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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by markp » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:08 am

OxonPhil wrote:Hi Mark,

I'm still not happy with the way I left your lights mate, and will be 'upgrading' them next time

Phil.

P.s. Your just so trailer trash nowadays !!

What do you mean phill ?

so the red light shows top and bottom of the light ?

Best bring your tools to VF then mate :wink:

and I'll feed you beer while you do the wiring :drunken:

I'm just waiting for some nice weather so I can get the trailer out in the sun and get some heat onto the cover as I still need to stretch it a little to get the last 3 buttons in place .... its blooming tight

Still got to fit a spare wheel and bracket too and claire's going to make a cover for the spare wheel to conceal it as it will not be a match to the other wheels and they are as rare as rocking horse ( you get the idea ) .

then it's finished and ready for use :cheers:

O and I was the first person to write on page 300 .....WFT ......how time fly's

Laters Mark

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by markp » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:11 am

type21f wrote:Nice reflector solution...

Smile

You have friends...

Yes ... I'm a very lucky guy to have some amazing / helpful / generous friends

Mark

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by markp » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:12 am

Sjtw wrote:Have you considered renting the trailer out for the Bridesmaids?
It would make a great photo [emoji2]

or to carry there new mother in laws ....pmsl

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by OxonPhil » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:37 am

markp wrote:

OxonPhil wrote:Hi Mark,

I'm still not happy with the way I left your lights mate, and will be 'upgrading' them next time

Phil.

P.s. Your just so trailer trash nowadays !!

What do you mean phill ?

so the red light shows top and bottom of the light ?

Best bring your tools to VF then mate and I'll feed you beer while you do the wiring

I'm just waiting for some nice weather so I can get the trailer out in the sun and get some heat onto the cover as I still need to stretch it a little to get the last 3 buttons in place .... its blooming tight

Still got to fit a spare wheel and bracket too and claire's going to make a cover for the spare wheel to conceal it as it will not be a match to the other wheels and they are as rare as rocking horse ( you get the idea ) .

then it's finished and ready for use

O and I was the first person to write on page 300 .....WFT ......how time fly's

Laters Mark

Yea, think we should add another tail light bulb at the top......

You get the bulbs, and I'll put them in (£2.50 charge per bulb........just like Halfords :cheers:

).

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by dombutler » Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:29 am

markp wrote:Hi All
well tomorrow their's is a future bride come around to see if she wants Gerry for her special day .... I guess to check out if his good enough
Laters

Mark

Mark, how the hell could you bus be not good enough?? If it is the colour (2 tone not all cream) then tell her to stop being such a tart!!
Got a chauffeurs hat yet??
(Pindy in a hat, tee hee hee!!)
Nice trailer? Did you make a seat pad, i can imagine it now, you saying the trailer seems lighter after after that speed bump!
Time to clean that mancave methinks....
Cheers,
Dom.

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by markp » Sat Feb 28, 2015 1:17 pm

dombutler wrote:

markp wrote:Hi All
well tomorrow their's is a future bride come around to see if she wants Gerry for her special day .... I guess to check out if his good enough
Laters

Mark

Mark, how the hell could you bus be not good enough?? If it is the colour (2 tone not all cream) then tell her to stop being such a tart!!
Got a chauffeurs hat yet??
(Pindy in a hat, tee hee hee!!)
Nice trailer? Did you make a seat pad, i can imagine it now, you saying the trailer seems lighter after after that speed bump!
Time to clean that mancave methinks....
Cheers,
Dom.

LOL ... I don't do Chauffeur hats :lol:

Guess they just wanted to check out Gerry and make sure he was as good in the flesh as he is in photos ...... A fair shout as it is thier special day after all.

The couple just been around and they loved Gerry and left with a massive smile on her face ...

... Lovely couple too so it is nice to meet them and put a name to a face.

I finished the trailer cover this morning as it was super tight and I was struggling to get the final x 3 poppers clipped onto the trailer ....I left it for 2 weeks and this morning it was a peace of cake to pop on this final poppers ....

To complete the trailer all thats needed is to attach the spare wheel bracket and spare wheel and then claire going to make the cover for the spare wheel :cheers:

Out

Mark

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by markp » Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:24 pm

did I hear the weather man right ??????

Did he just say it will be sunny the weekend :cheers:

HHHmmmmmmm

time to play outside on buses

yyyyyyyaaaaaaayyyyyyyy

Mark

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Re: My First VW !! Mid Life Crisis " Full index on page 1 "

by markp » Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:01 pm

JUST A LITTLE UPDATE

So rolling in the salty roads have destroyed my hubcaps so they are going to the chromers to be done properly..... ( lots of little brown spots all over the face of the hub Caps )

just goes to show how thin the chrome must be on the repo caps :roll:

They will be back with me in a few weeks so while they are away I'm going to have a go at Re-doing my white walls as the trailer tyres are WHITE and Gerry's tyres are a screamy colour .... to be honest i like the creamy colour better as they match the bus but they will dis-colour again after a while and the trailer will match the bus nicely too by the time I roll to VF

Been playing with my Camera a little bit over the last few weeks but could not upload stuff onto here for a while now as new Apple pc ( just getting my head around how to do things )

Feeling like a Markasourus ..... as I'm not too hot with the pc but I'm getting there slowly and I'll worked out how to upload pics now :cheers:

So now I've got the hang of getting photos onto here again there will be no stopping me :lol:

also tomorrow job is to attach the bracket for the spare wheel on the trailer as a friend advised me that its a must as NO spare wheel would be a disaster if I picked up a pusher and had now way to fix the problem !! ...... i'll sort that all tomorrow ...Job Done ...
Claire will be making a cover for the spare wheel ( in red of course ) :cheers:

and when the family give you a sticker ...... It just has to be used ...... sorry purists but ya all know me by now :wink: