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• UPDATED-can you smell that smell??
  Historical mailing list - Bob Mund
  Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:40 -0600
  ...thing left is the wife test, if she doesn't smell it I'm good to go... Thanks again to all... Bob 84 VWWESTY
• Re: UPDATED-can you smell that smell??
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Tue, 19 May 2009 14:53:10 -0700
  ...thing left is the wife test, if she doesn't smell it I'm good to go... Thanks again to all... Bob 84 VWWESTY
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:42:24 -0700
  Older VWs, at least here in the desert, all had a peculiar smell that I attributed to the horsehair stuffed seats. Smelled a bit...
• Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:52:15 -0500
  ...certain smell." My daughter got in on the conversation and said that all VWs have that smell, going back to the first VWs she...
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:06:15 -0700
  ...er- the bug, rather, I asked him what 'that smell' was. He said it came from the straw that VW used to stuff the...
• Re: Engine Overheating Problem
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 2 Mar 1995 12:05:56 -0500
  ...VW around. It took me a while to get over the nervousness everytime I smelled that "hot smell." It is a "hot smell" that...
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:16 -0700
  ...certain smell." > > My daughter got in on the conversation and said that all VWs have that > smell, going back to the first VWs she...
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:10:08 -0500
  ...certain smell." >> >> My daughter got in on the conversation and said that all VWs have that >> smell, going back to the first VWs she...
• Re: New Hydrolic lifters gasoline smell
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:45:15 -0500
  ...gasoline-smelling product when taken new out of the box. - Ron Salmon The Bus Depot, Inc. www.busdepot.com (215) 234-VWVW _____________________________________________ Toll-Free...
• Re: Brake smell
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:42:33 -0700
  If you bought the budget pads, you will smell them wheneve you do heavy breaking. The VW pads are far superior...speaking from hilly...
• coolant smell
  Historical mailing list - Gilles Gallant
  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:19:04 -0500
  ...VW dealer and made them changed my coolant, since then, when I start the rear heater it smell coolant (it doesn�t smell that...
• Re: rear heater coolant smell
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:02:11 -0500
  Yes it is completely normal for the rear heater core to leak smelling up the vanagon. A major issue with every vanagon I've...
• Re: Dying when warm and smells funky
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:56:16 EDT
  ...every aircooled vw i'v ever owned you just get used to the funky oil smell when your run the heat... only way out...
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:58:13 -0400
  ...I asked > him what 'that smell' was. He said it came from the straw that VW used > to > stuff the seats. > If we've...
• No start electrical smell
  Historical mailing list - Hans Brouwer
  Wed, 7 May 2003 21:41:05 -0400
  ...While driving home last night in our 86 Westfalia I smelled a faint electrical smell. This morning the Westfalia would not turn over. I...
• Re: Rotten eggs!
  Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
  Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:40:17 -0500
  ...of sulfur, hence the smell. Not to worry-it just means your catalytic converter is working well. Bill Dummitt 87 VW camper 59 Corvette
• Re: Horsehair in Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:18:24 -0400
  ...It is what creates that distinctive VW interior smell, and leaves its crumbles on the floor below the seats as it wears. Love it...
• Sinky Smell from vents.
  Historical mailing list - Joel Cort
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:43:34 -0800
  Has anyone else experienced a rotten stink coming from the front vent system? It is not a coolant/anti freeze smell. It is more...
• Re: 79 bus
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 10 Aug 94 7:57:18 PDT
  ...I know what hot oil smells like and also the normal stale smell, but I'm not sure how to describe the exhaust smell...
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:13:31 -0400
  ...wrote: > > I asked >> him what 'that smell' was. He said it came from the straw that VW >> used >> to >> stuff the seats. >> If we...
• Re: No start electrical smell
  Historical mailing list - Hans Brouwer
  Thu, 8 May 2003 20:48:25 -0400
  ...No start electrical smell Hi Volks: While driving home last night in our 86 Westfalia I smelled a faint electrical smell. This morning the...
