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Not sure if this is in the right place or not. Anway, had an engine bay fire last week, looks a bloody mess, had a small fire extinguisher but a fire engine was called and the doused the rest. Sad to say the least, anyway called insurance and they sent an assessor round today who spent all of five m...

Not sure if this will help, mines water cooled. The same thing happened to me after an 1100 mile round trip,drove fine, put on driveway, week later wouldnt start. Filters were new checked them and on advice from ROB removed one that seemed to be superfluous,tried more fuel, put some straight into ca...

Will take engine bay one of tomorrow and see what happens, i did wonder why there was two as there is only one in the haynes manual but as i said it was there when i got the van so thought dont move it just replace.. i can see the logic in only have the one....could this have damaged the pump.

thanks for the response ROB......Both filters are brand new, just on before I went away over the summer, the one in the engine bay was already there when I purchased the van so just changed it anyway, a mate reckons he has a pump lying around so i am going to give that a try, would the pump fail jus...

Hi Folks, just back from an 1100 mile round trip.....van drove like a dream.....parked it up on driveway and it sat there all week. Anyway decided i would use it to go to work but it wouldnt start, turned over a couple of times, plenty life in the battery but it kicked once quick rev and then it die...

Apologies if this has been answered elswhere but cant find anything. Just got the van, took the buddy seat out of the back to give us more space....off in a couple of weeks to Ireland and dont think I will have found suitable replacement front seats so was thinking could I fit the buddy seat in the ...

Hi Fritz, thats some bad outfit you have on there, obviously not the office outfit you normally wear...I hope. Thanks for the response, after initial excitement, went to the garage to dig out the alloys.....two sets of audi alloys with split new tyres and all four stud........so need to get rid of t...

Hi folks, great site, just got one and trying to sort out some bits and pieces. A couple of questions on the above. I have couple of sets of alloys from audi 80 with great tyres, these are 14's....the tyres wont be rated to fit the van but is it possible to fit the alloys with the existing van tyres...

Well the buddy seat is out....bolted all the way through to undercarriage with a couple of steel brace plates acting as strengtheners/spacers. All but one of the bolts undone with out difficuly, the last one I had to take the angle grinder to as it was rounded off and I couldnt get any purchase at a...

Thanks for the welcome Flowerpower and Ermie571.
I will have a look and mess about with the seat tomorrow, as for things falling of at least theres plenty space in the back to put it all.
Thanks again

Well gone and done it bought one, water cooled 1900 fourspeed petrol, white with all the usual stuff, suppose I will have to make special sleeping arrangements with my bank branch manager to fund all of the nice things I would like to do to the van. Bodywork is actually quite clean with just a spot ...