That area would be about the best place on the entire Vanagon for instruments except for the fact that you couldn't see them from the driver seat. I think when I get back from my trip that I'm going to have Felder enterprises design group look into putting a net screen door in that space that can drop down 

> On Aug 4, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Eric Caron <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>        Are we talking about the little air vents over the sliding door?  In my 85 Westfalia they actually do work and a pretty good stream of air comes through them when I have the levers set correctly.  However they are gone  on the driver's side over the sink area.
> 
> Eric Caron 
> 85 GL Auto Westfalia 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> The "limited use vent" above the slider only of limited use in the
>> Westfailure configuration.  It works in the "tin top" models.  In the westy
>> it is blocked with two pieces of ancient foam.
>> Pensionerd
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> In another thread -- no hijackery here -- mcneely wrote about the snap
>>> in window screen for the slider, saying, "The edge puckers around curves
>>> and at corners, and where the useless vent above the door is."
>>> 
>>> I, for one, think it's high time (maybe Friday is a higher time -- yes,
>>> I get it) to start a "Let's Put That Vent Above The Slider To Use" derby.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>>> Bend, Ore.
>>>