WTB / NPC - Looking for a Nice Vanagon Front Air Dam, I know many here have Westies/Vanos! |
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WTB / NPC - Looking for a Nice Vanagon Front Air Dam, I know many here have Westies/Vanos! |
Tom_T |
Dec 11 2012, 07:44 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
Okay - I know it's a long shot - but I'm trying to find a very nice used or NOS VW Vanagon / Westy front Air Dam to finish up the resto of our `88 Westy.
These are now NLA & excellent condition ones are as rare as hens' teeth to find today (help Mikey!?), and Bus Depot sells a non-OE aftermarket resin one made by Westfalia - despite their online catalog listing it as OEM - it's not, as I found out $200 later! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) - which will just crack &/or splinter into a gazillion pieces on the first hit or scrape! OE ones were apparently only on USA & Canada market Vanagons from 1988-91 on the FG Bumper Vanagons, and are made in 5 sections - L & R side, L & R front & center front joiner pieces - & made out of a flexible black poly-something pebble-finish material. Finding this part is driving me crazy for the past several months of fruitless searching!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) I know a lot of folks on here have Westies & Vanagons of various flavors, and maybe you've pulled off your OE flexible Air Dam to give yours a more off-roadie look or to add those hulking steel bumpers???? If you have anything, please send me some hi-rez pix & your price. I don't want anything with the usual torn front corners that most have, as shown on ours in the pix below. This is what I need to replace on our Westy - . But without the cracks, tweaks & damage at the L & R front corners shown below - . Anyone???? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) |
pete000 |
Dec 13 2012, 12:46 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,885 Joined: 23-August 10 From: Bradenton Florida Member No.: 12,094 Region Association: South East States |
I get them from Van Cafe. Not cheap but they usually have them.
Mine, not a Westy, but a Vanagon for sure... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Attached image(s) |
Tom_T |
Dec 13 2012, 07:31 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
I get them from Van Cafe. Not cheap but they usually have them. Mine, not a Westy, but a Vanagon for sure... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Sweet Vanagon Pete! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif) I've been talking with Peter at Van Cafe since Spring & he doesn't have them. I did get his last FG front bumper though for this accident repair & resto. Here's a couple of pix of our Westy from May before the resto/repair/repaint, & the front view shows both the chip touch-up I'd started last Spring (white spots on front/etc.), as well as the LF corner damage where my wife got clipped that made this into a full repaint/rolling resto project - moving her Westy in front of my 914's resto ...... again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) . (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon_bump.gif) Anyone with a nice front air dam??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) |
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