following on from a thread i read by pearly whites who fitted a fridge to his van,but his fridge was too big and his rock n roll bed wouldnt fold out I:
which leads me to this,some of us have done more than one van and most of us have done it on a budget,so what have you done to your van that you would do differently next time ???
mines would be my r/n/r bed,i covered it in vinyl and while its easy to keep clean,its b:*y hot when you fancy a lie down on a summers day
Not buy things on a whim before reaching a stage in my conversion where I could safely decide on the purchase!!!
Still - I sold everything off and made most of my money back but, and Im being philosophical here, other people got a good deal on what I sold and it helped them out so that makes me happy
Please note everyone: that is the way Im looking at it, please dont make me think about it in any more detail, or with any more decimal places LOL:
glued the floor tiles down properly, with all teh heat (and theyre black) theyre lifting up
And when carpetting the inside, id have waited until AFTER the roof was put on to save the farting about with bits, oh and i'd have used non ribbed carpet too
Well i spent many hours and pounds on my last van which I loved, and did pretty much everything to it.
My second and current van, I was going to keep things simple, only do what was value for money, however the first thing I wish I had done was change the cambelt straight away cos even with good history and receipts the f**ker still snapped and f**ked up the engine.
Im not bitter honest here's what i will do if I get it back.
lowered
clear indicators
body work and respray
clean and tidy interior, keep it straight forward and practical.
alloys
Thats about 1% of the work I did on the last one.
I look at my first van as a testing/learning ground for me, I wanted every mod and the van to be everything. I still want that for my next one, but realised that after spending 100+ hours doing jobs like carpeting the walls, and then a year later, re carpeting the walls, the statisfaction wears off very quickly.
I probably spent more time doing mods then actually enjoying the van for its intended purposes like camping and day trips.
I look at my first van as a testing/learning ground for me, I wanted every mod and the van to be everything. I still want that for my next one, but realised that after spending 100+ hours doing jobs like carpeting the walls, and then a year later, re carpeting the walls, the statisfaction wears off very quickly.
I probably spent more time doing mods then actually enjoying the van for its intended purposes like camping and day trips.
Opening window behind the drivers seat, window at the back by the sliding door, combined sink/hob instead of separates. That about it really Oh, darker flooring, mine shows the muck
Buy one that has been profesionally converted and save my self a lot of cut fingers and pain
not to say any thing about the money spent on bits and bobs that never get used or don't work as intended
Just bought a new van so all the little niggles and lessons learnt from the last 3 conversions can be put into this one..
Yep cupboards that you can get into with bed down..more accesable 240 hook up..full width bed not 3/4...not buy bits on impulse and research some prices first..
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