Deaky’s Kombi to Camper journey
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Customer here waiting.
I’ve had a look @DaveyB but I can’t find it. It’s a 20mm x 20mm black plastic L shaped trim. It was in the hardware section.
Ok, cheers.
I want to be your first customer
Had a full day on it today. Everything seems to take twice as long as you’d think. I’ve test fitted the rear panels and pimped up the motor covers.
They look a bit Frankenstein’s monster
but they’ll be fine when they’re carpeted. The rear piece is held in place with 1 screw so can be easily removed.
Obviously there will be ambient lights just above the door pockets
I’ve covered the motor covers with foam first then carpeted them.
Spot the deliberate mistake
The door pockets and the rest of the ply will be carpeted. The old speaker grille is where I’m going to fit the led dimmer switches. The white wood showing will be covered in Napa leather with red stitch detail to match the seats.
They look a bit Frankenstein’s monster
but they’ll be fine when they’re carpeted. The rear piece is held in place with 1 screw so can be easily removed. Obviously there will be ambient lights just above the door pockets
I’ve covered the motor covers with foam first then carpeted them.
Spot the deliberate mistake
The door pockets and the rest of the ply will be carpeted. The old speaker grille is where I’m going to fit the led dimmer switches. The white wood showing will be covered in Napa leather with red stitch detail to match the seats.
How have you put the depth detail into the panel?
Same as I did the c pillars @DaveyB . Cut the shape in the board. Stapled another piece of board to the back then carpeted it, pushing the carpet into the shape with a trim tool.
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So what size boards are you using to enable you still use hidden fixings?
What, two layers of it?
It’s only 2 layers where the cut outs are.
Ahh, I see. Very clever.
Thanks for all your kind wordsGuess I’m lucky that I’ve always been good with my hands
. After the bag of shite I got back after sending my old van for someone else to convert, this time I thought I’d try and do as much as I could myself. This being my second van I know exactly what works for us camping and using the van for work. It’s getting exciting now but I could of happily set fire to it a few weeks ago when I got it back from VanDoc. I’d stripped all the dash, leisure electrics, door cards, stereo and cab out. Got to admit I was a bit overwhelmed
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As usual I’d set myself an impossible goal of doing everything in a couple of days. Fortunately I have a great wife who kept me from the matchesGlad I stuck with it now.
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Great effort, looks amazing! How come you have used Dynamat on doors and SilentCoat on the floor? Is that the best way of doing it?
I had this very conversation with the guys at 'The Sound Deadening Shop' just down the road from me yesterday.
He says the Audio guys love the Dynamat brand, and if your spending £0000's on audio then you'd want the best materials around the best speakers to get the best sounds.
The converters love Silent Coat, as you get a lot more coverage per £ spent.
I was in buying a couple of Dynamat sheets for my new door cards, just following what Absolut5 did on the existing card when they did my sounds, same material same place was my mantra.
If you look at the prices of the two this will make sense.