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Subject:Re: changing coolant
From:Steve Manning
Date:Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:41:43 -0600

50 bucks at my mechanic and he used phosphate free green stuff safe for
aluminum engines. Just do it once a year. Maybe it's cheaper in Wisconsin.
Forget the dealer; they forgot what vanagons are. They look the other way
when they roll in.
-steve-
>
> I've heard that a dealer will charge $100 to flush, change, and bleed
> the system.  They must think that they have some miracle way of bleeding
> the system.  I think not, I think they have way more over head and
> higher expectations from the stockholders as to their rate of return.
> Brian G. Backus
>
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Barbara Sutton[SMTP:bsutton@GLADSTONE.UOREGON.EDU]
> > Reply To:     Barbara Sutton
> > Sent:         Wednesday, April 01, 1998 5:59 PM
> > To:   Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> > Subject:      Re: changing coolant
> >
> > George Jannini wrote:
> > >
> > > Dan, you asked:
> > >
> > > << Where do you live?  It cost me $100.00 to have the old coolant
> > flushed
> > > and new autobahn installed. >>
> > >
> > >    I just paid $30 for the same service in Atlanta.
> > I paid $45 for the same thing last week.
> > Cris.
> > Eugene, OR.
> > '91 Westie "Fafner"
> > '65 Standard
> >
>