Definitely matey
What Have You Done To Your Van Today?
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Ditto, my wallet is also £647 lighter.Just picked up the freshly MOT'd camper - no advisories.
Cambelt & water pump replaced @ £647.00 including the dreaded VAT
Whilst replacing the cb & wp, they found that the v belt tensioner was seized, so a new one & belt was fitted - luckily the 5yr warranty fully covered this cost.
And the expected service wasn't needed, as it flashed up "Inspection Service", so this wasn't charged for & the warning was reset.
Plenty of free creamy hot chocolate whilst waiting for the paperwork.
An overall good experience from Vw Sheffield
Difference being I tried the coffee machine and ended up with hot milk.
Where did you stay ..??
What miles did you have on ..??
Did you ask for the belt back ??
No - why would I?
To see if it really needed changing …. You do realise it’s a vw uk cash cow …
@Linoleum Bonypart -
Everything to do with any major car maker is a cash cow...
As Vw UK recommendation for a cambelt change is the sooner of either 4yrs / 80,000 miles & for the money I paid yesterday, it gives me a reassurance that if it now goes pop, the warranty will pick up the cost.
The initial total cost of the camper was quite a considerable amount of hard earned cash, so to spend more monies on regular upkeep is an unfortunate, but necessary evil.
I actually don't want to look at the old belt, as what is now done is done, and if it did look ok, what could I do but weep & complain?
Life's to short to look backwards.
You pays your money and then look forward to the next camping trip with the family of moomins
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Removed the useless mirror last night was pissing me off just need to find a 3D printing guru to create a neat light/rain sensor cover now anyone got any suggestions
Turn it into a sunglasses holder or phone phone mount?
Good coat hook that...
I was reading last night about battery drain on this forum. Converters and experts using the neg on the battery instead of the body, results in battery drain down. I'll see if I can find the chat.
Thanks, there isn't anything connected to the negative of the battery as I had come across the shunt thingy previously and any new things I have added had been removed / disconnected prior to VW assist arriving. One thing I havent found out from searching is how long the van is "searching" or "live" once turned off and left unlocked. I've still had a drain of over 2amps on an unlocked van three hours after leaving it.
FFS. Fitted the new tap. 3 minutes. Started filling the tank and the drain tap I fitted last week started leaking. The window mastic I used hadn’t set after week. So now I’ve bought external serious 'Turbo hard ba*stard mastic’ and re fitted. i’ll leave it for a week to set but I do have to think about a permanent solution.
Painted some interior bits, hopefully fit tomorrow or Saturday
Fantastic job , they look amazing
