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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:02 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:23 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 11:38 am    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

Just past 300,000 last week and on my second engine rebuild. Runs like a champ. (knock on wood) lol
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 12:04 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

336,756 miles at this point. Not using Dixie as my DD any more, so mileage will slow up a little.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:09 am    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

My 1988 Wolfsburg has 213k and based on information from previous owners it’s on its second transmission and engine.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:17 am    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

187K reported on the odometer, 183K of those on the original chassis, power-plant and drive-train. Some DD service during 2009-2011. Happy that most miles were accumulated on 'tripping and off-roading.

@183K the WBX was still running, but I was beginning to see declines in my compression tests and knew that a rebuild was soon to be added on my to-do list. It was the onset of tricky shifting that I traced to the transaxle that accelerated our refurb-mod project.

With our refresh, I hope we'll reach some of the prodigious mileages being reported by others!

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:42 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

Man, I guess I’m a low-mileage example. It had been sitting for several years before I bought it (I think about 5-6) but I just rolled it over to 160k on a trip to the Long Beach Peninsula.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:52 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

203,000 on the odometer - I know it's at least 2K shy of actual but probably more.

Approx 42,000 on the current GW 1.9L to 2.2L rebuilt wbx engine and about 40,000 on a GW rebuilt transaxle.
This is the third engine - first one died at 75,000 (corroded head bolts), 2nd one rebuilt at 136,000 miles and replaced at ~163K (unknown reason). I got it with around 2,000 miles on the current engine.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:50 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

1986 Westfalia GL and 170k.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:32 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

Just a year end note. Its spraying sticky snow outside tonight. This AM I got a few small issues sorted, and idled (about 25 minutes) up to 141F and was pleased. So, I took a short drive up the highway and ticked off a Year End ODO of 298126. Not going to take her out tomorrow, so that is that.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:59 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

My second entry, it's a great bookmark for future reference.
My Tristar has 405xxx on it. It had its first quality rebuild about 20K ago and most recently a Transaxle Rebuild / Update from Rancho trans.



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:59 pm    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

Love My Westy wrote:
Mine has 157,000 on it. Bought it new in '86 with 30 miles on it. Averages out to 5,230 per year, all road trips, never used as a daily driver. Lives in the garage.


That was Nov. 2016, since then I've put another 7000 mile on it so now it's at 164,000. Again, almost all are road miles (went 132,000 miles on my first set of brakes). Still running great on original engine and trans. Original owner, I put all the miles on it myself.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:17 am    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

Love My Westy wrote:
Love My Westy wrote:
Mine has 157,000 on it. Bought it new in '86 with 30 miles on it. Averages out to 5,230 per year, all road trips, never used as a daily driver. Lives in the garage.


That was Nov. 2016, since then I've put another 7000 mile on it so now it's at 164,000. Again, almost all are road miles (went 132,000 miles on my first set of brakes). Still running great on original engine and trans. Original owner, I put all the miles on it myself.

That's really cool - congratulations!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:31 am    Post subject: Re: How many miles does your Vanagon have? Reply with quote

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