What did your bus do for somebody else today?

[Kelly]

[Busryder]

[6D2]

I have powder coated rims on my bus.. done to match the safaris from wolfgang. I took the bolt holes down to bare metal and everytime I need to take my rims off it is a fight.. they are not going to come lose on my bus.. I think they look great myself.. just my .02
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The SBS #62

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[Lohe]

My wife used mine to store some oil and vinegar she distributes.. it doesnt have an engine so there's not a lot it can do!

[Busryder]

[60freak]

I'll play along: On the way home from work just recently, I came up on a baja bug that was dead on the side of the road, and a middle aged guy standing behind it. Pulled up behind him in my bus and asked what was going on, he was real cool and said his generator or battery was bad. He only lived about 15-20 miles away, and it was getting dark, and we were in the back 40/new river area/hillbilly country and didn't want to see any crazy hillbillies give him a hard time 'cause there are some really weird ones out where he was. So i started my bus and then pulled my optima battery out while my bus was running and hooked the optima up in his baja and stuck his crusty old battery in my bus, and told him I would follow him home. My good 'ol 95amp alternator charged his battery up by the time we got to his house, and he told his wife what happened and what took so long. Apparantly a lot of people drove by and no-one offered to help in the 5-6 hours he sat there!! They both thanked me and the three of us sat on his front porch and he rolled up a sploof of some really killer smoke. Afterwards I put my optima battery back into my bus and I cruised on home feeling pretty darned good I was able to help out, even if it was a bug.

[KarmannBob]

A couple years ago, on Christmas Day, I was out for a little cruise and came up on a guy hoofin' down the road, gas can in hand. Its rural, in the truest sense of the word, out here, and the next fuel station was a good two or three miles away. I pulled over, gave him a ride to the station, and drove him back to his pickup, and even though he sloshed gas on the floor, which took a week to dissipate, didn't say anything. I stayed to see if he could get his truck running, which he couldn't because his battery was dead, so I lifted the hatch and gave him a jump and we were both on our way, me with the door windows open to air out the fumes, him headed to see his family.
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'57 pg/sg standard

[BarryL]

Once on a winter cross country ski trip I saw a little cow head even with the ground. I backed up to look again and it was a baby cow that had fallen into a well and his little front forelegs were all bloody from trying to get out. With the girl I was with and myself we tied my tow rope around his chest and hooked the other end onto my towel bar. She backed the bus up while I pulled. Both of us ended up pulling up by hand while the bus just held the little cow with the e-brake. We both ended up muddy and frozen from head to toe but the cow lived to see another day before going to McDonalds. Does that count?

[Busryder]

[volkster1964]

Well, I'm a State Trooper, and once several years ago I came across a Bay Window Westy broken down along a very rural stretch of road about 15 miles outside of Saranac Lake. There was a hippie lookin' couple standing behind the bus staring at an open deck lid. I pulled up behind them and they had that, "Oh &@%#, the fuzz." look on their faces. I got out and asked them what was wrong with their Westy. They said that it had just quit. I took a look inside the engine compartment and noticed that the negative wire had fallen off of the coil. I replaced the wire and made sure it was on tight. I told them to try to start in and the Westy fired right up. I said have a nice day and went back to my car. I think they were surprised that I fixed their bus instead of searching it....

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[Busryder]

[Busryder]

Ok, I just helped someone else.. This dude is psycotic though, and this wasn't direcly a VW assistance call. (Author removed due to NON-Bus content. Thanks for reading.)

[derv]

No offense, but this is a VW bus forum.
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Jack

[crofty]

I took the mirror of the mirror arm in the hopes that when the jackhole cable guy comes back, for the third time, it bites him in the shoulder when he walks by the bus.
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[splitpile]

I could write a book, I help people on a daily basis, either through e-mails, phone calls or here at the shop.
Being in BFE, off a major interstate (I 40) I seem to get a couple calls a week from people traveling either east or west. Most of the time I can help them over the phone, sometimes they either limp in or get towed in for repairs.

2 of my favorite stories though are.

A girl bought her first split (a nice dormobil) back east somewhere. She was driving the bus back to Cali after picking it up and blew her engine up. Her mother called me as she didn't have a cell phone and explained what happened. She had the bus towed to my shop and told me how she needed to be in Cali to go to school in 2 days.

I had just built and installed a 1776 single port in one of my buses so I pulled it out, sold it to her (at a VERY FAIR PRICE) installed it in her bus (stayed at the shop almost all night getting it done)

She stayed at a hotel and showed up the next morning amazzed that she was ready to go. I gave her basic engine education, sent her around the block to see how she liked it and was told it had twice the power of her old engine and off she went. The only contact I had with her after that was none except her mother calling to say thank-you and her daighter made it home.


The other one was 2 guys from Switzerland on tour of the U S in an unknown fat chick westy (72 or later) they bought site unseen over the internet in Cali. They blew up their engine and limped to the shop. They proceeded to pull and rebuild their engine behind the shop. They did this is 4 days while they lived in the camper. I let them use my tools and whatever else they needed to get the job done. I did hear from them now and then during the rest of their journey and recieved pics of them back home in Swiss "with the bus". They liked it so much they hsipped it home! It was bought to travel in and then resell before they went home.
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[BryanM]

I pissed off a baby boomer ex-hippie with my "Non-Hippie Bus" sticker.

She said, " what do you mean its not a hippie bus"? in a disgusted voice.
And I said "Because it not a hippie bus" and drove off
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-Bryan

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[Clara]

[Busryder]

Hazetguy, I think that we have been "moderated" by the powers that be... I'm not sure , however. I PMed Ev. about an hour ago, but got no response as he was listed as a moderator when I respondned to your posting. If I have offended you, I sincerly appologize if the messages were ever recieve or not. Please PM me if the needed ever arises, considering that BOTH our conversational componants were removed. I also appologize to all that were exposed to the rhetoric that was utilized when we were comunicating with each other earlier 2day. To my readers: If anybody reads my crapp any ways, please feel free to PM me with any, otherwise unspeakable, commentary; as I will respond to all that is possible..... Thank you for your support, (The Busryder).