I thought that this afternoon I would pick A up from school in Bob – but only if she started first flick. She did! I decided to give her a longish run to get her warm and she ran very well. Until I got to A‘s school anyway. It was then that she started to struggle at tick over whilst I was parking her.

When I’d fetched A from the school door we got in and…nothing. Just the engine turning over with it nowhere near to catching. We tried for 10-15 minutes (not continually!) but eventually stopped because I didn’t want to kill the battery. Bob was duly rolled out of the school grounds onto the roadside where we ‘phoned Adam from The Old Volks Home.

He’s arranged for us to take Bob to VW Bulli Barn to have the ‘intermittent’ fault put right at The Old Volks Home’s cost, which is what I hoped (and expected) to hear. Bob will be with Les at the VW Bulli Barn tomorrow and hopefully the teething problems will be put right…