What Have You Bought Today?

[Ayjay]

@Jimmmmy Beat you to it (but your model looks better quality than mine:

Added a mini me mascot to the centre of the dash - not quite the right shade of blue but not too far off. I think it's about 1/64 and even has a VW hologram on bottom (£3 in a shop in N. Mortehoe which is probably less than VW would charge for the hologram sticker on its own).View attachment 123661View attachment 123662

 

[Jimmmmy]

I have a few more, my van is pure grey, what colour would be best short of a respray, i have the paint but don`t really wanna paint them, or just put them all on the dash

 

[Lightrofit]

More parts for the big stoppers…

New dust shields, bolts (because a great weekend is only one bad bolt away from being ruined) and hoses as mine are likely originals and 9 years old.

Even though there are some that exist, I may do a write up so I have an excuse to pic dump all the nice shiny new parts being fitted, when is TBC.

 

[Jimmmmy]

Found another one...lol ...and a soft top beetle...aint they pretty

 

[Ali-G]

Bigger stoppers have arrived…

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Nice, are you going to paint them before you fit them?

 

[Shawman]

Went to the NEC Caravan and Motorhome exhibition today and all I bought was a cup of coffee, wife very

 

[Lightrofit]

Nice, are you going to paint them before you fit them?

I did consider it but the extra time to wait for them to be coated would mean extra time that my work van is off the road and it’s been dead since Jan 15th lol

 

[moomin-j]

More parts for the big stoppers…

New dust shields, bolts (because a great weekend is only one bad bolt away from being ruined) and hoses as mine are likely originals and 9 years old.

Even though there are some that exist, I may do a write up so I have an excuse to pic dump all the nice shiny new parts being fitted, when is TBC.

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@Lightrofit - have you got the part numbers for the hoses please?

 

[Lightrofit]

@Lightrofit - have you got the part numbers for the hoses please?

I went with 7H0 611 701 D as they’re 50mm shorter for sport suspension but 7H0 611 701 B is the 600mm common hose.

 

[BoroBoy]

Meaco 260C Portable Cordless Fan.

 

[Ayjay]

@BoroBoy. That looks good - please report back when you've had a chance to use it in anger. I'm particularly interested in noise and battery life.

 

[BoroBoy]

@Ayjay - Fan is Usb charged/powered. Noise level is less than 30dba according to the instruction manual.

 

[Ayjay]

@BoroBoy Thanks for that. Perhaps I should have been clearer and asked about the run time between charges.

 

[laidbackian]

New windscreen cover for Daisy

 

[Mike23864]

This

 

[BoroBoy]

@BoroBoy Thanks for that. Perhaps I should have been clearer and asked about the run time between charges.

I will send you the info from the instructions.

 

[t6blo]

10L of Adblue and a 1 litre jug.

First time filling the adblue tank so will do a litre at a time incase it gets over filled and will be bricking it until the van decides to reset the mileage.

 

[Loz]

Why? Just switch the display to litres and add the maximum in one go before turning on the ignition. It’s not like a fuel gauge where you can see the needle rise, it’s ultrasonic and just measures it once when you turn on.

 

[t6blo]

Why? Just switch the display to litres and add the maximum in one go before turning on the ignition. It’s not like a fuel gauge where you can see the needle rise, it’s ultrasonic and just measures it once when you turn on.

I get that but if it says it needs 8.5 litres then I need to know that I have put 8x 1 litre and then half a 1 litre.

If I try and guess 8.5 from a 10 litre bottle then I might put in 9 by mistake which would overfill it and mess up the sensor no?

 

[Ali-G]

Should have got a bigger jug, you'll be there all day.