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• Re: headlights on '87
  Historical mailing list - Dan Beatty
  Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:28:04 -0600 (CST)
  ...gently lift the dimmer switch until the optical horn contacts close. How much brighter did the lights get? Notice I didn't say did...
• Re: Alignment Question
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Nadig
  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:13:11 -0500
  ...My steering wheel is just a bit off right now because I took it off to lubricate the electrical contact ring for the horn...
• Re: To buy or not to buy: 87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Thu, 30 May 2002 13:49:13 -0700
  ...My fear would be that you are looking at a potential hornet's nest of problems. For a '87 Westy with 78,000 miles...
• Re: Vanagons seen today (Sat)
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Sat, 1 Sep 2007 20:13:28 -0700
  ...HD VW >(2) making a left onto Pacific, I honked the horn but I guess he >didn't hear. I turned right on Pacific...
• Re: Catastrophe!! The rest of the story.
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:41:42 -0500
  ...No lights and horns. > > > > So that is the story. > > > > If you have never had this particular experience, I suggest you simulate > > it so you...
• Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:09:10 -0600
  ...he > slows, (not locking brakes) and hits the horn as he passes me. ok, > so it > was a minor inconvienience, and i should have...
• Re: language
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:43:49 -0400
  ...Let me know if there are any parts I should be pulling off this > thing! I pulled the voltage stabilizer and horn control. They...
• Re: "Wolf" bras, roof racks, bike racks, cupholders...
  Historical mailing list - Barry Armitage
  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:15:36 -0400
  ...The Spillmaster come with a shoe horn-shaped gadget that fastens to the bottom, which allows you to use the holder in the back...
• Re: Oil Pressure light & buzzer, Yikes! Mystery # 1
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:29:18 -0600
  ...So now when you get all those lights and horns, you know where to look, and why. Good luck, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver...
• Re: South African parts For Sale.....
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey R
  Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:06:34 EDT
  ...Comes with horn button. Needs no mods > to fit. About same diameter as US power steering wheel 16.75" but is > .75" smaller than...
• Re: Only other Vanagon owners understand the humor in this . . .
  Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
  Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:49:48 -0500
  ...After the usual light and wiper tests, the first real grunt I got out of the guy was over the horn. I had to...
• Wannabussers, this is your lucky day!
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 14 Sep 1996 09:05:54 -0400
  ...The horn was replaced with a hi/lo Cabriolet style horn. This rig has no "beep-beep" noise, it says "honk" :-) All of this...
• Re: Copy of: Re: Dead Deer on a Syncro
  Historical mailing list - David Raistrick
  Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:09:14 -0500 (EST)
  ...so, hand hits horn, foot hits brake...so of course, the car does the normal thing when one slams the brake on a wet...
• Re: sucks in snow!
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:01:05 -0800
  ...over years ago, it did not move when I > honked my horn as I ran i > t down. Further proof that both halves of...
• Re: OT & NVC & Pre-Friday: Palcohol?
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:09:34 -0400
  ...if it's a Real Thing then I will be (a) hornswoggled, and (b) > >> pleased. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > >> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans...
• Re: Tune up help pleeassseee!
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:54:36 EDT
  ...fuel >> and >> environment ! >> >> check all the lights and functions, e.g. horn and cigarett lighter, >> let the >> car run and check the A/C...
• Re: [Syncro] Electrical issue - 1987 Syncro GL
  Historical mailing list - Don in Phoenix
  Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:14:52 -0700
  ...s blower work, turn signals work, emergency flashers work and the horn works. I have ordered a new switch from Bus Depot, I will...
• Re: '99 SA Vanagon pics
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:22:39 EST
  ...I have a SA steering wheel with padded leather that is of the same shape and horn button as the steering wheel in the...
• Re: Tents (Pros and Cons of designs) (long)
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 09 Jul 1996 21:29:05
  ...The clamps are similar in shape to those that might be used to hold a bicycle horn or other accessory to the handlebars. By...
• Re: Vanagon ?Previa?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:23:44 -0800
  No, I think a 4x8 sheet would not go into any of the MiniVans without some serious shoe-horning. That is a Vanagon plus...
• Fuel Lines (true story...happened this morning) (long)
  Historical mailing list - Ian Webb
  Tue, 28 May 1996 15:27:06 -0400
  ...the curb with (by now) hundreds of anxious commuters honking their horns behind me. Finally the parking garage manager walks by and I suggest...
