> << Apparently VWoA did a very > poor job of training their technicians in Vanagon technology and > consequently today guesswork is wide-spread. >> > > Or, perhaps the ones that were trained have long since retired. as far as i've been able to tell, it was the dealers who did an extremely poor job of supporting the Vanagon and its owners ... they basically ignored it in favor of the better-selling rabbits and sciroccos and jettas and quantums and passats. i think very very few dealers ever bothered to train any of their technicians/mechanics on the vanagons. whether this was encouraged by VWoA, i don't know ... but it certainly seems to have been tolerated, which is bad enough .. and it all started about when VWoA moved from New Jersey to Detroit and started hiring ex-GM employees. :( joel |
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