• Re: gas smell solution progress
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL H
  Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:17:35 +0000
  ...MICHAEL H <vwdash80@YAHOO.COM> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 9:02 PM Subject: Re: gas smell solution progress...
• Exhaust pipes
  Historical mailing list - Dave
  Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:43:36 -0500
  I just replaced my front crossover pipe and it smells awful, I think it = is the paint burning off the pipe, it is a...
• Re: Anti-freeze smell (no Vanagon content)
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Thu, 23 May 2002 22:25:17 -0400
  Check with the VW dealer. This was the subject of a mandatory recall on the 1985-1991 Jetta, may be the same for you...
• Re: Mice
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...outta there, one way or another, fast! Bus will smell better, too. -Steve Maher smaher@gi.com '71 VW Transporter, Jiffy Popper on Wheels
• Re: wet carpeting
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:40:02 -0800
  ...Windexy smell. My $.02, Sam '84 Vanagon GL (non-Wolfy) "Just as original as the original=just as many ideas appropriated from VW as...
• Re: Sinky Smell from vents.
  Historical mailing list - Anthony L. Mourkas
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:17:08 -0500
  ...It is more like a raunchy dead something smell. >Has anyone else experienced this VW phenomena? What >could be a remedy? Buy some mousetraps...
• Re: man, tranny oil STINKS!!
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:34:50 -0500
  ...My whole van smelled like that carrying the old busted tranny home. Go with Redline MT-90...it doesn't smell like that. Shifts...
• Re: 87 Vanagon- Antifreeze smell
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:02:14 PST
  ...the smell of anti-freeze out. Good Luck ken lewis kdlewis@juno.com On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:40:27 -0500 vwelker@ball...
• Re: Propane tank pressure?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 3 May 2006 19:00:36 -0700
  ...Why do you want to check it? Rusty? Smell of propane? Mine was very rusty, but tested out fine. Propane smell was traced to...
• Re: Sinky Smell from vents.
  Historical mailing list - tonyd
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:02:11 -0700
  ...It is more like a > raunchy dead something smell. > It has a bit of stinky rubber smell to it so I'm thinking that...
• Re: Friday: than Vanagon smell?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:23:21 -0700
  ...I asked > him what 'that smell' was. He said it came from the straw that VW used > to > stuff the seats. > If we've...
• Re: funky exhaust odors
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Thu, 2 Apr 1998 07:26:52 -0500
  ...Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Austin wrote: > Any ideas as to...
• Re: more vanagon smells - gasoline this time
  Historical mailing list - Don in Phoenix
  Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:18:46 -0700
  ...www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Joy Hecht wrote: > > > I've got a new smell question. > > > > Every time I...
• Re: Smell gas...
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:24:22 -0400
  ...It is directly above the starter and can be seeping causing your smell. Fix it quick since it may dripping gas on top of...
• Re: Gas smell
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:08:53 -0800
  ...smell. > Charcoal canister fittings etc. > -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw...
• Re: Sinky Smell from vents.
  Historical mailing list - David Katsuki
  Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:15:48 -0500
  ...It is more like a >> raunchy dead something smell. >> It has a bit of stinky rubber smell to it so I'm thinking that...
• Horsehair in Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:46:18 -0700
  ...like? Is that our old friend Horsehair mixed in with the crumbled recycled foam? Is THAT where the classic VW Smell is coming from?
• Re: Dying when warm and smells funky
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:04:12 +0000
  ...every aircooled vw i'v ever owned you just get used to the funky oil > smell when your run the heat... only way out...
• Rubber Smell from front.
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:27:21 -0700
  ...Could this hose be heating up the sidewall on the spare thus creating the smell? Is this hard on the sidewall of the spare...
• Re: poor vanagon
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:10:25 -0700
  ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=na1UcjXkn5A&feature=grec> &feature=grec > Treasure! Smelly, smelly treasure! Nice duct tape and plastic work. Was hiding vehicles in...
