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Subject:Re: how to HOT-WIRE a Vanagon?
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:03:20 -0600

How do you remove the switch when you don't have the key?
   The procedures I have read seem to assume that you have the key.
Recently at a junkyard I wanted to pull the electrical part of the
switch, but the method was not very obvious.

Larry A.

"Kenneth Folkman Jr." wrote:
>
> Awhile back my dad bought a Vanagon without a key.  What he ended up doing
> was pulling out the ignition switch and taking it to the dealer and had them
> make a key from that.
>
> Kenneth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Harvey" <jtharvey2@HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 6:25 PM
> Subject: how to HOT-WIRE a Vanagon?
>
> > I'm looking into buying a rolled/crused Vanagon for parts but it has no
> keys
> > and I can't get the tumbler code.  I'd like to be able to test the engine
> > etc. with out having to buy an ignition switch w/key.  So, my question is
> > how do I hot-wire a Vanagon?  Please p-mail me....I don't want to cause
> any
> > trouble.  Or post your ceative solution publicly.  Thanks in advance, John
> >
> >
> >
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