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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 21:21, David Johnson wrote: > Just curious, > > What's a "typical" life expectancy of a Type III automatic transmission? > > I see from the posts that they are generally long lasting, but how long > until a rebuild is on order? > > ...thinking of buying an automatic... > They should go for at least 100K miles, with no problems. Mine has about about that on it since it was last rebuilt in 1979. they do need the fluid and filter changed about every 30K miles. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org