all right ..
so you do understand how the dealer service deptartment system works.

There are still people who own and drive vanagons and don't know where
to check the brake fluid.
And a dealer these days might not know either.

On 1/24/2014 2:59 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> That about them gobbling up tech information when it arrived was meant to
> be a joke. Nothing could be further from the truth, I am sure.
>
> My dealer didn't know anything about Vanagons when I bought my 90 new
> except how to work the Z-bed and where to put the brake fluid. That's about
> it.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:57 PM, SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss ) <
> scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
>>   Right..
>> and when it says 'connect VW special tool # XYZ' ......what does one do
>> then ?
>>
>> Not that there are not a few interesting and useful things in this Tech
>> Talk piece.
>>
>> You think VW dealer techs sit around gobbling up new VW-supplied tech info
>> ???
>>
>> Most likely only when they absolutely have to.
>>
>>   On 1/24/2014 12:00 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>
>> Back in the days when VW dealers and mechanics knew what a Vanagon was, the
>> factory supplied dealer shops with two-sided flyers called Tech Talk. I
>> scanned the ones I have had lying around and put them into a 14-page pdf
>> here
>> <http://www.knology.net/~felder/Vanagons/VW%20Tech%20Tips.html> <http://www.knology.net/~felder/Vanagons/VW%20Tech%20Tips.html>
>>
>> in case anyone needs to know the factory way to adjust the idle and set the
>> throttle valve, test for bad fuel, and adjust CO content among many other
>> topics.
>>
>> I'll bet that not much work got done the day these babies hit the mailbox.
>>
>> : )
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>