In a message dated 10/8/99 4:28:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
AndrewD158@AOL.COM writes:

<< Then he backs it up the
 emmisions testing ramp(the elevated type with the rollers).  He then procedes
 to back it right off of the back end of the machine, a straight drop of about
 9 inches. >>

VW Vans and elevated drive-on lifts do not mix.....
(most of you remember a few months ago, when a grease monkey at Jiffy pop
lowered my vanagon down on the lift - with the drivers door fully open,
catching it on the railing, and lifting the entire left front of the van a
foot off the platform by the drivers door, subsequently bending the hinges so
the door wouldnt close....)

chris