What Have You Done To Your Van Today?

Had to install a new Bowden cable into the door after snapping the last one when removing the door card to install a puddle light. Also snapped a clip on the umbilical between door and body. Thankfully VW give you a long pull cable (yellow tag) to separate without having to strip it all down.. Just pull the yellow tag and the whole cable comes out for disconnecting.

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I managed to re wire the buttons on my Golf Gte/t6 power inlet to do what I want. I can now lock / unlock the flap from inside the cab then once I get my laser etcher I will be able to see the led`s I have mounted inside the buttons to indicate the state of the Inlet ( lights up to let me know its open). Now the external buttons light up when the flap is opened and 1 does the led`s so I can see where the plug is and the other does the lights I have mounted under the bonnet just in case I ever need them.
https://youtu.be/1BERHORnYw4
 
I managed to re wire the buttons on my Golf Gte/t6 power inlet to do what I want. I can now lock / unlock the flap from inside the cab then once I get my laser etcher I will be able to see the led`s I have mounted inside the buttons to indicate the state of the Inlet ( lights up to let me know its open). Now the external buttons light up when the flap is opened and 1 does the led`s so I can see where the plug is and the other does the lights I have mounted under the bonnet just in case I ever need them.
https://youtu.be/1BERHORnYw4
No one likes a show off Alan. No one.










By the way it looks brilliant.
 
The HL is the small one is that yours then - I only wanted to get the BOSE soundlink in which you can in the SL and TL but didn’t know how easy it came apart to look to alter.

Bizarrely, the HL overhead cubby is different sizes! I’ve got the smaller one in mine.
 
Spent the day getting the leisure battery and other electrics fitted up to the seat bases.
Work in progress,
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Have managed to cram a TN Power 100ah lithium battery, Renogy DC-DC unit and the primary camper fuse box under the passenger seat.
 
Supposed to be camping in Snowdonia with a good friend for a week of kayaking, climbing and good times.
Instead the van got treated to the full 'sack, back and crack' treatment. lol Wash and wax and removed rusting side bars to prep for powder coating.

Looks like I'm sleeping in the driveway

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I watched a bloke from our village drag his bike across the front of my cali, trying to get through the gap left by a delivery van temporarily parked in front, and he gouged the lower part on the bumper.
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Fortunately it had PPF covering there so I removed the ppf
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I also had the Cali scrapped last year in France so I also removed that corner as well.
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I watched a bloke from our village drag his bike across the front of my cali, trying to get through the gap left by a delivery van temporarily parked in front, and he gouged the lower part on the bumper.
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Fortunately it had PPF covering there so I removed the ppf
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I also had the Cali scrapped last year in France so I also removed that corner as well.
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Wow, that's testament to PPF. I bet by the time you'd of had the inconvenience of the van off the road, the cost of painting the bumper, the PPF instal works out much better value, specially as you now have a brand new finish on something that would of ordinarily been covered in stone chips anyway.

Are you bothering to get it re-wrapped?
 
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