make sure you use an oem wing mirror, it has the temp sensor in and if the replacement doesn't have it you will have dpf issues later

Splendid show, squire and good luck with it! 👌🏻 A mate's just hot hold of a 2004 with 100k + and the conversion is seriously Halloween scary.....

Canadian following. We're neck and neck and anything I can learn from you is so valuable right now. Thank you!

Great start to the Show 😃 Don't forget captains chairs have to have both armrests 🙏

Nice start Stu. We saw Paul at Shepton Mallet, nice guy and nice van. Cheers. Andy.

A great tip Stu. The lumpy bit sticking out opposite the sliding door at head level can be removed matey. Cleans up the lines when lining the van. 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Yay. Excited for this 👍

Great work , looking forward to the build 😎👍

Great video. Looking forward to the conversion.

Looks great looking forward to watching the build

Great video , we were glued to it , 👍👍

Brilliant video thanks 👍🏻👍🏻

Cracking video great talk through

Look forward to watching the transformation.

Fab video & looking forward to see rest of the build. Very clean van for age. Been looked after 👍

Looking forward to the next one stu well done 👍

Great start Stu looking forward to seeing the journey.👍

This was really interesting... Thanks for showing us 👍

So pleased for you guys, you totally deserve it and all the best with your new business. I’m sure it’s going to be successful 🎉

Great start stu looking forward to this build

Van looks really tidy, good luck looking forward to watching it develop

You don’t hang about do you! Great progress, looking forward to seeing it come together!

Nice van stu looking forward to the journey

Nice work .. 👏

Great start mate to a vantastic van .....

Cracking job pal enjoying this build 👍

Good luck Stu 👍you come across very professional and knowledgeable all the best

My favourite van to convert.

well done Stu, a cracking van at a cracking price. Looking forward to the build, you will do a brilliant job. Bet you sell it b/4 its finished.

Great video hope it all works out for you 😊

What a nice van, it looks brand new in the back when you took the ply off. Think you got a bargain there, always nice when there is no hidden surprises too isn’t it. Thanks for sharing your journey. All the best, David & Rachel 👍

Best of luck with your new business. Love the name. Vanology is a definite watch for me as with The Rucks channel. 🎉🎉🎉😅😅😅

Hi, love watching your videos :D, I've watched all your videos from when you built your own.. Good luck on your business :)

Good luck with this new project ❤ …. Look forward to seeing this progress ! ……..One day !! 👍✅….i will have a vanology build 🎉

Great new channel 🎉

Just fitted diesel heater and bobill water heater very pleased with it..

use hot water for bumper, love to know if you can get a one seat for passenger , are you putting up solar on top first so the wiring is covered in,

Looking forward to watching this series. Ive just got a 2015 relay. Solar on, windows in and sound deadening done. Onto my floor, insulation and first fix electrics in next few weeks. First time doing anything like this but its been fun so far.

A great video here mate, really enjoying watching your content 🤙🏻🍊

Have a look behind the panel just behind the drivers seat. You might have a “converters socket” that has a fused connector for the leisure battery dc to dc connection

Hi, like following your channels. With regard to drivers seat, a van sales company I worked for found a local upholstery company. They would give him the complete seat, he would take off the cover, repair the foam, the unstitch the damaged panel(s), then replace with original style material. Alternatively get a brand new original seat cushion and replace, does mean some dismantling and rebuild of the seat. I worked mainly with Transits and complete new original pattern seat covers were available from Ford. Don't know about other van makers! All the best with your new venture for you and your family. John 😊

Make sure the wing mirrors are GENUINE ones with the external temperature sensor in place! If not, you will suffer DPF clogging as it won't regen without the sensor reading 👍👍

Hey Stu I think you should have kept the old plywood just for being able to make templates from for the bac doors, walls, floor etc. To make to work easier for you Lisa UK xxxx

Cracking start mate👍🏼 were looking forward to see it progress. I’m on the No shower team.. one you can use outside sure, but personally I think it takes up too much space inside for something you use 5% of the time. Looks like a nice van for the money btw 👍🏼

I’m hoping to do my own van build at some point so really helpful video, thanks. I’m going to have a shower as I think it will be useful for wet coats as well as off-grid living. Im planning on a Chinese diesel heater as they have great reviews and are cheap. But I plan to use a heat exchanger on the front to provide hot water. Not too expensive. Anyway, just some thoughts and many thanks.

Wow, so excited for you guys. We are based near Lampeter/Tregaron. Know who we will be contacting for a van !

