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Bear in mind that mine is an earlier van...

The block connector from the loom has three female spade connections.  These connectors are numbered from left to right - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1
There are three wires - 1 red, 1 thin green, 1 thick green with yellow flashes.

Red to 4
Thin green to 3
Thick green to 2
Nothing to connector 1

Hopefully you can see the corresponding numbers on the motor connector.

Hoping to be there too.

Will be trundeling up via the lakes during the week.

Seems odd that they went at the same time as they have seperate fuses???

You are going to need a voltmeter and check some connections.  Wiring diagrams in the manuals section.

Sounds a big investment... till you see what 2 1/2 grand might get you.

If the motor is right and the work done well you should have an excellent base vehicle to last many years.

Would be interested to hear about your suspension upgrade when yo get around to it.

It doesn't give any external appearance of a camper either.

Glad to hear it and thanks for for posting it here for future reference.

This will need to be argued by someone  at some point but it won't be a quick process.  How would it leave you in the meantime?

The biggest problem as I see it is that we currently have no idea of what their requirements are.  Their requirement for it to look like a motor home externaly is totaly subjective.  If ever any of this actualy went to court it would be thrown out.

It is not possible for them to specify precicely what a motor home looks like.  Motor home is a definition of practical use, not external apearence.  I have seen campers that look like anything from a space ship to a garden shed.

I wonder what would be their responce if I wished to reregister a plastic box Romahome as a light comercial?

How about a Winnebago vinyl wrap? 

I wasn't being totally facetious with my suggestion of labeling it as a motorhome though.  The wording of their refusal says :-

" Unless the vehicle is altered to be identifiable as a motor caravan, the agencies decision is final. 

How better could it be identifiable?

Although in the wider scale of the current collapse of the establishment, this is only a minor mater, the DVLA's recent reinterpretation of long established understanding of the law is odd and as vaz suggests, they are being driven by something.  The threat of finality in their response is well out of order too.   

They are getting stroppy for your non compliance to their as yet un-defined requirements.  They are not the law and have no right to change it.  They are only administrators who should work under it.

My guess is that it's probably a response to the trend for so called stealth camping and at the request of the police.  Whatever it is though, this isn't the way to do it.  I am sure we will hear more.

Careful if you also intend to fit swivels though.  I'm a shorty and with swivels fitted my head is very close to the over head shelf.

NC500.com's latest promo? :-

You could try releasing the bonnet to the safety catch.  Doubt you will be going quick enough to pop it and it might increase air flow.  Had an old Escort it worked wonders for but might not be as effective with modern air scoops and baffles etc.

That is a big van though.