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• Re: Van-O-Rama in San Francisco - Sept 11, 2004
  Historical mailing list - BenT
  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:44:15 -0700
  ...Plus the fence effectively allows us to double the parking spaces as the closed roadway can now be used for parking. Unfortunately, no other...
• Re: do you have $160.00 to spend?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:23:52 -0700
  ...On Jun 26, 2016 7:31 PM, "James" <jk_eaton@hotmail.com> wrote: > > A Sprinter custom conversion "will easily fit in a parking space...
• Re: Bus as primary residence...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 22 Sep 95 12:04:04 CDT
  ...the problems were: - no electrical hookups. - no water hookups. - had to maintain a valid parking decal (or get a ticket) - had to move the...
• Re: limited slip differential question
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Sun, 3 May 2009 07:57:40 -0700
  I was able to retain the parking brake functions on my old VW Thing, by attaching little L-brackets to the center brake handle...
• FREE Saab 900 turbo in SF
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:20:11 EST
  ...Still interested? Respond, ASAP before the city impounds it due to parking violations. -D [text/html]
• Re: A Snow Story (Whoa-vanagon!!!) and Lessons Learned
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:04:45 EST
  ...Seems to me that the resulting drag (from applying the parking brake) >> When the ass-end is sliding, the wheels have already stopped turning...
• Re: 85 Vanagon - emergency brake no "catching/holding"
  Historical mailing list - mike
  Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:19:19 -0700
  ...the US call it an "emergency" brake" It's for parking > ie a parking brake, or if hand-operated (as is normal) a handbrake.
• Re: Van Meet 2008 was Vanagon Parts for sale
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:20:12 -0700
  ...I'm happy to claim some White Rock parking or we could have it in a different location. The Blackie's Spit parking lot...
• Re: Long-term parking: nose up or nose down?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 5 May 2011 19:55:55 -0700
  ...Long-term parking: nose up or nose down? I live on a very steep street, always park downhill. I haven't had leaks or...
• Stealth Camping
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:02:55 -0700
  ...A bit noisy, but showers nice. - Casinos - Closed gas stations if you leave early - Closed bar parking lots (late night option) - Church - Mass Transit...
• Re: Cockeyed Parking Brake Equalizer
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:47:34 -0400
  ...Cockeyed Parking Brake Equalizer I'm not gonna re-read this whole thread, but I thought of it while I was under the van...
• Re: question regarding door stops/door brakes or whatever they are called
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:46:16 -0700
  Try parking away from shiny Mercedes Benzes or hire a chauffer. ;-) BenT Sent from my mobile device On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:15...
• Re: Projektzwo Fog light question
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:42:13 -0400
  ...You can still have the fog lamps on when your headlights are off if your parking lights are on.
• Re: Vanagon Bras? was Re: Parking Garage tale
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:18:16 -0700
  ...05, 2001 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Vanagon Bras? was Re: Parking Garage tale > OK, you guys are hilarious!!! > > Julianna > 90 VW Vanagon Westfalia...
• Re: 85 Vanagon - emergency brake no "catching/holding"
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:39:09 -0400
  ...the US call it an "emergency" brake" It's for parking > > >ie a parking brake, or if hand-operated (as is normal) a handbrake...
• Re: Foot actuated parking brake
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:46:42 -0700
  ...Foot actuated parking brake > > >> Just wondered if anyone has ever successfully modified the parking >> brake to a foot-pedal type. How I would love...
• Re: beeper for hand brake
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:59:45 -0400
  ...17:49 mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> napisał(a): > On concern I have is that I don't want the parking brake reminder alarm...
• Re: Testing Vanagon Headlight Switch
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:25:20 -0400
  2011/4/26 David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> > > I'm surprised the parking lights work. Have here been mods to the wiring > that you...
• Re: Parking Garage tale
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:26:55 -0400
  were they scared :-)? Karl. Julianne wrote: "I just whip off my dress.... Everyone .... ran back to their vehicles."
• Re: parking space needed for Westy in New England, 2 weeks.
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:28:49 -0400
  storage only. >Hi All, > >Is this for storage or camping? ...JMM >
• Re: cross country camping suggestions??
