Your first Drive of your bus

1. Where are first and second gear?!
2. Why are random people waving at me (didn't know about the vw waving rule at the time!)
3. Should it smell this strongly of petrol
4. Woo hoo, I've got a campervan!

 

As I reached the end of a 250 mile journey to bring my new toy home (my first-ever time of driving a campervan), and having paid a couple of grand via PayPal to someone I didn't know and hadn't met, for a bus I'd not seen except in pictures (but was assured was mechanically sound and in relatively good shape), my first thought was "Guess I was kinda lucky there". Since then, aside from some initial bodywork and a minor breakdown (my bus, that is, not me!!), I continue to think I've been kinda lucky!

 

Ten yards onto a trailer

I hope the box I'm sat on doesn't move and I can't press the pedal and stop and don't hit my new Landy
I hope the brakes work and it stops and I don't hit my new Landy
Don't need to worry about stopping. It won't get up the trailer to hit my landy
This engine is going to need a full rebuild.

Most expensive ten yards ever

 

why do the brakes squeal so much
How do I sneak this into the garage without hubby seeing
where the hell is reverse

 

Picked it up from other side of Mansfield, had a pass as told mrs I was working. only to get stuck in accident on A1 so decided to make time up once A1 was clear (as was taking it to get it lowered to hide it in garage) didn't realise how noisy aircooled was until I looked at speedo. When stopped at next services checked engine and had cooked oil, doh.
Drove it onto back of RAC van at least and got free lift and then the silent treatment for the next week. tuesday_wildchild
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Driving 270 miles home, middle of winter ,no heater and freezing to death ! had to stop and buy gloves from service station at midnight, over 7 hrs to get home ! and LOVED every minute. ' Wey Hey' got a campervan.

 

After being off the road for 12 years my thoughts were "please make it to the MOT station" and "God this is slow!" Also the paranoia of driving an untaxed unmot'd bus I was convinced I would get stopped by the police even though it was for a pre booked mot! It passed but the engine was shot!

 

Good work!

 

I just set off over the Outeniqua mountain range from George, where I'd picked up the keys. Up up and up, crapping myself about heating, braking, gears......and then drifted down into the hot Klein Karoo desert, to Oudtshoorn, for Route N66
You don't want to break down in SA, without a phone.

It went Good, but boy did I go slow going up. oil was pouring out, it was the plastic filler extension, worked loose.

Buses smell different in hot countries, or is it just the smell,of newness?

 

I'll let you know when I get an engine