W1K1
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- Year of Your Van(s)
- 1971
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- Westfalia camper
I bought one of these steering couplers last year because they are advertised as just like the German OEM, well they are not
I've been driving my bus for a month now and the steering has felt mushy, and you can feel the give when cranking on the wheel when stationary
I ended up ordering a Lares 209 coupler and changing it out this weekend, it its the original cloth embedded stiff rubber coupler. The steering is much more solid feeling. And the C&C coupler after being in the bus and driving for a month, you can fold it over with 3 fingers, that's how soft it is.
the Lares 209 is a different beast all together
so i figured the C&C coupler was never going to get used again so chop chop, lets see what's inside.
they try to fool you into thinking there is cloth reenforcement in it by throwing a couple strings in it :roll:
again it's this one :
C33-S02300 - GERMAN QUALITY FROM C&C U.K. - STEER BOX COUPLER - BUS 68-79 - REF.# - 211415417 - 211-415-417
I've been driving my bus for a month now and the steering has felt mushy, and you can feel the give when cranking on the wheel when stationary
I ended up ordering a Lares 209 coupler and changing it out this weekend, it its the original cloth embedded stiff rubber coupler. The steering is much more solid feeling. And the C&C coupler after being in the bus and driving for a month, you can fold it over with 3 fingers, that's how soft it is.
the Lares 209 is a different beast all together
![2281163.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/672/67220d94d2acb1924336f1c3d8ef3899.jpg)
so i figured the C&C coupler was never going to get used again so chop chop, lets see what's inside.
they try to fool you into thinking there is cloth reenforcement in it by throwing a couple strings in it :roll:
again it's this one :
C33-S02300 - GERMAN QUALITY FROM C&C U.K. - STEER BOX COUPLER - BUS 68-79 - REF.# - 211415417 - 211-415-417
![2513224.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/cdb/cdbd8845bada72aeb5ef6bdb6f250645.jpg)
![2513223.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/c9a/c9af8f00d924b5065787b49cbbf7aa04.jpg)