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Want to buy something? / Wanted: replacement door steps / sills, for 2002 EV Weekender

« on: August 30, 2016, 08:07:21 pm »

The sliding door step on our 2002 Weekender is discolored with the white spots they get, and also has had some ugly yellow glue spilled on it which apparently isn't coming off anytime soon.

I'd like to replace that sill with something black, and recall having read that some of the earlier Eurovans (maybe 1997-2000?) have black sills there plus also on the front doors, all of which can fit on the newer Weekenders. Is that accurate? Would like to get my hands either just a replacement sliding door sill, or all three. Prefer black, but could live with grey.

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Westfalia / Interior paint/dye

« on: June 23, 2016, 02:29:45 am »

Any recommendations for interior "rattle can" paint/dye(s), that near-perfectly match the various grey plastic parts in 2000-2003 MV Weekenders? Needing some for my prototyping experiments, and having difficulty finding a dead-on color match. (I've got quite a collection of these spray cans now...  )

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Westfalia / Free Rear Bench Seat Doors!

« on: June 10, 2016, 08:45:27 pm »

I'm working on designing a modified replacement bench seat access door (I do a lot of product development work in my day job, so this is my idea of fun ). The intent is produce somewhere between a few dozen and a few hundred units as an initial short production run. We'll see where it goes from there. It seems many people are missing these, and there is currently no place to get them.

These are the doors I'm referring to:


The easiest way to get this project rolling would be if I could get one that has a like-new face to start from. My plan is to revise the back (I think the OEM back is ugly, and, much worse, the tabs always break) but keep the face fairly close to OEM. Both of the access doors in our Weekender are too scuffed up to be usable for this approach, so I'm trying to find one that's in good cosmetic shape (on its face side).

Do you have ONE with a clean, like-new face? Maybe you have one good one, but need second one?

Or, maybe you have one that looks fine on the face, but has broken tabs, and is thus unusable? (That would work fine for what I need.)

Here's my proposition: send me your access door that has a like-new face (I'll even BUY if off you if you want), and I'll send you TWO of the finished replacement units for free, once I'm done.

Had an offer from someone who said they'd send me one, but they've gone dark for some reason. I'm eager to get started, so am putting this out there in hopes of finding a donor panel to work from.

Please PM if this is something you'd like to help with.

Thanks!

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Interior! / Removing side screens

« on: June 08, 2016, 01:31:10 pm »

I'm getting the windows tinted on our Weekender tomorrow, and will be removing the curtains and side screens later this evening just to get them out of the way. Is there any special trick to removing the side screens? (sliding door and opposite side window)... or do you just pry them out?