Jay's reviews of owning VDub's certainly doesn't help my cause. No it doesn't help your case, but every car can and will have random breakdowns. As for the fires, whomever the new owner is, they should swap out the fuel lines, this is the main cause of bus fires. The Samba is definately where its at when it comes to VW, possibilities are endless with the help of that site. As for a good local help look to www.germansupply.com Irie Guy.... I may have some sliding door parts, if ya figure whats not working let me know I'll take a look. My door had stopped working, so I bought a used set of parts and just kept swapping them out until it started working. If I had a bigger driveway i'd be checking this bus out, looks good.