Bye Bye Emma.....

Today I sadly said goodbye to Emma. Over the past couple of weeks I have been preparing her to be sold, starting with her MOT. I took her to Jon at Bedford Street Motors, and he handled it all for me. When I say all, she flew through the MOT bar the headlamp aims being too low, and a number plate light not working, so a quick adjustment and a new bulb later, she had a spanking new MOT, with just a couple of advises, slight play on the inner joints of the steering rack, something which I dont really believe, I think its just the way they are, Nina is the same, and I think a different tester would not say it. The other advise was a lower ball joint starting to have a bit of play. But, they were advises and obviously something to think about for the future, all is safe and ok to use now. The wiper blades needed doing too and a couple more bits and pieces which I did before she went for MOT.

So with 12 months MOT and over 4 months TAX left, I started to tidy her up, removing the junk that had been dumped in the back for storage over the winter, and then put the double rock n roll bed that I removed from the Transit Camper that I scrapped. We just had our kitchen replaced at home, and I kept a bunch of units for Emma, I put two base units in and cut the worktop down to fit so she at least has the base for a sink/cooker and cupboard space. I also included the Campingaz fridge I bought for Nina as I am now getting another one.











Replaced the facia for the overhead blower, and generally tidied things up. I did remove the overhead locker for Nina, but left the Eberspacher Heater as I decided I didnt really need it for Nina and it was a lot of hassle to remove.

I took her up to the usual Robinswood Hill and took some photos and a 12 minute video showing her main points and any defects I knew about.

http://youtu.be/1eb_4ABhAPE

Follow the link above to see the video.
















With all that done, she was listed on Gumtree and Ebay on the Friday, by the monday she had an £1800 bid on ebay, with 70 plus watchers, ending the following Wednesday. Quite a few phone calls from the Gumtree advert, with a few people wanting to come see her. We had arranged for a guy in Cornwall to come on Tuesday through the ebay Ad, but in the mean time Ben from Oxford was in contact with Jen arranging to come the same day. Obviously first come first served, and Tuesday morning Ben turned up on his push bike ! He quickly told us that he hadnt cycled from Oxford but had caught the Train along with his Bike ..... Phew :P.

He spent almost 2 hours here, chatting about Emma and Nina and what his plans were, we went out for a test drive and Emma as usual behaved impeccably, just like Nina, since we had the fuel filter on Emma refitted correctly, there has been no air getting in to the system and she goes like a dream. It was the first time Ben had driven anything as big, and he did great, a very careful and confident driver, especially considering he confessed he hadn't driven for over a year !

We got back to the house, and his mind was made up, we signed all the paperwork, he handed over the money, then arranged his insurance before he left.

Ben, please do keep in touch, and if you do keep a blog let me put the link here so everybody can see how she turns out.

Hope she gives you many years of good camping and maybe her and Nina will meet up again at a campsite somewhere :).

This is Ben just driving off earlier today, good luck Emma !




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