What did you do to your van today?

[the67al]

Touran door moulding’s prep, been wanting to do this for ages



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[corroded]

Booked it in at a specialist to take a look at the brake servo, which apparently has gone.

Anyone know how involved the job is on a MK3 Caddy? One place wanted to drop the engine, and have been mumbling about not economical to repair.

[Doc]

There's not much in the way of clearance to remove the brake booster servo on a RHD caddy. Depending on your engine, removal or dropping a little might be the only viable option.
It's not a common failure, that said I'm sure someone else mentioned having been given a terminal diagnosis on their servo just recently.

[corroded]

Heh, thanks for the reply, that possibly might have been me asking about before. I can't see the other forums at the moment so I've been trawling about trying to get a little info on the publicly accessible ones

Person I spoke to suggested they might be able to do it in around four hours, but I'm not sure if he's just either really good, or isn't sure what the job entails yet. Mines a 1.6 TDI 102 PS

[Treevaldo]

Glad you got sorted mate


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just done mine and now the horns not working and its a bloody ballache getting on and off any chance of letting me know where you got the loom from please bud

thanks

Craig

[Normal rules]

Bought a replacement barn door and rear bumper. Now to work out how to fit them.
Removed factory blackout from salvage barn door I have acquired. Heat gun Stanley knife and a little patience. Job done. 15 minutes .

[AwesomeFury]

Checked the oil and coolant. Both empty, but car hasn't run for a while.

Next job will be to fill those up.

[corroded]

There's not much in the way of clearance to remove the brake booster servo on a RHD caddy. Depending on your engine, removal or dropping a little might be the only viable option.
It's not a common failure, that said I'm sure someone else mentioned having been given a terminal diagnosis on their servo just recently.

Thought I'd loop back since I did ask questions on this.

Just got it back, got the servo replaced and the leak offs done as well. It was mentioned that injector failures can start to occur when the leak offs are having an issue. Was something to do with the amount of pressure anyway. Both places had a look at it and haven't found any issue with the injectors themselves.

Anyway, good-ish news on the servo, all in it was £1300 for everything. That was actually under the ex-VAT quote just for labour I got elsewhere, with a generalist who actually suggested I take it to a specialist. Apparently he took the DPF out, and removed the sub frame and went in from the bottom. No engine drop required, was six hours all in, five of which were for the servo

[the67al]

Multi function wheel functional


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[BoyVoeten]

Bought some 20 inch 10j abused rims.
Started to grind them down before sanding en coating.

[Beaty61092]

Fitted carpets behind front seats between bulkhead while retaining factory brace set.

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[Shermo]

As usual my maxi life doubles up as a work van and a family 7 seater, today mostly will be a work van

[corroded]

Started fitting some of the wiring I bought for the 12v system, updated the interior bulbs to LEDs. Just waiting on a replacement trim for the door to arrive today, so I can fix up the sliding door.

Once I've got the basics of the 12v working, I need to order some panels so I can start on insulating and carpeting.

[Step83]

Finishing up the carpeting the inside of the van. crinkles are annoying me I may fix them at some point. Still some odds and ends to do on it.

Still need to finish the storage, this isn't for carrying loads. I'm a bike mechanic so I don't need to carry tonnes of things with me but enough to work. Plus most of my tools are in a toolbox I can anchor down





Added some silly bolts, not 100% (I have changed all the panel plugs to M5 Rivnuts)



Oh, I an I have this as extra storage as well

[Trailsview]

Carpeted the back floor and sides