It's been very hectic so this is a retrospective blog, basically the van had been a pain in the ass!
Ever since I bought the van if I drove for more than 70 miles the engine light would come on, then it would go into engine management mode (not fun limping on the motorways). so I took it back to the place i bought it from, told them it was “not fit for purpose” and after some hostility towards me demand they fix it under my customer rights (didn't have a warranty). The garage (car base biz) is 100 miles away so a complete nuisance.
I’d drive it all the way up there, they would ”fix it” some times having the van for weeks, I’d go and collect it and about 30 miles from home the bloody light would come on, during 7 month of assertiveness with them they reluctantly changed on 4 separate occasions
1) The cooling matrix.
2) The water pump
3) Turbo bearings
4) New turbo
So for me that was 8 x 100 mile journeys so you can appreciate that when the light came on after the new turbo I nearly had a nervous breakdown!!!
Van went to VW Bournemouth who found they had indeed put a new turbo on but plumbed it in wrong! All fixed I could get on with the conversion work which I was reluctant to carry out before this, as I thought I was going to have to get shot of the van, this takes me up to July 2010 1 month before my planned 3 month trip round europe!
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