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Hmm... shame you’re so far away from Somerset. I’d drop the van around in the morning, just to save you getting during lockdown!

Surely the Vito is a similar weight to T25?

Sikaflex lastomer 710, made for the job and never fails. Plumbers mate would probably do it but it’s quite ‘stiff’ and would need quite a bit of pulling down to guarantee no small gaps.

Yes it’s impossible to be exact with a cost. If you are going to pay a reliable professional to carry out the body work and paint then you can say goodbye to a minimum of £5k. That’s from personal experience and then there’s likely to be mechanical work as well. So unless you are going to be keeping...

Search on eBay, they’ll probably be from China ‘genuine’ items. Allow 6-weeks!

Have you got any further with this project ?

Ebay... 4” rubber wheel sticker/decal removal tool. Soft rubber wheel that fits in your drill. Seems like a strange concept but they actually work really well and need no solvent!

Thanks for replies and offers. Even more strangely the heavy duty springs have disappeared this afternoon from the heritage website. I may ring them tomorrow and try the standard Suplex ones if the others are not available.

Strangely Heritage have Meyle ‘heavy duty’ rear springs and Suplex standard. The standard are about £15 each more expensive. Yet the heavy duty Meyle fronts are more expensive. Anybody had any good or bad experience with either brands?

I’m in the process of overhauling the rear suspension on my Foster & Day coachbuilt. I’ve stripped it down ready to fit new trailing arm polybushes and Ian Holman’s disc kit. The near side always looked more of a sag than the offside and I can now see that someone has replaced just the offside s...

Brilliant! I’m a bit ashamed of myself for not spotting the obvious, having done the same myself previously. Guilty of overthinking and trying to be ‘clever’ maybe!

Personally I would suspect a combination of the hot weather and the restorer. GRP does expand and contract slightly with temp change. I would think that maybe the restorer soaked into the GRP and caused it to expand ,although only by a little, Anywhere else on the roof would be able to move freely, ...

Is there now any noticeable improvement/difference?

Temple Cloud Garage, just south of Bristol on the A37. Paul is a long time VW man and knows them inside out.

I had exactly the same thing happen to me in Brittany a couple of years ago. Had the ‘ride of Shame’ to a local Vw dealership where they had a big laugh and relied on an overnight delivery from uk for a new bearing. I was not prepared to risk the stub axle after all that heat, so I replaced it as so...