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• Re: Vanagon high-roof sighting
  Historical mailing list - WERNER SCHIRMER
  Wed, 08 Jan 1997 21:20:40 -0800
  ...It had a white fiberglas > roof similar to the roof on David Schwarze's Safare camper, with the > sliding windows on the sides of...
• Re: Curtains and privacy...
  Historical mailing list - Alan Pickersgill
  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:55:57 -0500
  ...Strip magnets slid into the bottom hem of the long sliding door curtain failed to keep it from hanging away from the door at...
• Re: Jalousies Windows for a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:53:06 -0700
  ...the existing vanagon window by on the sliding door and >> above the stove. If you hate it keep your old windows and >> pop 'em...
• New Eurovan info...
  Historical mailing list - John Gladu
  Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:44:19 -0500
  ...Power windows, with "one-touch" UP & down, pinch protection 170cid V6 ------ Small sticker on sliding door window... US/Canadian parts content: 1% Major sources...
• Hornet car alarm?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:49:38 -0400 (EDT)
  ...He will have to put in two pin switches (one for the sliding door and one for the rear hatch, included). It has a...
• Re: OT: Window Glass
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:55:22 -0600
  ...My dog scratched the glass on my patio sliding door .......... he had dirt on his paws the dirt / grit is abrasive. Given enough encounters...
• Re: Dented passenger door, broken heart
  Historical mailing list - lauterba
  Tue, 18 May 2004 23:51:31 -0400
  Right now, my '84 is in the shop for a complete exterior face lift including repair of dent in sliding door. Estimated cost is...
• Re: pop-top (closing)
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:44:11 -0800
  ...in the hinges or under the seal. > >I always open a sliding window and just use the top of my head to lower the...
• My TriStar Syncro arrived today!!!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:49:23 -0800
  ...rests on rear doors - Power Steering - Padded dash - Sliding rear windows - Tinted glass - Heated rear window - Front wheel arches - GL front bumper - Headlight washers...
• Re: Useless vent contest
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:52:00 -0400
  Hi folks, Are we talking about the little air vents over the sliding door? In my 85 Westfalia they actually do work and a...
• '85 Westy For Sale (NC)
  Historical mailing list - John Fried
  Fri, 24 May 2002 09:24:48 -0400
  ...Screens for rear gate, sliding door, and both front door windows. A&E Catalina 2500 Awning - 9' 6" wide. 2" Receiver plus 21" x...
• central door lock problems/archive problems-continued (sort of long)
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:59:47 EST
  ...seals around the front windows maintained or replaced. All other door lock actuators are working well after cleaning the sliding door contact switches with...
• Re: hey howdy
  Historical mailing list - monte merrick
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:54:44 -0700
  ...If it hadn't been for the baywindow, >> you snooty vanagonauts wouldn't enjoy crash-proof bumpers, disk >> brakes, hydraulic valves or sliding doors...
• Re: Vanagon Security Challange... Was RE: How to break into....
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:05:55 -0500
  ...I really don't want to fix the sliding window security breach on my van, because I like the idea of being able to...
• Re: Wood burning bus
  Historical mailing list - Eric Pickering
  Wed, 31 Mar 1999 03:20:11 +0000
  ...There was a pipe exhausting from the driver's side sliding > window, with smoke coming out. It became obvious that this was the source...
• Re: WARNING!!! Parts for sale, please delete if not interested, All info off list please!
  Historical mailing list - Open Wheel Racing
  Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:32:10 -0600
  Hello Volks, I have a sliding side window for sale, from a 1984 Vanagon, left side of course. With all the discussion lately, about...
• Re: Stripping '87 Westy to paint
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:50:20 -0700
  ...Is this normal? >>>> c) While the trim on the front of the passenger door window came off >>>> easily, that over the sliding door seems...
• Re: SA T3 Ventilation System
  Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
  Sun, 4 May 2008 14:00:16 +0200
  ...forward of the D pillar in >> order to make room for sliding windows back there. So where did they >> send the exiting cabin air...
• Re: reversing sliding side windows fish
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:29:07 EST
  In a message dated 1/29/03 9:10:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM writes: > I'm sure you made more...
• Re: Ripoff on Vancouver Island
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:47:39 -0700
  ...I called Malahat Auto Parts looking for a drivers side middle sliding > window for a westfalia and he quoted me $250 plus shipping. Crazy...
