Hey volks.. take a look at the "rain gutter" running along the top of the
windows of your vanagons. This little gizmo collects all the water off the
roof of your vehicle of choice and routes it to either the front or rear,
keeping most of it from dripping in your windows. If you are pointed
downhill or hit the brakes, you'll get all that water on your windshield. If
you are going uphill or burn the tread off your rear tires (engine
conversion??) you'll sling that water onto the car behind you. I noticed
this phenomenon more in my '78 bay than my '85, but that's what it is. So,
unless you have a vanagon with shaved off gutters, yup, it's normal.

Steve
'85 westy
kent, wa

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of
Howard Fleming
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 8:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Waterfalls on my windsheild

Our 85 does it also in rain, so I "assume" this is normal.....
Howard

On 23 Oct 2001, at 13:02, 80 Westy Pokey wrote:

> We had some pretty heavy rain today and every time I stopped there was a
> massive waterfall of rain on the left and right sides of my windsheild.
> Now addmittedly I don't drive in the rain that much but how could I not
> have noticed before? Does everyone else's van do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Gronski
> '80 Westy "Pokey" - SLOPOKEY
> '87 Chevrolet Sprint - Ice Racer
> '91 Pontiac Firefly - Convertable

hfleming@moosebird.com    Front Royal, VA   hfleming@moosebird.com
99 EuroVan MV - 2001 Jetta TDI - 85 Vanagon - 84 Westy
84 Vanagon GL (spare parts that turned into a project)
1945 Cletrac AG (for sale)