[Stick]

Anyone know what the electric gubbins under the drivers seat is in my ex AA, and, more importantly, can I remove it without fear of my van turning into a pumkin?

 

[spanner monkey]

you can safely remove the lot, it will not affect any other part of the van, use the search function and you will find some good info on this subject.

 

[Veidda vans]

Some of it may be the maple immobiliser so removal is not a good idea.

R: Check first!

 

[spanner monkey]

Stick your van is a later one isnt it ? if so it will not have a maple immobiliser fitted. only the earlier vans had those.

 

[Stick]

Ok, there's potential here for a major head ache! Mine's a 03 plate - will I still be ok Spanner Monkey? What year is yours and have you taken yours out?

 

[spanner monkey]

Mine is also 2003 .You do not have a maple immobiliser at all, and so you can safely remove all of the box and wiring from under the seat, it really is very easy and you can be pretty ruthless with the snips as there is miles of wiring that you will no longer need.

 

[tomcat-50]

check the general info thread on AA vans

 

[Veidda vans]

Mine is a 51 plate '02 so spanner monkey may well be right as he has a later van.I:

 

[Stick]

Spanner Monkey; you da man! It's been bugging me for ages - last remnants of it being a commercial vehicle. Passenger seat now replaced with a captain's single with all the gubbins under that one in the bin. Now it's time for the driver's seat... now where's my snips? Thanks once again...A: Thanks for others' comments too...T:

 

[Stick]

Solid State box has now been removed with a little bit of rewiring to retain the use of the flouro lights. Haven't removed the wiring loom - too scary for me - so have bundled the wires together, sealed them into an old icecream container that has been sprayed matt black, and zip tied the box to the inside of the seat base. Nice and tidy, almost invisible, and leaves me with useful space under the seat. Before lobbing the solid state box, I removed all the fuses which I recon may come handy. Ta da!

 

[adam611]

hey guys, old thread resurrection here.

when you say you whipped out the box.. do you mean you literally just snipped it out locally, or that you tracked back to the battery and removed from there to the box...?

does that make sense?

cheers!

 

[spanner monkey]

You can do it either way but personally I removed the red anderson plug from the box which is the power supply and traced it back to the battery and removed the lot, It all depends if you have a use for yet another permanent live in your van, there are plenty to choose from in the fuse box already. I removed all of the Ex AA wiring as I dont like the idea of unused wiring hanging around in the van, if you strip your van out youll find it very easy to remove it all. if your van is an early one youll need to make sure you dont snip out the maple immobiliser though, dont know much about these as mine is a later one so Ive never seen one. hope this helpsT:

 

[adam611]

sorry yeh im on a 53 plate so not too early!

battery drainging issues are a bit of a pain for me as the van is getting less and less use since my operation... thought i'd do what i could in the short term to alleviate the problem.

will whip off tha naderson connector to the box and see if that helps!

cheers

 

[spanner monkey]

You could try pulling out the two big fuses under the bonnet near the battery as these are for the jump start solenoid and the ancilliaries so only the normal van wiring should be powered, hopefully this will stop your battery draining.

 

[adam611]

ha ha! that was my original question on the main page! do we reckon it will be ok to whip the two fuses out? anything i should be wary of?

 

[spanner monkey]

you can take the two fuses out without affecting anything else as they have no input to the vans own wiring you just lose the jump start and the power to the box of tricks, thats allT:

 

[adam611]

all yanked out. van still starts. also the blue light no key button still works. which was my favourite feature... winner!