>Hi everyone.  The exhaust tubing (headers) for the Vanagon
>are horrendously expensive ($1400 in Can.), even the muffler is $600!!  This
>is unbelievable.  This is what my friend paid for his '88 a year ago at the
>VW dealer.  It seems that with the Vanagon, one MUST use VW headers and
>mufflers.  At the prices that VW charges for these parts, this is ludicrous.
>They should have been stainless steel from the factory given how these pipes
>are continually battered by road debris from the wheels.
>
>Does anybody know of a maker of an exhaust system for the vans (mine is a
>'90 Syncro) that makes a system from stainless steel?  I am trying to do
>some research before I am forced to buy more VW shares!
>

Autocavan sell stainless exhausts for all VWs. A silencer and tailpipe for a 
2-litre motor cost about 150 pounds. I don't know about the other bits. They 
have agents all over the place but the address of the main office is:

103 Lower Weybourne Lane
Badshot Lea
Farnham
Surrey
England

0252 333891

Andy E.

A.C.Erskine@lut.ac.uk