What have you done with your California today?

[Kernowboy]

Yes it was. I don't think the prices are a reflection on them, more a case of VW expensive stuff and the price that most 'brand' dealers charge these days

Sure, they have to pay for the shiny glass showrooms somehow . They were beyond useless last time I used them a few years ago for some basic warranty work but I know they have changed hands so wondering how they were generally really.

 

[Flower Power]

I highly recommend Nutexa Frictions for rotors and pads. I swapped mine out for these and the are very well made. Low dusting and work great! And I’ve got a heavy van.

Nutexa Frictions Ltd

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Where did you get them from? Interested for the future.

 

[Webbah_in_Switzerland]

Where did you get them from? Interested for the future.

Ordered direct from them. Contact them as when I ordered their Shopify site had some issues choosing Switzerland. Janet is very helpful!

 

[Grumposaur68]

Replaced rear brakes. Bit worn. 130 quid all in. DIY fitted. Hardest part was getting the calipers to return far enough. Symptoms were juddering brake pedal when braking from high speeds for anyone that has this.

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Think u mean the pistons

 

[flying banana]

Think u mean the pistons

yes. the pistons, inside the calipers. if you were to replace one, they're called brake calipers.

 

[Nippy]

These look wonderful! Custom made?

Hi Cassidy, thanks for the words of approval!
The sliding door of the cupboard has seen better days and my wife fancied a couple of shelves, so I made a couple of cardboard pattens and the cut the shapes in plywood, with ply supports and cross piece front and rear.
The pegs are slightly shortened dowels with a bit of elastic string between, we’ve just got back from France and it worked a treat!

 

[Hayls]

Drove to Nottinghamshire to pick up.our Puppy, looks like he is going to settle into van life ok

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A border, how lovely, we have a fourteen year old who loves travelling in the California!

 

[Polomint]

Looks like ours will too

 

[Cali Phillip]

Fitted a new third brake light and a drivers step light. Added helicopter take to the step light to try and prolong the life.

 

[Barbara]

Collected van from body shop. A few not nice scratches now repaired and looks like new. Door, side panel and corner of bumper. It is also now a very clean van, it was dirty when it went in due to last weeks rain.

 

[TripleBee]

Collected van from body shop. A few not nice scratches now repaired and looks like new. Door, side panel and corner of bumper. It is also now a very clean van, it was dirty when it went in due to last weeks rain.

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Can I get your newly painted front bumper? Mine is starting to flake.
Stone chips have made the varnish to come off. As is the top layer of my headlights.

 

[Barbara]

Can I get your newly painted front bumper? Mine is starting to flake.
Stone chips have made the varnish to come off. As is the top layer of my headlights.

Stones are a nuisance and it is amazing now unlucky one can be to drive down a road just after it has been resurfaced with lots of loose stones.

Can highly recommend getting a good paint job, we have used the same company before and always been pleased. Now I need to touch up some stone chips on the bonnet and try to stay away from other vehicles in car parks. Even when I try to go as far away as possible someone will park next to me. However the damage on the side was my fault, I caught the corner of my garage door. The bumper is plastic so was not too worried about getting that repaired it has been scratched for about 2 years.

 

[SanderR72]

I have been working on fixing the sliding doors of the kitchen cabinet of my T5 California lookalike.

It was converted to a full Cali Ocean interior by a previous owner but when I bought it October last year I hadn’t paid enough attention to the poor build quality of some parts, such as the kitchen cabinet doors.

It turned out that one of the top hinges was even attached by pop rivets through the outside of the door .

When taking things apart because the doors weren’t correctly sliding, not even correctly positioned in their rails, I found out that the backplates in the doors were a mosaic of plastic pieces kitted together.

A pair of new hinges set me back at almost 65€ and as the new ones are made of plastic and no longer of steel, one of them broke at installation due to another poorly mounted top rail not having enough clearance.

So I spend last weekend at designing a solution that I could 3D print.

Before (not for that faint at heart):

My 3d printed design of the new back plate:

Installed in the doors after removing all the mess:

The VW original repair set hinge (left) and my lookalike 3d design and print:

Tomorrow I will install it all back in the Cali and hope it works.

The thing remaining would be to cover the nasty holes in the front of the door where the pop rivets used to be.