Depending on your Vanagon outlook either new or rebuilt are good.
I intended and have kept my Westy for eight years with hopes of driving
it another ten years.
I bought new Libro CVs.
If you aren't going to be a long time owner buy the rebuilds.
Other options, buy one spare CV joint and carry with you.
If you have a problem on the road it is most unlikely that more than one
will need replacing at any given time.
With proper preventive maintenance amounting to boot replacement and
lubrication the CV should be good for a few hundred thousand miles before
they need replacement.
The most common problem I've seen with CVs is neglect, running dry and
breaking the bearing cage.

Stan Wilder

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:14:45 -0400 "Barry E. Muller"
<bmuller@UTOLEDO.EDU> writes:
> OK.  I'll bite and ask a question based on ignorance (as usual):
>
> If the cheap rebuilt and the expensive new part are "the same part"
> - why would
> there be a difference in the time it takes to install one over the
> other?
>
> bem-stem
>
> Bill Marshall wrote:
>

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