I know my dad's Automatic Carat has over 135K miles on it.  Never had internal work on the transmission or engine, water pump, alternator, belts and tune up is all.

GregM

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Neil N
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2016 12:36 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: heading home tomorrow

Can't have it all I guess.   ;)

That's amazing. Makes me ponder further the whole 2.1 stretch bolt - rod failure thing.

Neil.

On 12/2/16, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, the engine is still the original and the heads have never been off it.
> I wish I was as lucky with the transmission.
>

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Neil n

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