That's a benign interpretation! Some might consider this forum a crack-den for recovering Transporter addicts.
Hi Thorsten,
I am very much looking forward to following your progress and build. Please continue to keep us informed. May I ask, what Air Suspension system are you going to be using? I am reconsidering going that way my self for our T6 SWB Caravelle 4Motion with Diff Lock Lock. Covid and Brexit dimmed my enthusiasm but I am waking up a little.
SpaceCamper is that Space Campers - Camper Shells for the Tesla Cybertruck ?
SpaceCamper | Der individuelle T6.1 Camping-Ausbau ?
Good Luck with your Caravelle
Thorsten
Member
The second SpaceCamper is my provider, i will not build it. I will have the "light" version with warm water and 300 AH lithium batterie power. Dry toilet and big fridge box will be on board.Concerning the Air Suspension i will go with the VB AirSuspension, in case that I can still afford it. It becomes horrible expensive but to reach the "better places" it probably worth it.
In Feb. it will come....
Hi Thorsten,
Concerning the Air Suspension i will go with the VB AirSuspension, in case that I can still afford it. It becomes horrible expensive but to reach the "better places" it probably worth it.
In Feb. it will come....
My wife, who has some German and fluent French, usually translates for me is away visiting or daughter at University and the web translator a bit cumbersome and slow. I did look at .spacecamper.de last night and did see the "light" version. It looks incredibly good, The company certainly makes interesting and attractive campers. Do they also fit the VB Air Suspension? It is fairly common over here and was what originally I thought of using. Over here there are also other Air Suspension Providers and fitters. However some have a preferred damper/shock-absorber which is not my choice. My preference is for Koni Adjustable Damping having used them over many years and like to adjust to my own preference. Air suspension will allow levelling for camping low settings for Limbo mode going under height restrictions and high for off road facilitation ground clearance and so on. Better I believe than coil springs except for cost of course.
In Germany Motor Camper Travel is very popular I believe. I used to use a couple of German forums for Off Road use, also very popular camper. A Pinzgauer Forum and a Volvo TGB Forum. I conversed on them for many years even buying a Volvo TGB from Germany. It always impressed me just how brilliant German people are with languages. They always conversed with me in better more grammatically correct English than I used. In fact I caused so much hilarity when using a web translate the asked me to just speak in English because it took the so long to stop laughing at my efforts. All in jest on their behalf of course. Any way that was a long time ago but a family came over here and stayed a little while and I entertained by taking them off-roading in Wales which they enjoyed. Plenty of river crossings.
Thorsten
Member
Dear King, no SC is doing only camping build, for the VB and some other changes I have to go with an other provider like Terranger (very good but very expensive) or BZS a very friendly company. The reasons for the airsuspension for me compared to Seikel fixed lift up.
1. First that I can pass the barrages on parking lots at the beach which are at 2 or 2,10m and second to level the car for sleeping and third to have some more clearance. Honestly the T6.1 is not a real off road car. I would not be sure with the river crossings.....
Wow a Volvo TGB this is realy impressive and a real 4x4 car. I would like also to have something comparable......but
The forums you mentioned i will give them a try. And concerning the language in our times it does not matter in which language we are speaking as long as we understand each other. So I keep on doing my best.
I had this year some time in Japan (a very very nice country) and I only know 10 word in Japan, but it was no problem with Google translator, which is used even by olderly people, and many friendly gestures we passed all communication problems. So keep us learning and traveling as long as the EU allows it. In this way
Viele Grüße aus Deutschland
1. First that I can pass the barrages on parking lots at the beach which are at 2 or 2,10m and second to level the car for sleeping and third to have some more clearance. Honestly the T6.1 is not a real off road car. I would not be sure with the river crossings.....
Wow a Volvo TGB this is realy impressive and a real 4x4 car. I would like also to have something comparable......but
The forums you mentioned i will give them a try. And concerning the language in our times it does not matter in which language we are speaking as long as we understand each other. So I keep on doing my best.
I had this year some time in Japan (a very very nice country) and I only know 10 word in Japan, but it was no problem with Google translator, which is used even by olderly people, and many friendly gestures we passed all communication problems. So keep us learning and traveling as long as the EU allows it. In this way
Viele Grüße aus Deutschland
weber-thomas2
New Member
Hello!
That´s ME!
My name is Thomas,
I started into the "Bulli Word" with a T5 2,5l with 131hp... bought it, loved it and started to change some features:
Color Display, 2nd Battery, brought it back to "almost original" - then during a vaccation in Italy, we took part in a hale storm -- my car looked like cheese.
After thinking a lot, we sold it and we bought a T6.1 "Generation Six"....
So now I am here to shre and to get support!
That´s ME!
My name is Thomas,
I started into the "Bulli Word" with a T5 2,5l with 131hp... bought it, loved it and started to change some features:
Color Display, 2nd Battery, brought it back to "almost original" - then during a vaccation in Italy, we took part in a hale storm -- my car looked like cheese.
After thinking a lot, we sold it and we bought a T6.1 "Generation Six"....
So now I am here to shre and to get support!
