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Hi, yep a real shock, thanks for your reply.

I think it's going to be a lot more than a days work for a welder but yes, £300 to £ 400 is about right. The extent of the cover up rust is way beyond this box sections and into the rear structural valance etc

I will be doing most of the work myself, the cutting out and going back to good metal, the fabrication of new box sections and brackets etc. I can weld ok for these things but welding them to the structure is a bit beyond my skills.

I think you maybe right with the structure being 2.5 mil, some of the panels around these places are 1.2 mil so guessing will need a good welder to do the attachment work.

I am going to my mechanic friend Thursday for the appraisal, if he says write off, well I will just have a good go myself, nothing ventured etc

If it is a write off, I will try and take as many pics as I can to post for details of this for others to see if this affects their vans too.

Update: It appears on the mk1 that all you have to do to remove the plastic housing is, move it to the right horizontally (quite firmly) and then pull gently down on the left side of it releasing it from the cut-out in the door. The reverse to re-install. (PS, there are two holes underneath that give the impression that there maybe screws holding these to the bodywork, don't let it fool you!)

Hope this helps someone out, and I fitted two LED bulbs from Halfords which was about £4

Excellent Ken, thanks for that

I do have a rattle gun funnily enough but no compressor, so make do was the nature of the day

Thanks Ruston, think I will have a word with my mechanic mate about that!

Hi kenbw2, well that funnily enough is all the review I needed. Just bought a couple of spanner sets and a set of half inch sockets and ratchet. Unboxing them it is clear that they are well made, far better than my old crap in the shed!

Thankfully my van is pretty much rust free, but then I will find out what the bolts are like to remove without rounding off.

The next buy is a good spring compressor, any thoughts?

Update 4, heater fan failure due to...... yup, the relay. All good again, waiting for the next thing!

Total cop out I know, I had to have lights in the back so a good stop gap cheapy fix for now...

Poundland, yep and guess how much? (nope £5) and they take exactly 147 AA batteries (11 really). Got to say I am quite impressed with the result!
For £7 for the set of 3 lights and batteries, the back lights up like daylight. There is also a dim setting and a 30min button for forgetting to turn them off when just needing light for a while.

Added bonus is it came with a little remote control keypad that I have stuck to the left rear door, this is in a holder so you can take the remote with
you to any door (or shine it through the window in the bulkhead from the cab to see what you have destroyed by not driving like a sensible person)

Might just take out the battery side of things and hard wire them from a regulated 4.5 v dc supply source from my planned hot batt bus. Oh yeah, you can switch them on individually if you like with the buttons on them.

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Hi Casper,
Yes I have been known to use every inch of the back, I transport furniture mainly and do cram sometimes, putting drawers on top of units to the celling.

I checked out the link you posted, I think these might be a practical option to the tape stuff, the look low enough profile not to risk knocking them. Dimmer isn't much of a worry, thanks for posting, I will be ordering a set as at that price worth a shot!!