Some do, others don't. I've seen plenty of original sticks that exceeded
150k and plenty of autos that didn't. Depends on the driver I guess.
Rebuilt sticks seem to fare better than rebuilt autos also. Just my
observations, nothing scientific.

Mark

Robert Cardo wrote:

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>Nothing wrong with the Vanagon automatic's.
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>Pretty tough trans, considering they seem to go longer than it's sister
>the stick.
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