I'm surprised that WVofA does not sell liters of "German water" for
exclusive use in Vanagon cooling systems. <g>
They could price it at double the cost of the Autobann coolant.

At 09:18 AM 1/18/1999 -0500, Michael Townsend wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Can anyone give us the part number of the official German Water that we are
>supposed to use?  Does it come from the river in front of the Wolfsburg
>castle?  Is anyone organizing a group buy?  :-/
>
>Just when you thought you learned everything.
>
>Michael Townsend
>townsend@rtp.ericsson.se
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: YauMan Chan <YAUMAN@CCHEM.BERKELEY.EDU>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 12:52 AM
>Subject: Re: corrosion & anodes (Short!)
>
>
>Carroll,
>
>Thank you for the clarification.
>
>I must admit that I know not what I speak of when it comes to marine
>electrochemistry..and it is certainly very different than my encounters in
>the lab version! I defer to your wisdom and experience on that.
>
>Now, VW maintains that the kind of corrosions we observe in our Vanagon (and
>other Al VW engines) is not a problem in Europe.  They blame it on our water
>or at least hint that it may be because of our water.  Is there any validity
>to this?  Can the ionic composition of their water be so different than
>ours?
>
>Yau-Man Chan
>87 GL
>