If you're at all interested in learning more about wrenching, a
Vanagon certainly presents the oppourtunity.

At time of purchase, I too thought I'd have a mechanic maintain Jaco.
I had done some wrenching in the past. FF to now, and I've learned a
lot more and can now (with a few mistakes here and there) maintain
almost all aspects of my rig.

Guess I'm saying that if you have the time, and even an inkling of
desire, it's not a stretch to do some or eventually all of the work,
save some moolah and learn some useful skills.

Just my .02,

Neil.

On 1/17/11, Brad Pauly <bpauly@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm not really a "car guy." I'm actually an engineer on paper so I can
> understand most of that stuff. I do like tinkering, but it's been with
> bicycles all my life which are decidedly less complex. I have two main
> questions.
>
> Should I avoid out-of-state vans? Not having experience working on
> cars it makes me a little nervous. If I could find a good local
> mechanic to make sure things are okay I'd feel much better though.
>

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Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"

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