No flannel either it's an LH9J paint code. So sticking me monicker, in front of the colour seemed apt for a thread about a pale blue busI:
I'll see myself out at any time just askRasp:
Ok lads I still aint got no piccies it will happen.
The irony is ,erm, that the blummin bus is based largely around me and me darlin being somewhere out of the way where a bird or beastie might be at dawn or dusk,the pics will follow.............. but I'd like to keep track somewhere so here seemed a goodish place to play show and tell. it's been a mad few weeks!1
She's a 2005 bought with waay to high a millage from a lovely lad that makes his living building campers. It has poptop split charge bench seats baseic spec, 2.5 130 6 speed model. she came with a RIB bed aswell and flooring insulation touch lights. Pioneer facy sort of mad stereo no disc does blue teeth and hands free and later possibly a reversing camera. Tech has gone mad of late I struggle to keep up.
We got her back her after a longish roundabout kinds journey stayed over night learnt some lessons......We need an heat source of some form and we can't sleep on that RIB as is. Thing is i'm 55 so getting old and soft.I: I graft sites I'm a mastic man,so the bus is about being out in the wild but a damn comfy place to sleep,all esle conversion wise is second to this I can already cook anywhere warmth and comfy bed are big facets of our bus.
I bought what we could afford in an ideal world I tend to buy very low miles and went way against the grain becuase of the way she was converted and the components fitted,but it's a risky move 200,000 miles doesn't ever leave a buggy it is only going to get higher. Bt I've not bought her for me to make money on just to use tool for a job cool one ,but yeah risky:
I'm ok with basic petrol I understand ok ,like many my age we had a car if we could keep it on the road so we leant with good old Mr hayne's at our backs but I know little of diesel or vans really. We got a £300 check done............ he sort of largey confirmed what I thought I knew. and made very clear the implications of high millage..........£300 notes isn't easy but it's done and that's that
What was seriously useful was the oil test leastways I thought so worth making you 'orrible lot aware the chemisty boffins can tell you alot from the oil The guy I bought off was no mechanic probably did what most folks top up the oil........
.........ya know "WTF, do you have to change oil...............really, OMG I've never done, that ya just top it up???
On a 2.5 AXD engine tis not great, we'll see what happens
At the mo she runs sweet apparently
all diesels sound like a bag of nails to me
. Originally I'd planned on cam change but there seems no need. The oil test showed a huge concentration of iron compared with what they would like to see again the oil test guy saw lots of oil from transporters just like the guy from the motor "club" who checked her over for us he flagged drive shaft oil guy told me .
Anyway we got her back her......I wasn't happy not being able to ID the wheels so replaced them for fears of wrong load rating with some GP anthracite sportlines, and a new set of boots,black circle did us proud there
Then she went t' garage and had manifold changed which was cracked on no 1 cylinder
This may well have gone on the way home : none of us picked it up,but damn the fumes in cab were bad,did neither of us anygood !! She's had brakes fully checked tracking, driveshaft and stubby new droplink Hand R antirolls , bushes filters oil changed???? Honestly i'm loosing track stone chip kit on order . There is probably other stuff I'm already missing
As luck would have it I got the bus back from the garage last week just as I clopped for a dental absess life's a bitch !! We got out in her yesterday afternoon tracking a memory foam topper and maybe have solved the nightmare seat debacle, as an aside... we'll see.
We are def having a topper done ,but the guy also does VW upholstrey. We came to a deal over a passenger seat, I 'erm helped find ,while damaging their shelving with my headLOL: I really wanted to stay with OEM seating. i'm a practical kinda guy I can probably make some other seat fit ,but worry on my ability to know what might happen in a shunt. i've spent hours trawling seats hours and hours. The trouble is folks like me are bloody being crucified because of the want for a single passenger seat. I guess most come as work vans from the factory as 3 front seaters being fundamentally a commercial vehicle
what really screws me is drivers seats here are passengers in EU but all prices seem extortionate
,my lady's back is very bad
a single is a must have for her.
