What did you do to your van today?
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Scotscad
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
If its any help with colour coding i found the spray tin of candy white from the range is a better match than halfords. Found halfords paint a bit on the yellow side of white.
- Transitionpilot
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Lmao!, I had no idea they sold it in there! and there's one next to my halfords store - I figured I'd use the halfords one as a base coat and then get some proper vw paint for the last few coats, paid £18 for what can only be described as a 'fun size' can from my local dealer!
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davoc220
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Fitted my A5 seat yesterday , others going in today and have the airbag light on, nightmare! Obd11 says voltage is high on thorax bag, think I need an auto spark
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STP
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Did you swap the seats with the battery connected...
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davoc220
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
@STP
Yes, ignition was off the full time, have a feeling I haven’t wired the plugs correctly, on the drivers side there’s 3 wires, on the oassengers theres 5 on the seat sides, on the body loom there’s 3 on the caddy
Yes, ignition was off the full time, have a feeling I haven’t wired the plugs correctly, on the drivers side there’s 3 wires, on the oassengers theres 5 on the seat sides, on the body loom there’s 3 on the caddy
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Removed seats and center console gave it all a clean and general tidy as previous owner hadn’t bolted everything up quite right
Also fitted a compact sub under the passenger seat
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Also fitted a compact sub under the passenger seat
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Bienie
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
gave her a good deep wash. well needed after 2 weeks in Norway!![Image]()
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STP
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
That looks nice, I started looking for a Touran front carpet set on eBay but people are asking £100 for them on there. Bloody cheeky.
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Marcelorider
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
I’ll be quite honest I haven’t read all the posts, are there any recommendations in terms of must have mods for the caddy?
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son of eevil
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Pulled the EGR and throttle bottle and that pip that connects both to the intake manifold
Gave both a good clean up of all the built up sludge.
Am debating pulling the intake manifold so that I can clean it too... But it's so many new gaskets I need to buy.....
About 3 EGR gaskets, exhaust gasket, intake gasket for like $200 worth of gaskets...
I REALLY want to clean it... But also, I don't want to spend $200 on gaskets when I am already 2K deep in parts and refurbishment....
Gave both a good clean up of all the built up sludge.
Am debating pulling the intake manifold so that I can clean it too... But it's so many new gaskets I need to buy.....
About 3 EGR gaskets, exhaust gasket, intake gasket for like $200 worth of gaskets...
I REALLY want to clean it... But also, I don't want to spend $200 on gaskets when I am already 2K deep in parts and refurbishment....
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STP
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
The entire intake will be choked too. I wondered about the cleaning system that Edd China was advocating, if it could get rid of the amount of sludge built up. I've personally seen Citroen HDi engines stripped down and the intake runners had been reduced from 38mm down to about 15mm due to carbon sludge build up and it's a wonder the engine even runs at that point.
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- Flog_TSC
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Mapped the maxi now actually flies im well
Impressed with the little 105 engine not sure what bho it is now but all good
Couldn’t get into the security using vids to take the limiter off tho not sure why
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Impressed with the little 105 engine not sure what bho it is now but all good
Couldn’t get into the security using vids to take the limiter off tho not sure why
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son of eevil
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Big difference then?
Any change to the fuel efficiency?
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son of eevil
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Re: What did you do to your van today?
Pulled the intake, exhaust, turbo, gearbox and DMF off.
