I have built my center console myself, and i secured it in two ways:

1. It sits firmly under the dashboard with its front edge.
2. I have two holes in the sidewalls where the seatbelt screws go through.
One screw for the belts and the console.

You can have a look at it on

http://www.vwbus-online.de/feussner/konsolfot.htm
Raimund

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren A. Busch" <lbusch@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:32 PM
Subject: What's Under the Tunnel??

> I'm trying to mount a center console in my '90 Westy.  It need to be
> securely tied down (learned that lesson when I rolled my '85 last
> November). Immediate temptation is to drill and put in screws, but I
> don't know exactly what is directly under the space between the front
> seats.  I'm not in a situation where I can get the Westy up on a rack
> and look, weather such here in Seattle area that I don't look forward to
> crawling under, and Bently doesn't help.  The area between the seats
> appears to be a raised tunnel, not the actuall bottom of the body.  I
> know that there are cooling pipes and a bunch of other stuff in the
> general area, but don't know if there is a dead space between the floor
> in the cab and the actual bottom of the van.  I hope that one of you
> with the more intimate knowledge of that area of the Vanagon can tell me
> either DON'T DRILL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES or it's OK or something in
> between.  If anyone has a better way of securing a center console
> between the seats I'd appreciate that info also.
>
> Loren A. Busch
> Save The Whales...Collect The Whole Set
>