What did you do to your van today?

[TheGee]

I finished my visors

[Adwano]

First drive out after getting the new wheels and suspension fitted




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[adeybroth]

Finally got round to switching the airbag loom after swapping the naff mk3 PU steering wheel to a Polo flat bottom leather wheel. Big thanks to @Daniel0402 for supplying the correct loom, horn works a treat now.


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[mac12]

Had to top up my coolant, I suspect a small leak somewhere. Not much, just a couple of dL since I last filled before christmas. Any usual culprits I should check? Don't see any puddles anywhere, no white smoke in the exhaust nor residue in the oil so I don't suspect it's the head gasket. Water pump, maybe? I'm at 140km / 86k miles.

Had this checked today, mechanic found a leak in the thermostat housing. Still nothing major, drove 900km this weekend with no noticeable leakage.
Quoted me 1900£ to change the housing and swap the timing belt and water pump at the same time. Any thoughts? Kinda feel like doing this myself, together with some friends that has access to a workshop with a lift and everything.

[Daniel0402]

Finally got round to switching the airbag loom after swapping the naff mk3 PU steering wheel to a Polo flat bottom leather wheel. Big thanks to @Daniel0402 for supplying the correct loom, horn works a treat now.


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Glad you got sorted mate


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[petrev]

Tried to get the wiper arms off the other day and gave up !
Picked up a puller from Screwfix (£9.99) and bingo ! Off they pop.

Now I can see the brackets (2) that have to be replicated to mount the twin opposed wipers from a Touran.

Fun

Outer bracket/mount - Inner in the background.

Inner

Where the inner one has to fit ...
Goes around the rubber bush that replaces the blanking grommet ?!

[TheGee]

What year is your van @petrev? If you don’t already have the 4 brackets across the scuttle you’ll need to do a fair bit of fabrication. I’m literally in the middle of doing it on my 2013 van. I believe the 4 tabs are only on pre 2008 vans

[petrev]

Yes


No spare brackets on my 2018 sadly.

Just trying to work out how I will do it ...

Let me know how you get on and what you decide to do ! Please !!!
Pete

[feville]

A3 8V vents in. What a difference.


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[Poffe]

Todays 5min job that took 6 hours to complete:

Rear torsion bar bushings. First two bolts snapped within the first 5 minutes. Last two came loose with some rust penetrating spray and a lot of heat.


Spent a long time trying to weld on some nuts to the broken bolts. When that failed I used a bolt extraction together with some heat. Ended up making the situation worse and snapped the extraction tool inside one of the bolts. Went back to welding and managed get them loose in the end.





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[petrev]

Bit of metal folding

[caddychris2002]

Put mine up for sale if anyone interested

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[gazza31112]

Finishing off a few days in Cromer

[petrev]

Sweet


That's 2 gorgeous Caddies in a row

[Nicklouse]

Changed out the rear pads and discs and fitted the front lowering springs.