It's come home! New Pics+need some advice on seals & badges

[italianjob]

Afternoon all

After a long slog of stripping out, welding and spraying - shes come home!!! Now all I need to do is re-fit the interior and make a few mods and we're all set for catching some rays. So here a 2 pics for starters. Taking a look a look at the pics makes me realise just how faded she had become - I suppose you just get used to that kinda look. But it was a true Westwood 'Pimp my Ride' effort from me when we picked her up yesterday with plenty of gesturing and 'I don't believe it man' with a few 'cooooooool's chucked in for good measure. Villa 3 stripes down the sides are now gone as well the bleedin awful landrover 'defender' sticker some numbn**ts decided to stick to the tailgate.

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Now for some advice please:
1. Transporter and volkwagen emblem for the back - where do I get new ones from?? Trawled through JustKampers and all they seems to do is the clips for the emblems but not the actual emblems.

2. Door seals - the bloke at the spray shop removed the cab door seals and took the doors off - should the seals have been re-fitted whilst the doors were off 'cause I can't see how they go back in without cutting them to deal with the door hinges. Also - I forgot to take a picture of how they were seated in the doors - any pictures available so I don't stuff it up?

Any advice greatfully recieved - should be up and running soon so see you around (most prob New Forest, Forest of Dean , Snowdon - the usual places).

Have a good one

[irishkeet]

hello

cab door seals are best fitted with the door removed (there is a guide in the wiki)
if your afrer new vw ones I got mine from
http://www.volkswagenemporium.co.uk/

cheers
irishkeet

[italianjob]

Hows it going?

I checked out the wiki page about doors seals - do I have you use the self adhesive tape or is it optional?? If I get new seals they should pop straight in shouldn't they - or am I missing something here??

Another question whilst I'm here - anybody know where I can get some thin foam for backing the door lining to the cab door cards please? I've sourced where to get the lining material, but I need to get hold of the thin foam to pad it out like the originals.

ta for now

[CovKid]

Any fabric shop has that stuff.

[irishkeet]

Hows it going?

I checked out the wiki page about doors seals - do I have you use the self adhesive tape or is it optional?? If I get new seals they should pop straight in shouldn't they - or am I missing something here??

Another question whilst I'm here - anybody know where I can get some thin foam for backing the door lining to the cab door cards please? I've sourced where to get the lining material, but I need to get hold of the thin foam to pad it out like the originals.

ta for now

hi
tape is optional; but i dont think the seals will stay in without some adhesive of some sort
cheers
irishkeet

[wigg1]

Hi I used the thin foam that you put under laminate floors got it from floors to go
Hope this helps
Regards wiggy

[Molly Man]

Great looking camper... good to see you kept the Holdsworth logo to the front of the pop top!...Worn with pride.
Are you refitting the Villa 3 interior?

Molly Man

[italianjob]

afternoon all

thanks for advice - I will check out using the foam underlay idea as this seems to be the easiest to get hold of. I don't think its flame retardent though? But if the van's on fire I don't plan on sticking around.

Yep, she's still a Villa 3 minus the decals running down both sides but I can live with that - I'd rather see the bright orange. the intention is to re-fit the original interior with a few minor mods - I've disconnected the water tank as we don't really bush camp and I didn't facncy luggin 80 litres around sloshing all the way. Will keep the sink unit but drain it into a 'grey' water container.

I took loads of photos whilst extracting the units, so fingers crossed for the re-fit. I'll keep you filled in with devlopments.

ta for now

[Steve P]

Good choice of colour there!

Good luck with everything

Steve