Nice Salop van.
John.
John.
What Have You Done To Your Van Today?
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Get the wheel alignment done as soon as you can. It's amazing how quickly you can destroy the tyres if it's not spot on. Don't ask me how I know...
A little tinkering with lighting in the rear of the Caravelle to help the younguns feel it's not so dark. A kind of Mark II from my previous attempt. Still powered off the small Beaudens power pack tucked into the kitchen pod rather than hard wired.
Cheapish "fibre optic" car lighting kit with the fibre optic runs down the outside edge of the outer rails.
Then as I'd only used 2 out of the three lighting heads I fashioned a housing for 2 of them out of some scrap conduit and a small L bracket to tuck under the front of the bench between the storage bay flaps.
It's not quite as bright as the photo makes it seem.
Not sure if I will keep the extension heads, wanted to get it done for the next roadtrip.
I'd put more fibre runs up the mid rails but we have mats across the back so it would be wasted. I may end up hardware hacking the two lighting heads direct to power as I'm not using the control box for other colours or doing any dimming.
Cheapish "fibre optic" car lighting kit with the fibre optic runs down the outside edge of the outer rails.
Then as I'd only used 2 out of the three lighting heads I fashioned a housing for 2 of them out of some scrap conduit and a small L bracket to tuck under the front of the bench between the storage bay flaps.
It's not quite as bright as the photo makes it seem.
Not sure if I will keep the extension heads, wanted to get it done for the next roadtrip.
I'd put more fibre runs up the mid rails but we have mats across the back so it would be wasted. I may end up hardware hacking the two lighting heads direct to power as I'm not using the control box for other colours or doing any dimming.
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Ooh, I feel I need that! New backing plate or sticky inserts? Looks great!
Painted the original one, easy
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Selling my one.
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Looking good Matt! Have you got much more to do?
Just finessing stuff really. Got to sort a kitchen pod possibly. But we are going to play that by ear. Have a fridge already. That can be used 240v/12v. Bags of room for nice cool refreshments. Mud flaps. LED fogs. Sunglasses holder. Just bits and bobs
You'll get some good ideas at the forum meets, the majority of folk are happy to show off their creations. That's where the idea for our electrified razor wire fence came from!
Seriously, they are truly lovely sharing folk!
Seriously, they are truly lovely sharing folk!
Put my new plates on today
Not got the cash sorry mate
Tell you what I've done with my van today sold it because after owning a T32 from new and a sprinter from new I can honestly say the t6.1 is utter rubbish never had so many problems with a vehicle? Glad to see the back of the piece of rubbish! One thing after another! And I had dpf and egr delete from new as I didn't want it continuously dropping fuel in oil during DPF regeneration cycle ? But in my opinion the t5 was the last half decent build ! Oh and the DQ500 box isn't as good as originally thought!
Fitted a Van-X magnetic glove box cover. Makes the dashboard look so much better.
Whats the quality like? Would you recommend it? Thanks.
