OK, a second handle it is, then.  All the hardware on my door is adjusted,
lubed, and operating properly.  My vanagon, an 84, sounds just like every
other vanagon I have heard.  I might try to put something in the door and
the adjacent rear panel, maybe take a bit of the hollow sound out, besides
the handle.  As in my original post, when you  close it with a push on the
rear, from outside, it is pretty quiet...so the rear handle inside should be
about the same, and that would be 'appreciated' around many quiet campsites,
I am sure....I tend to be an early riser...
   Thanks all,  Don Hanson

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> some are installed vertically ..
> but horizontal pointing forward is correct.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>  Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Slam! that slider....can you not?
>
>
> At 02:12 PM 3/5/2011, HotelWestfalia wrote:
>>
>>> The earlier models had a rear door handle inside, next to the rear seat,
>>> horizontally fitted, as David was telling.  Sometimes it's missing and
>>> even
>>>
>>
>> Except I wrote vertically by mistake...
>>
>> :)
>> d
>>
>