• Re: more vanagon smells - gasoline this time
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:06:05 -0400
  ...www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Joy Hecht wrote: > I've got a new smell question. > > Every time I...
• Re: Smelly Heat
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 03 Mar 1997 13:59:34
  >The air comming out of the heater in my 80 camper smells kind of like >exaust. It only smells when I have the heat...
• Re: Dying when warm and smells funky
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Poole
  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:24:06 -0700
  ...every aircooled vw i'v ever owned you just get used to the funky oil > smell when your run the heat... only way out...
• Re: Horsehair in Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:10:50 -0400
  ...like? Is that our old friend Horsehair mixed in with > the crumbled recycled foam? Is THAT where the classic VW Smell is coming > from?
• Re: cooking in the van....
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:42:22 -0500
  Why not pick up a cheap propane or white gas stove and do your smelly cooking outside? -Karl > i'm going to be spending...
• Re: Rubber Smell from front.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:04:37 -0700
  I doubt it's your spare tire smelling from burning. correct spare would be either 185R14C or 195/75 R14LT. the hose can only...
• Re: VW tent for sale
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:34:12 EST
  ...Old canvas degrades (as my Antelope backpack will tell you! circa 1970) and nylon tents degrade, causing a smell like cat shit! The smell...
• Vanagon Gas Smell (Leak?)
  Historical mailing list - Nato Dean
  Thu, 01 Aug 1996 22:57:02 -0500
  ...I noticed the smell also coming through the fresh air vents. It also seemed to get worse if I opened the front windows and...
• Re: coolant smell
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:30:31 -0400
  ...VW dealer and made them changed my > coolant, since then, when I start the rear heater it smell coolant > (it doesn�t smell that...
• Re: Smell gas...
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:50:23 +0000
  ...It is directly above the starter and can be seeping > causing your smell. Fix it quick since it may dripping gas on top of...
• Re: Smell from heater (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 17 Apr 1995 17:02:01 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Have the system flushed and replaced with VW coolant as soon as you can. If you are smelling coolant, you are losing coolant. Fix...
• Re: VW tent for sale
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:52:50 -0800
  ...Old canvas degrades (as my Antelope backpack will tell you! circa 1970) and nylon tents degrade, causing a smell like cat shit! The smell...
• Re: Horsehair in Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:35:26 -0500
  ...that our old friend Horsehair mixed in with > the crumbled recycled foam? Is THAT where the classic VW Smell is coming > from? -- David McNeely
• CIP1 springs
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:06:41 -0700
  ...knology.net/~vw/Beetle.jpg 1-888-VW-PARTS <- Recommended Expert Vanagon Part Source --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars...
• fridge smells hot
  Historical mailing list - karen brown
  Tue, 15 Oct 1996 15:04:35 -0400
  ...However, a few minutes later a very acrid burning smell was emitted. Could see no smoke so I watched carefully for a couple of...
• RE: 91 Auto Transmission Problem
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:58:46 -0500 (CDT)
  ...the fluid level is OK, it looks clean and does not smell burnt. Tim Hannink Orlando, Florida 1991 Vanagon 1975 VW Bus 1973 412
• Fwd: Re: gas odor in engine compartment
  Historical mailing list - Mike Riley
  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:50:25 -0500
  ...88'GL VW Bus Driver > > Chelsea, AL > > Http://www.moldhaus.com > > > > > > On 11/13/2011 1:16 PM, Mike Riley wrote: > > > smell gas in...
• Re: I smell a big scam brewing...
  Historical mailing list - Roy Olynick
  Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:22:48 -0500
  ...Roy Olynick '87 VW Westfalia GL (For Sale) '91 Honda Civic SE '01 Honda Civic LX-G www.autobahn.mb.ca/~rrh/Westy_Home...
• Re: Gasoline Smell
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:56:42 -0800
  I used standard VW 5mm Cloth Braided Fuel Hose, N0203551 on mine. Has worked fine for the 10 years, recently checked them , they still...