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I've been doing loads of electrical fixing on my friend's severely bodged T25 for weeks; melted wires at the fuse box, rad fan not running, fuses blowing, cables twisted together wrapped in insulating tape, loose wires etc. We are slowly getting there with it. Found a big red aftermarket switch on t...

Similar recent thread on mechanical thread here that may help

Helped a friend sort her radiator fan (as well as a melted fuse box, a bigger story) recently, including replacing the incorrect 2 speed rad fan switch with the correct 3 speed one. Ensure the low speed as well as high speed rad fan kicks in; the low speed seemed to keep her engine temperature maint...

Brilliant!
Many thanks for your prompt and detailed notes, much appreciated.

@colinthefox looking at your solid welding, can you let us know your welder model and any other welder advice or thoughts, please? There's so much 'advice' out there, so many choices. For people that have occasionally welded (like me), it seems going the cheap and cheerful route (eg gas less) may no...

Wow, that is some robust repair! Encouraging and demoralising - what levels of evil rustiness lurk within our voids that we pretend are not there?? And yet a great step by step real world ‘story’ - many thanks for posting your second side’s work. Regarding your posting of photos - are they uploaded ...

Reading this with real interest @colinthefox, thanks for your original post on this repair. I hope there's a photo posting solution that lets you upload the second repair, as there's hopefully a few extra tips based on your experience. I'm a bit of a body repair novice and will need to tackle this r...

Thanks for the further feedback, very helpful

Thanks for feeding back your similar experience.
Did your pop canvas fail completely or did the look of it drive you to replace it, presumably at quite a cost?
Good to know it can be (hopefully) replaced at some point.

Thanks for comments, appreciated. We've tried cleaning with all sorts of fluids, with no luck, so would be surprised if it's mould; however it's slightly tacky to the touch, and we notice the problem area is getting larger each time we use the van. Could that be a mould thing?? Might get some mould ...

Thanks, but it appears the fabric is degrading in some way, and I can't think of the last time we parked or camped under a tree

We've noticed our Devon poptop fabric has suddenly and significantly deteriorated recently. To the untrained eye it looks like rust contamination, but there's no metal (and certainly no rusty metal) anywhere near. It feels slightly tacky to the touch; inside looks completely normal. We've tried clea...

We've heard it all before - regularly check/replace your fuel hoses to avoid leaks (& fires!), particularly as modern fuels appear more aggressive to our ageing fuel systems. As I'd replaced EVERY petrol hose last year (Gates brand) during the engine change, I must be in the clear, right? But ha...

We've had our van for 19 years (1.9 DF, Devon); it came with an Elsan bucket loo (which I never fancied using, so it went straight in the loft). Recent loft tidy meant the Elsan loo finally got looked at; it had a bag with a few random clips - does anyone recognise them? Is it to do with the loo? Or...