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Hi,
Just taken some of the interior panels off our '83 Caravelle (drivers door panel, one in the engine bay and the tailgate one) The rest are coming out soon as I fit a camping interior and soundproof it(using irishkeets link and tips-nice one mate )
And I too was pleasantly surprised to find lots of waxoil-or something similar
Looks to be identical stuff to that in the pics.
I get the feeling it may be factory applied-not really sure why, when I waxoil I tend to remove everything possible to improve access and the brush it on, I have home applied attempts where it has been hand sprayed in that are worse the useless. This looks very professional.
May be it has been done professionally with a proper compressor, but knowing some of the vans history I think this is unlikely.
Maybe it was a dealer option?

mig wrote:Hi,
Just taken some of the interior panels off our '83 Caravelle (drivers door panel, one in the engine bay and the tailgate one) The rest are coming out soon as I fit a camping interior and soundproof it(using irishkeets link and tips-nice one mate )
And I too was pleasantly surprised to find lots of waxoil-or something similar
Looks to be identical stuff to that in the pics.
I get the feeling it may be factory applied-not really sure why, when I waxoil I tend to remove everything possible to improve access and the brush it on, I have home applied attempts where it has been hand sprayed in that are worse the useless. This looks very professional.
May be it has been done professionally with a proper compressor, but knowing some of the vans history I think this is unlikely.
Maybe it was a dealer option?

Hey nice one, glad to hear your van is treated, have you found any rust? The only rust I had was in the battery boxes under the seats (leaky batteries over the years)