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Subject:Re: Friday survey for Westy owners
From:Roy Nicholl
Date:Fri, 11 May 2018 21:25:26 -0300

What do you mean battery under the seat.  … I thought they were back in the engine box ;-)

Just joking … the Hyena (’88) has one under the passenger seat.  hold-down is fine, but someone prior to me set he cover free … it it wasn’t for the carpet, I think it might have left already.
> On 11-May-2018, at 12:57, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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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