Hi @oliverbown
Wish I could say that, but in a way it was
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Been into VW's for years, but used to be a full blown Vauxhall Astra man myself, then one day, they decided to stop making them, and the only other Van on the road with any Kudos at all was the Caddy, especially some of the real Rad modded ones.
My son's a sparky working in France, and his Vauxhall combi was dead on it's legs, so we decided to go for a Caddy (2012 1.6), and that's where It started. Couple of weeks after we got it, we lost an injector !!
, and you know where this goes
so we did a few little mods, Alloys/Tyres, Rear camera, new Head unit etc. etc, and then drove it down to France. On the way, yep, another injector, had this done at main dealer, and touch wood, Van has run sweet as a nut ever since.
Even this did not deter me, and I had started being on here because of the other Van learning stuff, and started going through a few of the build threads, and came across one (Mark1a's Blackberry Life), and I thought WOW
I need something like that. I started trawling the country for a Caddy Maxi Life at the VW main dealers, looking for a 17/18 Highline, low miles, but all of them were boggo standard, and very dear, and I knew I was going to need £5k or £6k on top of that price to even get near what I wanted, so then tried all the other usual suspects, Auto trader, eBlag etc, and came across Wolfsburg Vans, and finally found my Toffee up in Scunthorpe at Martin Atkinson Specialist vehicles, this Van had nearly all that I wanted, including seats, so we did a deal, and as they say, the rest is history. I collected the Van on the 10th Jan, and already have had 2 x tyres, a Vanstyle stone guard, Colour Instrument Cluster, Rear Camera fitted, Apple Car Play loaded, W8 and Provan Led interior lights, New R Line MFSW (Not fitted yet, waiting for Red backlit module from Germany) and still the list is sure to grow. Van booked in, and having a possible remap Monday after next, as my MPG is pretty poor to be honest.
Things still to do include, Having Geometry of the car checked, as 2 x existing tyres were pretty badly scrubbed on the inner, hence the 2 new budget ones
And I'd really like to have folding electric mirrors, with LED repeaters, and possibly puddle lights ?
After that, not sure, I just know, that I think the Caddy is a very very versatile, very sexy looking vehicle, whether it's in SWB, Kombi, or Life form, and personalising options are pretty much endless
Cheers
Dave