You can easily check your air pressure if you use either long or short valve
stems.  Unfortunately, most tire shops automatically install medium stems,
which makes it damn near impossible to check pressure.

Karl Wolz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobin Copley" <tobin.copley@ubc.ca>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: Frustrating hubcaps!

> OK, looks like this is hubcap fffrenzy fffriday, so I'll jump in:
>
> I hate my hub caps.  All three of them.  They came with the bus and
> they are a PITA--I can't check tire pressure or add air without
> removing them first, because the hubcaps hide the valve.
>
> I strongly suspect i have non-stock hubcaps.  Do others have this
> valve-access problem?  I'm seriously thinking of just removing all of
> them, or better, go with a set of steel '72(?)-'79 bus hubcaps.
>
> T.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tobin Copley   Bowen Island, BC, Canada              tobin.copley@ubc.ca
>
> '82 Westfalia 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
> '97 son Russell                                   =============
> '99 daughter Margaret                            /_| |_L| |__|:| clatter
> 1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi       {.            .| clatter!
> 1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT   7,400 km        ~-()-==----()-~
> Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango)
> http://www.sfu.ca/~tcopley/vw/
>