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, 07:07 PM
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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 |
It is a five piece set. Dealer will sell you each piece separate.
Fairly easy to get, but not cheap. http://www.busdepot.com/2540 |
Tom_T |
Dec 13 2012, 07:36 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 |
It is a five piece set. Dealer will sell you each piece separate. Fairly easy to get, but not cheap. http://www.busdepot.com/2540 Nope - dealers don't sell those even in 5 separate pieces - they're long NLA, as I've already checked with Commonwealth VW, etc. & Van Cafe, GoWesty & Bus Depot could have gotten them from the VW network if they were still available. I asked them all around this Summer. And I've already got one of those Bus Depot fakes sitting in my living room! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) It is not OEM - it's a German aftermarket look-alike made by Westfalia Werke (an OEM supplier, but not the correct OE air dam), it's 3 pieces, and it's made from a hard plastic resin - not flexible like the OE ones, so it will crack/break/shatter on the first good scrape or hit! ... and Vanagons do tend to bottom out & scrape going over our SoCal street cross gutters & driveway aprons/gutters! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) This listing is very misleading by Bus Depot! When asked, they claim it is the Euro version, but apparently the Euro Vanagons/Westies never came with air dams, so Westfalia made this as a cheaper aftermarket add-on that dealers etc. could sell to Germans/Euro-landers who want the air dam look! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Thanx anyway for trying anyway! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) PS - Mark - that's the one that I was mentioning, which people will be RE-buying every year or two, depending on how soon they bugger it up. Whereas the flexible OE type will flex & may get scrape marks & cracks at the lower lip in the L & R corners - but won't break apart, like this Bus Depot POS will do! |
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