Ford Transit Custom opinion & modifications.

[smallribber]

Let’s see what very simple air beds will fit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K3tZ0LgQiQ

[Steve509926]

Whilst I realise you want a basic/simple conversion would you not be better fitting a rock&roll bed. At least you'd then have somewhere to sit at night if you did use it as an occasional camper van.

[smallribber]

Originally Posted by Steve509926

Whilst I realise you want a basic/simple conversion would you not be better fitting a rock&roll bed. At least you'd then have somewhere to sit at night if you did use it as an occasional camper van.

We have looked at rock and Roll beds and they are exactly not what we are after. This is going to be a van that you could use to sleep in or bring out the tent. If we want proper nights out we will use our small coach built Motor Home. Or our caravan.

Rock and Roll beds effectively take out the ability to use this as a Van and load in lots of stuff.

We may never ever sleep in this van or just on the odd occasion. We also have small blow up chairs that could be used to sit on if we wanted to watch TV for a short while. We might even get a Roof tent but then you run into height issues and car park height barriers.

Lots to think about and we are keeping it all very flexible and just doing the stuff we know we want at the moment.

[smallribber]

Did a little bit more work on the Transit Custom today. Fitted some very useful pockets in the rear Barn Doors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLMdnt0kGwg

[smallribber]

So another very simple but seems to be incredible effective product bought for the van £20 well worth the money. Lets see if it leaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6PGheG8YEI

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Did a bit more on the Van yesterday (Went out in the Boat today). Me and her indoors had our first go at 4 way stretch carpeting. Quite satisfying it was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6cM8nZDPA

[smallribber]

We have done some more work on the Transit Custom. Slowly getting there

Solar Install

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbsYx3Rh6w&t=31s

Some work on the interior. This DoDo mat stuff is expensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VssrDCnxK8&t=35s

[smallribber]

Yet more done. If I could get a straight run at this it would be finished in no time. Work keeps getting in the way though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YCGPcrRF8

[smallribber]

We think it is important to make use of all the space you have on these smaller vans. We therefore just made these side pockets that we think will be very useful. Took quite a while but the weather was poor so we were happy doing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPd4VTDhJcY&t=16s

[smallribber]

Getting there on our simple Ford Transit camper conversion. We want to keep this simple and easy to use for boating and taking our fold up sibs. Hence we wanted a bed and seat solution that would do this. A rock and roll bed is way too expensive and would not do what we wanted. Here is the solution we came up with and made quite cheaply. We did it for about £150 as we had a lot of the stuff needed left over as many will have. If you costed in everything it would cost about £250.

Here is a little video of what we made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcEAp9gsSjo

[smallribber]

We will be staying in this Camper often by water. It is important that you keep the bugs out. This is our solution that only cost about £15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGEh6L-meYQ

[smallribber]

Bought a new Diesel Heater for the van to take in and out easily as required. This one is App controlled and only cost £105 with discount

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohsLI1gqZpA&t=47s

[Peter_C]

Originally Posted by smallribber

Bought a new Diesel Heater for the van to take in and out easily as required. This one is App controlled and only cost £105 with discount

FWIW My van which has about the same amount of air inside, gets too hot. I generally pump 100% of the hot air outside, but with a manually controllable T fitting it can be regulated, for instance when trying to quickly heat the van. Also works great for drying shoes, clothes, and anything else.

Also be careful where your vehicles air intakes are in relation to where the heater fresh air intake is. They can be at the C pillar, or even at door openings.

A CO meter that is battery powered makes it far safer, or you may fall asleep and never wake up.

[beerbelly]

Originally Posted by Peter_C

FWIW My van which has about the same amount of air inside, gets too hot. I generally pump 100% of the hot air outside, but with a manually controllable T fitting it can be regulated, for instance when trying to quickly heat the van. Also works great for drying shoes, clothes, and anything else.

Also be careful where your vehicles air intakes are in relation to where the heater fresh air intake is. They can be at the C pillar, or even at door openings.

A CO meter that is battery powered makes it far safer, or you may fall asleep and never wake up.

we had a 2kw one of them Chinese webasto copies in our Mercedes sprinter camper van and it would have the van over 30 degrees inside in no time we had to have the door windows open even with it switched to its lowest setting.problem with ours it didnt cut in and out as needed when it got up to temperature the best it could do was ramp down to tickover gave your ears a rest but was still way too much heat seemed to be a good selling point when we moved the van on though

[smallribber]

Originally Posted by Peter_C

FWIW My van which has about the same amount of air inside, gets too hot. I generally pump 100% of the hot air outside, but with a manually controllable T fitting it can be regulated, for instance when trying to quickly heat the van. Also works great for drying shoes, clothes, and anything else.

Also be careful where your vehicles air intakes are in relation to where the heater fresh air intake is. They can be at the C pillar, or even at door openings.

A CO meter that is battery powered makes it far safer, or you may fall asleep and never wake up.

Yes they are very good indeed. We will only ever use it to heat the van then switch it off completely. Carbon monoxide detector arrived yesterday would never use one of these without one 👍

[smallribber]

Originally Posted by beerbelly

we had a 2kw one of them Chinese webasto copies in our Mercedes sprinter camper van and it would have the van over 30 degrees inside in no time we had to have the door windows open even with it switched to its lowest setting.problem with ours it didnt cut in and out as needed when it got up to temperature the best it could do was ramp down to tickover gave your ears a rest but was still way too much heat seemed to be a good selling point when we moved the van on though

Yes they certainly put out some heat and use very little fuel. We will heat the van then switch off. This is why I got one with the phone app as it makes things just that little bit easier to operate.

I actually have 5 of these types of heaters in various sheds. They are very good indeed and 10% of the price of the two main brands