How can you get reliability out of a ten year old vehicle?  There are no
guarantees.  Problems with vanagon are not that different from other ten
year old vehicles, only on the vanagon list 80% of what is talked about is
how to fix problems.  So that is mostly what we hear and see and expect.
How reliable is a ten year old Toyota?

If you want a reliability (i.e., expect to not have to keep replacing worn
parts or rebuild the engine once every 100k or so), then just don't buy a
ten year old vehicle, no matter what make it is.
-Phillip

-----Original Message-----
From:   JordanVw@AOL.COM [mailto:JordanVw@AOL.COM]
Sent:   Friday, January 15, 1999 6:51 AM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: Vanagon Reliability

In a message dated 99-01-14 08:47:52 EST, Kevin_T._Justice@DADEBEHRING.COM
writes:

<< I am again interesting in purchasing a Vanagon, preferably a Syncro,
(also
 considering the merits of a Double Cab).  <Aside: Lynnda, glad to see you
 sold your Syncro, sorry about dragging my feet.>  I am very much interested
 in obtaining one of these vehicles but was recently set back in my quest by
 the response given by another listmember to my question regarding
 reliability.  A brief exerpt of our e-conversation follows:

 Q:
 > What kind
 > of reliability might I expect from a vehicle like [this one]?  >>

why do think all we do is talk about engine swaps on this list?
to be honest...the vanagon isnt in a class of "reliable vehicles".
you want reliability, drive a japanese car....but the jap cars have no
class...no "panache"... :<)   i have a vanagon, because i like vw's, it has
a
neat interior layout, and it's a versatile vehicle.
it's just too bad they have sucky motors....

chris

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