mk5 hi cube 2.5td

[100ps_drw_hicube]

will hopefully be getting the van resprayed on the 9th meanwhile i have got this little job to fix




it was the rear spring hanger same problem as the rest of the smiley shape vans, it rots still will hopefully have the new one before the new year[/img]

[Gunslinger]

oops

[100ps_drw_hicube]

you would have thought they would make them the same as the chassis cab hangers over an inch thick not 10mm thick still i am another £80 lighter now even less to spend on getting it chipped

[jonnyshag]

be carefull about who re sparys your van , i had my a-team sparyed up and he did a sh1t job , just sparyed staright over the rust never prep it

[100ps_drw_hicube]

have got a good painter to do it he has contracts with honda touring cars and mclaren f1 and others so i think he should do a good job he is very reluctant to paint the fiberglass as it goes funny after a while but i wont be keeping her for more than a year

[jonnyshag]

thats ok if you know him , i didnt know the guy who painted my van he just filled my head full of bull b4 he painted then after about 3month rust start to appear, i went back to see him and just made sh1t up

[FredTransit]

thats ok if you know him , i didnt know the guy who painted my van he just filled my head full of bull b4 he painted then after about 3month rust start to appear, i went back to see him and just made sh1t up

Was he cheap? You don't mind if he's cheap!

[jonnyshag]

yeah it were cheap £650 but i offer him alot more to do a proper job but he said £650 is enough

[FredTransit]

yeah it were cheap £650 but i offer him alot more to do a proper job but he said £650 is enough

OUCH, I pay £300-400, for the quality you describe, a 'blow over'. If I want it to last I do the prep myself, then I know it's done. The last repray we had was £350 for a luton, but 6 months later we had to have the wing replaced! At least you don't mind if it's cheap, it gets the biggest part of the job out of the way, a tip is always to ask for a jar full of spare paint. Teh respray before that was the minibus, which cost £300 and was about ready to just mask up when I drove in.

[100ps_drw_hicube]

i am back on the road after 3 weeks with out her finally got a call today that the spring hanger had come in all the way from turkey and just on £100 with the bolts how can they charge so much for a piece of steel hopefully will be heading north this week end just got the small problem of a leaking injecter now put £20 of fuel in today done about 10 miles and the guage was nearly empty stopped lifted the bonnet to find a lot of smoke anyway looks to be leaking from one of the rubber connecting pipes at the top of the injecter to dark to see what i was doing so crawled home

[Luke]

£100 robbin b******* gunslinger could have knocked one of them up with some old galv chequer plate he found in a skip!!!

glad your back on the road mate

[MrMPuk]

Do none of the panel places do them then??

[100ps_drw_hicube]

Do none of the panel places do them then??

no as they are only applicable to ambulances and drw hi-cubes so only fords seem to selll them

[100ps_drw_hicube]

got hold of a different set of injecters today turned out the ones i had in were for a 70 ps n/a flys along once again, i got 105mph down the m27 hopefully it wont take me to long to get to sheffield tommorow seems everything is fixed at the mo next thing is mon i will be losing her for a week to be resprayed still will have a c*rsa van to run around in for a week will get pics on as soon as its done

[MrMPuk]

105 bloody hell