A few folks have asked about my new rear external tire rack, so for the archives:

  Marc Peters bought my after market tire rack from http://www.busschmiede.de/  Marc charged me 472 � installed.   Marc told me that a REAL VW tire rack costs US$1500, IF! one can find one.

  The after market tire rack is also available from
  http://www.syncro-bernd-jaeger.de/ENGLISH/Spezialitaten/body_spezialitaten.html
  Left or right  275,00 �.

  Photos of Marc's install on my 'new' van are at: http://photos.yahoo.com/mwstebbins in the "De-Coupler" Album.  Other van photos are in the "Dehler" Albums. Thanks.  Malcolm

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