Yesterday ended up a bit corporate.
I had not done expenses since July, and that includes daily mileage claims.
Thankfully I am a bit weird, as I actually do keep a daily, written mileage logbook of my own in the cars door pocket.
But every trip has to be entered from postcode to postcode for the whole day, so minimum three lines of entries.
Departure, arrival, return destinations, get why it is a ball ache
Today it is all my parking, and other expenses from August on to next week when they collect all the IT stuff.
Posting up, video editing, all the stuff I use the company iPad for will cease.
As I do not own an iPad or such to work/play on.
Back to replacing the teats in the Caddy with Car seats from a VR6 as bought from @sammo from his VR5 Caddy build project.
The Caddy’s standard seats are such that a courier or longer day user would be comfortable, and they are good seats, but of course we always want to modify stuff, well…… I do.
So the standard VW interior, hard wearing, functional, dull.
Seats bought from Sam.
Before.
Grizzified (cleaned)
Changing seats should be a 5 minute job per side.
If you have the right tools on site , 10mm spanner and Allen key.
Undo a single retaining bolt, slide out original seat, remove.
Slide in replacement seat on rails, bolt down, Done.
But of course it took me two hours or more over two days.
Problem number 1 was this is a converted Caddy.
Done by a disability type company.
Cheaply as possible.
One directional “engineering” so not much stance of restoring to original.
Obstruction number 1 and 2.
Wheelchair safety belts. Electronic.
Made removing the original seats quite awkward.
Removing them, a significant hurdle as access to the retaining nut was zero.
So alternative leverage plans needed to be figured out and applied.
Locking the nut to the body with force.
Cats are weirdos, I am sure they watch their subjects die, and then start eating them…..
George waiting for me to die or give up.
Horrible back seats came out to give access, and coz they suck.
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No chance getting in there, all closed and welded shut after original bracing had been removed.
Much struggling and swearing later…..
First one fitted, or was it just placed in position while I tried to figure how to fit it.
Problem was that the wheelchair seat belts stick into the rear footwell by 100mm and the rear seat back brace on the VR6 seats fouled against it, meaning you just could not get the runners to engage with the rails.
Trust me.
Drivers seat was a lot easier once the seatbelt was removed.
Another interesting thing you will see in the video, is that the adjustment lever for forward/rearward move,ent on the Caddy seats are to the left…….. under the seat.
On the VR6 seats, they are to the left.
So I had to modify and flip the release levers as well.
Nothing in the manual to warn you about it.
Once done, it looked great and like it was always this way.
Despite liking and being very happy with the original Caddy seats, the replacements are a lot nicer.
I found myself going and sitting in both after fitting them, grinning and gloating to myself as they are that nice.
Video is a bit longwinded, but it captures some of the process and fighting to fit these 5 minute job seats.
https://youtu.be/yDGPDgdkB_s?si=HWvdpspLIpFX0Sca
Hopefully the video is of value to anyone who is faced with this sort of change.
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