Date:         Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:33:45 -0800
Reply-To:     Fryday <fryday@CALIFORNIA.COM>
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From:         Fryday <fryday@CALIFORNIA.COM>
Subject:      Report on buslab boys, the story continues
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For those who rememeber, I bought my '87 westy from a couple of mechanics
 working out of a lrage storage space in Richmond Ca. Their little business is
 to buy vans, fixing them, and then selling them at a profit and including a 2
 months gentlemen's warranty.

So far, the story has been pretty good. Van running really well,
 interior/exterior looking great. Brought it over the first time for minor
 interior/exterior fixes (from the checklist on vanagon.com). They also offered
 to set up the hitch/lights if I got all the pieces together (I know, I know, I
 could do it myself, but I have little time :)). A week later, one of the
 distributor cables failed, so I brought it back and they fixed it in a minute.
 Last week, had another mechanic do another full check, and he found some
 soon-to-be-an-issue maintenance type of things, which I sent to the guys by
 e-mail. Bringing it to them again thursday for final fixes. More details after
 that.

My general impressions:

- They pretty do the work for you as far as finding good vans. There's no point
 for them in buying a van they'll have to do a lot of work on and then selling
 it.
- They will typically fix small stuff really quickly (slightly lower quality of
 work) and replace defective parts with other used parts (probably the reason
 for the defective distributor cable)
- They are all around cool guys and seem to know what they are talking about
- Their prices are not low, but you buy a lot of peace of mind in the process.

Anyway, anyone interested in getting in touch with them, send me a p-mail.

A bientot,

Philippe