VW never anticipated that we'd still be driving these beasts hundreds of thousands of miles later. The transaxles were lifetime lubed, but only for the anticipated five or ten year lives. 

Karl Wolz
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> On Jun 21, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> IIRC, VW
> had said: 'no oil change required' for Vanagon transaxles. This was
> from a LONG time ago