VW Camper & Bus

Setting sale for Spain

The summer of 2018 saw me coming to the ominous realisation that the constant loss of oil I was experiencing with the Camper was probably more that just the main-bearing seal or leaky push-rod tubes. There was a distinct knock on start up which was a pretty big clue that it was time for a reconditioned engine swap. Being that I work for JK, this was a fairly easy task and with help from my colleagues we were able to do the bulk of the work over a day.

I had always been cautious of taking the Camper overseas because of concerns about the engine. Now there were no excuses, so we decided to bite the bullet and booked ourselves onto the Portsmouth to Santander Ferry route for September. This is a 24 hour ferry-trip but seeing as we live less than 30 minutes drive from Portsmouth, it really isn’t so much of a work up.

We actually really enjoyed the experience of travelling

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