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"Balls" and bloody hell . engine cooked on M1 on way home. Not a sound heard or a warning light on just power loss and end of.
So .. Two and a half grand for new waterboxer Including labour . gotta be done though . I love it . kids getting naff all for xmas

Thank you, much appreciated, I've gone for the golf mark 1 smoked .

OK. Rewiring and relays nearly done . been looking at headlights civ kid mentioned and fancy the DRL ones . on eBay they come as landrover etc . will any 7 inch round height fit ?

Yeah it's plastic , my mistake, ta for help especially diagram, washers not working, I can hear pump

Hi. Looked on wiki but can't find guide to checking reservoir . I filled up the fluid this morning but it came straight out under the van. I looked and could see the metal small tank wet and dripping fluid so guessing something's loose. Do I just u screw it all and have a look? Any one done it ? Che...

Wonderful, thanks ever so much, brilliant YouTube vid too.

My lights are not that bright , bit like me. What's the easiest option to improve them ? It's a 1985 1.9 caravelle with round lights .

Brilliant, cheers ghost, I'm slowly getting more confident of having a bash

And if I wanted to add a charger to link up with rcd in hook up what would those connections be to ?

That's a brilliant diagram, thanks kid , but what's the no charge light ?

Thank you, I've just moved now down near Cambridge . If I'm up your way soon I'll get in touch, really appreciate your help. I keep reading about it and it's slowly making sense.

Yeah he did sort it. I couldn't as had just bought the van and had no tools and was hundreds of miles from home . Rain peeing down as well so with no wipers I was truly stuck. Job was a dashboard off job . I had to get a train then a plane to get home and will be doing it again to pick the van back ...

Any recommendations as to where I can get a leisure battery fitted as I am a complete novice electrically. Nottingham area best but can travel

Camper shack had a waiting list , couldn't fit me in till June . I found a great garage in Nottingham called Shelton and Edwards . Kev the mechanic stopped what he was doing to help me out . Great little VW garage , some real old school buses hanging about being worked on . Kev really knew his way r...

Wow thank you, worth keeping then , so that means it's a converted 85 carravelle .