Dealer swore up and down that my heater motor was shot, too.  Switch was $6
or so and it's going stron two years later.

Karl WOlz
-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Gardner <caninewolf@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 10:43 PM
Subject: Im back with a 1984 Wolfsburg

>Hello fellow listies=)
>
>I have recently bought a 1984 wolfsburg vanagon.  It is the blue wolfy
>color.  Nice courdoroy interior with the weekender package.  The bus has
>65k on the rebuild and 221k on the body.  All parts that have been
>replaced were replaced with Bosch parts and it was owned by a mechanic
>so it runs awsome=)  The body has some surface rust but I am going to be
>fixing that soon.  It was good enough to pass through CT PITA inspection
>system=)  All the clutch stuff was redone with the engine and all the
>brakes were done a short while ago.  I bought the van for 1000
>bucks...great deal if you ask me=)  Things it needs is the front heater
>motor to work...very expensive!!! 380.00 bucks but I'm going to look
>into the problem and see if its actually the motor.  The van kicks out
>heat thou..I've never been in a vanagon that has this much heat!  Well
>thats my update as of now....nice to be back on the list=)
>
>Tim Gardner
>own:
>84 Vanagon Wolfsburg Weekender(65k(221K body))
>77 Toyota Chinook Camper(for sale 3500)
>ex:
>87 Vanagon Syncro Weekender-Alaska-(tranny split in half at 181k)
>84 Ford Ranger(never close to a VW)
>87 Dodge Colt(170k-friend killed the tranny..4th to 1st is a bad idea)
>
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