• Re: Deer Strike
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:26:24 -0500
  ...You have to > honk your horn to get them off of your road and many times they just > ignore you and you have to...
• Re: Need Help with Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Wed, 4 Jan 2012 02:33:42 -0500
  ...that my stalk is having problems? or the connectors under the > horn? > > I never had issues with the lights ever till now. > > Any help...
• Re: Tail lights 'n gators (vent)
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 28 Aug 1999 08:31:46 -0700
  ...be > careful where you step and watch out for the horns. :) > > now, the 18-wheelers, that's another story. they are just morons, intent...
• Re: Fed up with Auto-fill valve
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:19:16 -0700
  ...It is >> standard >>> fare in the RV world. >> >> >> I'll be hornswoggled. Maybe I have been running into more than my share >> of inexperienced...
• Re: Looking for a CA smog legal conversion/extremists
  Historical mailing list - phil stanhope
  Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:38:49 -0800
  ...Mar 2002 09:35:04 -0600 Andy Yarnell > <Andrew.Yarnell@KIMLEY-HORN.COM> writes: > > I too have been looking at a lot of conversions...
• Re: Only other Vanagon owners understand the humor in this . . .
  Historical mailing list - Michael Ayers
  Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:03:44 -0600
  ...After the usual light and wiper tests, the first > real > grunt I got out of the guy was over the horn. I had to...
• Re: Living the Compleat Vanagon Experience.
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:44:33 -0700
  ...2008/8/13 neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> > >> > >> Wiper arms slipping? > >> > >> Horn honking by itself? > >> > >> Defrost/heat fan motor dying? > >> > >> --- ;^) > >> > >> It's something I...
• Larry's Trip Supplies - Friday
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:29:02 -0600
  ...1 Case wasp and hornet spray. 1 Paint ball gun so Deer are always in season, also used for marking Feral cats. 1 Honda...
• Re: need info on 5 cyl swap
  Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
  Sun, 9 May 1999 12:48:09 -0700
  ...The basic kit is imported from Winkler in Germany and contains the basics for shoe horning your 5 cylinder into the back of a...
• Re: More? New? Better? nah! (editorial content)
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:41:04 -0800
  ...She >> walked up thumbing her key fob till the lights blinked and the horn >> beeped...Up went the rear door, automatically..(Good thing my...
• Re: Audi Turbo wheels on a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 03 Feb 1997 10:58:02 +0200
  ...sil/pol 7 J x 15 ET 25 Typ F sil/Horn/pol 7,5 J x 16 ET 25 Typ B+S sil...
• Re: Fwd: air intake snorkel hose
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:06:38 -0500
  ...If you look, I'll bet you find that the intake horn is lined up with > some convenient opening facing forward.* You don't...
• Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
  Historical mailing list - jonathan waters
  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:51:43 -0700
  ...Then, over the rise behind come a semi...at about 65mph and HE > locks em up....Smoke pouring off his tires, horn blasting...And...
• Donder Becomes A Road Warrior And Other Blather
  Historical mailing list - Sean Lynch
  Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:32:50 EST
  ...How many cars out of that vintage can cover that kind of mileage at wide-open throttle? Okay, I'm tooting her own horn...
• Re: Fuel pump folly (little Vanagon content)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:57:23 -0400
  ...Does it still have both horns fitted? Steve On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jim Felder wrote: > That is a good point...
• Re: Optima Blue D31M
  Historical mailing list - Philip Zimmerman
  Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:22:33 -0700
  ...Most of us Vanagoneers know of folks that have all variations of batteries stuffed and shoe-horned into their Vans. Heck, the non-camper...
• Re: David's van was: Gerry
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:55:06 -0500
  ...I felt a wind go by and heard a horn and didn’t come near your van again until we arrived at the campground...
• Re: Meineke Brakes
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:06:30 -0800
  ...It seems to me that the former almost always lose to the > latter; presenting the twin horned dilemma of quality vs. quantity (ala > Zen...
• Re: Starter review 4 years later
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Mon, 26 Apr 2021 10:27:36 -0400
  ...thumbs up and I gave them a "mweep-mweep" from my horn as I drove off. >> >> On Thursday, April 22, 2021, 9:23:47...
