Right on bro.

Jim

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:09 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 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.....?
> >>
> >
> >
>