Hot, but not as hot as a Cali!

[bxl_lad]

On the BBC today:



My Cali says... "Hold my Beer!"

 

[MattBW]

It was 49c inside my van recently, but only 33c outside on that day, 55 wow thats crazy.

 

[bxl_lad]

it was 40 outside:

 

[GSX1300R]

We had a few of those in Spain a couple of years ago..Thank heavens for the air con..

 

[bxl_lad]

We had a few of those in Spain a couple of years ago..Thank heavens for the air con..

You will laugh, but the numpty who bought our van originally back in 2001, saw fit not to tick the airco option - cheapskate!
That said, we figured we'd manage when we bought it... we loved the van including all its faults and short-comings. It just seems that fate decides that our biggest travelling days always fall on the hottest days of the year!

 

[GSX1300R]

You will laugh, but the numpty who bought our van originally back in 2001, saw fit not to tick the airco option - cheapskate!
That said, we figured we'd manage when we bought it... we loved the van including all its faults and short-comings. It just seems that fate decides that our biggest travelling days always fall on the hottest days of the year!

We had a T2 split screen many moons ago in Australia and the aircon in that was all the windows and doors wide open..

 

[Perfectos]

We had a T2 split screen many moons ago in Australia and the aircon in that was all the windows and doors wide open..

That’s old Skool hard core, I remember it well in my T2, roast in summer , freeze in winter, get out and walk up hill

 

[mrcheesbrough]

it was 40 outside:
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Noirmoutier, two summers ago. The fridge rocks, icy cold beer and frozen lettuce. Lovely.

You know if you push the ‘up’ button it will show you the internal temperature right?


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[bxl_lad]

You know if you push the ‘up’ button it will show you the internal temperature right?

The 54.5 was indeed the internal temperature...

 

[mrcheesbrough]

The 54.5 was indeed the internal temperature...

Flipping heck! I wonder how high a temperature Westfalia decided it was worth being able to measure? Not that I’d really want to find out.


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[bxl_lad]

Interesting to note is that above 40 degrees the control unit (in the pictures) begins to fall out!
I guess the trim begins to expand a little and the grips of the unit start to loosen...

The T4 Cali is like Concorde - it expands when it gets hotter

 

[TripleBee]

And I thought that this was already hot for outside temperature:

This was last summer end of july. Return from Mauriac, in Lille.

 

[GSX1300R]

That’s old Skool hard core, I remember it well in my T2, roast in summer , freeze in winter, get out and walk up hill

And downhill flat on the floor45mph...(On a good day wind behind us)

 

[Perfectos]

And downhill flat on the floor45mph...(On a good day wind behind us)

Haha, I remember getting a speeding ticket, the police man stepped out from behind a parked car, I was coming down a steepish hill, I saw him in plenty of time and put the anchors on ( I was doing about 35 in a 30 limit, he pointed his radar gun at me, as I approached he flagged me down, I literally stopped 30 yards past his position, parked safely and walked back up the hill to his position.
“How fast were you going” he said, “about 35” I said , he turned the gun to show me the reading “34” the gun showed, out came the long book, i said you’ve got to be joking, I saw you and put the brakes on !
I think I got the ticket because I simply could not stop the brick T2 sliding down the hill and sailing well past his position. The servo brakes on the T2 were totally shocking, love em to look at, it was a great fun vehicle and I had some great adventures in it, but they were just not good at starting or stopping to the point where it was dangerous particularly when going up hill on a motorway being overtaken by lorries who had slowed to 40mph to overtake the nutter in the nut bus ! And mine was actually quite quick compared to some I came across !
Great memories

 

[GSX1300R]

We went across Australia and up to Alice Springs...That’s when there was absolutely nothing for Hundreds of Miles..Had two 15 gallon drums of petrol on the roof rack..One thing we could guarantee was getting 18 mpg.so without a fuel gauge we knew to the mile when it would run out of petrol.. Broke down 13 times the most serious was a Conrod through the crankcase 25 miles south of Alice..Oh the joys of a VW 1200 combo van....... why people will pay upwards of 25 k for one beats me.

 

[Perfectos]

We went across Australia and up to Alice Springs...That’s when there was absolutely nothing for Hundreds of Miles..Had two 15 gallon drums of petrol on the roof rack..One thing we could guarantee was getting 18 mpg.so without a fuel gauge we knew to the mile when it would run out of petrol.. Broke down 13 times the most serious was a Conrod through the crankcase 25 miles south of Alice..Oh the joys of a VW 1200 combo van....... why people will pay upwards of 25 k for one beats me.

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be !

 

[westfalia]

We went across Australia and up to Alice Springs...That’s when there was absolutely nothing for Hundreds of Miles..Had two 15 gallon drums of petrol on the roof rack..One thing we could guarantee was getting 18 mpg.so without a fuel gauge we knew to the mile when it would run out of petrol.. Broke down 13 times the most serious was a Conrod through the crankcase 25 miles south of Alice..Oh the joys of a VW 1200 combo van....... why people will pay upwards of 25 k for one beats me.

Get yourself back in one Pete, it'll be
like Deja Vu all over again.

 

[GSX1300R]

Get yourself back in one Pete, it'll be
like Deja Vu all over again.

Its not something I lay awake thinking about...I think I would sooner stick pins in my eyes I’d at least get some enjoyment doing that.lol...

 

[Vwcaliforniajapan]

VW decided to have a heater build in since I don’t know when......but why didn’t they think about an aircondition we can use when parked ???? Except a few hardcores then the Cali has it limits as a camper in hot countries