Personally I think the price you paid was very good, I paid well over that for my 2015 Relay in OCT 2022 with same mileage. Looking forward to the build and all the very best with everything 👍

Great video 🎉, clean looking van - maybe I should give BCA a look as I am struggling to find anything like that for that price 😳

Nice little vlog buddy but now I'm leaving you to go off to back of beyond for a week ,but don't worry I'll have a drink for you ❤😂

Try buying some different type seats for your van not sure which one's but there are cheaper out there.Also would definitely go for the lowered seat base when we done ours fitted to normal seat base and even me at 5' 11" my feet were only just touching the floor so went for the lower base anyway good luck with build can't wait to see next vlog

We have a sky light going spare if you want it, we had air con fitted on our Carthago so its in the loft gathering dust

Hello 👋 i watch your other channel so had to come over to this one as u might already know i keep ranting on about wanting a motor home or campervan 😂 but unfortunately just out of reach i keep trying to win one just not having the luck my car is almost ready for scrap yard as needs new ecu unit or repair cannot even afford that think the people see me coming who sold it me being disabled and not knowing about cars i fell hook and sinker oh well u don't need my negative rants 😂 but i still enjoy watching your other channel and sure going to love this one to as i really enjoy watching builds from start to finish so thanks i truly hope this channel is as successful as your other love to u all hugs to kiddies all the best for your and families future i hope schools get sorted to love to mrs beautiful family ❤❤❤❤

You can get single driver seat and base from Europe. Very cheap. Did this for my transporter. As there is an abundance of them and no one from uk seems to think all the single driving seats are our passenger side. 😊

Hoping our wbay purchase door mirrors at £66 do the job for our long version mirrors smashed off on the Harlech road the other day. Will be drilling a hole if required for the temp sensor!

Little tip buy genuine wling mirror not aftermarket reason being aftermarket do not come with outside temperature sensor which will stop DPD regeneration

I put 2x Merc A class seats onto cta swivels. Bought for £300 Sold drivers seat for £150 and a single passenger for £300.

Look at Bobil for hot water and heating.......

Make sure the driver mirror as the temperature sensor in the new one as it will mess up you DPF !!

Great vid! Have you thought about selling the bits off that you strip, like the bulk head? Would help to keep costs down a little bit.

Great video, looking forward to seeing the rest of the build.....just wondered what size van it is, looks like a L3H2? I see you can stand up in it, how tall are you? I'm looking at getting a L3H2 but with the floor and ceiling, being 6ft tall I doubt I would be able to stand up in it?

Defo Welsh ! Am I right ? I'm going thru your 7 vids (so far ...) and I see now your workshop is a garage at the side of your home and that's why it's not big enuf to take the van, as there is a limit on size of garages in homes ... I'm off to No 3 ... 👍👍👍✔

It's a bit hard to believe but at that mileage and year and less than 9k that's a good start

You might want to check out the British Standards for the venting of gas bottle lockers. For two bottles you need a minimum of 10,000mm². In my conversion it was difficult to find clear space for that much. For a single bottle it's less demanding, but a single bottle is a nuisance when you run out. The good news is that oddly you only need to meet British Standards if the van is rented! You're allowed to sell one that doesn't meet the standard.

Good luck with the business, biggest problem I have living in Bedford is lack of places to get upgrades like a couple of maxxfans, solar upgrades. Parts worth about £800 but Labour over £2,000😮

I put a 240v fridge in mine, thermostat has a feed from the leisure battery, then a feed from the stat. To an inverter via a relay. Which then powers the compressor. Works a treat. Got the larder fridge from Trago in Merthyr. About 5 amps a day consumption. So much cheaper than going for a 12v fridge.

You can fit a drivers seat on passenger side , there are videos on here explaining the process

put night heater under dirvers seat.

Stu,I was wondering if you could use a drivers seat and modify it to fir the passenger side. And regarding the heating and hot water you can use a diesel heater to heat water.

Pour boiling water on the dented bumper it will pop back out with a bit of pressure from behind the dent

I know it's too late for this build, but I would like to see a rear seat config, with a drop down bed. Two choices either a screw drive system or a belt system, the belt system can be bought off Alibaba (cheaper than buying it from a UK/US dealer. Thoughts? Surprised you went for gas as you are fitting lithium, thought you may have gone induction hob, air fryer instead of oven.

