
I drove my van to work on Monday 18th July and haven’t touched it since. I know I need to be braver, face the unknown and wait for the unfamiliar to become familiar, but it’s a little scary.
Swapping from a car to a van and the difference in size was one challenging I knew I had to overcome but I never thought about car design. I have been a firm favourite of Ford for over 20 years and thought about buying a Ford transit but it seemed a little too big. I wanted to start van life in something smaller.
Now I am driving a Mercedes.
After 35 years of driving with a handbrake between my seats, now the handbrake is a peddle. I have four peddles instead of three.
The clutch is super sensitive. I only have to lift my foot of a fraction and the van is ready to take off. My old pedal had a much higher ‘bite’ and I find myself stalling a lot or shuddering along until I change to second gear.
There are 6 gears now and they’re fairly close together so sometimes when I think I am in fourth I am actually in sixth gear!
The windscreen wipers are near the indicator so they often start up everytime I am turning a corner.
Don’t even get me started on reversing!!!
These are little things that I will get used to the more I drive and I am going to start using my 2 hour breaks to take short trips out so I can become more familiar with my new home but in the meantime it has been sat outside doing nothing.
I am still trying to find someone that can do the insulation and carpet lining for me. Most places do VW or larger vans but not the Vito.
You’ll get the hang of it..a new vehicle is always challenging π
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Hoping to go for a drive today. Need to put my big girl pants on!!!
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