VW calls the "shelf" a "parcel tray"

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "alan sinclair" <anadem@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:32 AM
Subject: kitchen lamp wiring to get 12V where?

> Our '81 westie has no kitchen light nor light over the bed, though
> there there's some wiring in the shelf/tray/channel (what is it really
> called) over the sink.  The wire that looks like it should be live
> comes into the shelf through a hole in the headliner above the poptop,
> but it doesn't have any voltage on it.
>
> I have not been able to remove the headliner;  we took out all the
> screws, but the headliner is held in by more -- perhaps the channels
> it runs in are glued to the bodywork?
>
> So I tried to poke a wire inside the headliner from the interior light
> above the driver's door to above the tray.  Seem to have hit metal in
> the middle.
>
> Where might it be possible to run power (12v) from, to go to the
> shelf/tray/channel?
>
> thanks yet again
> Alan