What did you do to your van today?

Fitted new tap cartridge in shower room basin.
Swapped spare wheel with rear n/s. Sounds easy but of course I had recently painted the wheels so the spare needed painting too.
Worthwhile job even just to check the spare comes off OK, I would not like to have to struggle with a seized spare by the roadside in the Hebrides. It came off easily, I had replaced the winding mechanism last year...
Knackered now.
K ;)
 
Exwindsurfer said:
If my spare wheel is seized that's the recovery guys prob Vanterrier lololol
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Aye thats an option but I wonder how long I would be waiting for recovery if it went on say Vatersay or at the end of the road on West Lewis? I like to think I can do it myself although the times coming... :unsure: :(
K ;)
 
Changed wiring to DRLs; (explained further here. no connection with Headlight updates)
Fitted Philips Uprated Dipped and Main Beam bulbs
Installed Front Parking Camera.
 
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Was going to go to my little Part Time Job in the M/H but the wife didn't need the car so went in hers instead, glad I did as when I arrived the Car Park was full of M/H's & Caravans I would have possibly bin moved along with em all when the Baliff's arrived 😩
 
Patrick1 said:
The fully inflated rear tyres seemed too flat so I took it to the weighbridge. Empty with full water and fuel and no people inside. Came to 3420kg with 3500kg max. OMG!!!!! I thought I knew what I was doing after 20 years. This vehicle supposedly has 600kg payload so I was complacent. Looks like I have been overloaded since I got it. I can't face driving with empty fresh water and only half a tank of fuel, so am taking the uprating to 3850kg route which rules out my codriver. I am also removing the Truma aircon at 33kg in favour of Maxxair fan vent at 6kg. The 80cm Omnisat and Alko safe (30kg) are also on the hitlist to go if necessary. Thing is even without those and empty tanks I calculate that I barely make it inside the 3500kg limit with the three of us. The paperwork shows the vehicle weight at 2900kg ex factory but 3025kg ex dealer. Add the weight of the accessories and it balances to 3400kg approx.
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I bought a Ducato for courier work years ago I got pulled for a weight check and was over, they showed me the data plate 3,300 KG why would they make a van so close to 3.5t? I got away with costs as it was an innocent mistake but I always check now.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I bought a Ducato for courier work years ago I got pulled for a weight check and was over, they showed me the data plate 3,300 KG why would they make a van so close to 3.5t? I got away with costs as it was an innocent mistake but I always check now.
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my Renault Master was a 33MM - Medium Roof, Medium Wheelbase and 3300kg, same as your Ducato.
I agree it is strange that a 3300kg van is made that is essentially the same as a 3500kg van. Can't think there would be much saving by buying slightly lower rated tyres?
 
Washed the Van, including the roof again [twice in 1 month!] using the Henchman Ladders and my Leifheitt extending window cleaning mops. I can just about reach the entire roof from the pavement and the onstreet parking gaps front and back of Brunhilde, so no need to venture onto the main road, other than to wash the offside hab area walls.

Then I thought I would adjust the waeco reversing camera back to its original position sans bikes, 5 minute job that took almost 4 hours of feffing about, basically the Waeco protective plastic covers for the camera mount had become welded to the mount, so although they could be taken off, the welded seals prevented them from being refixed after the camera adjustment. And the camera mount [which carries virtually no weight, had two huge self tappers securing the camera mount to 2 pig ugly holes in the roof trim and these cannot be tightened in situ because the protective plastic covers hide the self tappers! In the end, I made a thickish bed of mastic puttyto seat the camera mount, to allow the self tappers to be nipped up whilst leaving enough room for the plastic protective covers to slide behind securely. Finished product is functional rather than elegant, but nobody's going to be peering at the mount 2.4m up from the ground ...

Steve
 
Changed b pads and freed a sticky piston, then tighted the torsion bars up on the front, took oxy cet to heat up the bolts as rusted up, oil filter and oil changed along with other flueds, getting a bit old for all this cr-p. 😂
 
Set tyre pressures all round to 60psi ready for next weeks tour start. Interestingly the tpms reads 58.5 all round.:unsure:
Gauge is a trusted Halfrauds digital which matches the tpms on my Sportage so I assume my Jansite tpms is reading low?
They are all the same which is what matters to me.
Van interior cleaned and ready to go with just last minute stuff to pack.
K ;)
 
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