Re front seat repair . .try jack Smith car trimmer swansea .he's good

Sell the drivers seat Source a single base and fit aftermarket single seats onto CTA swivels

Make sure you get the mirror with temp sensor, otherwise you’ll have possible dpf issues, believe it or not! it relies on the sensor, otherwise it won’t self clean, least on the Fiat version anyway, thought I’d give you the heads up. Best of luck with the build 😊👍

It sounds like you are well on the way for the new van conversion. Lots of stuff done already. I think I need an old man's step myself. torn acl and stage four arthritis in my right knee so its hampering me really getting out in Viv at the moment. I'm surprised you didnt keep the ply out of the van for future projects just in case, but I understand you didnt want the workshop becoming cluttered. Front seat wise, that was a hell of a lot of money to swap bench for single seat. deffo cheaper to get the swivel on the bench-more sitting room then. Looks like Vanology has deffo taken its first steps and just like I did with the original "rolling Rucks" and now The Rucks" I'll absolutely follow you from day one. Who knows, along the way I might get ideas to either revamp Viv or convert another one myself......or if I win lots of dosh get a guy called Stu at er.....Vanology to do one for me. At least I know I could trust you 100% to do a class job-unlike the wazzock that originally converted Viv... Anyhoo, loved the video. I loved your obvious enthusiasm for new venture ( though I know you've done vans before) and I wish you and the family massive success. Much respect- Kenny

Little tip, behind the bumper is a crash bar, depending how hard the van hit you could of damaged the crash bar and they’re very expensive, £400 +

Hi have looked at Truma ttr2 hot water tank 5l ? Diesel heater can heat it up and has 240 volt 300 watt heater as well. Might be a cheaper way to heater hot water?? Dave and carol

Anyone see the crying woman ghost in window at 4.08😢 scary, something very nasty going on in that house.

Please sound deaden the roof I didn’t do it when i converted my Citroen relay if you happen to park under a tree when it’s raining the noise from the rain drops is crazy and will wake you up at night just my experience if I could go back and do mine again it’s the one thing I would change 👍

I have a Webasto combi diesel heater kit (everything included) for sale that I have just removed from a 2022 camper if you’re interested.

Is it a l4h2 or a l3h2 van? Cheers looking forward to the build

make sure you have ordered genuine mirrors with the sensor for the engine pre installed (underside drivers mirror) , otherwise you will have engine issue.

Well done Stu, I'm sure it's going to be a cracking van in the end. Have you got a price in mind yet ?

Looking forward to seeing the build Stu .. instead of putting in the water heater for a shower .. put a portable shower hose which you drop one end in a bucket of warm water . Charge up on usb . They work great . Lots of people use them . That way they can shower outside as well .. clean the kids n dogs before they go inside .. good luck mate . 👍

Driver mirror has a temp sensor underneath ..... make sure its fitted ... cos if not ..its needed for calculating ambient pressure for the dpf ...... some cheap mirrors don't have this sensor 😂...... no sensor means van dpf won't regen😮😅😅😅😅

there is a you tube vid of a guy converting double seat to single? good luck. Colin.

Good video, may I ask ask as a private individual looking to buy a van how you buy through BCA? Do you attend an auction, bid online, or become a trader! 🤔Any advice would be gratefully received 'cos I'm struggling to find anything sensibly priced. Anyway good luck with the conversion, look forward to following you. 😊

one thig to be carful of some have a air temp sensor in the driver side mirror if not in it you will have no temp showing on the dash. also will bring up dash light and dpf will not work as it should.

Hi would people want to buy it if drivers seat was on the other side ? Loving your new channel stu xx

Stu why is it that when you put the sound deadening stuff on the walls it's only a square and not cover the whole panel?

is getting a sliding door with a window in it from a scrap yard an option?

bmw 1 series front seats are a straight fit and are way cheaper than the pergeot singles

I checked out BCA & it's only for trade buyers

Do you change the van to a campervan on the v5?

Can you buy a swivel for the double front seat? I looked for weeks and then gave up. I saw them for the Sprinter only. If anyone knows where they can be bought please let me know.

Get mercedes benz a class seats. Straight swap and no where near as expensive .

Is this a L3 H2?

I wouldn't send for the logbook, save adding another owner on it...... also to keep costs down go AGM for your battery

The Boxer is a quality van and no mistake, just don't rely on the built in SatNav. The worst I've ever used.

Hi mate how do we get in touch to get a van conversation thanks

I have a Truma combi boiler 4e thats 12 months old for sale...