Micah

Folks,

Could those of you with OE spare tire compressors pls post pics? I'm wanting to see how the styles changed over the years. I'm aware that this fellow is one of the newer ones:

<img src="http://ebay1.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_c5fe46a75c5a3a3c9ab72559a976786c/i-1.JPG" alt=" - " />

But the one I have is a completely different design - the same as the one shown here on the seat of Todd's 83.

<img src="http://members.rennlist.com/tholyoak/int02.JPG" alt=" - " />

What I'm wondering is if compressors were dealer added (a la floor mats) and if so, if they varied from dealer to dealer or year to year.

Yes, it's ****. Yes, I'm still curious.

<img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Micah

Rich Sandor

My guess is all the compressors came standard with the car. After all, what good is the space saver tyre is you can't inflate it when you need it?!?!?!

7thStranger

Mine doesn't look like either one of those.
It came in the 87S.

Micah

I agree that they had to come standard - but I'm wondering if it was dealer-added (and therefore varied) because I've seen so many different ones.

Micah

M758

I have seen both. It looks like the first one came in the later cars and the second came in the older cars.

Of course finding a used 944 with factory compressor is really rare find. Most seemingly have "walked off" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

Micah

My 85.5 came with the earlier style; this is one of the reasons I believe it was dealer added - dealers simply had older style compressors still in stock and added them when the cars were prepped.

BTW, the older style was made in Canada!

Micah

Ken D

My 85.5 came with the later style as in the first picture, and my car was a January 85 production model (very early 85.5). It has the later style dash & the aluminum suspension goodies, but it has a unique DME and a few other odd things like that.
Given that Micah's 85.5 has the early style compressor it would seem that it was likely dealer added & limited to whatever they had in stock. I can't imagine the VW assembly line guys throwing compressors into the trunks, but who knows.....

UDPride

Here's mine out of an 86 951:

<img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~chrisrieman/images/944t/pump-and-manual-web.jpg" alt=" - " />

The previous owner didnt even know it existed. It was wedged in the back right wheel well under the trunk carpet. I doubt even the original owner new it was there. The thing is in mint condition as I dont think it had ever seen light before I yanked it outta there.

nixwiz

Apparently, the compressor is optional factory equipment. Reading from the COA for my '84 it lists under optional equipment "Without Compressor and Tire Pressure Gauge".

Wachuko

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Micah Jones:
<strong>Folks,

Could those of you with OE spare tire compressors pls post pics? I'm wanting to see how the styles changed over the years. I'm aware that this fellow is one of the newer ones:

<img src="http://ebay1.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_c5fe46a75c5a3a3c9ab72559a976786c/i-1.JPG" alt=" - " />

What I'm wondering is if compressors were dealer added (a la floor mats) and if so, if they varied from dealer to dealer or year to year.

Yes, it's ****. Yes, I'm still curious.

<img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Micah</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">That is the same one that I have in both cars...

Randy_J

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> have the first "black" one in my 99 TurboS amd the "grey" one in my son's 85.5 NA <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />