Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:38:28 PDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         David.Kao@Eng.Sun.COM (David Kao)
Subject:      Re: Head Help!


>>
>>I believe you should make VW pay for the entire repair. Just print out about
>>25 tales of wow over these head gaskets, go through the FTC arbitration
>>program, and you should be able to get this whole job done for free an a VW
>>dealer.
>>
>>Seriously.
>>
>>And if you are under 50,000 miles VW will pay for the whole thing no
>>questions asked. For other mileage up to around 100,000, VW will pay a part
>>of the repair no questions asked. But by going through the FTC program you
>>should be able to get this thing done for free.
>>
>>Derek Drew

Derek:

I am a 2nd owner of my 83 westy with 60k miles. Am I eligible to ask VWoA
to pay the cost of repairing the head gasket problem?

The westy is 12 years old now but with 60k miles only. I believe I have
bills from the previous owner that show the westy had the problem at about
40k miles. The dealer had attempted several repairs with no success.

Thanks.

David Kao
dkao@eng.sun.com
83 westy, 84 vanagon