What Have You Done To Your Van Today?
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Jack Masters
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View attachment 40303 View attachment 40304 View attachment 403052 birds/1 stone, swapped le grille and headlights. Had le grille for a while, been waiting for some nice headlights and ordered the V2 headlights from Transporter HQ as soon as I saw them.
Thanks to DaveyB for the badgeless grille
What are you doing with your old grill @Jack Masters ?
This made me chuckle, been a fellow MTBer. Ditch the wife and kids, take the rear seats out....loads of room!
Soulstyledevon
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Just gave her a tickle with the sponge...
Having recieved the delayed bits for my bumpers from Travelin Lite, I re-removed the front bumper, fought with the lower grill pieces, they're a beeatch to get in when sloshing with water, and refitted the whole thing again, in the rain... in 1½hrs .
Then got the badge off the old Startline bumper.... And it's still light out!
Then got the badge off the old Startline bumper.... And it's still light out!
Fitted the cheap ebay mirror fold-on-lock relay that I also got more than a year ago. Now my driver's door mirror folds and unfolds on locking and unlocking exactly as I wanted - sadly the passenger side remains stubbornly uncooperative. It looks like I need to run another 4 cables over to the passenger door side to break into the wires leading from the door module to the mirror motor, which was a bit unexpected.
Combined with another wasted trip to a trimmer I'm rapidly losing faith in, the problem I've posted about with my VCDS access, then this, it's been a day of no progress
Combined with another wasted trip to a trimmer I'm rapidly losing faith in, the problem I've posted about with my VCDS access, then this, it's been a day of no progress
Fitted Maxton Splitter today. Started off straight forward until I got to the corners and then escalated into a pig of a job for a self certified DIY biff like myself. Sure I loosened all the right trims and guards to get right behind the bumper but my hands now look like I've been feeding Piranhas. Anyway it's on and I'm not even sure I love it!? Hopefully it will grow on me as it was supposed to scratch my itch for putting a Sportline front on!
Finished of fitting my Alpine dvd player (big thanks to @Fish for the mounting advice last month), that will keep my two little cherubs occupied on long journeys. It comes with 2 sets of wireless headphones so while the kids are quietly watching a movie I can subject the wife to my music back catalogue.
One issue with it for any of the resident electrical wizards. The led dome light on the dvd dims rather than going off when the van interior lights go off. If you turn the ignition key to the on position (not started) interior lights go out and led light on dvd goes fully out - like it is meant to. I saw in some other posts that folk were having similar issues when installing interior leds, but solution seemed to be to buy better leds. These are built into the dvd player so can't do that. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
DVD is hooked up to -ve ground point under passenger seat, I have run +ve and acc +ve from back of fuse box. The switched -ve for the led dome light is run to the switched -ve in the interior roof light (brown/red wite).
Hole cut in roof sheet. Then three layers of marine ply build up from roof. First fixed to roof with Sike-flex next two glued with Evostick wood glue.
Dvd all in place and ready to play.
It is in the centre of the roof design honest, just looks completely off centre due to angle of photo.
One issue with it for any of the resident electrical wizards. The led dome light on the dvd dims rather than going off when the van interior lights go off. If you turn the ignition key to the on position (not started) interior lights go out and led light on dvd goes fully out - like it is meant to. I saw in some other posts that folk were having similar issues when installing interior leds, but solution seemed to be to buy better leds. These are built into the dvd player so can't do that. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
DVD is hooked up to -ve ground point under passenger seat, I have run +ve and acc +ve from back of fuse box. The switched -ve for the led dome light is run to the switched -ve in the interior roof light (brown/red wite).
Hole cut in roof sheet. Then three layers of marine ply build up from roof. First fixed to roof with Sike-flex next two glued with Evostick wood glue.
Dvd all in place and ready to play.
It is in the centre of the roof design honest, just looks completely off centre due to angle of photo.
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2 birds/1 stone, swapped le grille and headlights. Had le grille for a while, been waiting for some nice headlights and ordered the V2 headlights from Transporter HQ as soon as I saw them.
Thanks to DaveyB for the badgeless grille
That badgeless grille looks great, very tempted to look at this option
Picked BoB up from Dan at vision tech automotive ( well yesterday actually)
Blown away with the finished result, interior looks factory fitted, recaro’s are awesome.
Time to save up for the next bits.
Thanks to Dan and the team at VTA for such superb quality workmanship and excellent finish.
Blown away with the finished result, interior looks factory fitted, recaro’s are awesome.
Time to save up for the next bits.
Thanks to Dan and the team at VTA for such superb quality workmanship and excellent finish.
Well this weekend I'll mostly be trying to turn this -
into this.
So far I got this -
I've got a long weekend ahead of me!
into this.
So far I got this -
I've got a long weekend ahead of me!
Ta. So far so good. Tomorrow I'll have a an excitable 4 year old 'helping'.
So I'm sure it'll be finished by lunch!
So I'm sure it'll be finished by lunch!
Well this weekend I'll mostly be trying to turn this -
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into this.
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So far I got this -
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I've got a long weekend ahead of me!
Top tip, make sure the edge banding is nice and warm, it's so much easier to fit. Lay on a radiator before you hammer on.
I've been looking at those actuators too recently @andys . For a different purpose, namely to remotely rotate the rear overhead locker by 90 degrees, so that I can make the 6 x 9 speakers face forward. Better sound that way but better loading ability when they face downward.
Have you thought of....
1) Ball valve and solenoid. As found in some central heating systems. Valve fully opens without pressure behind it.
2) A submerged pump with an outlet over the top of the tank. There would no requirement for a solenoid at all then.
3) Taking it to the edge of the envelope here, but a small 12v air compressor as used to blow your tyres up. Pressurise the tank with air and blow the waste out when the valves open. Would need non return valve on the inlet though.
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No pics as nothing to really see but got my eton speaker upgrade completed today. Been itching to do this since they arrived but watched a german lad installing them on you tube and he advised fitting 'cones' probably the wrong description but they go around the speaker and are supposed to direct the sound out thru the speaker grilles. Get them at VW but were on back order so took a week or so to arrive. Sound difference is absolutely amazing and as the doors are well silent coated they have a nice solid clunk when you close them too. Happy days...…...
yep, here you go was really helpful for an amateur like me...………
fitting eton speakers to vw t6 - Bing video
I just put the volume right down, sub titles are pretty good.
