inches. > > Perhaps this is the conservation gods' revenge...
  • Re: White vanagon parts (to those that emailed me)
    Historical mailing list - Mark Watts
    Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:32:01 EST
    ...couple of the seams. Sliding door done but damage not bad. Only one window broken on the door. Electric windows, two rear facing jumpseats...
  • Best $20 spent
    Historical mailing list - Jay Roth
    Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:45:53 -0500
    ...the back, two rear, and small immovable portion of the sliding glass windows and substantial amount left). I now feel like my son in...
  • Parts needed. Please help!
    Historical mailing list - J Shepard
    Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:45:53 EDT
    ...Grey sliding door panel VG to EX condition 2. Grey front door panels for wind up windows 3. the H2O and gas level plate...
  • Re: Keys locked in van
    Historical mailing list - Matt Sim
    Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:12:11 -0400
    ...Matt '81 Westy (with sticks shoved in my sliding windows now) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Johnson" <larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA> To: <vanagon@GERRY...
  • Further Thoughts - EV Winnebago
    Historical mailing list - Dan Herbert
    Tue, 26 Mar 1996 22:49:46 -0500
    ...pleated blind window coverings are awful. They are flimsy, catch on things (latch on slider) and the blind on the sliding door has raw...
  • Re: Front window screens? Yes, we have them
    Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:22:55 EST
    ...We are also in production of vents inserts for the sliding windows for '85 and up models. I have one nice prototype set and...
  • Re: squeek is driving me nuts
    Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
    Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:24:19 +0000
    ...so to keep it from scraping the window and making that...EEEeeeeEEEEeeeKKKKkeeeEE... 6 octaves up you lift that edge of the plastic, away from...
  • Re: Things that make you go "Hmmmm"
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:55:12 -0400
    ...rear windows (72 bus)? Mine are ...rusting/bubbling directly under the hingepin for the quartervent. ...I've replaced my sliding door window with a...
  • Re: rear windows
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
    Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:10:22 -0500
    ...that is .de not .com), the German word you should search for is: "Schiebefenster" which means sliding window, of course you will have to...
  • Re: South African bumpers fit 84?
    Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
    Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:20:00 PDT
    ...good for the heat.... >> > >If you want a rear passenger side sliding window, I can get you one from >Germany for $350.00 > >Steve...
  • FWIW
    Historical mailing list - Matthew L. Dekker
    Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:15:46 -0700
    ...mileage 53945, ding on sliding door and rear quarter panel, no trailer hitch, "sale" priced at $11,495. It looked like it was in...
  • Re: Mildly-strong adhesive for slider window rubber?
    Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
    Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:49:08 -0700
    ...I like your idea of opening the sliding window frame using big clamps. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84...
  • Re: screens for front doors
    Historical mailing list - John Welsh
    Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:54:14 +0000
    ...this frame can slip into the > window channels when the front window is rolled down. > We did a similar thang, skipping the solid frame...
  • Re: Cutting a Vanagon into quarters!
    Historical mailing list - BADASSBUS
    Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:23:42 -0400
    I could really use the latch off the sliding window, just the black part that attaches to the window. I'll pay you plus...
  • for sale: EUROVAN MV INTERIOR (jumpseats/bed/table fits eurovans '93 to present
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:20:23 EDT
    ...includes all carpet, headliners, all sidepanels both sides, sliding doorpanel, front doorpanels w/ power window switches, panel w/ flip out table and cupholders, captains...
  • Re: FS: 87 Westy in Asheville, NC (not mine)
    Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
    Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:01:23 -0600
    ...I might even have the window sticker around somplace. I totaled this car a few years back, it's still supplying parts. Actually not...
  • more stuff FS:capt chairs, hitch, swival seats, westy screens, middle seats..
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:56:06 EDT
    ...i have some westy sliding side window screens for sale..just the drivers side only.. these are in great shape, with brand new screening...
  • Re: replacing window glass seals
    Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
    Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:47:52 -0800
    WooHoo! Got the sliding door window installed yesterday! Was a real bear & took about 2 hours. Started with thin polyester braided line and silicon...
  • TONS OF VW STUFF/CARS/PARTS FOR SALE! (REVISED)
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 7 Dec 1998 10:49:23 EST
    ...back seat bottom -'68-'79 bug decklid rain tray (keeps rain off engine) -Beetle fenders, '67 down -Bus sliding side window, '68-'79 -Bus...
  • Re: sliding door screens
    Historical mailing list - Bill Knight
    Wed, 12 May 1999 08:53:12 -0400
    ...sliding door screens I just bought a sliding door screen for our 82 westfalia. I took the screen out to the vehicle and held...
  • Re: 50 50 slider in a Westy?
    Historical mailing list - Don Dahl
    Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:04:52 -0700
    ...s side 70/30 window (the >>> sliding part broke) with a 50/50. Someone sold me a bus window (y'all >>> helped me figure...
  • Re: Spotted EV Camper in Key West
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 22 Mar 1996 06:28:31 -0500 (EST)
    ...with a raised roof which has a bunk for two, sliding glass windows and a couple of large storage cabinets in the forward part...
  • Re: Rear Hatch Tent
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
    Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:04:37 -0300
    ...Also, any tried > and true designs for building window screens to cover the side (sliding) > windows? Any suggestions are appreciated, just don't tell...
  • RE: Help from Mexico!
    Historical mailing list - David I. Tanzer
    Sun, 8 Jun 1997 10:12:32 -0400
    ...The sliding window in my sliding door had a short black metal >flange attached to the bottom of the glass (it ran the length...
  • Re: Removing internal window rubber
    Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
    Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:01:14 -0500
    ...the window > frames on the vehicle but rather the rubber WITHIN the window frame > that seals the edges of the sliding windows to the...
  • FS: 84 Vanagon Westfalia Camper
    Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
    Sun, 8 Nov 1998 15:00:49 -0500
    ...Modified with jalousie windows on sides...sliding windows included. Includes A&E awning/screen room that attaches to the side over the cargo door...