Dave, I mean no offense here - but I cannot think of a better way to word this: I think that the experience you describe had a lot to do with the wording you chose when you were criticizing. I think that a lot of people had a hard time telling from some of your posts why you owned a Vanagon at all - and I only say that because your wording really made it look like you despised the thing. Just my .02 On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > Interesting. Seems there is an in crowd that can criticize the > dependability of Vanagons. Others of us, not a part of the in crowd, get > jumped whenever we point out the beasts difficulties. We usually are > accused of not practicing proper maintenance, which in my case at least is > definitely not true. Some can even criticize the dependability due to > inherent design flaws, and yet whenever one of the "out bunch" questions > reliability, those same ones will lay into that person and his or her > maintenance practices. Just sayin ............ . > > David Mc > > >
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