On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jake de Villiers <
crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:

> You need to hear more and newer Vanagon sliders!
>
> My '86 door makes hardly any noise at all.  Fluid Film on all moving parts
> and gliding surfaces and Ice Guard stuck on the inside of the track cover to
> keep it from being a soundboard.
>
> YMMV.
>
> O
>

  Fluid Film and Ice Guard....Oh...kay...Never heard of those things, but I
shall now Google them and see it I could get some to help decrease the noise
of my slider, too.

  More and newer vanagon sliders...  I guess maybe I never noticed there
WERE newer or older vanagons, and that the newer ones were not as noisy in
the slider....I sort of think of Vanagons, once into the water cooled era,
as all about the same..Oh, some have fancy square headlights (that everyone
seems to change out) and some certainly have plenty of power options...but
somehow the MY of what the Vanagon is doesn't really seem important to me,
at least.

   And as I said in my first post....I can be snoozing and hear a Vanagon
slider close....distinct unique sound, usually takes some authority to get
it shut, and many Door Closers on Vanagon seem to 'over-do' the job, to make
sure or just because they aren't familiar with how it closes.

  Don Hanson