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mandraks
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| GTV wrote: |
That's mysterious.
What does the stamped 13 signify? |
maybe it is a replacement mcode plate? KD for kundendienst?
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fig
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 7:37 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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This very rare bus just turned up in South Africa. Here's a chance for all the M-code geeks to decipher and discuss what we see here:
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:30 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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This very rare bus just turned up in South Africa. Here's a chance for all the M-code geeks to decipher and discuss what we see here:
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RHD '63 SO-22 Westy in Mouse Grey / Pearl White
Very cool!
K22 - SO-22 with all the stuff
G22 with large tent awning, roof bunks, folding table for side door, chemical toilet, electric hanging light and cable/plug/socket, 3 10-litre water canisters, washing bowl (mauser)
168 - 88 ampere/hour battery
196 - Asymmetric headlamps for RHD
543 - No seats in passenger area
What does roof bunks mean?
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Malokin Martin
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:35 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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Something like this?
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fig
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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| fig wrote: |
This very rare bus just turned up in South Africa. Here's a chance for all the M-code geeks to decipher and discuss what we see here:
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RHD '63 SO-22 Westy in Mouse Grey / Pearl White
Very cool!
K22 - SO-22 with all the stuff
G22 with large tent awning, roof bunks, folding table for side door, chemical toilet, electric hanging light and cable/plug/socket, 3 10-litre water canisters, washing bowl (mauser)
168 - 88 ampere/hour battery
196 - Asymmetric headlamps for RHD
543 - No seats in passenger area
What does roof bunks mean? |
You got everything except that it's also a Microbus. Roof bunks must refer to the fact that it also has a Dormobile roof! I wonder how many of this configuration there are out there.
The bus is quite rusty and is missing all the loose fancy bits like toilet bucket and hanging light, but all the cabinets are there and it still has very rough original paint.
The new owner knows what he has and hopefully he will be able to give it the restoration it deserves.
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fig
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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brangus
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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Hi,
Does anyone have an idea on what unknown m-codes are?
I've got a few on mine; 008 012 085
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vwmike
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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Here's mine from my 59 Camping box.
Dec 8 1958 build date. (High tail lights/slash bumpers)
18 unknown
32 primer paint, without seats(or locking gas door?)
43 Swiss preparation
90 safety glass windshield
178 rpm limiter
SD - Sweden south
233 - left cargo doors, left hand drive
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mandraks
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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Doormobile roof is just about the best thing that can happen to a camper! congrats. Oh, don't try to actually get in the bunk beds! they are NOT for adults. they are for storing suff while you are camping. 
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fig
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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| Oh, don't try to actually get in the bunk beds! they are NOT for adults. they are for storing suff while you are camping. |
I guess that's the case for very big volks. The Dormobile roof bunks are not early bay westy bunks. They are 6ft long and wider. While they are best for kids, an adult can sleep comfortably in them. I'm 6ft and I've slept soundly in the roof bunks of my 63 Martin Walter Dormobile, as has a friend of mine who is taller than me. But the regular occupants of those 2 bunks were my daughters.
When it's just my wife and I in the Dormo, we open one of the bunks for storage. With both bunks unfolded there's not a lot of space between them.
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brangus
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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| brangus wrote: |
Hi,
Does anyone have an idea on what unknown m-codes are?
I've got a few on mine; 008 012 085
Thanks! |
Not me, they are unknown.
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A 66 Kombi from South Africa, soon to be in Australia 
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fig
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:59 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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Found this last Sept. SK 605A Not a known color, looks Sand Green? Driver door has been changed.
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544 - "Kundendienstwerkstatt", (i.e. "service room", special place for conversions made by Volkswagen itself).
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mandraks
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:38 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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| mandraks wrote: |
| Oh, don't try to actually get in the bunk beds! they are NOT for adults. they are for storing suff while you are camping. |
I guess that's the case for very big volks. The Dormobile roof bunks are not early bay westy bunks. They are 6ft long and wider. While they are best for kids, an adult can sleep comfortably in them. I'm 6ft and I've slept soundly in the roof bunks of my 63 Martin Walter Dormobile, as has a friend of mine who is taller than me. But the regular occupants of those 2 bunks were my daughters.
When it's just my wife and I in the Dormo, we open one of the bunks for storage. With both bunks unfolded there's not a lot of space between them. |
you are a braver man than i was. while i could get into the beds in my dormy, it felt more like being on a park bench, not comfy in any way, and i was only 145 pounds back then. and, yes, my beds were like never used when i got it.
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henk
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:30 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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Hallo,
My M-code plate is missing but i just recived the birth certificate that i ordered.
Everything is quite clear on it exept for 2 codes.
First: 043 wich is according to the list here on the forum
Preparation for swiss license requirements.
Anybody who can tell me whatb this just means.
And i seems strange as the van was delivered new in los angles.
The second one is: 733 on the forum here it says it has been seen on a '65 panel deliverd to germany.
Mine is a '65 panel as well but deliverd to the USA.
Could it be that destination changed after it was done?
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Dubskii
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:37 am Post subject: Re: M-code envy |
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After nine months and several emails I finally received my Kombi's birth certificate. Pretty cool! My bus was built a few days from my birthday (day and month, not year). I kind of expected that but was hoping that is ended up on my actual birth day.
Couple things.
1) M 018 - Hazard light installation code? Are these flashers????
2) M 086 and M 145 code ideas?
3) Are most of these codes fairly standard for an early Kombi?
Posted on my build thread as well.
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