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hmmm thanks Titus, I have an aftermarket alarm which i do not trust, it does have central locking, not sure if it is factory or not. I will try locking/unlocking with alarm immobiliser & see what happens

James, many thanks, will do as soon as I can escape from behind this desk!

Hi to all

On my late 87 Multivan, the rear door unlocks OK, but when you push the button in to 'pop' it, nothing happens. Any clues on how to tackle this?

Thanks for the advice, it's all done now, the tricky bit for me was working out how to access the various holes in the top of the tank once it was up there. In the end I used longer breather pipes and cut them to length once it was up. A trolley jack on the tank supports helped. You CAN get your han...

OK, so i was lucky in that some previous owner had bought her a nice new tank (This is my 81 Panel Van) but getting it back on seems to be tricky. My difficulties stem from trying to get the breather pipe back into it's mounting bracket on the van floor. If you route it over the main heat pipe to th...

Thanks BOB, that makes sense, mine has a lambda probe, so it looks like an MV

Thanks again guys, my one was originally supplied to the USA in late 87, so I guess it's probably an MV? No cat on it though, but it coukd have lost that in later life. I guess that the way to tell is that if it is Digifant it is an MV, Digijet it is a DJ? So how do I tell these apart? It looks just...

@ Ian Hulley thanks for the advice my friend! @ toomanytoys , ditto, and thanks for the explanation. The 'crank clearancing thimg' was what made me a little suspiscious in the first place, based on 30 years of tinkering with motorcycles! Is there a major difference between the MV/DJ/SS engine codes?...

So I have just bought an 87 Vanagon GL Multivan to add to my 81 Aircooled panel van. It runs pretty well, has minimal rust as it's a US import via Lithuania (still on LT plates). Now the chap I bought it from (a Lebanese dentist with a Lithuanian wife living near Aberystwyth - what a wonderfully cos...