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 17 May 2004 15:14:40 -0500
  ...What's the difference between a Wal*Mart parking > lot and a Good Sam RV Park? > A: Sometimes, the Wal*Mart parking lot has...
• Parking lights on one side only?
  Historical mailing list - Brian Cirulnick
  Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:30:44 -0400
  ...My parking lights are out on the passenger side *only* of the vanagon. Both sides work when using the hazard switch, or using the...
• Re: Long-term parking: nose up or nose down?
  Historical mailing list - courtney hook
  Thu, 5 May 2011 09:34:25 -0700
  ...Long-term parking: nose up or nose down? To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Got a fairly steep driveway alongside the house here. I plan...
• Re: when making a left turn, parking brake light comes on??? ideas?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:49:45 -0800
  Yes, the wiring at the parking brake lever as well as the flimsy switch there are the more likely cause. It is just a...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:53:06 -0600
  ...Parking light ON, rear left flasher goes ON???????????????????? >>>> >>>> Any other way, everything is fine with the flasher, but if i put the >>>> parking >>>> light...
• Re: slack in e-brake cable?
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Alfonso
  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:38:09 -0800
  ...does your parking brake > handle have plastic surrounding the part where your hand grips it? If > so, that would be the newer type. > > Mike...
• Vanagon sighting
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:47:46 -0500
  Tonight, parking at the Publix Grocery, across the parking lot I spied another van. On this one Ihad to do a double take. It...
• Re: Parking lights + ignition switch = flat battery
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:27:26 -0400
  At 19:45 6/11/2000, =David-M= wrote: >Is there a (simple?) way to rewire the parking lights so they go off >when...
• Re: Strange electric problem!!!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:17:32 -0500
  ...Eric Benny boy wrote: >Gentremen's... > >Van is an 83 Air-Cooled. >Parking light ON, rear left flasher goes ON???????????????????? > >Any other way, everything...
• Parking/Camping Spots for Travelers Coming to Bob's Memorial Next Weekend
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:49:07 +0000
  ...the Massachusetts area, I'd like to offer up to three parking/camping spots in my driveway. I live in South Dartmouth, about 50...
• Vanagon (camper) siting
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:05:27 -0400
  New BurgerKing ad (tied together with an AOL offer). 3 guys camping in a BurgerKing parking lot in a Wesfalia.
• Re: Hittin' the road (UPDATE)
  Historical mailing list - John Reddick
  Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:47:44 -0400
  I think parking on a down-slope is a learned technique of VW van owners for decades. John
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - parking brake cable adjustment
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:01:39 -0500
  Doesn't the number of clicks vary between the early style parking brake lever and the later type? Mike Dennis Haynes wrote: > The only...
• Re: Testing Vanagon Headlight Switch
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:20:28 -0400
  ...If your clock is dying when you turn on the parking lights, you've got a bad contact somewhere that's allowing the parking...
• Re: Walmart parking
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:56:15 -0700
  ...policies, yet >I've spent nights in <DIV></DIV>&gt;their parking lots in at least five >states already. I consider them an <DIV...
• Re: Stealth Camping
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:18:52 -0700
  ...A bit noisy, but showers nice. > - Casinos > - Closed gas stations if you leave early > - Closed bar parking lots (late night option) > - Church > - Mass Transit...
• left parking, running lights are dead!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 20 Sep 1994 18:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
  ...the correct was wiring wise and now my driver's side parking and running lights no longer work. I have looked at the connections...
• the real H4's
  Historical mailing list - Smola, Tony
  Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:11:25 -0600
  ...They're nice, but then I remembered that my 911 has euro H4's with a cool little parking light inside the headlamp housing...
• Re: Wal-Mart parking
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
  Fri, 18 May 2001 19:33:14 -0400
  ...Hi Folks, ......Wal-Mart values RV travelers..., we do permit RV parking .....our RV customers are no exception. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno...
• Re: Parking Brake vs Left in Gear - Siezed Brakes
  Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
  Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:20:17 -0800
  ...From then on if I know my brakes are cold and wet I will not use the parking brake. Likewise, if the temps go...
