Recently, my wife, daughter and I drove from Walla Walla, WA to the
Colorado Front Range and back.  On the way there we were having problems
that were later diagnosed as a bad air flow meter.  Before the proper
diagnosis we stopped along the way many times and visited several foreign
automotive shops trying to resolve the problem while keeping moving.  One
thing that became evident is that many shops will not work on the water
cooled Vanagon engines and some that do shouldn't.  What would have helped
greatly is if we had a directory of shops across the country which care for
Vanagons as much as we do.  In the past I had thought it might be a good
idea to publish a book but that was back in my air cooled days.  Now with
the internet I thought it would be quite simple to compile the data
required to compose such a directory.  The directory could them be made
available via the internet free to all to download.

First of all, is such a list already available?  If so, I would like to
submit four entries.  If not, maybe we could have a brief discussion about
the plusses and minuses of such a directory.  From there, assuming a
positive response, we could move forward with collecting and collating the
information.

Just a thought.

Tom Moritz
'90 Vanagon Westy
Walla Walla, WA

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