Rear pull out drawer for Ocean

[ddl]

Hi All,

I am contemplating the purchase of the rear boot slide out drawer for my Cali Ocean and looking at the ones from Campervanbits and Calicap.

1)Does anyone have feedback on either drawer, or provide comparisons on them.

2)Has anyone had experience of purchasing anything from Calicap since Brexit as I am also looking at their wardrobe shelves too.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mjsmit]

Have you considered this one? Heckauszug / slide out boot tray Gruenthal-Mobilecamping

Heckauszug / slide out boot tray Gruenthal-Mobilecamping

We recently bought a slide-out tray for our VW California T5 Comfortline from www.Gruenthal-mobilcamping.de and are very happy with the results. De slide-out tray was delivered the 2nd day after ordering it on their website...

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[subthree]

Hi All,

I am contemplating the purchase of the rear boot slide out drawer for my Cali Ocean and looking at the ones from Campervanbits and Calicap.

1)Does anyone have feedback on either drawer, or provide comparisons on them.

2)Has anyone had experience of purchasing anything from Calicap since Brexit as I am also looking at their wardrobe shelves too.

Thanks in advance.

1. My pull out drawer from Campervan bits will be delivered in a few minutes! I'll let you know once I fit it over the weekend.

2. Just received my shelves from Calitop, rather than Calicap, took about 3 weeks to arrive. Import taxes and handling were £52. Shelves were €192 (£172).

 

[Wongo]

Campervanbits one is good kit. Well pleased with it.

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

Hi All,

I am contemplating the purchase of the rear boot slide out drawer for my Cali Ocean and looking at the ones from Campervanbits and Calicap.

1)Does anyone have feedback on either drawer, or provide comparisons on them.

2)Has anyone had experience of purchasing anything from Calicap since Brexit as I am also looking at their wardrobe shelves too.

Thanks in advance.

Hi @ddl We bought the full width one from Calicap (710mm deep version for Oceans with the ‘Lounge’ bed). Extremely happy with it and would say it’s one of our best purchases. Just makes access to things in the boot space so much easier. For reference the drawer can still be fully extended with our Thule towbar bike rack in place (Thule Velospace XT3).
We bought the drawer before Brexit so can’t advise on the post-Brexit side of things.

 

[subthree]

Currently, or did, have £50 off, so £400. I could not really justify another £300 for the European made drawers.

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

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Currently, or did, have £50 off, so £400. I could not really justify another £300 for the European made drawers.

Looks good.

 

[ddl]

1. My pull out drawer from Campervan bits will be delivered in a few minutes! I'll let you know once I fit it over the weekend.

2. Just received my shelves from Calitop, rather than Calicap, took about 3 weeks to arrive. Import taxes and handling were £52. Shelves were €192 (£172).

1. My pull out drawer from Campervan bits will be delivered in a few minutes! I'll let you know once I fit it over the weekend.

2. Just received my shelves from Calitop, rather than Calicap, took about 3 weeks to arrive. Import taxes and handling were £52. Shelves were €192 (£172).

Thank you subthree- I look forward to hearing how you get on. As regards the overseas order, did you have to get involved with the import taxes or was it all handled for you?

 

[subthree]

1. My pull out drawer from Campervan bits will be delivered in a few minutes! I'll let you know once I fit it over the weekend.



Thank you subthree- I look forward to hearing how you get on. As regards the overseas order, did you have to get involved with the import taxes or was it all handled for you?

Import tax; Shipped from Germany via DHL, once in the UK it passed to Parcel force. Letter in the post, pay tax online, delivered the next working day. Easy transaction.

 

[ddl]

Hi @ddl We bought the full width one from Calicap (710mm deep version for Oceans with the ‘Lounge’ bed). Extremely happy with it and would say it’s one of our best purchases. Just makes access to things in the boot space so much easier. For reference the drawer can still be fully extended with our Thule towbar bike rack in place (Thule Velospace XT3).
We bought the drawer before Brexit so can’t advise on the post-Brexit side of things.

Hi @GrumpyGranddad ,
Thank you for the feedback, we too have a towbar bike rack, the Pro-User Diamant SG2+ and that was going to be another question , does it still open with it on so that is good to hear.
I do like the look of the Calicap one and know it is more expensive than Campervan one before we even consider the import tax but it does look really good quality. Just worried how more it is going to be with taxes.

 

[ddl]

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Currently, or did, have £50 off, so £400. I could not really justify another £300 for the European made drawers.

That was exactly what my hubby said and actually your pictures do it better justice than can be seen on the website so thank you .

 

[ddl]

Import tax; Shipped from Germany via DHL, once in the UK it passed to Parcel force. Letter in the post, pay tax online, delivered the next working day. Easy transaction.

