In a message dated 2/21/01 11:19:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET writes: << Let's see now... 159,950 miles on the Caravelle (with new heads at 98K, nothing else though) 113,000 on the Westy with original heads 202,000 on the '81 rabbit diesel, no major repairs; that totals, just about 475,000 miles for the German watercooled junk. >> I'm running 170K on the 83.5 Westy (All original parts to my knowledge [except for tune up crap of course]) and 140K on the 85 Jetta. (Although that one I don't trust, has a '92 engine in it. It could be right though. Never know) --Paul-- |
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