Date:         Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:45:05 -0500
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
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From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: transmission life expectancy?
Comments: To: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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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
>
>
>