My girl friend has fixed both fan belts and hoses with pantyhose on her
Jetta and Syncro Vanagon. Held up all day. Once she got it to a mechanic in
Illinois who "Fixed" the belt, laughed at her temp fix and charged her
$60.00. She got 10 miles, belt broke, pantyhose went back on and made it
another 50 miles........
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----- Original Message -----
From: "don spence" <dspence@OANET.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: " you fixed it with what?!"

> As travel season is approaching and there has already been a fair bit
> of discussion re: what spare parts to carry I'd like to invite one and
> all to contribute to a " you fixed it with what?!" list.
> Who knows, tales of other's creative fixes may get one of us out of a
> jam.
>
> For example, a friend and his family (wife, two young girls) were
> heading up a remote highway in northern Alberta for a Christmas visit
> with grandma in a Hyundai. Thirty miles from nowhere, -20 C, the fan
> belt pops.  No spare. No tools. What to do?
> For some unknown reason, the wife, whom I have never known to wear a
> dress, was carrying a pair of pantyhose in her luggage. Yup, stretched
> and tied the panty hose around the pulleys and limped slowly into the
> next settlement.  I've also heard of it being done with duct tape
> (don't leave home without it). I have wrapped up burst rad hoses
> successfully with Gaffer tape. (better than duct tape-used in the film
> biz)
>
> Anybody else made emergency repairs with "available" materials?
>
>