Toyota Alphard Camper - BOUGHT & EXCITED -

Looking good but I would expect the brakes to be in a lot better condition than that considering purchase price. Massive lip on the discs and next to no meat on the pads.
 
adam cool dude said:
Looking good but I would expect the brakes to be in a lot better condition than that considering purchase price. Massive lip on the discs and next to no meat on the pads.
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Conversion without the awning is quoted at £11k - that leaves very little room for the van itself. Given he got to it immediately I imagine he knew.
 
adam cool dude said:
Looking good but I would expect the brakes to be in a lot better condition than that considering purchase price. Massive lip on the discs and next to no meat on the pads.
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Generally people will run things until they break... the pads came up on the MOT that I asked them to perform independantly... and they were going to replace... I said just don't bother as I'll be ripping all of them out anyway, it's literally a waste of their time/money and my time... as long as it passed MOT I didn't care. If they were brand new pads and discs, I'd have still replaced with mine as I always do on all my cars. Things like this don't bother me at all. Like the alloys, not bothered as I was replacing them with my own wheels straight away.

What I'm interested in when I buy a car are the fuilds, gear changes, engines, rattles, bushes etc etc and any corrossion... that's way more important to me.
 
Sooooo... another new addition... steering wheel which is so much thicker, contoured, lovely dark grey wallnut and nice new leather... and a new android stereo... plus I manually retroi fitted cruise control for £15... get in...

OLD STEERING WHEEL:
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NEW STEERING WHEEL
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OLD STEREO WITH EXTERNAL DAB RADIO AND CRAPPY BLUTOOTH
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TO THIS NEW 10" ANDROID SYSTEM
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Suprisingly... I quite liek those haha
I normally go 18's due to rubber cost tho

Have you had a chance to have a fly about in it to check the MPG? What was the dash reading the long term as?
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Suprisingly... I quite liek those haha
I normally go 18's due to rubber cost tho

Have you had a chance to have a fly about in it to check the MPG? What was the dash reading the long term as?
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Well, in the middle of a test, however, I filled up yesterday on way back and did 210 miles and if was half a tank left... so, it's looking good mpg considering it's a V6 and converted!
 
Steering wheel looks good, small things make all the difference. That Android HU looks pretty slick too, I like the UI.
 
yes wheel & HU look good - did you add an aeriel (testing needed ?) for an embedded sim or that was already present;
wheel looks new new, or is it rebuilt/covered (good trade out of some eastern eu countries for recovered BMW ones, when I needed a new clock spring way back)
 
jpaul said:
yes wheel & HU look good - did you add an aeriel (testing needed ?) for an embedded sim or that was already present;
wheel looks new new, or is it rebuilt/covered (good trade out of some eastern eu countries for recovered BMW ones, when I needed a new clock spring way back)
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"embedded sim"? Not sure what you mean? As for the wheel, yeah I "THINK" they're refurbed, but the wood is ticker and more contoured, but the frame is pure original so I'm assuming they strip it all down and do their own, haven't a clue I'l be honest but it's spot on I know that but 100% they must take originals and re-do them, for £150 quid it's a really nice piece of kit though!
 
Phemo said:
Steering wheel looks good, small things make all the difference. That Android HU looks pretty slick too, I like the UI.
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Cheers man, yeah it's always the little things... I can't help myself, it was the same with the SRT8, things like the old crappy standard steering wheel, now mines all carbon and looks factory at the same time.. I love the individual things tbh... like putting my stamp on my vehicles, can't help myself :-)
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Suprisingly... I quite liek those haha
I normally go 18's due to rubber cost tho

Have you had a chance to have a fly about in it to check the MPG? What was the dash reading the long term as?
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pugheaven said:
Well, in the middle of a test, however, I filled up yesterday on way back and did 210 miles and if was half a tank left... so, it's looking good mpg considering it's a V6 and converted!
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I got ~450 miles out of my last tank. 70l tank...so around 29mpg. 90% motorway driving.

pugheaven said:
Sooooo... another new addition... steering wheel which is so much thicker, contoured, lovely dark grey wallnut and nice new leather... and a new android stereo... plus I manually retroi fitted cruise control for £15... get in...
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How did you do the cruise? Would love to add it!

Also, what's the wheel? Looks nice.
 
mid_gen said:
I got ~450 miles out of my last tank. 70l tank...so around 29mpg. 90% motorway driving.


How did you do the cruise? Would love to add it!

Also, what's the wheel? Looks nice.
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Cruise is easy buddy as long as you have the facelift model... basically this is what you need:

Get this stalk...

and this cover...

and follow these instructions:


It's dead easy. As for the wheel, I got it from this dude:

Buy The Wheel Here
 
I've been thinking about a Campervan for a while. Looks great for weekends away - enjoy it in good health.
 
dacads said:
Very exciting this.. something so cool and quirky about these Japaness MPVs , I think that's what they're called?

I've been looking at the Nissan Elgrand, the 3.5 variant is the same engine as used in the 350z!
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My mate is a JDM fanboi, loves his Elgrand.
 
mid_gen said:
I got ~450 miles out of my last tank. 70l tank...so around 29mpg. 90% motorway driving.
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That's mint! :D Even better when you consider its converted as well!

When I was looking at Alphard's, elgrands and the likes I was led to believe some of them would be single digits MPG!
 
jpaul said:
does the HU have 4g module (that uses an esim/sim-card) which also needs an aeriel, that was not present in the original vehicle config
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Ahhh right with ya no it doesn't, however, it auto connects to my wifi hotspot anyway so no need for it tbh. As soon as I get in the car, wifi and bluetooth auto connect, job done.
 
yes - I still carry music with me on usb, or listen to fm radio(4!) , but, if I had a long commute and wanted to use my tidal subscription,
then reception from phone inside car is not brilliant (it's rubbish even outside car in some of cambridge),

so I'd probably get an in car 4G(5G?) system; just a wired/aerialed 4G module that and be used as a hotspot would be great
 
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