What Have You Done To Your Van Today?

[Drive Wayne]

That was a day! New Roamer S4 230 is in, front passenger seat was out while the Orion XS50 went in.
I love the way the Cerbo just accepts new family members!
All seems to be working well.
End of chat, Rioja beckons...

 

[Rioja John]

End of chat, Rioja beckons...

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I haven’t opened my gob.

 

[nomislotsirb]

I designed and made them. If there is a demand I may consider selling them.

At the moment I only have black Vinyl if you wanted some I'm sure I could whip you up a set of plain ones pretty quick.

PM'ed you

 

[Jamiedh]

Finally got round to fitting winter wheels and save the 20s for summer.. if we ever get one! View attachment 270621

are these Fuel Zephyrs? What tyre size are you running?

 

[Roberts83]

Cleaning time

 

[Albel]

Why wouldn’t you ???
It’s the little things that you have to do sometimes
Changed the standard black wing badges to match my teal colour trim sprayed by myself well pleased.
Black side indicators
And of course black high level stop lights …
Plus a little winter wash

 

[Stu007]

are these Fuel Zephyrs? What tyre size are you running?

Sorry missed this.. yes Fuel Zephyrs, tyres 225 55 17 Goodyear tyres

 

[david173]

yesterday stripped out the van ready for new speakers, amp , head unit reverse camera and rear speakers.
also fixed the side mirror where some kind person had clipped it. what a b@stard those wing mirror clips are!!

 

[frankspencer1979]

Picture of a picture - owned this for about a year in the early 00's. The only factory painted mercury grey series 1 rs turbo. Bought it already restored so take no credit for it, realised I couldn't look after it as well as it needed so sold it on. I keep looking it up every now and again, it's not confirmed if it's still in one piece really but if someone still has it locked away I'm sure it will be worth a small fortune!

Haha - I thought I was still in the "show is your old cars" thread - apologies for that!!

 

[Coenraad]

Installed a hood solar panel

https://flic.kr/p/2qGaY8S

And experimented with gasstruts on the back door. 200kn force struts are maybe a bit to much. Going to test 150kn to see the difference

https://flic.kr/p/2qG9G8z

 

[Bav]

Installed a hood solar panel

https://flic.kr/p/2qGaY8S

And experimented with gasstruts on the back door. 200kn force struts are maybe a bit to much. Going to test 150kn to see the difference

https://flic.kr/p/2qG9G8z

You've posted about several novel and innovative camper- / van-related products, @Coenraad. What's your background?

 

[Kind of Blue]

Installed a hood solar panel

https://flic.kr/p/2qGaY8S

And experimented with gasstruts on the back door. 200kn force struts are maybe a bit to much. Going to test 150kn to see the difference

https://flic.kr/p/2qG9G8z

Do I need to pay protection money to the Hood? It looks good, I guess it would not fail any safety regulation. It might if left on pose as a risk for theft? How does it adhere to the Hood pleas don't suggest hand cuffs?

 

[drinfinity]

200kn force struts are maybe a bit to much. Going to test 150kn to see the difference

200kN? That would lift 6 Transporters straight up!

 

[drinfinity]

maybe a bit to much

 

[roooms]

Finally installed the new DC DC charger, shunt and batteries I bought in the Renogy Black Friday sale last year.

All works great but I found the 16mm2 cable I bought seems more like 10mm2 with thicker insulation (and 16mm2 printed on it). Annoyed with myself for using Amazon again for wire

Now I’ve proven out the test fit and all the wiring lengths I think I’ll buy thicker cable from 12v planet and make up new ones.

I’ve upgraded from 100ah AGM that came in the van to 200ah lithium. Also upgraded from a 20amp C-TEK D250SE to a 40amp Renogy.

Before


After


These Renogy core mini batteries only just fit under the drivers seat without fouling the seat adjuster mechanisms. I have a lowered (jennings) seat base and then adapters for car seats (I use Tiguan R seats) so everything is a bit unique and hard to rely on what other folks have done.

Shunt displayed in dc home app

 

[JumpShip]

And of course black high level stop lights …




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Where did you get these please ?
They look like they actually fit properly and the ones are bought really don't

 

[Coenraad]

You've posted about several novel and innovative camper- / van-related products, @Coenraad. What's your background?

This is being done by a engineering friend. He likes doing this kind of things. And they are things that where floating around in my head to get designed and fabricated for a while now.

 

[Coenraad]

Do I need to pay protection money to the Hood? It looks good, I guess it would not fail any safety regulation. It might if left on pose as a risk for theft? How does it adhere to the Hood pleas don't suggest hand cuffs?

It is stuck on with enough 3M tape and adhesive that it is better to take the full hood than only the panel

 

[monty999]

Finished off the rear camera install. Alpine camera in an oem mount. Really pleased I used the vw mount instead of the bracket that came with the camera.

 

[JumpShip]

Soooo....its rained most of the day here in 'sunny' spain , eventually it stopped about 4.30 so what better time to polish your van .
Had to start on the bit under the canopy cuz it hadn't finished spitting .