Thank you Do you happen to have any pics that would show it better than their website?

 

[pluc99]

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Currently, or did, have £50 off, so £400. I could not really justify another £300 for the European made drawers.

What size is it? 710?

 

[subthree]

What size is it? 710?

Thread 'Mark II full width Rear Drawer' https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/mark-ii-full-width-rear-drawer.39523/

They have stated one of the internal dimensions as 63cm. It certainly isn't because I measured it last night, but I can't remember the figure right now - too much wine!

 

[66tim99]

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Currently, or did, have £50 off, so £400. I could not really justify another £300 for the European made drawers.

Thanks looks great. Did you have to pull your rear bench forward to fit it? When you slide the bench back after putting the bed away, does it slam into the drawer?

 

[subthree]

Thanks looks great. Did you have to pull your rear bench forward to fit it? When you slide the bench back after putting the bed away, does it slam into the drawer?

There is an existing thread which I have just updated.

Post in thread 'Mark II full width Rear Drawer' https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/mark-ii-full-width-rear-drawer.39523/post-538151

 

[soulstyledevon]

This is an easy decision.
Buy the UK version or build your own to suit.

 

[Scoobz1]

Just bought the UK one. Agree about the above picture being much better - might have bought it before if I could have seen it properly !

 

[ddl]

Thank you for all your replies everyone.

Gutted though now as just been advised by Campervanbits that the drawer will not work with our towball mounted bike carrier which is a Pro-User Diamante SG2Plus

Hubby happy on the other hand though as it has saved him money!

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

Thank you for all your replies everyone.

Gutted though now as just been advised by Campervanbits that the drawer will not work with our towball mounted bike carrier which is a Pro-User Diamante SG2Plus

Hubby happy on the other hand though as it has saved him money!

Does your tailgate open with that bike rack?

 

[ddl]

Does your tailgate open with that bike rack?

Hi, yes it does, the rack breaks back so that I can open the tailgate even with the bikes still mounted on it. The only ones that would allow me to open the tailgate were the Pro-User SG2Plus one and the Atera Genio Pro but the latter one has not been available for over 12months due to supply issues so we had to go with the Pro User one.

 

[66tim99]

Hi, yes it does, the rack breaks back so that I can open the tailgate even with the bikes still mounted on it. The only ones that would allow me to open the tailgate were the Pro-User SG2Plus one and the Atera Genio Pro but the latter one has not been available for over 12months due to supply issues so we had to go with the Pro User one.

Genio pros are being sold again. My long standing order for one has just been fulfilled by Roofbox co, though I see they’re out of stock again.
https://www.roofbox.co.uk/scripts/r...ikes_no_022780/Qx@w,6M42VAwp3@Rb{~cC4ure_QXhD

 

[ddl]

Genio pros are being sold again. My long standing order for one has just been fulfilled by Roofbox co, though I see they’re out of stock again.
https://www.roofbox.co.uk/scripts/rbvehsel4_tab.php/car-specific-accessories/atera_genio_pro_folding_bike_carrier_2_bikes_no_022780/Qx@w,6M42VAwp3@Rb{~cC4ure_QXhD

Hi @66tim99 , our order was in with them too since about Feb last year but the delivery time kept getting put back and back and we were missing out too many times not being able to take bikes with us we gave up and found the Diamant which we are really pleased with (and was cheaper too) - Just gutted now I can't have the rear slide out as well though.

 

[GrumpyGranddad]

Hi, yes it does, the rack breaks back so that I can open the tailgate even with the bikes still mounted on it. The only ones that would allow me to open the tailgate were the Pro-User SG2Plus one and the Atera Genio Pro but the latter one has not been available for over 12months due to supply issues so we had to go with the Pro User one.

Just for info’ the Thule Velospace XT3 allows our tailgate to open and our pull out drawer to fully extend.

 

[rutgerdenouden]

Have you considered this one? Heckauszug / slide out boot tray Gruenthal-Mobilecamping

Heckauszug / slide out boot tray Gruenthal-Mobilecamping

We recently bought a slide-out tray for our VW California T5 Comfortline from www.Gruenthal-mobilcamping.de and are very happy with the results. De slide-out tray was delivered the 2nd day after ordering it on their website...

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Hi,

Ik ben voor onze VW California aan het kijken naar zo’n uitschuifbare lade en zag in het forum je post. Nu vroeg ik me af wat de hoogte is tussen de bodem van de lade en het metalen rekje waar het matras op ligt? Ben aan het uitvogelen wat dan de meest ideale indeling is met plastic kratjes…

En ben natuurlijk benieuwd of jullie er blij mee zijn?

Alvast bedankt voor het antwoord!