So I've also looked at recaro with subframes they seemed the only other type of seating that might have some form of approval but still hellish expensive. My concern is that even with a single passenger comfort captians " call it what ya like seat it" still won't be comfy for her..........I spotted the vision leisure site and noted their recaro upgrade, so that's what this guy is going to make up for us. We get our top next week and the seats a couple of weeks on god I'm going to be grafting hard:*
That's enough waffle with no picsLOL: it sort of brings me up to date Once seats are in the bag then air heating will be grafted out. That my friends will be our basic camper sorted
Plausibly I'll take me foot off the gas at that point and enjoy for a while. i'm not sure yet. The bus needs to work for us off grid almost exclusively, I'm sure more batteries and solar are in order along with units ......
We'll see
stu
I'll see myself out at any time just askRasp:
Ok lads I still aint got no piccies it will happen.
The irony is ,erm, that the blummin bus is based largely around me and me darlin being somewhere out of the way where a bird or beastie might be at dawn or dusk,the pics will follow.............. but I'd like to keep track somewhere so here seemed a goodish place to play show and tell. it's been a mad few weeks!1
She's a 2005 bought with waay to high a millage from a lovely lad that makes his living building campers. It has poptop split charge bench seats baseic spec, 2.5 130 6 speed model. she came with a RIB bed aswell and flooring insulation touch lights. Pioneer facy sort of mad stereo no disc does blue teeth and hands free and later possibly a reversing camera. Tech has gone mad of late I struggle to keep up.
We got her back her after a longish roundabout kinds journey stayed over night learnt some lessons......We need an heat source of some form and we can't sleep on that RIB as is. Thing is i'm 55 so getting old and soft.I: I graft sites I'm a mastic man,so the bus is about being out in the wild but a damn comfy place to sleep,all esle conversion wise is second to this I can already cook anywhere warmth and comfy bed are big facets of our bus.
I bought what we could afford in an ideal world I tend to buy very low miles and went way against the grain becuase of the way she was converted and the components fitted,but it's a risky move 200,000 miles doesn't ever leave a buggy it is only going to get higher. Bt I've not bought her for me to make money on just to use tool for a job cool one ,but yeah risky:
I'm ok with basic petrol I understand ok ,like many my age we had a car if we could keep it on the road so we leant with good old Mr hayne's at our backs but I know little of diesel or vans really. We got a £300 check done............ he sort of largey confirmed what I thought I knew. and made very clear the implications of high millage..........£300 notes isn't easy but it's done and that's that
What was seriously useful was the oil test leastways I thought so worth making you 'orrible lot aware the chemisty boffins can tell you alot from the oil The guy I bought off was no mechanic probably did what most folks top up the oil........
.........ya know "WTF, do you have to change oil...............really, OMG I've never done, that ya just top it up???
On a 2.5 AXD engine tis not great, we'll see what happens
Anyway we got her back her......I wasn't happy not being able to ID the wheels so replaced them for fears of wrong load rating with some GP anthracite sportlines, and a new set of boots,black circle did us proud there
Then she went t' garage and had manifold changed which was cracked on no 1 cylinder
As luck would have it I got the bus back from the garage last week just as I clopped for a dental absess life's a bitch !! We got out in her yesterday afternoon tracking a memory foam topper and maybe have solved the nightmare seat debacle, as an aside... we'll see.
We are def having a topper done ,but the guy also does VW upholstrey. We came to a deal over a passenger seat, I 'erm helped find ,while damaging their shelving with my headLOL: I really wanted to stay with OEM seating. i'm a practical kinda guy I can probably make some other seat fit ,but worry on my ability to know what might happen in a shunt. i've spent hours trawling seats hours and hours. The trouble is folks like me are bloody being crucified because of the want for a single passenger seat. I guess most come as work vans from the factory as 3 front seaters being fundamentally a commercial vehicle
what really screws me is drivers seats here are passengers in EU but all prices seem extortionate
,my lady's back is very bad
So I've also looked at recaro with subframes they seemed the only other type of seating that might have some form of approval but still hellish expensive. My concern is that even with a single passenger comfort captians " call it what ya like seat it" still won't be comfy for her..........I spotted the vision leisure site and noted their recaro upgrade, so that's what this guy is going to make up for us. We get our top next week and the seats a couple of weeks on god I'm going to be grafting hard:*
That's enough waffle with no picsLOL: it sort of brings me up to date Once seats are in the bag then air heating will be grafted out. That my friends will be our basic camper sorted
Plausibly I'll take me foot off the gas at that point and enjoy for a while. i'm not sure yet. The bus needs to work for us off grid almost exclusively, I'm sure more batteries and solar are in order along with units ......
We'll see
stu