Date:         Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:12:04 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: What dumb thing do you repeatedly do with your Vanagon?
Comments: To: OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
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Well, I drive my '91 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile on several thousand mile jaunts around the country, including travel to back country locations on roads while on those trips (in those cases maybe a a few tens of miles at most, of course) that Forest Service, NPS, and BLM recommend for 4-wheel drive.  Usually,  I find that the recommendation probably should have simply been high clearance.  I have sense enough to turn around when I'm stymied, of course.

If by anything exciting you mean serious mechanical problems, well, I try to keep up, but of course these vehicles are old.  I've had nothing that could not be dealt with, and once I've gotten more comfortable with the vehicle, I haven't had much to deal with.  mcneely

---- OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>                 Mark
>
>         I'm guessing that might depend on where you are driving from & back
> to & of course,
>
> the overall condition of TheBus.
>
>                                                         ORR ~ DeanB
>
>
> On 28 Sep , 2012, at 6:13 AM, george jannini wrote:
>
> >   Dumbest thing?  Hard to say, but I managed to lose two gas caps on
> > the
> > same trip!  First was gassing up, removed key and left cap on pump
> > and went
> > inside store (yeah, I know)  Had to pee.  Really really had to pee.
> > Replacement cap fell off somewhere...aftermarket cap sucks, locator
> > "nose"
> > not as long as original, nor is it tapered.
> >
> >   But the dumbest thing, I guess, is driving the bus to New England
> > and
> > back, expecting that nothing exciting is gonna happen.
> >
> >   Right, Mark Dearing?
> >
> > Geo/ATL

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David McNeely