Always lurking here. This subject irks me enough to write for the first
time in years.
(apparently)
Peoples troubles with a WBX says more about their skill set than it does
about the product.
Seriously,
If you can't make a WBX work , I would not want you working on my Subaru.

Happy spring!  : )

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:16 PM, jeff ensing <jeffensing@gmail.com> wrote:

> Always lurking here. This subject irks me enough to write for the first
> time in years.
> (apparently)
> Peoples troubles with a WBX says more about their skill set than it does
> about the product.
> Seriously,
> If you can't make a WBX work , I would not want you working on my Subaru.
>
> Happy spring!  : )
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Jeff Schwaia <vw.doka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well... I'm probably one of the few folks in the USA that have had over a
>> 100 Vanagons (T3s) go through their fingers (and that doesn't include all
>> the customer Vanagons I've worked on since the '80s), and the WBXer "blow
>> up" is not at all a common occurrence.
>>
>> Back when Vanagons could be had for a song, the most common issue was
>> emissions failure.  Very few were "blown up" WBXers.  Probably 5 or fewer.
>>
>> In reality, the WBXer design was a huge step forward, reliability wise,
>> than its predecessor.  How many air-cooled VW engines went 200k miles?
>> Whereas, it is not uncommon for a well cared for WBXer to exceed 200k.
>>
>> Haters hate and will always deride those who do not adhere to their
>> philosophy.  Perhaps we should ad the WBXer to the no-no list...
>>
>> Politics... Religion... WBXer...   All are now off-limits!    ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>> Of Don Hanson
>> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 7:48 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: 2.1 L WBX Overheat -1991 Carat
>>
>> See?  "Deniers"
>>
>>    It does not matter how many times the subject of WBX engine
>> reliability comes up, there are plenty who simply LOVE the WBX motor for
>> some reason that I have never heard adequately explained.
>>
>>   There's probably no data collected on how often a WBX blows up compared
>> to any other engine..If there was, I would suspect there would still be
>> people with their heads in the sand, buying up WBX motors...   But really
>> people....when a popular product has a really notoriously bad reputation
>> for lots of ongoing problems and weak design features, when we just read
>> half a dozen posts about all the bad things that get sent out with rebuilt
>> WBX motors, when the Rap is SO BAD on a product....why would you suppose
>> everyone else is always WRONG about it, and your particular encounter with
>> this product, that will certainly be different.....?
>>
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