On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:25 PM, John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Now that I have ridiculously overlarge tires on my GL, I am curious
> to see
> how far the VW engineers went in opening up the wheel wells for the
> Syncro
> 16. I've googled till my eyes bled, viewed every pic on www.ig-syncro16.de
>  ,
> and checked the archives like the dickens--- nowhere can I find a
> relatively
> close in picture of a Syncro 16 with one of its doors open such that
> one can
> see the fender parts which are covered by the door-mounted fender
> flares
> when the doors are shut. I could calculate all the possible
> interference
> points by measuring theoretical range of motion on the suspension and
> steering, but that's a lot of work. In this case, a picture really
> is worth
> a thousand words.
>
> Anyone ever seen a pic of a Syncro 16 with the door open? Or as an
> alternative, a pic of the BACK side of a set of unmounted Syncro 16
> fender
> flares?

John,

If you can wait until this evening, I'll be happy to send you pics. I
happen to have the arches off my 16" Doka at the moment.

BenT
Sent from my mobile device

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