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Postby bigmastif » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:34 pm

our van have no real overhang fred our vans have a big lip under the luton and the water just sits there and drips onto the inside of the roof and runs down behind the rubber and pastic cowling both vans are suffering it so we have put it down to the lutons a guy we know has our 2 vans sister and that has a tipper body but it doesnt suffer the same probs as ours :shock: but we have discoverd a new prob aswell both the lutons have "sprung" if ya know what that means :wink:
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Postby FredTransit » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:36 pm

That's a good point bigmastif, yours is a different style of body to ours, ours are wider than the cab and overhang the windscreen.
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Postby mrgasoil » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:44 pm

100 T280 wrote:
motorwise wrote:
mrgasoil wrote:Nowt wrong with mine 8) 8)


or mine :D


You sure? Have you looked underneath? :P


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Postby FredTransit » Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:26 pm

This is from the Mk6 section, here

motorwise wrote:
Nighthawk wrote:VIN Number: WF0LXXGBFLYC*******
Registration Number: **02***
Registration Date: 29.05.2002
Registration Country: GB
Build Date: 22.05.2000


Kin L, thats stood for a while :shock:



blimey yes - I never noticed that


Would this explain why the Mk6 are apparently rusting early?
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Postby sc_BK » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:11 pm

Not unless mine was built in 1998 :lol:
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Postby FredTransit » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:24 pm

could have been!
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Postby motorwise » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:14 pm

FredTransit wrote:This is from the Mk6 section, here

motorwise wrote:
Nighthawk wrote:VIN Number: WF0LXXGBFLYC*******
Registration Number: **02***
Registration Date: 29.05.2002
Registration Country: GB
Build Date: 22.05.2000


Kin L, thats stood for a while :shock:






blimey yes - I never noticed that


Would this explain why the Mk6 are apparently rusting early?



shouldn't make any difference - unless of course the dealer stores then axle deep in a field :D
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Postby djswampy » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:10 am

Storing them in car parks like this
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