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.
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.
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