Thanks for the tip! Actually, I talked to George and he doesn't do VW's
anymore, only Audi!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ari Ollikainen" <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Mechanic near Truckee

> At 12:29 AM -0400 9/9/04, Chris Dixon wrote:
> > Located in the Lake Forest
> > subdivision  a few miles east
> > of Tahoe City, very close
> > to the municipal campground
> > and beach at Lake Forest as
> > well as a county park.
> >
> > Ari Ollikainen (AriO@pacbell.net) writes:
> >
> >A VW "authorized service" shop and experts on Vanagons (especially of the
> >Syncro variety) as well as Audis. Their labor rate is more reasonable
than in the
> >Bay Area.
> >
> >George Ritchey seems to really care about his customers' vehicles... We
spent
> >a bunch of $$ putting my Wife's '91 Carat right while vacationing at
Tahoe,
> >last year... a good thing we had two vehicles!
> >
> >Report Date: Prior to Nov 2003
>
>
>         Bear in mind that the above review was written around EIGHT years
ago
>         when considering German Motors as a repair place for a Vangon in
>         the current time frame...even then they seemed more oriented to
working
>         on Audis.
>
>
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