JordanVw@AOL.COM writes:

> most dealers are morons and hate vanagons.  mine can get me a key from
> a key code but yours might not .  scratch what i said earlier about
> the dealer, unless your dealer is vanagon friendly.  go with steves
> lock shoppe.. u can next-day your doorhandle out to him and he can get
> it back quickly w/ keys.  ive dealt with steve several times and he is
> top notch.

Hm.  My local VW dealer is pretty much like any other: not especially
helpful or knowledgeable about 20 year old vehicles that have not even
been sold in over a decade.  Try to drive a 20 year old Ford Escort (if
any that old are even still on the road) into a Ford dealer and see if
they are falling over themselves to attend to it.

I've not found deliberate hostility -- just ignorance of old models that
they hardly ever see.

Our local dealership does have a beautifully restored 60's era Beetle on
the showroom floor.  It's not for sale, though, and it's presence
doesn't mean that they know beans about older VWs.

Allan
--
1991 Vanagon GL

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