They will last for ever if your not in a hurry. If you drive fast forget it. They are underpowered but last upwards to 500,000 miles in a car but the vanagon are a different story. However on the other hand if/when it blows you have the special parts needed to convert to a regular vw inline 4. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julio T" <firstdefence@YAHOO.CA> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 1:40 PM Subject: Diesel Westfalia
> Hi Everyone, I am going to be going to look at a 1982 > diesel westfalia for sale, is their anything that I > should look out for with a diesel. Are they reliable, > or should I stay away from that model. opinions > please. > > Julio > > P.S. the owner is asking $7500 cdn does this sound right. > > _______________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca > |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.