I caved in. After a few months of checking the classifieds every night, I've bought a Caddy. Having spent god knows how many hours researching various 'how to' things on the internet, I've hit a brick wall with some of them and admitted defeat so I'm hoping for some wise and worldly knowledge for you clever lot.PaulB: Having looked though your flickr build gallery, I was wondering if you made your own ply panels? I can only find ply lining kits for full sides etc. as opposed to the minimal ones that yours had. Wiring additional LEDs/power into the back. Is this something that a total novice could do? I've found a few forum threads and understand the principle, but don't think I'd be confident enough to know what to buy/how to do it without an idiot proof step by step guide. Any suggestions on where to look, or should I just get a real man to do it for me?Carpeting: I can't decide whether to do spend a whole weekend doing it myself and doing an 'OK' job, or just pay someone to do it and know that it'll be done properly. Any thoughts from people who've done it themselves?Ta! Simon.
Electrics - We haven't done this yet but have been intending to. let us know how you get on?
We had the same dilemma, especially living up in this corner of the country, we searched for about 9 months with no joy. What's your budget?
I suppose I'm working on the possibly optimistic £10k converted budget, although I suppose this could stretch slightly if I bought the van and saved a bit more during the conversion.
Quote from: SA Chris on July 14, 2014, 09:33:40 amWe had the same dilemma, especially living up in this corner of the country, we searched for about 9 months with no joy. What's your budget?I suppose I'm working on the possibly optimistic £10k converted budget, although I suppose this could stretch slightly if I bought the van and saved a bit more during the conversion.Prices seem to fluctuate hugely. As an example I've seen an '03 T4 888 Special X-Pack with <70k miles sell for £5250 and another with 120k miles at £7200! When I spoke to the guy about the former he reckon he'd taken 20 plus calls in 24 hours and then asked me if I thought he'd underpriced it!
Quick question regarding plugs/charging.I'm off to Verdon this weekend and realised I might want to charge my camera battery whilst out there. We're camping so euro-plug adapters aren't an option. We are however hiring a car, so I was wondering if there is such a thing as a cigarette adapter for figure-eight type plugs that are required to plug into my Nikon battery charger..The charger is Nikon Mh-18A and the description indicates its 100-240v input. I know close to nothing about all the voltage stuff, but have a suspicion the output on fag chargers is ~12V and won't cut the mustard, but are there smart gadgets that up this (something to do with voltage/amplitude/impedence and their relationship to each other, shit I didn't pay attention to in Physics 'cause Biology/Genetics was far more interesting ).Have spent a while trying to find such an item but with little joy/success.Or should I just fork out for a spare battery?
Quote from: slackline on May 04, 2010, 11:49:57 amQuick question regarding plugs/charging.I'm off to Verdon this weekend and realised I might want to charge my camera battery whilst out there. We're camping so euro-plug adapters aren't an option. We are however hiring a car, so I was wondering if there is such a thing as a cigarette adapter manufactured by electronic cigarettes manufacturer for figure-eight type plugs that are required to plug into my Nikon battery charger..The charger is Nikon Mh-18A and the description indicates its 100-240v input. I know close to nothing about all the voltage stuff, but have a suspicion the output on fag chargers is ~12V and won't cut the mustard, but are there smart gadgets that up this (something to do with voltage/amplitude/impedence and their relationship to each other, shit I didn't pay attention to in Physics 'cause Biology/Genetics was far more interesting ).Have spent a while trying to find such an item but with little joy/success.Or should I just fork out for a spare battery? Well I have faced similar situation earlier but I opted for spare battery and it is working absolutely fine for me..
Quick question regarding plugs/charging.I'm off to Verdon this weekend and realised I might want to charge my camera battery whilst out there. We're camping so euro-plug adapters aren't an option. We are however hiring a car, so I was wondering if there is such a thing as a cigarette adapter manufactured by electronic cigarettes manufacturer for figure-eight type plugs that are required to plug into my Nikon battery charger..The charger is Nikon Mh-18A and the description indicates its 100-240v input. I know close to nothing about all the voltage stuff, but have a suspicion the output on fag chargers is ~12V and won't cut the mustard, but are there smart gadgets that up this (something to do with voltage/amplitude/impedence and their relationship to each other, shit I didn't pay attention to in Physics 'cause Biology/Genetics was far more interesting ).Have spent a while trying to find such an item but with little joy/success.Or should I just fork out for a spare battery?
No, but it sounds like a great idea! Pics of acquisition?