What Have You Done To Your Van Today?
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Then they sent the wrong tyre! Some eco crap!Had Tyre Medic round to the house to swap the winter wheels for the summer wheels: he also swapped the winter tyres on my wife's Mazda. £98 all in.
I asked him to swap the spare tyre off the VW spare rim and onto the van. The spare tyre has been on the van from new in 2017.
He told me it was unusable. He had a look at it and called me over. The spare tyre undertray had dug into the tyre and it was distorted and there was also signs of rubber degradation in various areas. So another £179 for my pleasure!.
To top it off he advised me that the front brakes pads on the Mazda were very low. I had a look. Thin is an understatement there should have been a dashboard warning on that. So he’ll be back tomorrow (£98) to sort out the wheel and the brakes. #moneypitsareus!
The guy who came round is a family friend so i know there is no con involved but that was an unexpected £277 from the holiday fund!
Mrs CAB hails from Blurton, so I have been educated proper like!
Just down the road from me in Longton ( Neckend )
John.
John.
An Oatcake that is
Think you can order them online? Maybe not the best ones but better than those in Tesco.
A proper day out when everybody’s happy…. top man!
It’d be interesting to get your feedback on your new suspension setup from @CRS Performance ?
Centre caps coloured coded to van?!!
A proper day out when everybody’s happy…. top man!
It’d be interesting to get your feedback on your new suspension setup from @CRS Performance ?
Transformation.
It's still a van, but so much more comfortable.
Composed, far less roll, no crashing, actually makes it more relaxing to drive.
Took Mrs CAB less than half the 20 minutes through Cannock and Rugeley to our lunch destination to appreciate the improvement.
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Just as H7s are the lights that VW should have put on all T6s as a minimum, if they were the vehicle that actually matched the reputation they have, so this setup should be the suspension supplied as standard.
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Fitted new black wheel bolts to replace some crusty silver ones that looked horrible and didn’t go with the graphite wheels. I didn’t have any locking bolts so put some of them on at the same time. Looks much better now 
No pics as the wheels are filthy!!
No pics as the wheels are filthy!!
Fitted a kador (keder?) strip to the rack as we have bought a Dometic Club Pro 260 off of marketplace. Realised quickly even the throw-over straps wouldn’t really work with the rack so managed to find a way to get strips on without any modification. Leaves me with more of a gap than I’d like but it’ll serve a purpose anyway.
Expensive month as bought a CFX3 fridge and a River 2 Max battery (cctvkits forum code and their keen pricing made that a bit more bearable!) too. Ready for the year ahead now though!
Expensive month as bought a CFX3 fridge and a River 2 Max battery (cctvkits forum code and their keen pricing made that a bit more bearable!) too. Ready for the year ahead now though!
Gave the van a good wash and fitted the new Fiamma bike rack (so pleased we went for black) and a brand new second hand front splitter (very happy with it thanks @mattyd247 )
Fitted the solar panel to the roof, used some vinyl under the brackets for the sikaflex so it will come off easily. Drilled 4x holes for the M6 bolts to hold the aero brackets down and an 8mm hole under the panel for the grommet for the wire.
Have temporarily connected up inside but not yet ran the wire behind the panels and haven’t yet refitted the interior roof panels, but it works - even in overcast sky it was pulling in 47w and with a small break in the cloud I saw 94w which is fab
Got roof rails to fit as well.
Have temporarily connected up inside but not yet ran the wire behind the panels and haven’t yet refitted the interior roof panels, but it works - even in overcast sky it was pulling in 47w and with a small break in the cloud I saw 94w which is fab
Got roof rails to fit as well.
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Wow! Good job done there!
Looks great. Where did you get the carpet from? Has the matting and carpet made a difference with road noise? I take it the seats have to come out to swap?
