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Originally Posted by Normy View Post
.... The Volkswagens are either the hideous "waserboxer" vanagon, an underpowered joke of a car which needed both cylinder head gaskets changed at 60,000 miles. I'm not sure why the water-cooled Vanagon is not the subject of a class-action suit, considering how easily they blew their head gaskets,but that is just me and since I have a brain....I never bought one....

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What? 180K on mine w/o issue. 240k on my friend's w/o issue. ....of course, I know a secret. ...changing coolant as specified keeps the galvanic corrosion from happening. -actually you don't have to change the coolant, but rather just add the anti-corrosive brew.
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