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Nice one Coxy, must be awesome to actually drive the fecking thing! The interior is looking fantastic, the dash suits the rado really well!

Jesus, it all looks a bit extreme! Fortunately because the van was only trimmed a few months back it's not too severe - I think i'll start with Craigowl' idea and work upwards from there :lol:

Yeah good idea, I could try that first I spose :grin: I just googled 'fogging' and didn't come up with much, I did learn that the 'F' key is awfully close to the 'D' on the keyboard though! :eek:

I wouldn't say its 'really' strong, but it's deffinitely there! I want rid of it before starting the interior build though! Whats 'fogging' then mate? :eek:

Yeah, I need to give my Audi a good valet as well before I sell it so i'll get my £30 worth out of the machine, it's gotta be done though cos getting in the van in the morning makes me want to heave at the mo! :pukeleft: It'll be nice to know it's all clean before starting the build anyway. As far as the camper conversion goes i'm bringing absolutely no skills to the table at all :lol: - i'll be buying the units ready made so hopefully it'll be pretty much bolt on, i've just got to plan it out and do it all in order so hopefully it'll be OK - i've started a thread in the members gallery so my trials and tribulations will all be recorded :lol:

Bugger, living down here in the arse end of the UK has its drawbacks!

Cornwall :eek:

Hmm, steaming would be good but pricey having just looked briefly. I suppose a carpet cleaner would be a good idea, I think you can rent them out for about £30 - cheers for the ideas guys.

Tent you say? pah! that's budget accommodation! :lol: I'm quite looking forward to the first show I go to in it, when everyone else is faffing around putting tents up etc i'll just roll up, put the handbrake on and get a cold beer out of the coolbox and sit in my luxury pad watching a bit of telly :smug: :lol:

Just wondered if any of you car cleaning freaks had some top tips on how to remove the smell of smoke from a vehicle? My new van was fully carpet lined 3 months ago but as the previous owner was a smoker it smells of stale smoke in there! I'm just off to give it a good going over with some Fabreeze but thought it would be worth checking to see if there's a better product available that anyone here knows of?

Cheers guys, i'm sure it wont interest everyone as it's pretty different to a rado! :lol: Just in case you didn't realise, the chequered bonnet is a bra :camp: (may be obvious but just thought i'd make that clear! :lol:) and i'm not sure about it, it'll probably be going tbh as it's not really 'me' I think you're right with the wheel/tyres - i've been thinking i'll probably stick with these ones for now and see how things go, the van came with the original steelies thrown in so i'll probably sell those to pay for some new tyres on the 18's - I was thinking of maybe getting some 17" LM reps in black but who knows, tbh my priority isn't with how the van looks for now, i've gotta concentrate on getting the interior sorted first! I need enough room for me, my better half, my son and my dog! i'm going for a full width rock and roll bed and a bunk bed at the rear for the sprog - then the kitchen units will go parallel to the back of the driver/passenger seats. The thing with the short wheel base T4 is that you have to compromise somewhere as there just isn't enough room for loads of storage/kitchen units aswell as sleeping space. The other option is to go for a 3/4 width bed and the kitchen units all along the side of the van but I can't be doing with cramming into a 3/4 width bed tbh! I've been looking at doing this for a couple of years now so have paid close attention to how people have gone about doing the interiors at the shows i've been to in the last couple of summers, we've both decided that the full width bed and less storage space is the best option for us. The downside is that theres not much room in the cab, with a baby seat fitted and the dog on the floor it leaves little room on the double passenger seat for someone else to sit, it'll do but it's lucky neither of us are particularly 'large' :lol: My missus loves driving it too so I can see arguments over who gets to drive in the future tbh! I went up to RKE this morning, I was surprised when I got there to see another t4 on the rollers when I walked in! this fella had done a little bit more to his engine than mine has had done and he made 147bhp, mine came in at just under 130bhp which is exactly what I expected and i'm happy with that for the minute, I think if I have some nozzles fitted and remove the cat it should be up near 150bhp which would be epic! :) It's AWESOME to drive, you just cant help grinning - sat there in the captains chair with all that torque under your foot - the 2.5tdi is definitely the one to go for. I'll be having cruise control fitted as it's only £65! we're planning on a Euro trip at some point as my dragon in law lives in S.France so CC will come in very handy :) - in the meantime though we'll be regularly doing 1 nighters here and there, living in Cornwall we're spoilt with hundreds of fantastic spots to camp for the night so it'll be getting a fair bit of use 8) - even if we're not camping though it'll still be bloody useful as we're out and about at beaches/woodlands most weekends so having the room on wheels will be awesome, especially now we've got the little man :grin: I'm going to try and get some of the interior bits and bobs like lights/speakers etc ordered this week, and will hopefully pick up the bed/sink/grill/burners etc etc next weekend :grin:

