On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> re
> VW didn't understand plastics and plastics engineering as well
> as they thought they did.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
>
> perhaps more a matter of cost, becaue they DID get some very good plastic in
> vanagons ..
> like the insturment cluster cover ...
> I have seen exactly *one* broken one ever ...
> they got some very, very good plastic in that part.
>
>

With production costs in mind, I would suspect that VW never
envisioned dedicated fans like us working on the instrument clusters
that much, or at all. The cover, for sure. You know. For regular
maintenance like spilling brake fluid. But the cluster?

"Aber Karl. Warum benutzen Sie teuren Plastik im Instrumentlehrenhalter?"

(with apologies to the German language. I have no idea how well that
translated in Bablefish!)

Neil.

Neil.

--
Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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