From: "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: Ignition Wire Sets

> In all fairness I can't say I've had a lot of Bosch sets come back, but
> it is true that they are not the same as the dealer sets.

> However, we have several non-Bosch Original Equipment alternatives, many
> for as much as 40% BELOW the price of Bosch.

> For Pre-1985...
>
> Our  09171oe (for aircooled; $19.95) and  09180oe (for '83-84 1.9L
> watercooled; $39.95) are made by a European OEM supplier to Volkwagen.

As I privately communicated to Ron some time ago, I ordered the 09171OE
wires for my air-cooled Vanagon but had to return them as unsuitable.  The
coil to distributor wire is only about a foot long and since most Vanagons
I've seen have had the coil mounted on the left side of the engine
compartment this wire won't work with that configuration.  (He now has a
picture of these wires on the web site so if you go to the trouble of
looking at the picture you'll see the "too short" distributor/coil wire.)
Too, I found that the plug wires were generally shorter than other wire sets
I've used and, if fact, the #3 wire was so short it wouldn't even allow me
to connect to the #3 plug!

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Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
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