Yeah I know they look better but I gotta think of tyre prices dude! :(

I haven't bothered with a members gallery for years as i've not really done much, but i'm planning on converting my new purchase into a campervan so thought i'd document it on here, i'm quite excited about it which is cool as i've not really had much of a buzz for any of the cars i've had for the last few years. I picked this up earlier, it's a 2002 2.5TDI which has been remapped to god knows what - i'll be popping to RK Engineering tomorrow for the guys to have a poke around it and to put it on the RR to see what BHP and torque it's giving because it's certainly quick for a van :lol: the seller reckoned he was told it should be around the 150bhp mark but I think that's 'optimistic' but it's quick enough for me. The conversion should be pretty quick as i've insured it as a camper van and the insurance company have given me a month to do it in, i'm also going to be buying most of the units and the vans already insulated and carpeted inside so it should be fairly straight forward. Anyway here's a few pics as it stands. It's on 18" wheels with standard ride hight, i'll be whacking it with the lowering stick and putting some smaller wheels on it at some point, and also having a window put in the rear tailgate and having limo tints done on all rear windows. And before anyone says it, no im not a pikey, the pics are the ones from the advert of it outside the sellers holiday home :lol: :awesome:

There are 92 rados with late exteriors and early interiors as it was the changeover year, so the window switch thing isn't the best way of telling - you'll need to check the bonnet, like Toad says the early bonnet concaves in the middle and the later one convexes. Another way of telling is to check your front grill, if you have a late exterior the grill will have 5 slats, the early grill has 7. The easiest way of telling would be to put a pic up of your car :) And welcome to the forum by the way!

Yeah im afraid that happened to me a short while before the heater matrix gave up! :(

Hi there, This is quite a common problem, and there can be a few different causes. It's always worth trying the search feature (top right of your screen) to see if you can uncover a solution :) Here's a couple of threads to have a read through; viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45538&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=wet+footwell viewtopic.php?f=19&t=64822&p=802854&hilit=wet+footwell#p802854

:smug: I had one for a bit a few years back so should know, ended up braking it :gag:

Nice one, looks in good nic! It's not a Dark Burgandy Pearl, it'll be a Bordeaux Red Pearl Effect (LC3Y) :dorky:

Nice, and there's me thinking that Kev's just been copy/pasting from Google for all these years :grin: - Glad its running and awesome to see a bit of good nature and people willing to give their weekends up to help another :salute:

*ahem* 'car sales executive'

Nice 8)

He's sold it, not written it off :lol:

They baffle me tbh I've just got a quote to change vehicles, at the moment we've got a 1996 Audi A4 Avant 1.9tdi with 140k miles and no modifications, worth £2k and we pay £400 for the two of us (we've got 0 no claims due to having a trade policy for a few years until recently) I rang today to get a quote for a 1999 VW T4 Transporter 1.9td 120k miles with a full camper conversion including a gas stove and fridge, electric hook ups/sockets etc, lowered 80mm with aftermarket alloys, the vans valued at £6k, it worked out at £325 :eek: The van works out as £75 cheaper than the Audi, so i'll have a refund of £50 after they take an admin fee, how did they work that out? :lol: The vans worth 3 times as much and is surly at much more risk of catching fire/being damaged? plus it's newer with slightly less mileage and is modified! A couple of years back I was paying over a grand to insure a £2k Corrado, now I can insure a £6k campervan for £325 - it's just not rational tbh

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