Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:41:58 -0800
Reply-To: dylan friedman <insyncro@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: dylan friedman <insyncro@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: buy a daily driver or press the syncro into service?
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I personally keep all of my vans covered by the lowest level of insurance when not on the road and stored, just to be safe. I think they have fire and theft added on as well. It cost more but these vans are worth alot.
dylan
----- Original Message ----
From: Woody Halsey <WHalsey@SYA.ORG>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:26:36 PM
Subject: Re: buy a daily driver or press the syncro into service?
That's what I have done this winter, purchasing a 1987 Jetta for what
has amounted to about $1,650 after repairs. Now the question is: Do I
keep the V'gon registered and insured? When you factor the insurance in,
the cost/benefit analysis gets a little trickier. In other words, saving
the wear and tear on the beloved V'gon doesn't come for free!
Of course, my plan was to have the V'gon in the body shop all winter,
but know shops around here wanted to see it until spring.
Woody
83.5 V'gon
Haverhill, MA
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Felder
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:52 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: buy a daily driver or press the syncro into service?
Sounds like you've made your decision and are awaiting conformation,
so here goes: If you want the syncro to last (practically) forever,
then get a third car as a daily driver. If you choose wisely, you can
always sell the third car for what you've got in it with a little
luck, and in the end may be financially and trouble ahead in that
maintaining the syncro the way you want it will probably cost much
more than doing so on a more ordinary car.
I think about that with my westy and regular vanagon. Which do I
drive? The easy answer is whichever one will be cheaper and easier to
repair in the future (if the westy stays garaged, the longer the
poptop seals and so forth are going to last). The tough answer
involves the imponderables like which engine, the diesel or the
waterboxer, is going to give up first. It would be an easier decision
for me if one of the cars wasn't a vanagon. That's what makes it so
easy to advise you!
Jim
On Jan 29, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Aaron Pearson wrote:
> my wife and young son and i have done fine until now with one daily
> driver
> and one vanagon. I only used the van occiasinally around town and for
> trips. now, our commute schedule changed, and we both need to
> drive ~10
> miles every day. i'm fond of the van and i don't want to sell it,
> but i
> also don't like the idea of the added wear and tear of driving it
> everyday.
> i want it to last forever. plus, a few times a year it needs
> repairs/upgrades that keep it out of service for a few days.
>
> so... should i buy a 3rd car (an older golf or something) for
> commuting, or
> keep that money for additional van repairs and the occasional
> rental? the
> 3rd car would have the bonus of better fuel economy, but only for a
> few
> thousand miles per year.
>
> i can't decide.
>
> aaron
> '87 syncro westy ej22
>
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