VANAGON archives -- October 2008, week 5 (#100)

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:21:47 -0700 Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> Subject: Re: [WetWesties] well this was a new one on me .. maybe old hat maybe the way it is Comments: To: all listees <wetwesties@yahoogroups.com>, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Sounds weird to me Roger. the first thing I'd go for is *getting the part number* ! Often when I get a VW parts person to look up a part...........even if I'm not going to buy it because it's too expensive or whatever...... I'll ask them for the part #. Then, as I ask other dealers about that part........I just give 'em the number........and they can tell me price and availability. I'll tell you who's really good........... Guildford Motors in Surry BC. I have been dealing with them for about 20 years.........the absolute sharpest parts people I've ever found ( no problems with 'our' Rennie though, of course ) . Most VW dealer parts depts. are kinda lame, sorry to say. My local one is a joke pretty much in the parts dept. I have to go down there and help them look up most things.

also.....you say 'vw dealer' .........yet a part on an injection pump sounds like a Bosch part to me..........which is a whole other world, one I don't know that much about ...........where to get individual Bosch parts.........though I'm sure they're available at the right places online. I even have a fine running injection pump that just needs some new seals. Guess I'll be working on getting those small parts one of these days.

but .........when you get a parts person to look up a part........always ask them for the part number too...........that piece of info can be very useful. hope you get 'er fixed .

hey ......price of fuel is WAY down ! Is yours ? Locally for regular we're down to $ 2,75 to 2.89 US per US gallon. from a high in the 4 dollar area not that many months ago. I think I saw diesel at $ 3.65 US per US gallon, still pretty high. Everyone thinks it's due to our elections about to happen.............they make the gas price low to keep people happy for a while..........they figure 'they'll' jack the price right back up. Are you guys in Canada seeing these same low prices now, or are you going down to Bellingham to fill up ? Scott www.turbovans.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Whittaker To: Vanagon ; all listees Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:28 PM Subject: [WetWesties] well this was a new one on me .. maybe old hat maybe the way it is

dear vanagoners

our westie has a fuel enrichment actuator on the diesel pump a few weeks ago the T part broke off .. so this week in victoria bc i stopped at a vw specality repair shop the yard was cluttered with many junked westies and other vanagon / bays and etc the guy who ran the shop knew immediately-- what part i sought -- he called the local vw dealer to check availability-- really i stopped there cause i thought it would exist in the parts pile --

he talked for some timer on the phone then said -- i had to go to the vw dealer and present my F1 import form before i could access parts through the dealer especially if my vehicle was zzz in the vin --- i laughed ... we are third owner ... although we have a large quaity of OEM paper work ... i am unsure if this elusive form 1 is part of it ... so whats the scoop ... has any other canadian who has imported a vanagon from europe heard of this ... thanks for imput ... yours -- roger w There are two kinds of jobs in the world: Picking up garbage and telling people things. Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw) ---------------------------------------------------------- Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/ View the growing list of video work at: http://revver.com/find/video/?query=LastonLastof&search_on=owners and ... older work at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7135104650374818257 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3259745150182742364

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