> I think all Eurovans are an expensive disaster waiting to happen. They are > essentially orphaned by VW, and they just want them to disappear into the recycling > yards. You'll be able to get expensive VW OEM parts for it (your primary source for > engine and transmission parts) only as long as VW chooses to make them.
In my opinion Stuart is overstating this a bit. While a commercial flop in the U.S., the T4 (Eurovan) was popular in Europe and you still see them absolutely everywhere. That means that there is enough global demand to keep parts in production for quite a long time. The problem is that the large U.S. auto parts distributors don't bother importing many of them due to the small market share here, so we have to import them from Europe. We carry a large selection of OEM parts (Bosch, Sachs, Ate, etc.) for Eurovans for far less than dealer prices. We can get tens of thousands of additional Eurovan/T4 parts special-order from Europe on request, as we have close ties to wholesalers there that do a lot of T4 business. Of course the lead times can be long for special order items, but if you need something like a fender or a tail light it will cost a small fraction of the dealer price if you can wait for it. One exception is Winnebago-specific parts for the U.S. spec campers. While we do have a few of those items (i.e. sink faucets, poptop canvas), many of them are available only from Winnebago dealers. Ron Salmon The Bus Depot, Inc. www.busdepot.com |
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