Yeah, that darn 20-plus year old plastic.

Worry. It gets better.

Chris.

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Dnia Mar 7, 2011 o godz. 19:21 David M <covrambles@YAHOO.COM> napisał 
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> Finally got time to wrestle (very apt word) with this problem. After  
> liberat applications of bolt-buster and wrist-crunching hammer blows  
> and 1/2 hour of back twisting contortions with a lug nut tool of  
> unknown source (not VW but a perfect fit), I got the bolt off. Bolt  
> says DERA 88 on the head if that means anything. I breathed a sign  
> of relief and visions of bikini-clad babes on a tropical beach  
> wafted before me. Then I pulled the plastic pull-tab thingie to  
> release the mechanism and... snap. This pathetic piece of inadequate  
> German engineering snapped in two. What a sorry excuse for a  
> mechanism this is!. Now I am in need of even more urgent help as to  
> how to release the spare tire. I now dare not even risk driving the  
> van to a tire shop. I'm hoping there is some arcane trick to  
> operating the release. H-E-L-P!