Alrighty then... So we took the camper van into the shop and the people there worked on it for a little while and charged us $145.50 for the work and supplies they had offered our van. We could have lived with that if that fixed the van, making it no longer misfire... However that is not the case. The Headbanger (which is the name we gave the van because it is small and we bump our heads in it all the time (I will also be referring to the van as "The Headbanger" from now on)), is still misfiring, almost worse than it was before. Today we returned to that same auto shop and talked to the gentleman who worked on The Headbanger. He re-assured us that they had fixed all of the problems in The Headbanger which needed obvious attention. This means that the reason it is acting up could be one of many things. So in order to fix the problem and for us to be able to continue on this trip smoothly, we need to keep fixing things which are "potentially" causing the problem. Unfortunately this could be relatively expensive. Meaning that our trip will inevitably be cut shorter regardless of whether we fix the problem or not. If we do not, we have to head right home (which I have no idea how we are going to go about doing so), but if we do fix her up, that means the costs of fixing it come right out of our road trip budget.
We are still currently a little North of San Fransisco and it feels as if we have been here forever. We are both eager to keep going, but it is hard to do when The Headbanger is acting up. We have to wait until tomorrow morning to bring it into the shop again where they are replacing a few more items in the engine. If I remember correctly, they are replacing the cylinder and something else, however I am not an individual who knows a whole lot about cars and I could be very wrong.
So now we are sitting in Barnes and Noble which has a Starbucks - which basically means free internet. I don't really have all too many exciting stories to tell of from the past few days because we've been pretty much sitting in the same area cruising around, eating food, reading books, sleeping, and eating more food.
This is a blog about a trip James and myself are doing in a 1973 Volkswagen Camper Van. We are leaving from Vancouver BC, and arriving back in Vancouver BC some-two months later. Where and when we go in between that time are yet to be determined.
fingers crossed that after tomorrow it`ll be smooth sailing. While at B&N, maybe you guys should read up on how to fix VW vans.
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Things are running super well with The Headbanger once again, thankfully. That was actually a good idea, but we never did read up on it in B&N. We did a bit of research online but there was nothing solid that we read. We didn't really know what the problem was with the van and everything we read had potential to fix it, but nothing we read was really a sure sign of a fix. Whatever they did in the shop sure seemed to work though.
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PS. I like the name hahaha.