Caravelle ceiling mounting points
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I have one in the Volvo and they're a godsend when you need to carry loads so got one for the Caravelle too.
Here's mine in situ in the front mounts:
And the rear mounts:
I'd hoped that we could leave it in place at the rear as a luggage guard but it's under too much tension for comfort. The Volvo one is tensioned by a buckle so has some variability, the VW one is like an elastic safety strap and a T fitting into the rails.
The front is useful as I can drop the seats flat, throw the rugs over them and move big IKEA boxes etc. But given the roof mounts are fixed and there is so little variability in the bottom straps I'm not sure why they hook into the rails, in both positions a tensionable strap that hooked into the lashing rings would make it sit better.
They're around £600 new and IMHO not worth that, keep an eye out second hand I ended up getting one for £150 and they are worth that for when you want to move big stuff.
Here's mine in situ in the front mounts:
And the rear mounts:
I'd hoped that we could leave it in place at the rear as a luggage guard but it's under too much tension for comfort. The Volvo one is tensioned by a buckle so has some variability, the VW one is like an elastic safety strap and a T fitting into the rails.
The front is useful as I can drop the seats flat, throw the rugs over them and move big IKEA boxes etc. But given the roof mounts are fixed and there is so little variability in the bottom straps I'm not sure why they hook into the rails, in both positions a tensionable strap that hooked into the lashing rings would make it sit better.
They're around £600 new and IMHO not worth that, keep an eye out second hand I ended up getting one for £150 and they are worth that for when you want to move big stuff.
It's just a rod with a disk on - like a large nail head - if that makes sense.
If you want to mount something on it find a bolt whose head will go through the larger hole and the shaft will slide down into the slot from your bits box. I found that some plastic flat pack furniture connecting bolts worked very well when I temporarily needed to mount some lights in mine on a small block of wood.
Similar to these (as an example, I've not confirmed these are the same size as mine)
If you want to mount something on it find a bolt whose head will go through the larger hole and the shaft will slide down into the slot from your bits box. I found that some plastic flat pack furniture connecting bolts worked very well when I temporarily needed to mount some lights in mine on a small block of wood.
Similar to these (as an example, I've not confirmed these are the same size as mine)
Finally found an old post of mine talking to @moodsterT6 about his mobile office Caravelle - they look like M8 mounts:
Those RAM mount attachments are amazing
I've been thinking of using those mounting points in our Caravelle for similar things, so far found some cabinet joiner fittings that sort of work but clamping a bit of wood onto them was not really the look I wanted. Would you mind letting me know what the fitting is that goes into the roof mounting point - there are so many options I can't figure it out.
Also a big fan of your thread on adding secondary lights as I want to do something similar. I'm guessing from this thread if you did it again you'd use the strip above the door...
That is really useful information, thank you very much! I thought as much and I was thinking of using something like https://www.accu.co.uk/joint-connector-barrel-nuts/649096-HJCBN-M8-12-ZP but I preferred plastic in case metal might damage the plastic of the mount.
