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Re: Gertrude
Just been reading your thread great looking van certainly been through some changes I'm gutted I missed tatton in the end I'd of got to see in all it's glory
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Re: Gertrude
I found chatgpt!!!! 









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Re: Gertrude
As iv got my first baby on the way the van is now being retired from work duty and becoming the family car/b grade show van (well trying anyway!), so trying to get a few little finishing touches in, one thing that always bothered me was the state of my seat bases.
Touran carpets going in shortly so I thought I'd carpet the bases to match
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Touran carpets going in shortly so I thought I'd carpet the bases to match

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Re: Gertrude
proper tidy van dude and thanks again for the seats from the other month
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Re: Gertrude
No worries man! Glad they are being put to good use
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Re: Gertrude
Now there’s an idea when I get round to change my seats.
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Re: Gertrude
Nice to see someone else carpeting the standard seat bases! Do you find the standard bases make the different seats sit too high? Been looking at seats but didn't want to change my bases as I've made them look nice too
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Re: Gertrude
Thanks mate, if anything they keep them lower, the touran bases are about 4cm higher than the caddy ones, so being 6"3 I prefer the lower seating position.
Just waiting for some new seat bolts to finally arrive from lllparts and I can get the bases and touran carpets in....
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Just waiting for some new seat bolts to finally arrive from lllparts and I can get the bases and touran carpets in....
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Re: Gertrude
Does your Caddy have the radar?
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Yeah it does mate, went for a quick drive yesterday, no errors yet
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Re: Gertrude
That's good. Now I need one too 
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Re: Gertrude
Rear racking ripped out yesterday, now trying to cover every exposed single skin panel with sound proofing sheets, used 20 sheets so far and still got alot to get through!!
Definitely makes a difference, just knocking on the panels before and after really shows how much of a sound deadening quality the sheets have!
So hopefully when everything is covered then the rest of the rear shell carpeted at the same time as the retrimmed leather touran seats go in when the van goes into tmg in a few weeks I'm hoping it sounds alot more refined, fingers crossed
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Definitely makes a difference, just knocking on the panels before and after really shows how much of a sound deadening quality the sheets have!
So hopefully when everything is covered then the rest of the rear shell carpeted at the same time as the retrimmed leather touran seats go in when the van goes into tmg in a few weeks I'm hoping it sounds alot more refined, fingers crossed
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Re: Gertrude
Spending all your money before the little one n comes along 