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From: monte merrick <monte@thefulcrum.org>
Date: March 26, 2006 9:17:51 AM PST
To: vanagon  list <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Subject: general idea for cost

dear all
i've been lurking around this list now for about three months - (bought
my first vanagon at the end of december, in the past i've had a few
different beetles - loved my 67 sunroof and the 78 convertible the
best)

i'd like to ask a few things regarding costs -

what would a fair price be for a complete brake job in the front.
rotors pads calipers (this work has already been done but i just like
to torment myself with what could have been)

what would be a fair price for ball joints, tie rod ends and shocks

and how difficult is a shifter rebuild for someone who can learn and
follow intstructions but has only an outdoor parking lot to do the
work.

also - anyone have a line on a folding to bed rear seat for a gl -
seattle area pick and pulls only have westfalia and carat and weekender
style

thanks for the advice

monte

84 gl

"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still
on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and
even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious
to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau
"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still
on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and
even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious
to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau