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First job is to remove the back rest knob, left hand side arm rest and seat cover.
Next the original seat cover is unclipped and pulled up, I thought it was tearing, but it turned out to be strong Velcro on the inside.
Hi Barry
I got the fridge from a local company to me in Norwich: https://www.jpcdirect.com.
Cost was around £650.
I know what you mean about the power issues, our last van had 160w of solar panels on the roof and we never had a problem, wild camping with no hook up. Helga has 200w, and along with the lipo batteries I don’t think we will have a problem. Last week while testing it, the panels where running the fridge by themselves, not bad for early March.
The ITC also allows me to set up cut off points for the battery voltage, so at a certain higher voltage (ie driving, or solar panels) it will ‘super cool’ the fridge and its contents effectively storing energy in the food and wine, and if the battery then drops, go back to normal running, and if it drops super low cut off all together, saving the last of the battery.
We got these from amazon, worked a treat:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00WR6PG54/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
£21.77 each, and free delivery if you have Amazon Prime
Hi Tony
Please let us know how you get on. Helga had a windscreen leak which has made the wood on the drivers side corner go to mush. A bead of black Sikaflex around the rubber seal on the out side cured it and has now dried out, but it will need changing. Unfortunately we got hit by a stone which has cracked our windscreen towards the bottom, I need to get this changed via insurance before I tackle the shelf.
Chris
Hi Fred
Silver was mixed by the paint shop, took Helga along and he matched it, there are thousands of silvers, but no ‘Hymer’ one. Its a mix of a BMW and an Audi silver. Have a label of it which i will take a pic of and post, has lots of numbers on there in case I want more.
Just waiting on the fridge control unit to come in so i can tackle the instal of the new one.
Chris
Fridge is working fine, but we have had issues with the three-way ones in our old van in warmer climates, struggle to work effectively when over 25 degrees. In our old van I put in a 12v compressor fridge, ice for the gin when we had 40 degrees in Morocco 🙂
Installing an isotherm 12v fridge, other advantage is capacity will go from 90litres to 130. Also fitting optional controller which ‘over cools’ the fridge when extra power is available (when driving/solar panels) so energy is ‘stored’ in the food/drink in the fridge.
Do have the old fridge available if anybody needs one, will go on eBay soon, was working when removed from Helga who is the 2006 model with slightly bigger fridge.
Having same problems, with multiple pics, so..
A quick visit with Helga to the local car paint shop , and a few rattle cans of colour matched paint along with plastic primer and clear-coat where purchased.
In my paint shop (well shed at work with lots of dust sheets) I prepared and sprayed it over 3 days. Very happy with the result, it is a little more shiny than Helga, but she is a little dirty and hopefully the box will weather a bit. New locks fitted (with the same key!) and all looks good. Will probably move the camera for a better view when reversing.
One winter project done, a quick look at the next one!