The Black Maxi
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:51 am
Thought I’d share a couple of pictures of my van from the past few years of things I’ve done to it
Here it is before I began to fiddle with it on June 3rd 2018 when I purchased it.
First thing I did to it when I part ex’d my old caddy for it was swap the T6 wheels over (20mm 5x112 to 5x120 spacers) as the original wheels that came on either of the vans didn’t handle the best always felt like they were about to fold in half going round a bend
After having the van a couple months I managed to bump the front into someone so I saw this as a great opportunity to upgrade the front bumper to a mk7 hybrid bumper from gtikris on Instagram
13.9.18
I took the van and some sliding doors that I originally bought for my other maxi to a local sprayer to have them all painted and blended in to the van
I swapped the doors over as these had opening windows unlike the originals that came on the van just to improve comfort for anyone sat in the back
Not the best picture I know but I never thought I’d be uploading pictures of it to the internet so I didn’t care at the time
8.12.18
After being in the sprayers for about a month and a half I finally got it back, but I realised they’d done something to the oem speakers, they sounded awful and super tinny so they desperately needed upgrading.
But before I could manage this within weeks of having the van back someone came flying into the front of the van splitting the bumper and denting the wing, so back off to the spray booth for a couple weeks for repair
9.1.19
I spent a couple months searching fleabay for leather seats, waiting for some that were in good condition, I managed to finally find a set of Audi rs3 heated seats so I quickly snapped these up.
24.2.19
After I picked these up i needed some looms for them, so I messaged Stan-the-man (another caddy2k forum user) who was of great help and managed to make me some looms to plug straight from the vw loom onto the Audi seat loom.
Before
During
29.3.19
I was pretty stoked after fitting these they improved the look of the cabin so much, anyone that ever gets in the van always compliments them.
The next upgrade was facelift mk4 rear lights sourced from Julian green on Instagram. Can’t find any before pictures, but they are definitely worth the money such an upgrade in looks from the old nasty ones.
18.06.19. I also replaced the broken 3rd brake light shortly after this
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Here it is before I began to fiddle with it on June 3rd 2018 when I purchased it.
First thing I did to it when I part ex’d my old caddy for it was swap the T6 wheels over (20mm 5x112 to 5x120 spacers) as the original wheels that came on either of the vans didn’t handle the best always felt like they were about to fold in half going round a bend
After having the van a couple months I managed to bump the front into someone so I saw this as a great opportunity to upgrade the front bumper to a mk7 hybrid bumper from gtikris on Instagram
13.9.18
I took the van and some sliding doors that I originally bought for my other maxi to a local sprayer to have them all painted and blended in to the van
I swapped the doors over as these had opening windows unlike the originals that came on the van just to improve comfort for anyone sat in the back
Not the best picture I know but I never thought I’d be uploading pictures of it to the internet so I didn’t care at the time
8.12.18
After being in the sprayers for about a month and a half I finally got it back, but I realised they’d done something to the oem speakers, they sounded awful and super tinny so they desperately needed upgrading.
But before I could manage this within weeks of having the van back someone came flying into the front of the van splitting the bumper and denting the wing, so back off to the spray booth for a couple weeks for repair
9.1.19
I spent a couple months searching fleabay for leather seats, waiting for some that were in good condition, I managed to finally find a set of Audi rs3 heated seats so I quickly snapped these up.
24.2.19
After I picked these up i needed some looms for them, so I messaged Stan-the-man (another caddy2k forum user) who was of great help and managed to make me some looms to plug straight from the vw loom onto the Audi seat loom.
Before
During
29.3.19
I was pretty stoked after fitting these they improved the look of the cabin so much, anyone that ever gets in the van always compliments them.
The next upgrade was facelift mk4 rear lights sourced from Julian green on Instagram. Can’t find any before pictures, but they are definitely worth the money such an upgrade in looks from the old nasty ones.
18.06.19. I also replaced the broken 3rd brake light shortly after this
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