What did you do to your mk6/7 today?

[Altransit]

Picked it up and drove it home

Piccies?

[Redvee]

You didn't say a location

Ebay has thrown a couple of medium doors at me but nothing local to Bristol which would help.

[loot]

You didn't say a location

Ebay has thrown a couple of medium doors at me but nothing local to Bristol which would help.

I sometimes search for transit mk7 breaking as it includes vans that don't specify doors. There's 3 door heights only the low level which are very obvious when you look at them but then the medium and high, you get used to seeing them and knowing. It might be worth a go.keep watching and you'll drop Lucky before long. In marketplace you can make the search radius whatever size you're happy with.
Other option is to call a few breakers yards.

[conrod]

Refitted the cab interior into a Mk6 campervan which I am "restoring"! Jaguar XFR million-way electrically adjustable seats - these are super comfy compared to the old Transit ones! Was fairly easy to fit them, needed the bases redrilling and captive nuts welding in the correct place. Wiring dead easy too. The Transit seatbelt even fits the Jaguar buckle, and the loose end of the seatbelt fits on the bolt on the side of the Jag seat - too easy! Probably a hangover from when Ford owned Jaguar

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[Burf86]

Very nice, Conrod!
I've been wanting to do something similar with my van for a long time. I'm 6'3" so the standard seat is so uncomfortable for me! I'd also love to have the passenger seat swivel to face the rear for when we are parked up.

[conrod]

Very nice, Conrod!
I've been wanting to do something similar with my van for a long time. I'm 6'3" so the standard seat is so uncomfortable for me! I'd also love to have the passenger seat swivel to face the rear for when we are parked up.

I can recommend these seats! I put them aside from a car I broke for parts. The seat base can be electrically extended forward on the drivers seat. Both seats are height adjustable, although you are obviously limited by the height of the Transit seat base "boxes". I think at 6'3" you might need to cut the driver's seat base box down by a couple of inches? Battery clearance might be an issue though? Rearward movement is limited by the back of the cab wall, seeing as this was built on a cab/chassis. It's okay for me at 5'10" but you would probably run out of legroom in this. Does yours have rear wall behind seats? Passenger swivel seat should be do-able with a swivel base, can't see any problems with that. Wouldn't work on the drivers side as the handbrake is attached to the seat base!

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[martyn1983]

Picked it up and drove it home

Piccies?

Not the best...

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[Altransit]

Picked it up and drove it home

Piccies?

Not the best...

Nice
Not many of us are driving show vehicles these days

[ned]

Picked it up and drove it home

Piccies?

Not the best...

Nice
Not many of us are driving show vehicles these days [/quote]

It’s more fun to drive a slow vehicle fast then a fast vehicle slow, that vans no that slow it’s a 115

[martyn1983]

Seems quite pokey for a wee van, that's for sure.

Few little bits needed, but absolutely nothing major. Joys of working for a vehicle recyclers, got my first replacement part for it. NS mirror casing is cracked so thats on the weekend job list now

[Redvee]

Looked before for them and got lucky, not seen many.

Faceache marketfarce might be worth a try if nothing on the Bay

Found a couple of pairs on Ebay, glazed and unglazed but up in Bradford. We can collect but not till December but the seller is happy with heeping it for us till then.

[M3Stig]

Refitted the cab interior into a Mk6 campervan which I am "restoring"! Jaguar XFR million-way electrically adjustable seats - these are super comfy compared to the old Transit ones! Was fairly easy to fit them, needed the bases redrilling and captive nuts welding in the correct place. Wiring dead easy too. The Transit seatbelt even fits the Jaguar buckle, and the loose end of the seatbelt fits on the bolt on the side of the Jag seat - too easy! Probably a hangover from when Ford owned Jaguar

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only downside you lose the armwrest

[martyn1983]

Picked up a glazed sliding door (which needs a wee bit of tlc) some roof rails and a fuel filler cap.

Oh and a diesel heater

[martyn1983]

Door and filler flap swapped (not by me )

[Jeanclaudedamnvan]

Hands up those who wish to strangle the person that designed the fuel filter housing - me for one. What was wrong with the old set up where you could just spin off the old cartridge filter and replace it in minutes?! It took me an hour and a half to change mine, most of that time was undoing the filter housing - without the special tool. Some of the vertical pieces of plastic were missing presumed sheared off in the attempt to try and replace the filter. These things are stuck on solid so no wonder they are an absolute pig to get off oh an don't forget the mess even with a towel and a having drained most of the diesel. I managed to use a strap wrench and then a flat metal bar to tap the filter round to line up the marks where it would release.

This is a service item and should have been made much easier to swap out, the pre-2011 were easy, I think the Mk8 uses the same set up. Thankfully on ebay you can buy a new housing with filter for £30, I'll do that next time but what a faff. You live and learn.