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6,281 miles. Two major problems:

1) The aforementioned surging and stalling in awful traffic outside of San Francisco.

2) The newly rebuilt passenger side door (less than a year old) degraded steadily (harder and harder to close) over the first part of the trip. Finally, in Ely, Nevada, it would not open from the outside at a gas station. I got the door open from the inside and a steel rod popped out of the door - sigh. We were able to use the manual door locks and the inside door handle for the rest of the trip, but the door will need to be fixed soon.