My battery box is butchered.  Someone didn’t know how to remove the
battery, and pulled the lip up and it’s rippled and rusty now. Too bad, but
thankfully I bought this van for cheap.  I tend to haul all kinds of junk
in my van, so being pretty is not necessary, although the rust is
irritating.  Why and how could somebody think that doing that to the box
would be acceptable???  I think the easiest way to make it look better,
would be to cut that top edge off, and grind it smooth, then paint it. It
still won’t look great, as they mangled it, but it would look better!  A
Summer project I think!

Julianna
1991 VW Vanagon Westfalia (Ophelia)

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 9:01 AM Mike Miller <mwmiller6@att.net> wrote:

> Both of mine have been intact, the covers that is. The hold downs, not so
> much.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
>
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Julianna 1990 VW Vanagon Westfalia with Tiico Conversion (The Rastafalia)
1988 VW Vanagon (James) 1985 VW Vanagon Weekender (as yet unnamed) 1991 VW
Vanagon Westfalia automatic (as yet unnamed) Yes, I bought two more vans!