Ron -- you would know this better than anyone. A few years ago I was
cruising a wrecking yard looking for window cranks -- I had been buying the
cheap aftermarket ones and they kept breaking. I told the guy behind the
counter this and he pointer me to a line of early Jetta's and said that
those cranks would work and that they were all plastic and much tougher. I
picked up 4 for $10 bucks and doubt that I'll ever need the spares. They fir
perfectly if use the use the slightly longer Vanagon screw and not the Jetta
one. As for grill clearance when I put in my new speakers I was able to
simply file the plastic on the end of the crank at an angle until it cleared
the new grills.

Maybe you would know and share with the list what year Jetta cranks work --
and raise your sales on those :-)

Cheers,
Doug

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:11 AM, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote:

> > In case anyone is wondering whether the window cranks are
> > made of the type of zinc alloy that you can bend somewhat --
> > they're not.  They're made of the kind of zinc alloy that
> > looks you straight
> > in the eye and then snaps in half.    I needed the bend to clear a
> > speaker
>
>
> The simplest solution, although not free, is our spacer kit, which uses
> genuine VW parts and is specifically designed to space the window cranks
> further out to clear speaker grills:
>
> http://busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=155898595
>
> - Ron Salmon
>  The Bus Depot, Inc.
>  www.busdepot.com
>  (215)  234-VWVW
>
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