hi Harry,
I used to get genuinenew Vanagon Owner's Manuals from myVW Dealer.

last time I tried foran 84 Owner's manual , the said 'don't sell 'em
anymore.'

there's some change they might for later model vanagons.

what we ended up doing in that case..
I loaned the person an 84 owner's manual ..
The woman took it to a Kinko's ..
she did the copying..
and they spiral bound it ....it came out perfect.

huge difference between a knob and a lever.

why do people do that these days ?

It just causes people to wonder, or not bother to answer,
or haveask questions to figure it out ..
or write a longer post to address all the possibilities ..
due to it being an unclear post and question.

Why does that happen so often these days ? ???

I'll just call tires shocks.

On 11/18/2012 3:24 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> One man's "control knob" is another man's "lever" ;-)
>
> Thanks for the heads up about fore and aft, that's the information I was
> looking for. And, yeah, I'll take your advise and ensure it's in the
> fore position.
>
> I don't have the Owner's Manual. Is it available online somewhere?
>
> Cheers,
> Harry
>
> On 11/18/2012 04:50 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>> There is no 'control knob' ..
>> there is a lever that you can reach with your fingers, through a hole in
>> the rear heater cover.
>>
>> if the cover is not in place...the poster could be looking at a
>> knob-like thing ..the bleed valve.
>>
>> Bentley would not say much about this leverthat regulates coolant flow .
>> but the van's Owner's Manual sure does.
>>
>> 'Forward' on the lever is 'on'.
>> Aftward is off.
>>
>>   I recommend having it at least mostly 'on' all year ..
>> as having no flow at all, ever, or for very long periods ,  contributes
>> to rear heater core leaking ..
>> a pretty common thing actually. .
>>
>> Whether warm air comes out the rear heater is determined by the fan for
>> the rear heater being on or not, or course.
>>
>> you always want at least some coolant flowing through the rear heater so
>> some fresh healthier coolant is always going through it ...the parts
>> last longer that way.  Old coolant is terribly corrosive.
>>
>> Nobody on this list of course...
>> there are lots of vanagon owners that don't know about the heater
>> control lever under the back seat.
>> I was kinda shocked actually to find out VW did it that way.
>> I can't think of one other car that has a partially heater control under
>> the back seat.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/18/2012 11:49 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>>> Harry, that control allows coolant to circulate through the heater
>>> core.  Summer, off, winter, on.  To control air flow, use the knob on
>>> the dash.  mcneely
>>>
>>> ---- Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@IP-SOLUTIONS.NET> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>> The heater under the rear seat has a control knob.
>>> Can someone tell me what it does? The Bentley only shows a picture but
>>> not how it functions.
>>>
>>>    Cheers,
>>> Harry
>>>
>>> --
>>> David McNeely
>>>