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Friday 29 March 2013

Prosport Coilovers For Sale

Regular readers will know that I've had no end of problems with the Prosport coilovers. Now I'm running airride they are surplus to requirements. I had the front struts replaced - these are brand new items that have never been fitted to the van. The springs have done less than 2k miles, purchased back in June 2012 when I had the facelift done. Removed in Feb 2013 when the airride was fitted.

They will fit all T5 and T5.1 (except the T32) and give an adjustable drop from -30mm to -70mm.


Brand new, this kit would be £300. Because of the used springs (with some of the coating starting to peel - typical of budget kits) I'd accept just £200 for these (collected). The C-spanner not shown in the pic will also be included.

I can't offer any guarantee that the fronts won't knock like the old ones did but they do feel a whole lot better than the ones I returned a few weeks ago. Should you have any problems I don't see why Prosport wouldn't accept another return - I will supply a contact name and email address to the buyer if required.

I'm in Skipton, North Yorkshire at weekends and work in Leeds Mon-Fri. I could also meet at a v-dub show with these if it helps. Send me an email if you're interested: rpcreative@hotmail.com

UPDATE: Sold.

Wednesday 27 March 2013

The Volksworld Show 2013 Roadtrip

Planning had begun back at the beginning of the year for a trip south, a day in London, a weekend at the Volksworld show, and an overnight stop on the way home. Like all best-laid-plans, things started to fall apart (literally) almost straight away.

Ready for the off...
The snow, hail and rain didn't dampen our spirits, but the cancellation of Sunday night's stay at the St. Neots C&CC site due to flooding meant some frantic last-minute rebooking was in order.

Our first port of call was the C&CC site at Chertsey. A nice, riverside site with great facilities and a friendly welcome. We were pitched up and in the pub in no time at all - an almost perfect first day...

Almost perfect? You ask. Well, we soon noticed on the way down that we have become a victim of the ever-popular frozen and split windscreen washer pipe.

Pitched up, hooked up and perfectly level
The Chertsey site is ideal for visiting the centre of London. Just a brisk walk across town to the railway station where we purchased a combined rail/underground pass for the day that delivers you into Waterloo in less than an hour. Trains are incredibly regular, compared to up North, and run late into the evening so you can enjoy a full day in London and avoid the evening rush hour.

Amazing to think roads were closed with drifting snow back home
Friday saw us head over to the Volksworld show. My only gripe with the whole show was being told on the paperwork that camping opened at 3pm - so we milled-around, killing time between leaving the campsite and getting to Sandown. When we arrived at the racecourse at 14:45 (expecting to queue) but we found people had been camped up for ages, bagging all the level spots, great!

I quickly jumped out of the van and found a not-quite-level spot that did look dry and firm under-foot - some campers were already stuck and being towed out.

Parked up and aired-out
By Sunday the temperature had dropped considerably; the windchill on the racecourse was freezing. I guess this kept the show attendance down, everyone was indoors at the show and I felt really sorry for anyone with an outside trade stand or display. I'll go into more detail about the show in a future post.

If only I could convey how cold it felt...
So we come to leave on Sunday lunchtime, a quick adjust of the mirrors and the driver's side (which had been on the exposed side to the weather all weekend) promptly fell off and cracked. A slow steady journey up to the C&CC site at Milton Keynes (our replacement site) was on the cards. A stiff drink was in order when we arrived. The Accuair eLevel touchpad had also given up on Sunday morning - I was starting to wonder what else could go wrong...

Monday dawned bright and cold, as we're both early risers we headed straight for the Volkswagen Van Centre in Bletchley near Milton Keynes. At this point we were all prepared for 'none in stock' or 'that'll be X hundred pounds' but we were greeted with a very helpful 'I'll see what we can do'.

A phone call to the TPS around the corner, a quick trip there to pay, and we're back with replacements for both sides - it seemed to make sense at just £30 each - I never liked the tinted glass that Merseyspeed had fitted; they had no anti-rattle prongs either which might have explained why one fell out!

Back to VW and the helpful girl on reception collared a young lad on his tea-break who followed us out and fitted them for free. We were on our way and very grateful for their help.

Our next stop, having left our traveling companions to make their way home, was back to iKustoms for a quick spanner-check of the airride install, fit some new top mounts, and hopefully diagnose the eLevel problem. I'll not go into too many details but a quick two-hour stop here turned into a marathon five hour visit with nothing going right. Many thanks must go to Iain at iKustoms for his persistence in sorting problems large and small when us lesser-mortals would have thrown in the towel and slammed the garage door shut!

By 16:30 we were on our way. Everything was working, we had everything crossed. Just the washer pipe to sort at a later date.

Sunday 3 March 2013

Stock vs. Dropped

After driving around for ages looking for a suitable T5 to do some height-comparison shots, we finally borrowed some friends and their T5 to take a few quick pics...


Saturday 2 March 2013

Micro Mods - an update

Finally it's warm enough to do something outside without losing the feeling in your finger ends. Ideal for changing the bulbs in the new cab light:


For the main centre light I've used a 3x SMD Festoon C5W 44mm unit. And for the two reading lights I've used 4x SMD W5W Sidelights.


Light output is massively improved. Nice and white, very bright, and an inexpensive upgrade.

Prosport Problems

Clonking, honking, creaking, choppy, lurching and generally a bit vague?

Wonder what that could've been...