I have been thinking about posting this to the list for a while: How many
miles/year does your bus have.  Lets see, I have an 84 with 219K on it. That
is 14.6K a year. Not to many i guess... I was hoping for more.

219000/(99-84) =14600

Matthew
84 weekender

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jimkim [SMTP:jimkim@INTERGATE.BC.CA]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 11:56 AM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Vanagon longevity
>
> My wife and I were pricing out new rubber for our '83 h2o westy, and when
> the service rep mentioned the 80,000 km tread warranty she called it
> ,rather
> sarcastically, a lifetime warranty ,implying that the tires would outlive
> the vanagon.  Granted the bus has 323,000kms on it now but I thought that
> comment was way out of line, I'm of the opinion that our busses can last
> forever (or somewhere near) So I put this out to you folks- please post
> the
> highest number of km or miles you or somebody you know personally(no bus
> myths) has milked from one of our fine machines.  Looking forward to
> showing
> the wife that our beloved westy is only middle age.  thanks.  Jim