The Red Beast
- Thread starter BigStevie
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- May 12, 2016
- Location
- East Devon
A long dry summer? I'm on a latitude with Bergen, we don't get the words 'long' and 'dry' together much up here.
Bed won't go across the van, anyway I'm pushing 6' 4". The load platform is a bit over 4.5m long, so should be able to get everything in. We've both been used to roughing it, only upgraded from a VW T2 to a T4 a couple of years ago, advancing age and all that!
I'm having a king-size bed on a platform in the back, non negotiable, so will build forward from there making it up as we go. Truth be told, can't wait to get cracking...
Thanks for all the support folks,
Stevie
Bed won't go across the van, anyway I'm pushing 6' 4". The load platform is a bit over 4.5m long, so should be able to get everything in. We've both been used to roughing it, only upgraded from a VW T2 to a T4 a couple of years ago, advancing age and all that!
I'm having a king-size bed on a platform in the back, non negotiable, so will build forward from there making it up as we go. Truth be told, can't wait to get cracking...
Thanks for all the support folks,
Stevie
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- Aug 19, 2016
- Location
- Norwich
Those rust blegs I mentioned earlier... Stripped out some very naf chipboard racking around the o/s rear wheel arch to find a soft patch of metal in the centre of the leading edge of the wheel tub, bit of proper merc tin worm! All the doors have the beginnings of the rot, just starting to bubble a bit at the bottoms. So, a full de-blegging before construction starts!
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- May 29, 2016
- Location
- Glengormley
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Those damnable bloody Mercedes tin worm raise their ugly heads once again....................... Why oh why doesn't a company with the massive reputation of Mercedes do something about this dreadful situation, after all it would be so very easy for them to do! In my travels I have seen some Sprinters as young as 2 years with the starting discolouring of the dreaded tin monster 
Phil
Phil
Part of the problem is my location, long winters (usually) which means copious amount of salt. To add to it the van has lived next to the sea!!!
The big grey plastic rubbing strips down each side of the body are held with dozens of clips each with their own holes in the body, there's no attempt to seal the strips or the clips against water ingress, like I said, designed to rot...
Stevie
The big grey plastic rubbing strips down each side of the body are held with dozens of clips each with their own holes in the body, there's no attempt to seal the strips or the clips against water ingress, like I said, designed to rot...
Stevie
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- May 29, 2016
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- Glengormley
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Same as me Stevie, my 'Millie' has more than a few dings and a right royal mess of paintwork on the bonnet, I could spend a small fortune getting her looking right on the outside, but as far as I am concerned just as long as all the mechanicals are working perfectly and everything is AOK in the living area, personally I would sooner be out there on the open road enjoying her.
Phil
Phil
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So, one bottom corner of one of the rear doors has rotted... investigation revealed that the rubber trunking containing the electrics for the door had come away from the van, the plastic retaining clip being all chewed up. I undid the connector near by so I could get the damaged clip off the trunking, as it flopped earthwards a goodly amount of water poured out. Well, that explains the rot on the very lowest part of the door..... can't really blame merc for that one!
Stevie
Stevie
