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Snoopy The T4

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Snoopy The T4

If you’re a follower of my blog, you’ll remember we briefly touched base on Snoopy. If you haven’t got a clue what I’m on about, Snoopy is a 1994 VW T4 which we brought in 2016 instead of saving money for a honeymoon – you know that thing most normal newlyweds do. Here’s the link: https://dubmouse.com/2019/07/07/a-wedding-a-dub/

Anyway, back to Snoopy. Where do we start…. I’m sure he is cursed or maybe actually alive at times. He’s been a pain in the backside, from engine going after a tip run, leisure battery nearly exploding and filling the van with toxic fumes, which resulted in a 5hr stay in our local A&E – who had never heard of the toxic gas a leisure battery gives off – hence the 5hr stay whilst they figured it out. Oil filter was crushed when we went over over a pothole – a lowered vw is never a good idea on UK roads (he was lowered by previous owners). He also had a fuel line leak after a visit to garage for a mot which was initially thought to be oil filter, and then during the covid pandemic lock down he was left on the driveway 😬 – our bad.

So what are our plans for Snoopy? We were initially going to sell him but after much discussion and a knock on the door from a dodgy bloke trying to buy him for a stupidly low price of £500 (yes you read that right) – just so he could rip Snoopy’s inside out and transfer it to another vw, we decided to get someone out to look at him and see what needs fixing so we can keep him and get him done up. Turns out it’s quite a list 😬, we have hopefully found another person who is going to price it all up and do the work to get Snoopy up and running.

The List of Issues

Next step after getting Snoopy running? We’ve restarted his Instagram account, @Snoopy_The_T4 that we scrapped when thought wanted to sell him. If all goes well and we can definitely get him up and running, then we want to look at places who can give him a nice paint job and refit the inside to how we would like, means us and our two new rescue dogs can hopefully all fit and carry on the adventures we started with Charlie – it was really his van after all.

Charlie🌈 – Happy to be back in Snoopy for a Road Trip

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A Wedding & A Dub

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The Wedding

October 2016 I married my true soulmate, I would include some photos of him but he doesn’t want his face shown, so you’ll have to cope with photos of me instead. Our wedding was at the Balmer Lawn Hotel in Hampshire, a lovely place with a fantastic restaurant and spa, they’re also dog friendly, here’s the link if you want a look: https://www.balmerlawnhotel.com/

If you like the wedding photos, check out our amazing photographer. They also offer discount to those in the emergency services: http://www.wowphotography.co.uk

The Dub

What is a dub I hear you ask, well it’s a shorter version of VDub or VeeDub. Nope, still don’t know, what is a dub? A dub aka VDub means VW = pronounce the Vee doubleyou = shortened to Dub.

So yup, we have a VW. Not just any Dub though, a converted VW ‘94 T4. How did the dub come about? Well, we tried camping in a tent but that didn’t work out too well for our dog Charlie. He chewed two guide ropes, couldn’t understand that he had to lift legs up to walk in and out of the tent and so would fall in and out instead. Incredibly jumpy at night time because he could hear everything and so hardly slept as he was on alert all the time – this made for a very grumpy dog and much like a grumpy two year old…. it’s not the best fun we’ve ever had.

We also have a friend who has a T4 and showed us hers, Thor the T4. We were sold and instead of wedding gifts, asked our wedding guests to help contribute via a little poem.

After much searching and a lot of impatience we finally found a T4 in November 2016 – an unnamed T4. The shock! We discovered that all dubs should be named and sexed, and after a drive I decided it was a he and promptly named him Snoopy as he is black and white (actually his top half is a very dark sparkling purple in the sunlight which we later discovered).

Expect to see a few blogs on Snoopy and dublife in the future.