gmb - Jeez, can't you understand that you are just showing your "Old
Fart" status with these ranting raves about "PM"?  Back in veterinary
school, over twenty years ago, at Auburn University, we made it to the
folks' homes and back, down in Florida, along with our first baby
daughter, at least six times in my '62 Kombi!

"Preventive Maintenance"?  Hell, back then, that meant finding enough
money to stick into the gas tank!  My Mother-In-Law used to ask me why I
just didn't carry the old van to junk-yard & be "free of it!!!

BOB

ps-what makes you think grad students have the money to do such thing as
replacing everything on their VW Vans???