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Date:         Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:49:09 -0400
Reply-To:     Alain Pierre Hovasse <aphovasse@HOME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alain Pierre Hovasse <aphovasse@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: reliability of Vanagon automatic transmission ?
Comments: To: k1cajun@PIPELINE.COM
In-Reply-To:  <Springmail.105.969377616.0.33053300@www.springmail.com>
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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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