Allan's advice is right on!  Don't expect someone who's worked on mainstream
vehicles only to be even close when you give em a Vanagon to align.  You
should only use a shop with a tech who's versed in Vanagons.  You might be
wise to stay right there with the Bently in hand and make sure they do it
properly, too.  I've seen em just 'blow-off' an accepted proceedure just to
get on to the next job..and that means you just wasted time and money on a
bad job.  A lot of the techs you'll get at shops are not the best thinkers
and yet they all will tell you they've been at it for years and know exactly
what they are doing...(even if they have never worked on a Vanagon)..Yah
think aligning a Dodge 3/4 ton 4x4 is exactly like a VW?...
  Don Hanson

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>wrote:

> The alignment shop got all the settings dialed in.  Try to find one that
> has done Vanagons before, if not use a well-established local shop not a
> chain shop.  Take in the Bentley page, there is a specific sequence, if you
> do things out of order the initial adjustments will be changed by the later
> ones.  Also I've heard that many shops have the wrong data in their
> computer, the Bentley has the correct alignment specs.
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> Allan
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