Robbie's road to glory Rapido 7090F 3 litre auto

OK yes we got a new to us van and very nice too but he needs a bit of love and money lavishing on his 31k miles and four point five years usage
I'm itching to get to work on the tasks to do but my job is getting in the way
First job when I get home at the weekend is to send off the V5C and V5C/2 that the previous owner has forwarded up to me. This will be accompanied by my transfer of private number t33 cno
I'll be updating this thread every step of the way of Robbie's transformation and there will be many many steps including photos

Looking forward to seeing the changes you make -it usually gives me ideas!

Ditto

Wifey has been to raskelf and tested the duvalays for comfort and support and settled for the custom made 150mm mattress made to rapido shape n size and the saving on the 200mm mattress has paid for two fitted sheets
Three week delivery so at least we'll have it for Scotland trip

Price with November discount £400

USB and 12volt outlet to replace the 12volt socket under the table adjacent the captains seat. Marcle leisure £35 the lot delivered
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Bought a second hand Hab door today as it has the parts I need to fix ours.
Good door interior liner and near perfect blinds for !£250 cash and that is cheap! when you've no labour charges and I of course will fix it right.

Techno100 wrote:

USB and 12volt outlet to replace the 12volt socket under the table adjacent the captains seat. Marcle leisure £35 the lot delivered
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That's a good idea ..

I can see you're going to cost me lots of money

Nice one Andy.... keep the piccy's coming

I'm looking forward to the excellent instruction manuals..

I inherited two of these onboard with 7 year warranties
Should I be impressed? Not really heard anything good about Elecsol
They're fired by a Sterling BtoB charger and Nasa battery monitor I need to check that this has been reset with the correct battery AH figures. I discovered the solar regulator was set to lead acid and not AGM too
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Stripped the hab door to bits today and what a mess. To my knowledge its only been touched by dealers which only reinforces my fear of their incompetence. Anyway its all fixable now

Cab blind fitted
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New hab door blinds fitted
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Internals to sort out before fitting new door lining next weekend

Hab door all working now.
Started running the twin camera cables through the van now and learnt a lot today about how the van is put together in the process. Finish it off tomorrow and then look at fitting those USB and extra 230volt sockets and finding the best place for my inverter and auto changeover relays

like the blinds... are they vehicle specific or fit any?

Specific but they do em for trannies too

Techno100 wrote:

Specific but they do em for trannies too

what for transvestites?

New windscreen in the morning
Camera cables now right through to the dashboard all connected and tested. Just need to mount the twin cams on the outside while at Knaresborough CC
V5C has arrived so I can now get my number plates swapped over when I've time to queue at the DVLA

What's with all your flash stars then Techno?

I could tell you but we'd have to vote on it first chuck :S)£$:

Fitted the USB & 12 volt and a 230volt for oil filled rad and hair drier
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Things look like they are coming on in leaps & bounds Andy

Got the Raskelf mattress too but so far they've just been one problem after another
First wife went to visit and view on a Friday afternoon (she rushed all day so she could get off early) arrived at Raskelf at 16:20 only to find they all beggered off website say 17:00hrs
I went to collect today only to find the address on the receipt is out of date, they moved I didn't know that
Then the mattress was ordered to be split in the middle at the top half as ours recline individually. I unpacked and fitted it to discover this so now it has to go back to be altered.
To be honest I've had enough of them

What a pain in the AIRES...

Silverscreens tomorrow from Cleckheaton before going to Knaresborough CC for 5 days

What do you think?
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Look good but a lot of extra cleaning!!

Have you bought them yet? If so be nice to see them on the van!

Not yet we'll wait until we replace the tyres and have it all done in one go
Bought the silver screens though much better than Taylor made ones I think
£140 cash

bank acount a little empty now andy but must be looking good

No plenty left yet lol

Holed up at knaresborough lots of empty pitches
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Hia

looks nice and dry
very wet up here

It's just started here as it got dark but off to the clubhouse soon to book a meal and have a pint of sonic pulse Guinness yummy

And you don't have any snow

Have a good time Andy & Jaks test all those mods out

Cameras fitted
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Lots of jobs done today cupboard catches and drawer runners all rectified.
Home from home
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Shows I'm a novice at drinking but Monkey Shoulder -never heard of it!!??

Nice triple malt there Andy... mmm tasty - But how did you get ice cubes??

A triple malt -wouldn't want to water it down myself!!

Ice cubes from the freezer
Monkey from almost any supermarket
Asda
Morrisons
Carfoure

Is it 12v freezer?

PS: I know a song about a freezer......

'For he's a jolly good fellow' an so on.......... 8)

Dometic AES
Automatic energy selection
12 volt LPG 230volt

I know a song that'll get on yer nerves

Just been to local DVLA twice and queued twice too
Submitted and paid for reg transfer £80 seven working days
Make sure you take both V5's and both MOT certs doh!

Missed out the camera shot and editing isn't allowed now?
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Found the wheels cheaper still
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TYRES £599 for 4 delivered
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New mini heki fitted
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Still a few examples of habitation servicing to make good
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New tv fitted
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Hi Andy... did you cut it out from scratch... or replace an existing window?