Your absolutely right. I called Peter at Tiico today on other business, and
mentioned this to him. He laughed.
He said that he has been on an aggressive dealer campaign marketing his kit
because of the situation with the engine cores. He said Cummins rebuilds
them for VWoNA.
Still a good option for VW owners with their stock boat anchor in the back.
Or a soob.

-Steve
Seattle, WA
The Great PNW

>From: harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
>Reply-To: harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Correction-Vw dealer engine conversions
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:13:15 -0700
>
>I stopped by my local vw dealer to confirm the news about
>I-4 engine conversions, and to take a look at the bulletin,
>as they called it, with my own eyes.
>As it turns out, they are selling Tiico conversions which
>they are buying from Peter, and installing in their shop,
>with 12 12 warranty.
>The downside is there is no nationwide VWoA dealer support yet.
>However, our local vw dealer does back up the Tiico conversion.
>
>Had a conversation with the parts manager, and he said VWoA
>can't get enough good waterboxer cores, and they don't want
>to retool to produce new waterboxer engines.
>So VWoA will not be building any rebuilt or new waterboxer engines
>in the future. Some vw dealers still have some in stock.
>So as an individual vw dealer, Hanson Motors, (360) 943-2120,
>  in Olympia, Washington decided to sell and install Tiico engines.
>They said they have a lot of customers with vanagons that need new engines,
>and they had to do something for them.
>Sorry for any misunderstandings.
>Harald
>'90 westy

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