I am not picking on my friend Larry and he had a great trip breakdowns and all. I am all for fixing what is known to be bad before a big trip. It just seems that we can go too far in trying to head off problems that may never crop up. Buy a van that has been seeing regular use, check it out for a while, fix those problems that are discovered. You are right that rebuilt engines don't often live as long as the original. Same goes for the trannys. A couple years ago I had one of my 2wd trannys rebuilt as a precaution in a Westy I planned to take some very long trips in. Big mistake. I have never before had a VW tranny turn to rubble while I was driving but the rebuilt one did just that on a big trip. That was after it had been fixed under warranty once already. After that I junked the tranny and put a used one in. No problems with that one. Mark Benoit wrote: > """why not just limp the original until it died?""" > I agree... i guess he was scared... or in need of a new gadget engine > (he he he Larry)...but what he told me made sense, a bit more power > because of it's heavy load... Let's not forget one thing, this engine > deal look pretty good. > Now, we know one thing, in general, VW rebuilt engine are crap in > general...they simply don't last... most people and customer i know > don't have more than 30 to 40 k miles before a major overall!!!!!!!! > > So, in that sense, VW west are Junk, not the van but the engine side > of it!!!! > We are way far of a very reliable Honda engine that will do way more > than 200k miles on a engine without any major maintenance!!!!!!!!!!! I > work on both company all day long...VW is wat far from Honda technology. > > """Why did he get all new ones? Then a couple thousand miles later he > has a failure.""" > It is call prevention, for some, it's a must, fot others, it is not a > need...now, who are we to judge what degree of prevention is good for > one...and for others??????????????? I agree on some stuff.... Maybe he > went to far as for prevention...but i am not the one to judge!!! > > """These folks were going to the tip of South America and back in a > group of VW vans."""" > I met them, a least 1 of those folks...one is in Orlando! Keeth. His > trip was not about a van....but about a trip! > > I think there is aminimum that can be done before a big trip like > that.... .................. |
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