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Hi all Ahead of a trip to France in the summer in after a few bits to prepare the van, if anyone has anything lying around let me know: LHD headlight lenses Spare wheel inc tyre (wide 5) Dormobile roof handle, mirror, over sink shelf One of those pressed aluminium GB plates I'm located in...

My leisure battery went flat over the winter, I think this was mostly because it's kippered and needs replacing, but it got me thinking about an isolator on the Leisure battery. Who's got an isolator fitted, show me some pictures.

I dropped the engine oil for the first time since getting the van prior to camping trips planning for this summer, after not getting round to it throughout spring, and now I wish I had done this way sooner: So half term camping next week will now be in the tent! Anyway, while the engine is...

SOLD! He's a 1968 so tax free (due December) and currently MOT'd to June. He's a great drive, reliable and used daily as he's my only car. He gets me to work and back (16miles round trip) and starts every morning at 5:30am when I set off, he has also got me to the inlaws at Christmas in...

Any Poole/Bournemouth people have an axel nut whacker I can borrow this weekend? I am in Bournemouth for the bank holiday weekend and my hub seal has failed on my '68 Beetle. I have a breaker bar and a 36mm socket but can't stop the wheel turning :evil: Hoping I can find a kind sole with a...

Back up for sale after new MOT and no sale at DubFreeze is my 1972 Dormobile EarlyBay 8) Looking for an MOT'd tax free beetle for upto £2k so may consider p/x... Tax (exempt) - June 10 MOT - 19th March 2011 Looking for around £6995 but please make me an offer... Engine: 1600 VEGE...

My van has just failed its MOT in unbalance brakes. O/S front caliper has been leaking so needs attention but I want to get it fixed tomorrow, how long does a rebuild take?

Sale cancelled. Currently getting shiney new MOT and will hopefully be at Dubfreeze...

Does anyone know of a company/a guy in Keighley West Yorkshire who repairs and sells guages. I have come across him before but can't remember his name or where I found him. I seem to remember his website is something like VDOJohn - its not but thats what comes to my head...

When I bought my van a year and a half ago, I knew nothing about air cooled cars/vans I'm not even sure I knew there were early and late bays :oops: but I think I got away with my naivety and got an ok van. now I am back from travelling and sold my daily before we went I have an itching for a...

I have 2 litres of Halford 20/50 classic oil left in the bottom of a can and 1.5 litres of Rompetrol 20/50 from Romania, can I put them both in on my next oil change? Obviously not all 3.5 litres but top the halfords up with the other?

11,000miles into our trip and our inner alternator pulley shattered. Luckily (I think), I noticed it while parked up so didn't run the engine until it fell apart. Being stuck in Bulgaria meant we couls get replacement parts so had it welded back together to get us going again. A week later in...

My oil pressure warning light has stopped working... It last came on when the oil level was low, not sure how it was so low as I had been regularly checking it but during that 300 mile interval the engine had got to 120* on my temp guage 3 times so I guess the thinner oil when hot found was to...

Late last night while driving in the dark thru a forest, everything shut down at once - lights & engine - upon investigation fuse no9 had blown (UK '72). In the dark I was unable to figure anything out so limped off the road and parked up. This morning in the daylight I noted I had used the...

While driving out of Madrid the other day ;) the temperature was around 40*c and sitting on the motorway at around 55mph the oil temp was constant around 110*c and while that was no concern (so I dont really know why I am telling you) I got to thinking about my Firetec which I belive activates...

At the moment my brake lights don´t illuminate until I am on them pretty hard, can this be adjusted at all?

I seem to remember one of the guys located in France on here suggesting a company of the ilk of Just Kampers in France, but I can´t for the life of me remember what it was called or where abouts it is, can anyone help?

Hi guys, as promised here´s a few pics... So far we left Leeds and headed to Dover via an Oasis gig in Cardiff. Dipped into Belgium from Calais, then headed back to Paris then over to St Malo then down the west coast, and we have just arrived in Spain and stopped in San Sebastien. Pics are...

House packed up, painted and rented,... Van spruced, MOT'd, insured and not yet packed :oops: ,... Ferry booked, just gotta see the parents before we hit the continent - return date, unknown!! Our tour starts in France and takes an anti-clockwise route round Europe until we run out of funds...

My Grandad wrote me a letter telling me my mum had been clearing out his attic and found something I might be interested in... An awning he used in the 70's when he had two bays - one of which my mum learnt to drive in!! He is a very methodical man and as such this awning is like new, no...