At 07:28 PM 11/10/2008, azsun99 wrote:
>Over the past 9 years that I've owned my 87 Westy, I've purchased 4
>fridge vent covers
>from various vendors. After a year or two, the plastic dried, and
>then cracked and the
>covers crumbled into fragments.

Ric, if you use the cover as intended and stated in the manual -- to
cover the vent while washing the vehicle -- it will last forever.

Do people have lots of trouble with wasps and such getting in, or is
this just an odd Vanagon ritual from the depths of time?  I never had
difficulty with mine -- OTOH my fridge ran continuously during the
summer (but not the winter).  It was never covered except while
washing the vehicle, and it never got water inside in hurricanes or
whatever -- I never ever got a single drop out of the drain tube.

--
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"