Date:         Fri, 29 Dec 1995 17:18:23 PST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>
Subject:      Re: Why do we all love our "bricks" so much? 

>>>alati@accessone.com said:
 > I purchased my 84 van[...] If
 > it was any other vehical it would be a huge LEMON!.  But instead, everyone
 > always says "It's a Vanagon.".  The heads have been replaced twice, 12/92
 > and 12/94.  Here I am in 12/95 and I have to spend another $2,000 on
 > rebuilding the whole engine, including new heads again. 

I've had remarkably little trouble with my '84.  We bought it used in 1990 or 
so from a VW dealer, who paid for the engine rebuild it needed the next week, 
but let us have *our* mechanic do it.  Other than that, and the recent fuel 
injection control box problems, it's just run and run and run.  Oh, and a new 
tranny at 150,000 miles.  Everything else has been minor: a heater control 
cable broke, the rear heater valve leaked, etc etc.

We love it.  It just goes.

  --berry

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center