Addict

[Newf]

Hi – my name is Scott, I’m 47 and I’m addicted to Transporters…

It all started so innocently last year with the idea of buying a van for ferrying the family and dogs around in.

Before I knew it, I was buying the odd copy of VWt or VW Bus and starting to covet vans.
Lurking in transporter forums followed in quick succession, reading other peoples posts and wondering - by this time it was becoming a habit.

Next thing I’ve travelled the length of the country and made a deal with someone that sells this stuff all the time – I’m hooked, no going back.

Now I spend my days out on the driveway in the cold, knuckles scrapped and bleeding as I take the lower dash off for the fourth time trying to figure out the intermittent fault with the aftermarket power folds that I fitted. Nights, I spend browsing the net looking for shining bits of T-6 related plastic. I don’t need these things, the van already has indicators, so why buy LED smoked sequential side repeaters, I can’t help myself.
Now when it gets dark I can venture out on the driveway and stand transfixed as I am hypnotized by the pulse of the sequential side repeaters. I’m not going anywhere, they only indicate my path to rack and ruin, is there any known cure.

Still it’s not all bad, at least I chose a Transporter it could have been a Vito.

 

[DaveyB]

Hi – my name is Scott, I’m 47 and I’m addicted to Transporters…

It all started so innocently last year with the idea of buying a van for ferrying the family and dogs around in.

Before I knew it, I was buying the odd copy of VWt or VW Bus and starting to covet vans.
Lurking in transporter forums followed in quick succession, reading other peoples posts and wondering - by this time it was becoming a habit.

Next thing I’ve travelled the length of the country and made a deal with someone that sells this stuff all the time – I’m hooked, no going back.

Now I spend my days out on the driveway in the cold, knuckles scrapped and bleeding as I take the lower dash off for the fourth time trying to figure out the intermittent fault with the aftermarket power folds that I fitted. Nights, I spend browsing the net looking for shining bits of T-6 related plastic. I don’t need these things, the van already has indicators, so why buy LED smoked sequential side repeaters, I can’t help myself.
Now when it gets dark I can venture out on the driveway and stand transfixed as I am hypnotized by the pulse of the sequential side repeaters. I’m not going anywhere, they only indicate my path to rack and ruin, is there any known cure.

Still it’s not all bad, at least I chose a Transporter it could have been a Vito.

Welcome @Newf you are in good company.
Doesn’t it feel so much better to get that off your chest.

 

[Peatey]

Hi – my name is Scott, I’m 47 and I’m addicted to Transporters…

It all started so innocently last year with the idea of buying a van for ferrying the family and dogs around in.

Before I knew it, I was buying the odd copy of VWt or VW Bus and starting to covet vans.
Lurking in transporter forums followed in quick succession, reading other peoples posts and wondering - by this time it was becoming a habit.

Next thing I’ve travelled the length of the country and made a deal with someone that sells this stuff all the time – I’m hooked, no going back.

Now I spend my days out on the driveway in the cold, knuckles scrapped and bleeding as I take the lower dash off for the fourth time trying to figure out the intermittent fault with the aftermarket power folds that I fitted. Nights, I spend browsing the net looking for shining bits of T-6 related plastic. I don’t need these things, the van already has indicators, so why buy LED smoked sequential side repeaters, I can’t help myself.
Now when it gets dark I can venture out on the driveway and stand transfixed as I am hypnotized by the pulse of the sequential side repeaters. I’m not going anywhere, they only indicate my path to rack and ruin, is there any known cure.

Still it’s not all bad, at least I chose a Transporter it could have been a Vito.

Welcome to my world it's not lonely

 

[Newf]

Yes feels so much better to give in to the temptation and from what I have seen so far I'm in good company.

Now that I've come out of the shadows and made a post I'll maybe try and upload a photo or two of the van later on, I know you guys like a photo now and again - that's if I can master the technology to do it.

 

[Dellmassive]

Welcome to the club =)

 

[DaveyB]

It’s weird isn’t it; tell your mates you have a VW addiction they look at you like you’re a leper. Tell them you have a porn addiction, and they don’t bat an eyelid.

 

[Peatey]

It’s weird isn’t it; tell your mates you have a VW addiction they look at you like you’re a leper. Tell them you have a porn addiction, and they don’t bat an eyelid.

I don't know! Do they

 

[Newf]

And curiously both involve sitting up by yourself into the small hours, pouring over pictures on the internet... or so I've been told.

 

[DaveyB]

Oh. Must just be me then. .​

 

[Newf]

So as promised some pics of the cause of my addiction, (that's if I have mastered the uploading).

2018 Highline T-28 - 150ps in Acapulco Blue with Cherry Red highlights, she started life as a panel van but is now a Kombi.

 

[Shredder]

@Newf .... I'm going to go out on a limb here ... as a T6 owner, I maybe should know already but ........... what are the big 'SV' stickers denoting??

 

[Newf]

@Newf .... I'm going to go out on a limb here ... as a T6 owner, I maybe should know already but ........... what are the big 'SV' stickers denoting??

Hi Shredder - Marketing. It was Salop Vans that did the conversion from panel van to Kombi so they put some nice SV stickers on there to let everyone know.

I'm open to any suggestions for alternate meanings that I can tell people in future though......

 

[Shredder]

Ah right ... now I know. I have seen those decals everywhere from the Forest of Dean to Porte du Soleil !!

Could be embarrassing for me but I'l say it anyway ..... I thought it was some 'Super Vantage' performance pack or something that could possibly whoop my ass

 

[Newf]

Ah right ... now I know. I have seen those decals everywhere from the Forest of Dean to Porte du Soleil !!

Could be embarrassing for me but I'l say it anyway ..... I thought it was some 'Super Vantage' performance pack or something that could possibly whoop my ass

Oh if only, I like the sound of that though - 'Super Vantage' it has a ring to it.

 

[DaveyB]

Not too sure how Lambo have allowed Salop Vans get away with the copyright infringement. Maybe it’s not that close, but sure does look like it by my squinty eyes.

 

[Newf]

Not too sure how Lambo have allowed Salop Vans get away with the copyright infringement. Maybe it’s not that close, but sure does look like it by my squinty eyes.

You're right, that is very similar. So up to now I've been making the assumption that the SV is Salop Vans, perhaps I need to make a closer inspection of the engine bay when I get home from work.

 

[DaveyB]

You're right, that is very similar. So up to now I've been making the assumption that the SV is Salop Vans, perhaps I need to make a closer inspection of the engine bay when I get home from work.

Now that would be a nice surprise, an extra 6cylinders nestled in there that you didn’t order.

 

[Stewby]

Hello Newf.

I can beat you with the addiction (not that it is a competition). We have not yet got our veedub.... however, I seem to be on here everyday looking at things to do to our van when we get it.
Just seems to get more confusing with time... Do you lower it, raise it, leave it as is. What about putting on strips on the grill... silver, coloured or make them black.
If it isn't complicated enough trying to figure out what colour van to get... this is just getting to a whole news level of addiction.

In other news... you van is amazing. I am really liking the blue with the red detailing.

 

[Newf]

Thanks Stewby.
It wasn't a colour I though we would have went for but when we saw it we were sold.

That's the thing that attracted me to a Transporter, you can do so much to them (too many choices maybe). We have only had it a few months and the garage is fast filling up with bits that I've changed here and there or decided that I didn't like so they are back in 'storage' for the time being.

Just enjoy the ride once it arrives, and if you don't like the look of a mod you can have twice the fun putting it back to original spec. Well that's if you haven't cracked the old one getting it off, think I need a bit more practice with the trim tool on some of that thin plastic.....