What Have You Done To Your Van Today?
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Well I was impressed with Shayne from Shadtech. A full service on my Webasto Airtop 2000stc, and it certainly needed it! 4 years worth of accumulation on the burner which scrubbed up well and should last another 5 years he says. He also rerouted the webasto exhaust after a 'lazy' install by my converters.
He has all the webasto diagnostic tools and I now have more efficiency according to the software.
Heartily recommended to everyone.
He has all the webasto diagnostic tools and I now have more efficiency according to the software.
Heartily recommended to everyone.
Go on spoil yourself ill do you a gud price....must not look , must resist ....
the missus would/will kill me....
Got the new fridge in. Seems decent for the price. It does have to sit out a bit for the door to open fully, or I could trim the side that the door hinges but I'll deal with it sticking a bit out for now. Next plan is to put a cutlery drawer above it, crazy that a "professional conversion" comes without anywhere to put knives and forks! They also just put the remote for the inverter here. Lazy at best as its got a super long wire and I'll stick it up with the other buttons and controls. Annoyingly it of course leaves a hole in the ply..... so I need a small bit of the light weight ply which I think is Hacienda Black??? And of course as I'm in Northern Ireland is costs £55 quid to post even just a quarter panel of the stuff. Will look into some of the local conversion companies maybe they have some or can order in for me.
Not today, but yesterday I reversed the van into a small tree on a forest car park.
Luckily my mountain bike was on the back to save the van.
Unluckily it snapped my brake lever off.
So I got to ride 19 miles round Benachie forest and some great red routes on just a front brake-which was interesting.
Luckily my mountain bike was on the back to save the van.
Unluckily it snapped my brake lever off.
So I got to ride 19 miles round Benachie forest and some great red routes on just a front brake-which was interesting.
@Bigsidavies. Been there so I feel for you - you got of lightly though so count yourself lucky. The tree that my van collided with in Greece a few years ago was a particularly aggressive b'stard resulting in a £6K repair job. I won't tell who was driving at the time!
Nylon ripstop bag, bound tight. Otherwise you’ll be listening to the orchestra on every bump in the road.
My better half came up with the idea of a small pencil case, it works really well for eating irons!
Canvas tool roll:
Been there too. Went wrong on a road in France and did a U turn in a farm entrance which resulted in me taking a couple of stones off the top of a wall......fortunately the bike rack took the hit well and I scuttled off tres vite !
Are they Tiguan Seats? Look like the ones in mine, which I really like for comfort.
Only swapping because the wife struggles on long journeys with the bench seat hurting her back being sat upright and no adjustment. And muppet here fitted the rear tv screen in a position that won’t allow me to fit a reclined bracket as it will clash badly.
OEM transporter seats are just stupid money. I’ve done everything for less than £500
These are MK 7 R line heated. Just need to sort out the heating side of things.
Surely you can't be that old and still be driving?
That's why i swapped my double out, not comfy and if i sat in that seat my head touches the headlining, managed to get a passenger heated seat with armrests and had the fronts recovered in leather with the side bolsters, so much more comfort, my drivers seat was factory heated but the passenger one was not on the double, original drivers seat had a factory swivel as well so that was a bonus
Fitted a new Varta 95Ah AGM battery and coded it in. All was going swimmingly until I got to the coding as my VCDS was showing different to all the methods/examples I had seen online. Then to throw a curveball in when selecting the battery chemistry there was no option for VCDS. The I had a vague recollection of reading somewhere online that "FLEECE" was the option for AGM. Jeez why is nothing straight forward with these vans.
Had a strange noise on starting up the van for a week, literally for a second... bricking it thinking it may be a loose belt again - which was costly, got it into the garage yesterday. Had a message not long after... yep the dreaded Flywheel on its way out. Booked in for a week today to get DMF etc sorted..
had a feeling it was on its way out, slightly different noise to when clutch is depressed to when its not.
Had the air-con regassed last week as well.. chilly on the
as they say.
So after the garage, went home & cleaned the Magnaclean on the Central Heating & put in some inhibitor. Takes your mind off it
had a feeling it was on its way out, slightly different noise to when clutch is depressed to when its not.
Had the air-con regassed last week as well.. chilly on the
as they say.So after the garage, went home & cleaned the Magnaclean on the Central Heating & put in some inhibitor. Takes your mind off it
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