New interior

Garrick · 10-04-2009, 06:43 PM

Since I've had my van I've really not liked the interior. When I bought it it had no headlining at all just some dodgy 70's fablon hanging off the metal roof.

So some time ago i boarded it out with loads of insualtion behind it to help keep the heat in / out and give me some noise reduction. Several months ago it looked like this

now its more or less totally covered in stickers

Next up was the crappy cupbaords / fridge / cooker arrangement

looked something like this

12minutes later I had this

and this

next I sourced some cabinet / cooker / sink arrangement from The Ranch

bit of chopping and hacking and a rough trial fit of

I've spent today doing more trial fitting and generally getting soaked

but I'm nearing a good fitment. Next up us the recovering of all interior panels in a nice satin black and laying of my new heavy duty red flooring. Next series of pictures will follow when I'm dry

DOOEY · 10-04-2009, 07:55 PM

Garrick, I got Pete some spray cans in satin black off Autosmart at £2 a can {400ml}. He's done the inside of the doors of his T4 and said it went on easy and finish is good. So if you're looking at doing it through a can give me a shout because they're about £3 a can cheaper than Halfords.

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Garrick · 10-04-2009, 11:24 PM

cheers darren, but didn't state above that I've got some vinyl to cover all the door cards, bit like fablon, so far working a treat

DOOEY · 11-04-2009, 08:12 AM

No problems mate. Just don't do what I did the first time I covered my door cards! I didn't think about putting a thin layer of sponge on first, then the vinyl. So what happened was I stapled down the vinyl and had the staples sticking out the other side. I managed to get everything from Dunelm near the Haygate. Best of luck.

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Garrick · 12-04-2009, 04:43 PM

quick update from the last few days...

more upto date picture of the headlining

been doing the flooring, started off with this load of tosh

got some real heavy duty flooring at dubfreeze

flooring all fitted with proper door trim, even did the exposed metal round the seats too

original plywood door cards

bit of fablon magic and hey presto

got most of the panels back in but have now run out of fablon!!! next up will be the fitting of the unit which has more less been trimmed to fit the van properly.

DOOEY · 12-04-2009, 07:29 PM

Coming along nicely.

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