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Next to come was the furniture, I had already bought a fridge and knew my basic layout copying other campers.

I was originally going to buy from a supplier then modify to fit but a local supplier who was making it for me went under and so I decided to scratch build the entire thing myself, using white melamine covered chipboard (15mm) and using a heavy duty titanium finish wrap, I also used 15mm T moulding in blue too match the van.

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Cut the first two bits to length then using a pen spaced out from the side of the van marked out the worktop piece

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This shows the corner trim in place and the "sink" fitted (sink is a stainless salad bowl off ebay cost about £5 and with a camper drain fitted which cost £6, the small cutout on front edge of worktop is for the fridge safety catch, this will later get bigger so fingers can reach round and T trim can go behind.

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Upper part fitted to make high cupboard and fitted rear panel.

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Rear panel with twin tambour doors edge trim and wrap fitted.

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Rest of unit covered and other two tambour doors fitted, I accidentally ordered a black one for the upper cupboard I might get round to changing that at some point. You notice I have hard mounted a basic single burner camping stove as my cooking facilities, as long as it fries bacon it should be good for what I need.

I also got mine from a Taxi, cost £50 but was pretty filthy, managed to get mine pretty good with a lot of chemicals and a steam cleaner.

TBH dont worry about me however much I want to meet up with you guys if you are all "up norf" I probably wont be able to manage it anyway, I have a lot of my weekends already sorted and no Holiday available from work either.

I also put my leasure battery in that location although to get my big battery in there did have to manipulate the metal above it a bit just, I added a computer chasis fan to the hole in the floor and used as an air vent, I have a Taxi side panel there which has vent holes so it can extract moisture.

I looked at getting one but ended up with a van, I thought it would be good to keep two of the fold down seats and only remove the persex bit and keep the rest of the bulkhead as the starting point for the conversion. Think they just bolt in to the B posts either side.

Each window inc fitting kit is about £130-150 so about £400-450 is what it cost for the 3 windows I fitted (2 on passenger side and one on drivers as I have a full height cupboard on drivers side rear quarter)

Doors I cut from the inside out, I used a high quality tank cutter in the corners to match up the curve of the reinforcing plate. so just the single skin bit gets cut out, then used masking tape to join the holes on the outside and marked the line joining the outer edge of the holes I had cut, this should in theory follow the line of the edge of the reinforcing except where it crosses the vertical piece which needs to be cut through. Then I covered the metal base of my jigsaw with tape to avoid scratching paint and cut along the lines, if done slowly you wont wreck the blades (i used one blade to do all three windows!)

The rear quarter windows I measured the position of the clear part of the window then marked the same on the outer panel as I knew the single skin area inside was bigger than the see-through area on the window. Then I cut out as above but this time used tank cutter from outside.

Paint the cut edge then attach the supplied edge trim.

Bonding on the windows is the easy bit, follow their instructions but basically use the correct prep solvents on the window and the metal work then put a bead of bonding agent on the inside of the window reasonably close to the edge, then stick it on and press evenly as hard as you can to attach, stick tape from top of window on to van so it wont slide down panel, leave over night.

Done!!!

I make that about 400 total and as there are none before 2012 they must be the 2012 onwards model.

Another camper, awesome. Mine is very nearly finished, then I am going to upload the whole build at once.

Does remind me I should probably at least look at the oil in my van some time, although as I have been building it for last 6 months and it had just had full service at the time of purchase should be fine, probably only done 500 miles since then.

I have checked the gearbox end and everything seams good, so I am suspecting ball joint, or maybe both cables are stretched

Well didnt look like they would fit in any way that was effective, what you could do is buy standard universal window seals then you could maybe make them work. If anyone wants to try they can have my side window as its too much hassle to post so probably going to tip.

I have now fitted a bonded on door window, upside down so it lines up with matching door window and it looks good but cost 3 times as much.