I have them new for $95 but I will need your old one as a core before I can
send you the new one.  Basically I bought a bunch of the motors for the
sliding door and rear hatch a few years back.  They are the same as the
front ones except for the fourth wire that the front ones have.  So I use
the old ones for the wiring and then you have a new lock motor.  From the
dealer (if you can still get them) they have superceded the Vanagon power
lock motor to the Eurovan one.  But you have to buy an additional harness
adapter (around $40) to make them work.  And they are not cheap.  Let me
know if you are interested.

If you want to buy a straight up sliding door/back hatch motor I would sell
them for $75 and you can do the wiring work yourself.  I only have six left
and after they are gone I guess I will have to get good at trying to rebuild
the old ones :-)

Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
JP
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:08 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Wanted : Front door lock actuator

Hi Volks,

My front (passenger side) electric door lock actuator has died on my 87
syncro. I need I new one. Here's the part number : 255-959-781

Anyone on the list have one?

--
JP
Le routard, Westfalia 1.9L 1983
Hercules, Vanagon GL syncro 2.1L 1987