Yoiu prol'ly have the answer to your question by now, but just in
case........

The tank is located on the forward side of the instrument panel. The
cover of the panel can be removed by reaching forward over the panel
until the fingers can feel a detent. There are two detents - right and
left. These can be seen if you stand in front of the van and look
through the window. Pull up on the detents and the cover for the panel
should pop off. Sometimes the stick, but they will come off.

The semi-clear plastic tank is the reservoir. The reservoir serves both
brakes and clutch hydraulics if you have a manual transmission. _Use
DOT 4 brake fluid only_ in this tank.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
p.j. wrote:

>
>
> O.K., I give up!  I bought an '89 Vanagon (Wolfburg edition) last
> December,
> assuming that, in time, all would be revealed to me.  I even bought the
> Bentley manual to speed up the process.  But I still haven't been able to
> find the brake fluid reservoir.  The manual shows it under the driver's
> side floor mat, but it's not there--unless it's that thingy that I've
> been
> pouring windshield washer fluid into.  So where is it?
> I removed both grills when my power steering started groaning, but
> found no
> reservoir there for either the steering or brakes (silly me, of course
> the
> power steering reservoir is in the back; I found that by looking in
> Bentley.)  So where is it?  Please!
>
>
> --P.J.
> Buehler
>