Funny about that.  My fancy new paint job is less than a year old.  The driver's side still looks absolutely perfect and the passenger side is already a scratched up mess.  And that's through a good top coat!
Anthony

'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: In a message dated 3/1/06 11:08:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, jbange@GMAIL.COM
writes:

> >
> > actually its a supply and demand thing..  think about it.  most people
> > break off their passenger side mirrors rather than the drivers side ones..
> >
>
>
> Really? Broken from what? Hitting things? I couldn't say, myself. I've never
> broken a mirror. And even so, if the demand is high, wouldn't any rational
> manufacturer notice and increase supply to match?
>
>

yea, john...  broken from hitting things.. in a vanagon..amazing, huh?   ya
know, kinda like how nearly every vanagon i've seen has a creased lower sliding
door and a mushed right rear wheel arch and a crunched rear bumper, or if
chrome, both sides are pushed in to match.. ("damn, we just backed into that pole
on the right side of the bumper...hell..lets back into it again on the left
side so the damage will be symmetrical")

not everyone is a perfect vanagon driver..like you or me :<)

actually, VW loves the supply and demand thing.. thats why the right rear
fiberglass bumper endcap is like $100 more than the left rear one, from the
dealer...

chris

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