I'll second the foot technique, or a knee against it if I'm wearing an old
pair of pants.... I also cut a small piece of wood (small piece of trim) to
fit that I lay in the body ridges under the piece of carpet material in the
back.  I wedge it in there if doing a more extensive maneuver (ie: adding
oil after a change).
Chris

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:23 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: holding liscense plate down while checking oil? Techniques?

Ok, how about some techniques on how to hold the liscense plate down and
check the oil and hold the rag at the same time?
I'll go first
1) my foot- i step on it on the bumper
2) or- the oil cap fits well as a means to jam it open if you put it on
it's side with long axis perpendicular to the ground and short axis perp
to the liscense plate.

Or just take the spring out of the liscnese plate i suppose.

-Matthew
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Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu