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Subject:Re: Anyone else have a sunroof vanagon w/ A/C???
From:Dennis Lockwood
Date:Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:22:43 EST

Chris,

Judging by the lack of response to your thread, I surmise that maybe no one
else has an a/c sunroof Vanagon.  Pity, but I do not think that VW
intentionally marketed this combination.

IMHO a/c units were shipped over to the states loose as kits with their
Vanagons.  The a/c units are installed somewhere in the states (either at the
port of entry or at a dealer).  We also know that sunroof Vanagons (although
a relative few) were imported.  I think that VW believed that a/c and
sunroofs contradicted each other, as well as made an installation conundrum.
These combinations that now exist probably do so because of some aftermarket
installation.  Maybe, as in your case, an industrious individual found an a/c
unit in a junk yard Vanagon and fitted it to his sunroof Vanagon.  I believe
that the a/c unit in my sunroof loaf van was an aftermarket installation.

Thanks for asking the question.  Hope that someone else weighs in.

Dennis Lockwood
91 Carat
Original Owner