>My front passenger seat both slides and swivels and between the two I can
>get at the battery without removing the seat, but sliding the seat out is
>not that difficult so is an easy way to work in that area.

My battery is under the drver's seat (RHD). I do NOT have to remove
the seat to open the access flap, just slide it far enough forward
(typical cheap & nasty VW slider mechanism, very hard to actually
move, though it's not full of crud)..

My Caravelle's not a Westy, though, so no swivel seats.
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut