my father in law has 284,000 (turned it over myself!) on a 87 westy
weekender. original engine one head job covered under warranty and done at
100,000 miles. But its now showing its age we thought it would make it to
300 but we dont think so

>From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
>Reply-To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Who has the highest mileage?
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:50:20 -0500
>
>At 09:44 AM 1/17/2003, Jones, Dustin wrote:
>>  Just out of curiosity, who has the highest mileage on their veedub on
>>the list? (the van/bus must be running of course...)
>
>With 212k miles (90k or so in Scotland, the rest here) I'm not even in the
>running.  ISTM somebody out there had close to 400k a few years ago...
>
>Personally I think a more interesting question would be how far people are
>getting on original engines, rebuilt engines (and are they rebuildable or
>thrown rods and such), ditto transmissions.  Should be able to keep them
>going indefinitely if you keep throwing parts at them, so long as the body
>holds together.
>
>david
>
>
>--
>David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>'85 GL "Poor Relation"

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