What made you want a caddy?

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Loved having a van for ease in daily life but missed the appointments that are taken for granted with cars. Plus the modding has been/is a lot of fun as having car like perks in the van which can't be bought is like hacking the status quo.

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Maxi4life wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:15 am Loved having a van for ease in daily life but missed the appointments that are taken for granted with cars. Plus the modding has been/is a lot of fun as having car like perks in the van which can't be bought is like hacking the status quo.

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Best of both worlds right?
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I wanted a t5 caravelle but couldn't afford one.. So maxi life it was... I still look at t5's after 3 years of ownership lol

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watty1998 wrote:I’m intrigued as to why everyone has picked a caddy to modify out of anything else you could have picked?!

Mine reasons being, that I can sleep in it and take the mountain bike out at the same time. Having something different to a modified car, more head turning to see a modded Caddy! And the fact there are so many mods you can do to it compared to car in terms of interior and exterior, colour coding, carpeting, changing dash etc!

Let me know your reasons!
I always like a van of sorts. Started with a commer bread van then a marina, escort, switched to estates for a bit, then a t2, t4 and a V Class Merc. The v class was great but rusted appallingly despite care. I wanted a t5 but they're expensive and my wife wanted something smaller. So I bought a maxi life. 7 seats for family combo trips, I can get my longest surf board in at 9'2", somewhere to change and hook up an awning and it acts as a bedroom. Recently added an adapted amdro boot jump which acts as seats, double bed, table, storage and cooker. And now a pop top with bed in. The vans good for anything I can think of. Thinking of getting a porta potty and ditching the milk carton. How posh is that?

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Jayrey wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:57 am
That sounds brilliant! Any pics!?
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I needed something for transporting MTBs, drums and camping. My Audi A8 got sick and had to go, and the caddy was the only van I looked at and liked. It was also supposed to be cheap motoring, till I started on the mods!


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watty1998 wrote: That sounds brilliant! Any pics!?
I will get round to it. Maybe over Christmas. Image

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the swan fiend wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2017 12:10 am I needed something for transporting MTBs, drums and camping. My Audi A8 got sick and had to go, and the caddy was the only van I looked at and liked. It was also supposed to be cheap motoring, till I started on the mods! Image


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modding is certainly not cheap is it!
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Definitely not mate!
Only the other week, I said to the missus, 'Ii'm done now, I've done everything I want to do to it.' Then I came on here, seen more mods that others have done, and hey ho, I'm back on eBay looking for seats, steering wheel etc! :lol:
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as vans go they are a nice looking van.
plus i bought as i do a lot of fishing and was ruining my 7 seater car.
so win win
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They are now, and always have been hands down the best looking vans money can buy. (in my opinion)

I can run a really nice van as a daily that can also go to weddings, the dogs love getting in the back to go to the park, and it can go to the builders merchants when I'm working on the house. It does everything I need.
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wouldnt put crap in mine now was an ex builders van now its a nice clean tidy fishing van :)
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Wanted a van for years for Mtb trips and general outdoorsy pursuits but had a very cheap Astra estate which lasted three times longer than we expected!!

Replaced that with an Audi A4 Avant which was alot of fun but they're actually very small so replaced that with a Skoda Octavia estate which was great and had a massive load space for a car but someone drove into it and wrote it off so I finally get to have a van.

It's a Caddy because they look better than the competition and I don't need a bigger T5 or similar.

It's a Maxi because if I want to sleep in it, at 6'4" I need the space. And a kombi for the versatility for transporting people without resorting to tying them down with the lashing points!
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I needed something that I could put a bed into, have 5 seats and could fit on my drive, so no wider than a car... I tried my neighbours transit with no joy... and no longer than 5m. The Maxi is a perfect fit. Also something that slowly but surely as my budget allows, that I'll be able to modify.
I ended up with a Maxi Life, put curtains in, took the third row out, replaced that with storage etc., solar panel on the roof.
Jobs for the future will most likely include stripping out the interior trim and headlining, expanding the space, increasing lighting in the back. I'm undecided on suspension yet, but I'm erring toward chunky tyres for the campsites I usually end up on, so you never know, are there any raised caddy out there?

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Got a maxi for space to chuck an airbed up and fit mtb in! Fed up of going camping and it to rain an have to put tent down! :(
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