All imported parts have drastically increased in price due to the
falling dollar. Not just VW. Hold on to your hats. I've been dealing
with many parts doubling or tripling in cost. Worse is VW now getting
$46 for valve covers. List used to be ~$16.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Aaron Pearson
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:54 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: high-dollar pipes

my mechanic just told me that the dealer wants $225 for the return
plastic coolant pipe.  wtf???  vanagain.com has them for $214.  did
prices just go up?  i swear i saw them for ~$150 a few weeks ago.  his
theory is that vw is trying to force people to give up on the vanagon so
they start buying eurovans, and the t5 that they will eventually bring
to us.

aaron
'87 syncro gl