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Sheldon H. Winick
Rick,
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That's a great idea. I'd be willing to burn some CD's for others in return for one of the CD's if the CD covers the '97 model parts (the original post didn't specify which model years are covered by the CD). A distribution tree would be a very logical way to distribute copies among members of this group. I should think it would be a handy reference to have for EV owners. Sheldon '97 EVC ----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Gordon To: ev_update@... Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:18 AM Subject: Re: [ev_update] Re: VW Parts CD Perhaps we can setup a distribution tree? Those of us with access to CD burners burn a few copies for distribution to a few others? It's been working great for music for years, and I'll bet enough of us have burner access that everyone else doesn't have to deal with a 300MB download. Blanks and postage would be the only charge of course. (Or I'll just wait until I get back into the office and use the big pipe there!) Wow! This thing works! You download the file, decompress it using the Winimage program, and then burn a CD from the resulting directory of files. (I burned my CD on a Mac, even though it's a PC disk. Just make sure you burn an ISO disk.) Then, you use the CD to install the program to your PC just like any other program and viola!, you have the SAME screen on your PC that the VW dealer's parts counter guy has. This is just too cool. Now you can get ALL the part numbers, and all the exploded diagrams. True, the 1280x1024 resolution is a hassle, but you can zoom when necessary. This works. No more looking for microfiche on eBay. Mike '93 EVC Cincinnati ---------- From: seangar@... To: ev_update@... Subject: [ev_update] Re: VW Parts CD Date: Mon, May 22, 2000, 4:41 PM I belong to the vanagon group too and have downloaded this CD. BE FOREWARNED... it requires 1280 resolution on your monitor and is in iso format (Adaptec CDR). You can download winimage from the same site and extract it (with winimage, once downloaded) and then burn it to CD. I had varied success getting it to work but eventually got it to work. It takes some tinkering with if your running NT. 95/98 ran it ok but I did experience some problems. It might work just fine for you and it might not and require some tinkering time. If you download one of the FTP programs they will resume the downloading if you get cut off while downloading. That is the best way to go. there is little documentation supporting the use of all the methods and programs involved in this process. You should be fairly competent in using the PC. I do not recomend using the iso format to burn it to CD. SeanG 95 EVC 80 Westy --- In ev_update@..., "RocknRolz" <RocknRolz@e...> wrote: howstuffworks.comI found the following info on the German T4 Forum.I have not tried it and don't know if it works. According to the post it is possible to download the VW parts CD for the US market. One post claims it is 300MB and took 8 hours to download. It is all in English. check the German site again.
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