• Re: Vanagon Ownership Misadventures
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:27:07 -0400
  ...And the oil pressure warning light and horn came on. Once again, I stopped on the side of I-20. Jim's grandson pulled...
• Re: Compare & Contrast: Diesel Westy vs. 2.1 WBX Westy
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:34:24 -0400
  ...2.1 WBX Westy Ladies and Gentlemen of The List, Here I am, stuck on the horns of another dilemma which is rapidly becoming...
• Re: Rebooting a idle 87 vanagon.
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 2 Dec 2007 00:40:05 -0500
  ...can, and keep going, and don't even try things like horn , radio or even wipers lest some weird short develop or something, if...
• Re: I get no respect
  Historical mailing list - pat
  Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:42:49 -0400
  ...the quick > pass > > then get in front of you, invoke the horn or even the 'finger'. I have > even > > found a bunch of repeat...
• Re: Oil light and warning
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:19:55 -1000
  ...On 11/18/2015 11:30 AM, John Rodgers wrote: > This light and warning horn fault of coming on around 2200 rpm is still...
• Re: road rage...my first experience tonite.. LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!
  Historical mailing list - MF
  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:20:11 -0500
  ...he slows, (not locking brakes) and hits the horn as he passes me. ok, so it was a minor inconvienience, and i should have...
• Re: no fuse for fuel pump? Adding fuses.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:26:36 -0500
  ...People honk their horns to warn me. I > am lucky that there was no fire... > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:11 AM...
• Re: 85 GL. 1.9 Woes- like whoa, won't go....
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:31:26 -0500
  ...went away…wow, it seemed like it did…also, my lame horn > seemed to work again, AND the seatbelt safety light that used to...
• Re: Mechanical/Brakes/1984 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:45:05 +0000
  ...Samba… or, is that you and you're > blowing your own horn? There was zero reference in that post to make anyone > think "wrong...
• Re: 02 sensor life
  Historical mailing list - Peter Zendzian
  Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:30:40 -1000
  ...People behind me swear and honk the horn....I don't > > really care, but > > it doesn't allow for the occassional "need to get...
• Fw: Intermittent Wipers? and jumpseat install
  Historical mailing list - Michael Hart
  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:39:20 -0700
  ...piece inside the steering column)?? Well I needed to grease the horn ring to eliminate metal scraping on metal & avoid 'Little Miss Sunshine' syndrome...
• Re: Wow! how bout this guy?
  Historical mailing list - jonathan waters
  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:52:33 -0700
  ...Then, over the rise behind come a semi...at about 65mph and >> HE >> locks em up....Smoke pouring off his tires, horn blasting...And...
• Re: sucks in snow!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:44:48 -0600
  ...over years ago, it did not move when I honked my horn as I ran i >t down. Further proof that both halves of...
• 21 window/Single Cab update (long!)
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 22:37:50 -0400
  ...surprised by a rainbow painted split window van madly honking its horn at me as it pulled into the parking lot across the street...
• Re: Larry's Trip Supplies - Friday
  Historical mailing list - Ed Sato
  Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:13:25 -1000
  ...of Pepto Bismol. > 1 Case mosquito repellent. > 1 Case wasp and hornet spray. > 1 Paint ball gun so Deer are always in season, also...
• 85 GL with Digitool Dash console For Sale
  Historical mailing list - joe brown
  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:24:26 -0700
  ...New turn signal switch, and horn ring. Windshield has a 2 small dings. Van has one small dent above radiator. Front heater blower does...
• Re: '99 SA Vanagon pics
  Historical mailing list - mike boland
  Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:06:46 -0600
  ...I have a SA >steering wheel with padded leather that is of the same shape and horn button >as the steering wheel in the...
• Re: CB Antennas and stuff
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 09 May 95 08:26:39 CDT
  On Tue, 9 May 95 07:57:34 CDT Lewis Horn said: >We were thinking of hooking up the old CB on our next...
• Re: Catastrophe!! The rest of the story.
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:57:07 -0500
  ...No lights and > > horns. > > > > So that is the story. > > > > If you have never had this particular experience, I > > suggest you simulate > > it so you...
• Re: Tire sales-people (rant + info .... long)
  Historical mailing list - azsun99
  Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:55:39 -0700
  ...Not a vehicle moved, up, down, in or out, without much beeping of horns and people yelling "Clear!". And the tech that worked on...