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Not only can you change you own oil...you should change your own own oil...
Your VW will think it's romantic and sweet of you, and it'll be nice to you for months afterwards!...hehe

As fer your electrical nightmare in the Aerostar, I'd follow the posted suggestions. I'm not much of an electrician.

Try the light socket first. If that's not it take a spare afternoon (hehe), and try tracking down the wires that live on that fuse that keeps blowing.

Females: Use a manual or electrical schematics.

Males: Putter around for hours on end without looking at the directions.

One wire is probably bare somewhere. Nudity is bad in the whitehouse and electrical wires. If a wire gets exposed and touches metal, you'll have vicious electrical gremlins.

Also, keep looking for your VW!

For motivation for you, I went to get the tags renewed on mine today at lunch.
After an hour and a half of stadging in a surly line, I got new stickers for my buddies.

VW Bus and VW Bug tags: about $40 dollars each...

Laughing at the blonde college gal who cried as she credit carded $1300.00 dollars...Priceless

Take a spare afternoon, HA!! ;-) Wouldn't ya know it would work until right before church last night. I won't see my husband again till Christmas break.

Hey, the reason we can't drive it is because when this particular fuse is blown, the car won't shift out of first gear...which is what led me to believe it was the transmission originally. When he changed the fuse and it worked, I was thrilled...thought our troubles were over. But it only lasted two days.

Well, perhaps if we do have to take it in (our repair shop is just down the street and we could make it going about 10mph late at night), it won't cost so much as the transmission woulda. I was feeling pretty despondent over that thought.

Thanks for all the tips and suggestions. I'm going to send the thread to my husband who is lurking at school (everybody wave!) He knows more about this than I do and can perhaps get some ideas from your suggestions.

Thanks again.