Date:         Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:47:36 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: everybody knows them to be high maintenance
Comments: To: hradek@YAHOO.COM
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(Stan)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 any vehicle
for 170,000 miles.
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(Gary) These vans are in  excess of 10 years old with 100-200k miles.   A
truck of similar 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.
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(Stan) Gary:
DuH! ? I may have dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and be an old fart
but I just said the same thing.
My Westy has well over 330,000 miles on it.
About 185K of those are mine.
I have no gripes about the maintenance cost.
Every dollar I spent was because I wanted to keep the van, it has never
left me stranded. Much of the money went to NEW, NEW, NEW parts that
showed no signs of failing. I just wanted to do the restoration by
replacing any moving part that I might question at 145 to 300K miles.

Stan Wilder

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