MOT passed and a week in Cornwall had

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managed to get the van through its MOT without too much problems and celebrated with a trip down to Cornwall which was a lot of fun. It highlighted a few points that we need to see about sorting over the winter to make the camping experience that little bit smoother... This has raised a few questions i hope you can help with...

1. I got some rubber weatherstrip for the driver and passenger door windows a while back but haven't gotten round to fitting it. what's the best stuff to stick it with? is there any specialist stuff or should i just try no more nails or something?!?

2. On the dashboard there are 3 circular indents, 2 of which are for the speedo and petrol guage. What is the 3rd for? i quite fancy having a clock on the dashboard and just wondered wether any vans were ever fitted with one. possibly a rev counter?

3. the bottom of the driver's door is now in pretty bad shape. i don't have the ability to weld but was wondering if anyone had any experience of rivetting bodywork. how much spare steel is there above the flutes on woolfy's door panels? would there be enough to rivet the panel to the existing door skin and do they fold under the door? i have also heard of people using some form of bodywork adhesive... any ideas?!?

thanks guys...
 
Hi Wier, good to hear of MOTs & adventures - cracking stuff:)

1. not sure about best choice as strip I had slotted in with a good push fit - imagine something gooey would be favourite (sort of thing that Mum used to use for wetsuit repairs, smelt of melted horses[xx(]) - has to be something that won't eat the rubber though

2 Bessie has oil pressure gauge which is pretty handy, also fitted a rev counter to fill semi patched panel in dash that she came with when I bought her.

3 I know that Woolfy now offering a door exchange service to supply you with repaired door and recycle your old one - but looks like door panel has plenty of metal above fluting to blend in o.k. if you're doing it yerself.

Bessie - four star commerdation
 
door exchange sounds ideal but expensive...

don't think the weatherstrip will hold without some form of adhesive to be honest.

the other thing we came up against was the pretty poor radio reception. when i installed the stereo i plugged in the aerial lead but if i'm honest i don't actually know where that leads to and certainly there's no aerial on the van. does the van's body act as the aerial? would fitting an external aerial be more successful. perhaps one of the ones that fit to the side of the van like you see on old vw campers would fit a commer?!?
 
you should see the size of mine[:0]:I
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comes in handy as most of the places I camp at are tucked down at sea level with cliffs/coastline with minimal reception

Bessie - four star commerdation
 
that was the sort of thing i was thinking of. so did you just drill a hole in the bodywork to fit it?
 
that's how it came, dodgem style - have noticed some commers with built in nobbly bit ready for aerial in same place as mine mounted but not sure if all like that.

Bessie - four star commerdation
 
Glad you had a good week away, and making use of the commer.. I love seeing all the pics of their adventures, have you got any so we can be nosy.

Cazz
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Smurfette
 
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