Sliding Door Curtain, Elastic in bottom or not?

[1971BugGuy]

My 1986 Weekender sliding door curtain retainers with elastic (replaced) and original plastic loops:

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1971 Super Beetle
1986 Vanagon Westfalia Weekender

[DAIZEE]

My 84 Westfalia GL Wolsburg Edition had the original in good condition curtains with that plastic loop, elastic hem and loop recipient.
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83.5 Vanagon L Riviera Model with 98 1.9L TD AAZ 4 speed Daily Driver 3 out of 4 seasons (sold)
84 Vanagon GL Wolfsburg Westy WBX 4 speed (sold)

[madspaniard]

[BoneMachine]

[Terry Kay]

<<Same here. T.K., you must have Chinese knockoff versions of the Westy>>

X-3

<< you also did not have and had never seen those stock little grey rubber bumpers in the stove lid that are supposed to eliminate rattling noise.>>

X-3 that own, plus a bunch that I have personnaly seen--looked at & touched.

The midwest must have been shiped them all them outsourced Vanagon Campmobiles--From Bangladesh, or Cassablaca maybe.
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T.K.

[1971BugGuy]

[cris torlasco]

Don't mind TK, the years go by and the guy doesn't change. Stating the rings are not original, Weekenders are not Westfalias, and pretending to have more knowledge than Wikipedia, suuurre...

Every single Vanagon Westfalia I've owned and seen had these rings and elastic in the sliding door curtain. The amount of documented cases in this thread proves that they were in fact an original set up. This doesn't mean that some might have not come like that from factory, for reasons that I don't know.

It would be so much better to say something like "Are these original? I had never seen them before", instead of coming down with a strong, uneducated statement mentioning that they are not original, no way, someone MUST have put them there!

I have been looking for the correct replacements for the plastic rings for a while, with no luck. I will try what was mentioned on page 1 of this thread. I had also thought about the key ring idea, sounds like it would work just fine.

Cris

[kamzcab86]

[cris torlasco]

[stampeed]

I'm in the middle of making my own curtains I found this web site helpful
http://www.vanagonwiki.net/wiki/Westy_curtains
And I don't have time to read all the posted before me so I hope I'm not repeating someone...
And if you have a 1980 the curtains are different then in the diagrams dew to the style of cutains all round
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[Timwhy]

[an86carrera]

As i said before in this thread, I have the rings. Mine attach to the B and C pillars not to door at all.

What other curtain hanging methods are there since I am making new curtains right now, I think I would rather have them attached to the door since I want them closed most of the time to keep heat out of the van. If I hang them similarly to the rear door will they interfere with opening the slider?
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[GreenMachineVW]

[Ahwahnee]

[AdrianC]

Or there's always the real low-rent approach. Our elastic just has little loops tied in the ends... I've untied 'em and tied 'em a bit tighter a couple of times - the elastic's nearing the end of it's days, and seems to have more stretch than return.
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[Terry Kay]

Spanband was the original mfg. of the Campmobile curtain lower tie backs--


VW pt. # 255 070 405 B, #255 070 405 C, #255 070 405 D ( for the sliding door.)
No elastic, no hog rings, no posts.
Cables.
They were and are in my 3 campmobiles.

I don't know where you guys came up with the outsourced stuff---

Maybe VW of Budabest perhaps.
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T.K.

[AdrianC]

Strange how the B and C pillar posts for our sliding door elastic are EXACTLY the same as those in the other pics. When we bought this van, it was still on German plates. Sure, the plastic rings have gone AWOL over the years, but...
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Living life on the road in an '88 2.1DJ Westfalia Club Joker Hightop.
www.WhereverTheRoadGoes.com

[DAIZEE]

Sounds like various Vanagon outfitters did things their own way. After all Vanagon is just the mfg vehicle bare as is. Campmobile, Westfalia, Country Homes, ASI (Riviera), etc... might have done things different and even different years may have made a decision.

This conversation isn't really going anywhere is it? Everyone is correct, everyone has/had what they've reported. There were differences for sure has been established
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'09 2.5L Jetta 5 cylinder, 5 spd, super turbo, see thread in H2O Cooled Jetta, etc...
83.5 Vanagon L Riviera Model with 98 1.9L TD AAZ 4 speed Daily Driver 3 out of 4 seasons (sold)
84 Vanagon GL Wolfsburg Westy WBX 4 speed (sold)

[kamzcab86]

[GreenMachineVW]

Just look at the dude's "campmobile" in his avatar ... He really needs one of THESE tests ...