• Re: Wal-Mart parking
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Thu, 17 May 2001 12:06:15 -0700
  ...Consequently, we do permit > > RV > > parking on our store lots, as we are able. Parking is granted by > > individual > > stores based on availability of...
• Re: Parking brake actuator rod REMOVAL
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:59:50 -0700
  ...Mark MacLachlan, Bill wrote: >volks: > >Went to remove the rod between the parking brake and the adjusting yoke >last night. Disengaged it from the...
• Re: Getting Caught
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:45:08 -0800
  ...I went to the police station and asked if I could camp in their parking lot for one night. They said... "sure... Do you...
• Re: Randomly Parking Wipers
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:59:55 -0700
  One thing to check before going into the motor is Fuse 17 !! Fuse 17 is not the main wiper fuse, but only the parking...
• Re: Walmart parking
  Historical mailing list - Sean Solowiej
  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:48:21 -0500
  I am taught to despise many of Walmart's policies, yet I've spent nights in their parking lots in at least five states...
• Re: Camping at Wally Marts
  Historical mailing list - Chris Sullivan
  Thu, 27 May 2004 09:07:10 -0700
  On May 24, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Chuck Reisinger wrote: > Does anyone have a list of Wally Marts that prohibit overnight > parking...Thanks...
• Re: Municipal camper bans
  Historical mailing list - VW Doka
  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:50:06 -0800
  ...This helps to prevent people from parking thier toy hauler trailers on the street for months. Cheers, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List...
• Re: Addendum to question on Parking Brake Cable
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:31:14 -0800
  you do have to check for draggy or stuck, or seized parking brake cables, naturally. It's worthwhile to eyeball the outer cable housings...
• Licence Plates (front)
  Historical mailing list - DZIADECKI JOHN
  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:04:27 -0700 (MST)
  ...This morning as I was backing out from a parking spot I heard a ping and saw a piece of the plasic bolt retainer...
• Re: waving
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 24 Aug 1994 22:38:16 -0500 (CDT)
  ...rushmore parking lot as I was doing a valve adjustment, the other was when I was broke down in a parking lot along highway...
• Re: VW=On-going maintenance concern
  Historical mailing list - DavidM
  Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:54:19 -0400
  ...apartment buliding and have only one parking space. There is nowhere else to park a car. Parking on the street overnight is illegal. I...
• FS: Round H-4 Headlights
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:39:53 -0700
  ...These are the typical e-code lights that have the parking lamp inside the lense. Comes with the 55w H4 bulbs and the parking...
• Re: Rear Brake Shoe Spring Clips
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 2 Oct 2010 15:08:28 -0700
  ...you can have seized up parking brake cables ( or just one ) and it will feel like good tension on the parking brake handle, but...
• Re: Long-term parking: nose up or nose down?
  Historical mailing list - Joe Fernandez
  Thu, 5 May 2011 19:14:30 -0700
  ...I plan to start > > > parking my 1984 there on occasion. It might stay there for a week or > > > more sometimes -- it's not really...
• Keyless alarm parking light connection question
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Sat, 2 May 2020 11:37:51 -0700
  ...So I'm I've connected the parking light (flashes for lock and unlock) to the Grey (Gray) /Green wire that goes to the...
• old beetle elec problem (longish)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:48:47 EST
  ...Interior light won't come on unless I pull the switch halfway out, to turn on parking lights. When I pull it all the...
• Friday: Parking a Westy in Toronto
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:52:21 -0400
  http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1325309/5-places-blue-jays-prospect-daniel-norris-can-park-his-van-in-toronto/
• Christmas entertainment :-)
  Historical mailing list - Calle
  Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:11:50 +0100
  Just a little something to occupy the dull moments of christmas eve Happy hollidays Calle http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/parking/play.php
• Re: EV hits the High Road...
  Historical mailing list - Thomas D. Hanlon
  Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:40:30 -0700
  ...Korean War Era vets' allowances, American Legion parking lots, VFW parking lots and Catholic Church parking lots ("Well Officer, I'm waiting for: 1...
• Re: Weekending in Santa Barbara?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:29:35 -0700
  ...But you can be damn sure they wouldn't allow overnight parking. In fact, I can't think of a Walmart in Southern California...