I've got seven years of experience scavenging parts from auto wrecking
yards and from my experience anything above 83 could have a plastic
engine compartment lid but I find Vanagons as late as 87 that have metal
lids. I believe that Chris has a boatload of metal engine lids at a very
cheap price if you want one (probably less than the UPS to get it to
you).
In short: you might find about either type depending on who the previous
owner was. I've seen several Air Cooled lids with fire signs but I've
never seen a WaserBoxer with fire signs.
The metal lids are considerably heavier than the plastic lids but I can't
tell you the difference in weight, I'd guess steel at 29 pounds and
plastic at about 10 pounds.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:32:02 -0600 andrewbell <andrewbell@QWEST.NET>
writes:
This thread is a bit confusing... are you guys talking about engine
compartment lids? I've never seen a plastic one.
AB
JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
all 80-83 non waterboxers had metal lids.   all waterboxers had plastic
lids.
chris
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