Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:21:09 -0800
Reply-To: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: everybody knows them to be high maintenance
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Stan and Doug,
I have to disagree about your accessment
of the maintenance. If you compare this vehicle to
any of equavalent size I would guess the cost of
maintenance to be about the same. These vans are in
excess of 10 years old with 100-200k miles. A truck
of similiar years and miles will have the same sort of
costs. Sure it cost more to maintain than a honda
civic but the civic is not equipped with a stove,
fridge, sink and bed. With the single exception of
the cooling system, the headgaskets. The van is
cheap to maintain as most of the work can be done by
old dumb farts. Maybe your paying your old dumb fart
too much. Gary
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:16:28 -0600
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Buying Vehicles off E-bay Re: The Story
Of The eBay Westy
I've never sold a Vanagon or VW of any type to anyone
that hasn't owned
VWs, Busses or Vanagons before.
If someone wants to buy one of my Westies, Busses or
other VWs that has
never owned one before I don't consider them a
potential buyer.
We aren't fooling anybody with these vans, everybody
knows them to be
high maintenance and potentially self destruct under
certain abuse
environments.
If my 83 Westy didn't have the camping gear I'd have
dumped it long
ago.
It is just the unique quality of the Westy that makes
it a desirable
vehicle to me .............. just get in and go.
I've invested about $6000.00 in my 83 Westy over eight
years and
consider
that to be about what I'd have spent on maintaining
and vehicle for
170,000 miles.
Stan Wilder
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:14:20 -0500 "Doug Alcock"
<doug.alcock@hewitt.com>
writes:
Hi Stan,
You wrote:
>>I'll be the first one to tell a potential buyer that
it is common to
>>spend the purchase price again on maintenance and
repairs within a
year.
>>since almost everybody I know has invested twice the
resale
>>value in their vans within a couple of years.
All too true in my case --- and probably other folks
as well. It's just
a
bit of a shock to see it so baldly stated.
Cheers,
Doug
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