Must be the extra ponnies of the 2.1L blowing it up. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of John Rodgers Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:25 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: transmission life expectancy? My 85 GL with manual tranny and 1.9L WBX got 205,000 miles on it and never a transmission problem. On the other hand, my 88 GL now has about 120,000 and I have been in the tranny twice. Go figure. I never had but two problems ever with my 85 GL.....I had to replace the power steering rack right after I bought it.... and it lasted until I sold the van. And I blew a water pump right at 200,000 miles. But this 88 GL....Geez!! The short of it is I have had the whole gamut of problems, each one a new one to me, except for the tranny, which was done twice. But now that I have gone trhough virtually everything, I don;t have any trouble with it at all if any. Niggling stuff mostly. Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Art McGinn wrote: > at one time, the vw transaxle was described as "bulletproof," capable of >100,000 miles and perhaps much more of reliable service before it needed >fixing or replacement. is this still true, or was it ever? i am looking at >the likely need for a replacement of a rebuild after only 27,000 miles -- >and extremely easy ones, at that -- and that seems like not much service >from that rebuild. anybody getting anything like 100,000 from an original or >rebuild vanagon transmission? while living in california, i am tempted to >go out-of-state to aa transmissions in seattle area in search of a quality >product. anybody had any experience with aa, particularly longevity of its >product (i assume they are very nice etc.). please respond to aa >transmission query by private email, ajmcginn@earthlink.net. thanks and >cheers, art mcginn, '82 westy, san fran > > > |
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