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Subject:Re: REMOVE THOSE HATCH PLUGS!!
From:Aristotle Sagan
Date:Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:51:38 -0700

Redefine!

Move to San Jose. Get lazy. No rust.

tim, lazing about in Silicon Valley

 >
>Quite true in my experience too. I have seen many beach residing
>Vanagons with bad rust bubbling up on the bottom edge of any or all of
>the windows. I removed the windshield on my 87 Syncro to work on this
>rust only to find that the hidden area was rusted to the point where I
>could poke 4 fingers of my hand through. I cut part of the nose off of a
>junker and replaced the whole part between the seams below the
>windshield and above the grill. 2 years later the part at the lower
>corners of the windshield is pretty bad too and I wish I had done a
>bigger piece.
>
>Mark
>near
>
>JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 9/9/03 2:07:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >
> > > Move to California. Get lazy. No rust.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > actually ive had quite a few vans from Coastal California that had
> > substantial rust under the window seals from the ocean salt water in the
>air weeping
> > under the window seals in the form of dew or condensation running off
>the rest of
> > the vehicle surfaces..  or from being deposited there by rain, in the
>rare
> > event it does rain in SoCal..      Tho the rockers/doglegs/underbody of
>those
> > vans are always rust free.
> >
> > chris
>r San Diego
>
>JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 9/9/03 2:07:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >
> > > Move to California. Get lazy. No rust.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > actually ive had quite a few vans from Coastal California that had
> > substantial rust under the window seals from the ocean salt water in the
>air weeping
> > under the window seals in the form of dew or condensation running off
>the rest of
> > the vehicle surfaces..  or from being deposited there by rain, in the
>rare
> > event it does rain in SoCal..      Tho the rockers/doglegs/underbody of
>those
> > vans are always rust free.
> >
> > chris

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