• Re: FS: '86 Syncro Wkndr, ALSO: fridge Q, "weekender cabinet" project
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:10:28 EDT
  ...I'm thinking about extending the intake and exhaust pipes enough > so they will reach the sliding window, then constructing a narrow > "window-insert...
• Re: Need Thingamabob: Hook on Roof Gutter
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:23:27 -0500
  ...on their windows at home to lock them. Just a clamp with a butterfly screw. I use it for canopy by sliding door. 91...
• Re: Tin top camping
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:54:10 -0700
  ...colorado.edu/VW/VWcurtains> > > I also made two screens for the sliding windows. They looked > like this: > http://jones.colorado.edu/VW/**screen.jpg...
• Re: Custom cabinet
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Thu, 19 May 2016 13:52:36 -0300
  ...They appeared to have sliding doors. I knew I should have saved that picture … . > On 19-May-2016, at 13:40, B Feddish <uprightbassghost...
• Re: Pop-top canvas replacement.
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:20:23 -0400
  ...When you go to pop the top, you will need to open a window or the sliding door or you will find yourself inside...
• Re: Heater knee bar cross beam
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:36:03 -0400
  ...after edges of the rear windows, and taped over the exhaust hole in the door. They removed the sliding shutoff plate but kept the...
• Looking for my moms '78 Westy
  Historical mailing list - David Thoresen
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 01:25:49 -0700
  ...It also had the louvered windows on the sliding door and on the opposite side of the door. I am just curious as to...
• WANTED: help with "custom" body work in bay area
  Historical mailing list - Ben S
  Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:48:20 -0700
  ...while the sliding window did not break (nor is its frame deformed) the panel below it was torn from its welded seam at the...
• FS: '89 Carat van and '84 Wolfsburg Sunroof van in PA
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:06:08 EDT
  ...re-charged) , HUGE SLIDING SUNROOF, power steering, weekender interior, full snap on curtain set and rear screen, camper style side windows w/ screens, tach...
• Re: $75,000 syncro SVX Westy
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:33:19 -0800
  ...I would guess not a real Westy by the lack of upholstery around the windows, the best indicator is always the VIN but a...
• Re: 1986 - bug screens for Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:54:49 -0700
  ...The ventilation they provide is way more than the Westy sliding windows can do. Mark Chuck Blethen wrote: > As an owner of a Vanagon...
• Re: vanagon buying advice needed
  Historical mailing list - t bill
  Tue, 9 Jun 1998 13:33:55 -0700
  ...The sliding windows don't lock. > There are pieces of rubber trim missing from the bumbers and the > paint on the roof has seen...
• Re: sliding door lock spring.
  Historical mailing list - Alan Felder
  Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:17:16 -0500
  ...was "hung" on something I couldn't see inside the little "window" in the handle casting, it was actually ok. My apologies. On Sun...
• Re: sliding door extention
  Historical mailing list - Lee Roesner
  Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:24:39 -0500
  ...and adjust the close/stop point on the track under the window? I looked at > doing this when I was installing my current 6...
• Stan Wilder's vanagon website
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:02:26 -0400
  ...It was put in the sliding window opening with the open end of the elbow sticking out into the airflow. Supposedly funneled a huge...
• Re: SA Rear windows- hey, they open
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  08 Feb 97 06:00:24 EST
  ...Note that SA Vanagons > have no right sliding door. > - I think the trim indentation only looking like gone, this could > be more an effect...
• Re: Westy Screens, and Westy Screen Repair... and westy screens FS
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:26:40 EDT
  ...came up with this. > > I have 2 screen windows for my sliding passenger > area windows. Should there have been a third for the > vent...
• Low Mileage Syncro Westy for $6,000?
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:55:10 -0400
  ...not match) Eurovan type sink faucet rear hatch, skylight, sliding door, and front window (driver and passenger) screens full width front rubber floor mat...
• Cutting a Vanagon into quarters!
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall (Fast Forward)
  Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:29:27 -0700
  ...cut was done where the rear opening of the sliding door stops across the window on the other side. Total time - 2 minutes! Cut...
• Odds and Ends-Before the crusher
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:18:25 -0600
  ...Window cranks, Inside and outside rear view mirrors (must be in very good shape) ashtrays, sliding door handles both inside and outside, other door...
• MXL / MXT trade
  Historical mailing list - Charles Michaux.
  Wed, 21 May 1997 09:18:23 -0400
  ...The child with an own separate room with TWO windows, > and the adults having late dinner without disturbing the kid. > > Helmut > '80 Camper
• Re: HaHaHa 8~) itsssss FRIDAY!!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Steven X. Schwenk
  Fri, 22 May 1998 18:49:26 -0700
  ...leave windows rolled up, believe that you are > cool, > >believe that you do not sweat, and you will drive cool and comfy (or > hot...
• Re: Misc. dumb questions
  Historical mailing list - Kristin Dewey
  Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:34:55 EDT
  ...Sorry.... :o) Kristin 84 Westy Wolfsburg GL >*One of my sliding side windows won't lock...can I replace the locking > mechanism somehow? Or...
• Re: Winters in the van... MAKE YOUR OWN 'SAFE' HEATER
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:13:15 -0500
  ...Mount the outlet of the tube to a flat panel that would fit in the sliding window opening of your westy. Suficiently insulate the...
• Re: FS
  Historical mailing list - Woodrose Dawn
  Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:15:33 -0800
  ...Windshield 50.00 > > Rear interior Covers 40.00 > > black & silver side sliding windows black set > 65.00 silver set 25.00 > > glove box black...
• Re: here are some cool vanagon accessories and upgrades
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:21:06 -0800
  ...5 spoke 15" alloys w/ 225 75 15 tires > -power mirrors > -power windows (maybe, i have the doors from the Carat..still its nice...
• Re: Bad tint job rant / any advice?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:14:05 -0600
  ...to remind me. >> >> Thankfully I removed all the hardware from the sliding windows so at >> least I think they will come out OK. >> >> In...
• din numbers
  Historical mailing list - mike mulliganshaw
  21 Jun 95 09:28:27 EST
  ...the correct orange ? the sliding door seams to close with difficulty, (difficult to fix?) a lot of the window seals seam to have dry...
• FS 90 Vanagon sliding door - SF bay Area
  Historical mailing list - Gary Buchanan
  Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:51:52 -0700
  ...The only thing that's missing is the window gasket, as I mangled that beyond salvage taking out the glass. I am in SF...
• Re: Sliding window refurbish
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:12:15 -0700
  That's certainly your right and I respect it. Could you be talked into putting your own tech articles on the wiki, then? Mike...
• Vanagon Update!
  Historical mailing list - Kyle Davis
  Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:16:06 -0700
  ...some other sliding door handle bits) off of eBay, but not received it yet. Am planning on testing my drivers window repair job once...
• Re: 87 Syncro For Sale
  Historical mailing list - Ki
  Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:20:03 -0800
  ...One scrape on sliding door where i rubbed > against teh side of my house pulling in to the back. paint from house > scraped onto...
• =?utf-8?Q?Re=3A_86_sliding_door_handle_mechanism_=E2=80=A6_stumpe?= =?utf-8?Q?d?=
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:38:26 -0400
  ...It’s like a devious Chinese puzzle, you don’t have to force anything, you just keep turning it, sliding it back, up, down...
• Re: new owner of 82 diesel Westy, with a few questions
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:45:23 -0700
  ...Good luck on the sliding door panel, they are almost not available. The speedo works and not the odo usually means the little plastic...
• Re: Pop-top canvas replacement.
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Gronski
  Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:48:31 -0400
  ...When you go to pop the top, you will > need to open a window or the sliding door or you will find yourself inside...
• Re: bicycle racks
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Jun 1995 12:30:11 -0500 (CDT)
  ...I think the bus was a '78 but it should work on all bay windows and probably most splits. The guy took a Yakima...
• Assorted Vanagon body parts FS
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:56:20 EDT
  ...Every concieveable piece of glass for an 80-86 Vanagon (no 87 and later rear side windows but everything else)- Call for pricing (cheap...
• Re: Great Gallery of 'Bulli' 60th Anniversary Hannover
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:56:35 -0800
  ...there are a >> few >> Syncro shots: >> >> 89 >> 90 >> 111 (note Caravelle sliding window in panel van) >> 205 >> >> General T3 >> Many LLE - Limited Last Edition...
• Re: olympian plat. cat heater info request
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:27:31 -0700
  ...I am still alive after 5-6 years of using it, but I always open the sliding door window & crack the skylight an inch...
• stuff for sale....parts and whole vans/camper
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:16:56 EST
  ...camper bits left, good 1.9L engine w/ ps, camper side windows, etc nice slider door, , nice front doors, good windshield, etc poptop cushions...