If one has to pay people to repair their vanagon ..
and it's 25 years old say ..
and hasn't been rebuiltthoroughly in every last system ....
that can get expensive and tiresome.

They're still awesome vehicles.
  I am just finding many of them needing nearly 'everything' a lot lately.
They WILL run a long, long time pretty much ...
but man,   systems like the cooling system, or the transaxle ......over
the years ....those can get pretty tired.

    There are still a lot of vanagons that have lived  25 years and
they've only been repaired when they broke..
in just that one system each time, while the other systems soldier on ,
and that's  a horrible way to take care of a vanagon.
     Very typically these days .....say the trans has 189,000 miles on
it and not that many gear oil changes , it's due. And so on.

They are so worth taking care of.     If you do the work yourself it's
not even that expensive.  But if paying someone, it can be like  going
to the dentist --  expensive and painful.

lol.......read this on a Mercedes group once . "if you think going to an
expensive mechanic is expensive, try a cheap one - that's really
expensive !'  That's a reference to work not done correctly, if you
didn't catch that.

Scott

On 6/27/2012 9:48 PM, walkingboss wrote:
> Hi Joy,
>
>    I know all good things must come to an end! But I sure hate to see
> another of our bottomless pits fall by the wayside. Don't get to
> discouraged, and give up. Take a little breather and maybe in the
> future you
> can find one in a little better starting place. Remember "Gueydan
> (pronounced Gay-don) wasn't built in one day". (as per "Rome" In
> Reference
> to a very small Louisiana Town with the name on both sides of the sign
> coming into town)
>    Anyway we'll be here if you need us!
>
> David
>
> Subject: [VANAGON] Matilda is on her way out
>
>
>> Well, friends, the time has come.  I can't cope any more with a vehicle
>> that seems to break down every time I drive her, and Matilda is being
>> retired.
>