What did you do to your VW today?

Bumble wrote:

Oh, and I renewed Bumble's insurance; Carole Nash (existing provider) being much cheaper even than Comfort Insurance.

It was even better after I asked CN to 'see what they could do with the price', even though they were already cheaper than Comfort

Guy from Comfort said he hadn't heard a bad word about CN insurance either and sorry he couldn't match their price.

P.

(No action pics, sorry Tim)

Maybe one of you haggling hard on the phone?!

TimV wrote:

Bumble wrote:

Oh, and I renewed Bumble's insurance; Carole Nash (existing provider) being much cheaper even than Comfort Insurance.

It was even better after I asked CN to 'see what they could do with the price', even though they were already cheaper than Comfort

Guy from Comfort said he hadn't heard a bad word about CN insurance either and sorry he couldn't match their price.

P.

(No action pics, sorry Tim)

Maybe one of you haggling hard on the phone?!

Trouble is, that's my usual look

Seriously, it didn't take much haggling to save over £30

Scooby got us to and from the Daz Dub Doo this weekend without wandering too much!

We had a great run both ways - Scooby doo like a good long run now and then

Went to St Andrews for a birthday bbq

Took Scooby off to Brand Autos for a service and other "stuff"

Got Mabel a new long life exhaust, on the Club deal. sweet.

Packed Neville for our Henley/Marlow weekend

Collected Scooby from Brand Autos - thanks Paul for everything

Picked up some of Oli's friends and took them all to a lake for a birthday party and fun on a Jetski.

As luck would have it there was a BraziBay already there, one more to arrive shortly and the owners of a fourth a few minutes after that!

What fun!

Looked a fab time guys , thought of you all when we passed the lakes at Lydd. We went down to Dungerness with TigerLily and parked outside the Britannia Inn and enjoyed a Fish and Chip supper in the afternoon sun.

beakyboy wrote:

enjoyed a Fish and Chip supper

You have salad with your fish and chips? Where's the mushy peas for Gawd's sake?

AbsintheKombi wrote:

beakyboy wrote:

enjoyed a Fish and Chip supper

You have salad with your fish and chips? Where's the mushy peas for Gawd's sake?

They do fings different in the sarf east.

Tallulah wrote:

AbsintheKombi wrote:

beakyboy wrote:

enjoyed a Fish and Chip supper

You have salad with your fish and chips? Where's the mushy peas for Gawd's sake?

They do fings different in the sarf east.

Also note that it's Red sauce not Brown!

AbsintheKombi wrote:

beakyboy wrote:

enjoyed a Fish and Chip supper

You have salad with your fish and chips? Where's the mushy peas for Gawd's sake?

It was a bit strange but we were in Dungerness which is strange to say the least.

I did actually forget the mushy peas which I was suitably reprimanded for once the waitress had gone !

Took 'Mish' to Brand Autos today for some emergency welding. The tow bar has parted company with the van bodywork underneath, the bolts have ripped out, due to a touch of the rust bug. Paul has worked his magic, he has voiced concern that he thinks there should be a bracket fitted towards the bumper to prevent the tow bar flexing vertically. He is going to sort that out for me, will post photos when I collect the van.

Thanks to Danbury

Was down in Yate today for a Minor Service.
All parts and labour paid for with the voucher donated by Danbury and auctioned at the Kombi Sleepover 2016 (a contribution of £290 to our charity)

Also new MOT pass at the same visit.
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Had wheel tracking (alignment) sorted as there was wear on the outside of the front tyres.
Interesting that the main dealers(e.g. Kwik-fit, National tyres) now cannot do this on the Brazilian bay as they only use a four-wheel device that needs the rear wheels completely exposed to allow their jigs to rotate (or something like that!!) - so had to shop around for an old-style garage/tyre unit to use a laser set-up that would fit.
Now sorted.
Comment was made that it looked from the tyre wear pattern that the tyre pressures recommended by Danbury are under inflated on the front (lowered and alloys) - anyone else had this feedback?
Mark

docmark wrote:

Comment was made that it looked from the tyre wear pattern that the tyre pressures recommended by Danbury are under inflated on the front (lowered and alloys) - anyone else had this feedback?
Mark

What pressures are you using @docmark?

Just bought a new awning poles and three clamps.

Also bought a towing eye for Paul B to fit when we next have Bumble serviced.

P.

After a FAB week in Bakewell - with great weather - we returned home this weekend.
Scooby looked a little neglected as we left him at home this time.
So to give him some TLC we gave hime a wash today - that put the sparkle back!

Took our van to Border Restoration to have all the rust-spots on the wheel-arches cut out and repaired - a most impressive set-up run by Michelle and Marc.
They mainly work on splits and bays that are well passed their prime - stripping down to a bare shell and reconstructing and rebuilding up again - the work quality is very very good and the results are amazing!!

Tim
I recall that the recommended pressures in Danbury "manual" was for alloys (lowered) 32 front, 36 rear I think
The manual is in the van which is in the bodyworks being de-rusted so I cannot check today

I've checked the paperwork that came with everything else from Danbury, and there is no mention of tyre pressures for alloys and lowered.

However on the n/s door frame is a VW sticker with tyre pressures front (standard 33psi...loaded 35psi) rear (standard 39psi ....loaded 50psi)

Having got through a couple of sets of tyres early on, I now run on 35 front and 45 rear, and up the rear to 50 when travelling fully loaded.

I can only assume that I hadn't taken in to consideration the extra weight of the conversion as the rears were tending to wear on the inside of the tread.

Since upping the pressures the tyres have lasted much longer, and appear to be wearing evenly across the tread.