The..... What did you do to your Motorhome today thread!

Got the first coat of summer wax and sealant on the whole van.

Nice job
What did you use

Fixed a rear marker light; the front part had stopped working.

Had a couple of little marker lights which showed white front and rear but was able to swap out the red lens.

I have a couple of amber marker lights which consist of four tiny led's each but on a rear light two of the lights had failed so I screwed a new one on.

At 48 mph cruising altitude I need all the help I can get.

Purchased one of these and installed a 12V socket in garage of van. No more muddy dog inside van! Now, I just have to deal with a wet dog

I washed ours last night. The moss & algae was turning it a nice shade of green, but I prefer the original beige colour...

Considering I only wash ours 1-2 times a year in it's current situation, it looks beautiful now!

(Beauty in the eye of the beholder)...

Blag. You spoil that van

Two reversing cameras?

Not sure how to do the quote thing (handy if someone explained?)

Yes Rambler I have two reversing cameras, one up high where you would usually have one covering the bike rack and immediately behind and another camera in a number plate holder which I find much more useful as it looks straight back and covers that ground area you can’t see when the bikes with the cover on partially block the view of the high mounted camera and a child might move right behind you when you are reversing.

The low mounted straight back facing camera spots those cars that like to hide behind you that you can’t see through the rear window (especially with bikes on) and are just out of range of the high camera and might pop out to overtake as you are about to overtake something yourself on the motorway.

Neither camera is linked to the reversing lights so can be manually toggled on or off at any time. I tend to leave the top camera off unless reversing and keep the low one on as an extra rear view mirror. I would miss it far more than the top mounted camera.

Oh yeah, thanks. Took a couple of tries

I have twin side by side fitted above the gutter rail , one is aimed down onto the ball hitch, in such a way that allows me to reverse right up to the trailer or wall or kerb. The other one looks back to view the trailer or the road behind , they work on single display selection 1st or 2 nd screens.

Cleaned the oven inside and out. It wasn't too bad but no harm in doing it.

Monday evening last week I finally got round to replacing one of the rooflights that had a broken mechanism since before we bought the van last year, the slider for the black out blind was also damaged by the kids.

The old one was a Remis 400x400 and I got what I thought was the same, thinking I could do a straight swap of the mechanism but the design seems to have been significantly updated, hopefully an improved design rather than just cost reduction. It was a surprisingly quick and straightforward job.

The inner panel is held on by 6 ball and socket type joints (the socket is a compliant material) and it's just a case of prying it off. Remove the screws inside the van and in this case the brackets too because the new one used a different type. Up on top then and using a paint scraper to break the mastic seal and remove the old unit.

The longest job comes next, cleaning up the old mastic and preparing the surface to get the best possible seal with the new unit, I removed as much as possible with the paint scraper and finished the job off with IPA wipes and elbow grease.

The new unit had two parallel ribs running all around the sealing face. I took that as a cue to apply a thick bead of non setting mastic between them to get the best possible squish without all of the mastic oozing out beyond the edge of the unit or indeed into the cutout in the roof.

Once that was done, I placed the unit into the roof cutout and squished it down, then back into the van. There were 6 brackets. I started on one of the sides with two brackets and got one of the brackets fitted but only loosely hand tightened. Next I did the bracket diagonally opposite, back to the second bracket on the first side and the second bracket on the second side. Then the two remaining brackets, one each on the third and fourth side. With them all loosely hand tightened, I worked through them in the same order, tightening a little bit more each time until they were firmly tightened. This was to ensure an even seal all around.

Then it was just a case of popping on the inner panel with the fly screen and blackout blind and testing the mechanism. I did a quick cleanup of the excess mastic up top and I left the van to stand in the rain until Friday when I brought it for its DOE test and no obvious leaks were seen.

Unfortunately, despite my best intentions, I forgot to take pictures.

Made a step mat from some rubber backed carpet. I have fastened it with cable ties to see how that goes.

Keep us updated how the carpet wears please

Had a sh@t in it

Converted the indicators to DRLs / indicators with joint/dual colour LED bulbs and control unit.
used these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pr…TF8&psc=1#
and
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pr…UTF8&psc=1

David

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Wondered about my solar, it didnt seeem to be performing too well. It wouldn't go higher than 3.7amp input, so thats basically one 100 watt panel, right?

I disconnected them and put one on at a time, 3.7'ish, cloudy and sunny. So both were working, connected them back up and hey presto!! 9amps input, must be a dirty or dodgy connection, I'll investigate further next week.

P.S I have to run loads of things to get that input.

(I must dust the controller)