-- [ From: Thomas D. Hanlon * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --

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> Date: Monday, 21-Oct-96 06:45 PM
> 
> From: SyncroHead@aol.com       \ America On-Line: (SyncroHead)
> To:   Vanagon                  \ Internet:    (vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu)
> 
> Subject: Re: Replacing water hoses
> 
> In a message dated 96-10-21 17:22:39 EDT, wise@ses.com (Tim Wise) writes:
> 
> << My '87 Westy Weekender has broken two water hoses in the past six
weeks and
>  had a cracked coolant reservoir. I was wondering whether it would be a
good 
>  idea to replace all the hoses now or just keep fixing them as them
break? 
>  
>  The dealer gave me an estimate of $550-$600 parts and labor

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Tim Wise and SyncroHead,

Somewhere on this list, within the last few months, one of our members
contributed a detailed, hose-by-hose, account of sources and prices from
FLAPs and other nonVW sources.  If I remember correctly, he reduced the
usual $500 to $600 saga by about 75 per cent.

The account may be in the Archives, or our Hose Expert may see this message
and repost the information.

I think that I printed it and filed it in a cabinet in another location
which I can't access.  If you don't find the information, I'll look in
about two weeks when I return to my home.

Tom Hanlon
Austin, TX