Hello, I am way behind on reading the Vanagon list mail and hope this
message isn't too late. I was traveling in the UP several years ago when my
Fox Wagon wouldn't start leaving me stranded in Iron Mountain, MI. I looked
in the phone book, and there was only one ad in the yellow pages that was
even remotely promising. I called "Foreign Car Service" and started worrying
about spending big money to get out of there and back on the road. He told
me to go to lunch and come back and when I did he had simply taken off the
fuel filter and rinsed it through with gas to get the water out of it. A $30
dollar bill later I was out of there very much relieved. I thought sure I
would be spending big money, and he could have taken a naive non-mechanical
person (I'm much more mechanically inclined now)  like myself to the
cleaners but didn't. I don't know if he knows diesels, but I can vouch for
this guys honesty.

Tim Root
Portage, WI
84 Vanagon
90 Fox Wagon
97 Jetta