Your looking at this from all the wrong angles.  That auto tranny in your Vanagon is a very common auto tranny used in many platforms of the VW Audi group and maybe elsewhere.  You do not need a Vanagon Specific transmission shop.  Almost any transmission shop that services and rebuilds automatic transmission should be able to work on your Vanagon auto tranny.

On 2013-04-28, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:

> There are not too many Vanagons
> with automatics in Michigan, at least around Detroit.  So, good shops are
> hard to find.

Cheers,    

Frank Condelli
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