On Feb 4, 2014, at 6:55 PM, J Stewart <fonman4277@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

I talked to a Eurovan owner in a parking lot a while back. He was admiring my Vanagon, He said he traded a Vanagon in to buy the Eurovan. He also said it was the biggest mistake he ever made, for more unreliable and much more expensive to fix.

I had exactly that same conversation in '04 with a couple who had sold their Westy, and got a '03 Eurovan in late '02. They had put something like 250K miles on the westy, and 75K miles on the Eurovan, and said it only took them one camping trip
in the Eurovan to be completely disappointed with their choice. They were preparing to sell the Eurovan and get a Syncro Westy. They did not like how much smaller the interior and storage space was. Remember that the Vanagon is a truck, the
Eurovan is a Passat platform.

Read the maintenance reports/blogs about the '93 Eurovan. None of them is positive. Probably the worst year of their production.

Bob