Things have been rather quiet on the van front of late. I have spent most of my time with tape measures and pencil drawing out the positions for the units while the van was returned to the dealers to sort out the leaking window !.... Yes a T5 with a leaking window! The off side opener was letting in water. The dealer was very good about it and no quibbles they collected the van & filled the tank. First we had a new seal then waited for rain – make sure van parked facing up hill and oops! still coming in. So back goes the van and in goes a new window … wait for rain make sure van parked facing up hill and double ooops !… still coming in … heavy discussion in the house this time. The work could not progress to the first major conversion work …. i.e. cutting a hole in the roof till we were happy with everything & we were unsure if another window would sort it. So – decision made – forget the opener and let’s have a fixed window. We rarely opened that window in previous vans over 8 years so no huge loss. Again – no quibble from the dealer – job done and we are moving again.
While this was going on I applied MAJOR hammering on the credit card buying all sorts of bits and we also took a second trip out to Cannon's Forge at Scotland Farm in Worksop to take a closer look at their Rock ‘n Roll bed. Dave popped one in the van so I could take measurements. We want to put stuff between the drivers’ seat and the fridge so we agreed that we were to have a corner cut out of the foot of the bed (seat) so that we can open the fridge while the bed is pulled out …. Order placed …. And now ready for collection.
Sorting the leak delayed us getting the van to Drive Lodge for the high top roof to be installed. Any way once the window was fixed we had to wait for a slot at Drive Lodge but that’s where the van is right now and should be back in a week then straight off to Worksop for the bed installing and that’s when I need to really get cracking !
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