Maxi - Not a Show Van

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Been a few busy evenings hacking up sun visors to fit mirrors in the caddy ones. Got hold of some Audi Q-somethingorother sun visors and began cutting. I had a loose plan but very much working it out as I went as it doesn't seem many have done this before. Cut the mirror and sliding parts out of the Audi visors and using a knife scraped the foam out of the caddy visors using the Audi foams as a rough guide of how much to take out and where. Used some sticky back velcro to hold the two pieces together and a bit of gorilla tape round the edges to hold them tight, and a bit more tape to cover holes I poked in the foam. Once completed used some black vinyl material to make a sleeve with an added grey stitch detail around the edges. Pleased how these came out after the hours of sewing and it'll be worth it not to hear passengers moaning about the lack of vanity mirror ImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

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Nice to see you’re still making improvements on this. Great ingenuity!
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Quick addition over the weekend to test out how well the vinyl from my sun visors works with trim fix. Wanted something to stop my air freshener rolling around the dash so cut out a panel to fill the dash storage with a hole for the tin to sit in and wrapped it. Holds very tight pushed into the dashboard so I've no worries about the whole piece flying outImage

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very cool idea that
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Finally got my bumper back on after starting it months ago. For a rattle can job this has come out better than I expected. The new exhaust tip finishes it off nicely Image

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Amazing work my friend, I love it. So many great ideas I cant wait to try on my maxi build ill be starting soon. I'm new to the forum and this is my favourite build project I've seen so far. What a transformation!
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Them visors look smart !
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Kingofcoates wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 10:18 am Amazing work my friend, I love it. So many great ideas I cant wait to try on my maxi build ill be starting soon. I'm new to the forum and this is my favourite build project I've seen so far. What a transformation!
Thank you, I'm sure that opinion will change after seeing some of the other amazing vans on the forum! :lol:
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Gmancan1 wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:30 pm Them visors look smart !

Cheers! Although I may end up redoing the trim as I improve with my sewing. I've also seen you started fitted vanity mirrors in the original visors on your build thread too, I think we may see a trend starting soon?! :lol:
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Spent the best part of my day chopping up my dash to fit a touran glove box in. Much prefer the look of a full panel door instead of the caddy box with van-x door and the door I did have never really fitted right. Following a few peoples threads who've done this before I somehow got away with cutting much less out of the caddy dashboard than they have.
On the dash I cut the strip out along the bottom leaving the far end holes for mounting, a small slither along the top to sit the glovebox up tight but kept the original mounting holes, a gap for the hinge on the left, and finally drilled out the spot welds on the bottom of the metal bracket down the left of the dash.
On the glove box itself I cut off all the mounting tabs down either side and the two tabs on the top then drilled new holes in the top to mount to the original holes and one on the far right at the bottom.
The airbag on/off switch of the caddy doesn't fit in the touran cutout and neither does it have the aux port my original glove box had so I cut these out of the original box in a large panel and plastic welded this in place of the touran switch.
It does fit with the door on but I have no pictures with it fitted as I've disassembled it to begin trimming. Next job is to wire up the light to interior light fuse and work out where the glove box cooler commects to
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One glove box trimmed and installed! Suede bottom, stretch vinyl upper, and carpet inside. Wired the light to the cigarette lighter 12v this way it will always come on if you open the door, and fitted some old pipe to feed the glove box chiller.
I had to get creative after struggling to wrap the vinyl around the handle cut out. I first tried sewing the extra in like a box but just couldn't get it right and after 4 or 5 attempts stepped back and realised the handle didn't need to be as deep as it was so fixed a square of plastic to halve the depth which allowed the vinyl to stretch much nicer around it.
As I said in my last post about cutting out the airbag and aux port I've added a picture to show what I did.ImageImageImageImageImage

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