What Have You Done To Your Van Today?
- Thread starter Daneeyre
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Did you make that or buy a kit?
Starting get the van ready for France. Getting electrics in order first.
All made from scratch, 18mm structural osb 4 sheets 8x4 (enough for lwb) locking drawer runners bought online , lining it with heavy duty fibresheet carpet ( thin rib office carpet) £240 total for materials. Already had glue and screws
Good job fella
Started the day feeling positive. Didn't last very long....
Attempted to fit my roof bars following the 'no leak' method.
Got the first bit of threaded bar, started to wind on the nylock nut, took too long and my wrist got tired, got the impact gun, much quicker..... until the nut somehow got cross threaded halfway down the bar and the nylock bit melted
Mullered the bar and the nut trying to get them undone.
So now I have had to order another bit of bar and a new nylock nut - unable to even start fitting them to the van til that arrives
Later on I checked my EcoFlow app as I do most days to ensure the solar is charging the battery bank. Showing 100% - nice.
Checked it again about 2 hours later and it is now showing 0% and the battery failure symbol is flashing
After some head scratching, if I power it off, wait 5 mins and then power it back on, it briefly shows 95% on the display and then after 10 seconds immediately jumps to 0% and battery failure symbol flashes again.
FFS
Have 'contacted seller' via Amazon to report faulty.
Attempted to fit my roof bars following the 'no leak' method.
Got the first bit of threaded bar, started to wind on the nylock nut, took too long and my wrist got tired, got the impact gun, much quicker..... until the nut somehow got cross threaded halfway down the bar and the nylock bit melted
Mullered the bar and the nut trying to get them undone.
So now I have had to order another bit of bar and a new nylock nut - unable to even start fitting them to the van til that arrives
Later on I checked my EcoFlow app as I do most days to ensure the solar is charging the battery bank. Showing 100% - nice.
Checked it again about 2 hours later and it is now showing 0% and the battery failure symbol is flashing
After some head scratching, if I power it off, wait 5 mins and then power it back on, it briefly shows 95% on the display and then after 10 seconds immediately jumps to 0% and battery failure symbol flashes again.
FFS
Have 'contacted seller' via Amazon to report faulty.
Yes. You would also need a spacer to take up the thickness of the rubber mat.
It would be neater with the bolt head on top and the nut under the floor.
Thanks yes got some of those but I can’t extract the stud from the bodywork. I can take the bolt off the top and release the holding down strap bracket but the stud bolt just spins and I can’t seem to get it out of the body??
Cleaned the van inside and out after 2 weeks and 2,500 miles in France and Italy (lots of flies on the front !).
Checked all fluids - no oil used
Re-attached the dashcam and toll tag with better double sided tape - they both fell off in the heat when parked up.
Took it down the yard ready to be used in a few weeks time.
Pete
PS Dreading the France toll charge bill when it arrives this month.
Checked all fluids - no oil used
Re-attached the dashcam and toll tag with better double sided tape - they both fell off in the heat when parked up.
Took it down the yard ready to be used in a few weeks time.
Pete
PS Dreading the France toll charge bill when it arrives this month.
What tyres are you running?
You ought to pop a few ventilation holes in that board
Ha ha ha! I sprayed my beer!!!
