Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 06:27:37 -0700
Reply-To: Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: What year vanagon to buy?
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Julio,
Welcome! You've already heard from the pro-2.1L camp; I have some
different suggestions.
As with all things, this choice is a bit of a compromise. If you've
followed the archive for awhile, you will undoubtedly notice the
amount of complaints from Wasserboxer owners about head leakage. In
conjunction with the relatively unreliable cooling system, this is a
strong argument in favor of getting an '80-'83 aircooled model.
However, if you're like me and find a Vanagon with a recently rebuilt,
strong Wasserboxer, go for it...and put some sealer in the cooling
system for preventative maintenance. Don't buy one with leaky heads.
Stay away from the Diesel, too- unless you have driven a splitty once
and think you can hang.
There is so much custom cosmetic equipment out there that you can
spiff up any model year of Vanagon. Just check out the archives. As
there are few out there for sale, in addition to the fact that you
need to SHOP, I wouldn't sweat the year. :)
Happy shopping, and best of luck!
Sam
P.S. if you do get an aircooled model, stay away from one with a bored
or stroked-out engine. However, there are a few mild hi-perf mods that
you can do to the Type IV without making it run too hot or frying.
---JT <julio@INTERGATE.BC.CA> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, I am a new listee, and although I do not own a
vanagon at the moment I plan to have one buy this summer. My question
to all of you out their is what year vanagon westfalia should I look
for? What is better air-cooled or the wasserboxer? What year did VW
change to the wasserboxer water cooled engine? and finally what year
did VW change from round headlights to the square headlights? Also
does anyone have any advice on which years should be avoided? Thanks
in advance for any and all your help.
>
> Julio T.
> vancouver B.C.
> 63 beetle
> 91 Jimmy (to be replaced by Vanagon Westy)
>
>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hello everyone, I am a new listee, and
although
I do not own a vanagon at the moment I plan to have one buy this
summer.
My question to all of you out their is what year vanagon westfalia
should I look
for? What is better air-cooled or the wasserboxer? What year did VW
change
to the wasserboxer water cooled engine? and finally what year did VW
change from
round headlights to the square headlights? Also does anyone have any
advice on
which years should be avoided? Thanks in advance for any and all your
help.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Julio T.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>vancouver B.C.</FONT></DIV>
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