Both of mine have been intact, the covers that is. The hold downs, not so much.

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On Fri, 5/11/18, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

 Subject: Friday survey for Westy owners
 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
 Date: Friday, May 11, 2018, 8:57 AM
 
 Okay folks, I'm curious about something. How
 many of you camper/Weekender owners have unmolested battery
 boxes behind the passenger seat? How many intact boxes have
 you seen? I’m not going to bother to ask how many still
 have the battery hold down clamp.
 
 The box on my ’84 was fine because I
 bought it when it was only two years old, and I’m not an
 idiot. But, both my son’s ’87 and my current ’85 have
 butchered boxes. Mine is sawed 3” down both sides for easy
 bending (hard on the carpet), and my son’s box back edge
 was hammered into oblivion. 
 
 It’s too bad Westfalia Werks didn’t
 put an instruction label on the battery cover, it was a
 terrible oversight. 😉
 
 Stuart