My two bits on this is that I've had two wagons both with automatics, one 84 and my current 86, have driven them both a lot a lot of miles and never ever had a problem. I'm no mechanic but I think they're built like tanks. Alain PIerre 86 Westy Toronto on 9/19/00 11:33 AM, Dave L at k1cajun@PIPELINE.COM wrote: > I've got an appointment to look at an 88 Vanagon with an automatic > transmission tonight. It's got 83,000 miles on the chassis, about > half of that on a VW remanufactured engine which the owner says was > installed at the dealer's cost since service work the dealer did > caused the first engine to "blow". > > So I wonder what is the overall reliability of the automatic > transmission in Vanagons. Do they have any known faults, or are they > fine as long as they are properly maintained ? How does a Vanagon > with A/T perform - as well, or poorer than with stickshift ? |
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