Picked up a blackberry caddy after looking for months for the colour and certain spec with heated windscreen etc.
Now to start the fun bit of making a few changes and getting the van looking a bit better
Started with just a clean this week removing the ply lining that had been screwed to the floor annoyingly. Whoever had the van before me must have carried nothing but building materials and sand crazy dirty through the van
After a quick clean out starting to look slightly better, will need a better clean before the sound deadening and insulation go in.
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Now to start looking at the ply lining holes, a fair few in van floor one in each arch and some in the walls. Plan to fill these and paint over and seal underneath to stop the rust creeping in once ply lined
Ground back the paint around the holes to remove the rust out and remove the burrs so I can have a flat floor again once ply lined need to do something with the rest of the scratches too.
Planning to ply line and use the d-rings to hold down the new floor over the dodo mat super liner.
Finishing off the back on hold this weekend as my replacement seats arrived. Set of Audi S5 super sports so I can have heated seats and electric movement
Big thanks to Stan the man for the wiring looms for my seats had them all done in no time and shipped over to me.
Possibly picked the coldest day of the year to start putting the seats in yesterday but couldn’t wait to get them in
Got a bit more work to do on the passenger side as the heated element and lumbar is working but the movement of the seat doesn’t seem to be.
It's got a lot of miles around the 145k mark but I was looking for the spec and colour and a newer reg to give me a good base to build from and swap the engine once it decides to give up (hopefully a while)
VW really used to do some great colours but find some a bit boring on their latest cars.
Plan to grind away the top layers of rust and then use a rust converter to get rid of any I miss and give me a prepped surface to work from. Fill the holes with an epoxy and then anti rust primer and paint with same paint code paint I ordered. Then underneath add an extra layer of an underseal and hope that fixes any chipped away underseal from factory that the screws wrecked. Be nice if I didn't need to do that but looks like a fair few people on here have had the same problems
2012 Caddy 1.6 TDI Match, Darkside lowering kit with Bilstein coilovers and 18“ John Brown ROK steel wheels
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Build thread >>>here<<<
Hopefully the thread should get a bit more interesting soon got a few things planned.
Looking to pick up a new set of wheels in a bronze colour soon still deciding on the style unsure on whether to go with something like rotiforms or neuspeed wheels.
Once those are fitted looking to get some 18z calipers fitted but need to decide on a colour any suggestions welcome!
Eventually will be mapped and new suspension fitted and a new roll at etc to improve the handling
Any more progress? I’m interested in how you’re getting on? Beautiful in this colour
2012 Caddy 1.6 TDI Match, Darkside lowering kit with Bilstein coilovers and 18“ John Brown ROK steel wheels
Instagram @Nathadametzgibson
Build thread >>>here<<<
the swan fiend wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:25 pm
You’ve done a nice job on that sound deadening. It’s not ‘woof’ at all.
Comments like that are the reason I come on here
Been pretty slow progress deciding on parts and where I want to go with the build, ordered some new wing mirrors for power folding just need to source a switch and modules then get it all coded up. Got a side door rail on the way as well that needs to be fitted, luckily the guy selling the mirrors and rail could colour match to the blackberry so one less job, hopefully a good match.
Got a load of rust to sort on the side door lower rail where it has rubbed the paint which looks a bit of a pain to fix
Been away for a while fixing stuff on bikes and the car neglected the caddy a bit, but back with more parts and finally coated the alloys up with KKD revolve matte ready to be fit.
Decided to get some suspension first before fitting wheels whilst I’d already have the wheels off, so ended up with the bilstein b14 kit from darkside and should come tomorrow in time for the weekend to get fitted on the drive. Hopefully the weather holds up
