me 2 me 2 - at least in Europe, all Westies sold with the optional Eberspacher
gas or diesel heaters had a 2nd battery. Otherwise you'd be warm all night but
then wouldn't be able to drive off in the morning.

Robin
90 Vanagon Atlantic Westfalia TD

Javier Zavala wrote:

> Mine comes with two batteries.
> It`s a 84 Westy Club Joker model from Germany.
>
> Javier Zavala
> 85 1,9L Westy Joker
> 00 Prospector hovercraft
>
> ----------
> De: JordanVw@AOL.COM
> A: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Asunto: Re: AUX battery standard in Westy??
> Fecha: Lunes 13 de Noviembre de 2000 09:23 PM
>
> In a message dated 11/13/00 1:11:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jensmiles2@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> <<  have got another question for you all.  I went to check my aux. battery
>  for my '87 Westy under the driver seat and ...... there wasn't one there.
>  Please keep in mind that I only recently purchased this fine vehicle and
> the
>  PO said it came with two batteries.  Besides being under the driver seat,
>  anyone have any ideas where else it could be? >>
>
> The only westys to ever come with dual batteries was the '74-'79 Bus deluxe
> Westy.   No vanagon westys ever came w/ dual batteries.  Sounds like your
> PO
> was typically ignorant...
> chris