Transporter

The lighting in the back of the T5 isn't great, even for a van, so as a camper it looks dull.  Time to fix that. I have looked high and low for suitable lighting for the back of my T5 and either found ideas too complicated, expensive, space consuming of simply ugly. At some point I was alerted to the idea that kitchen cabinate down lights are generally small enough and run on 12 volt direct currents with an inverter to connect to the houses mains. They can also be picked up for sensible money from your local DIY shop. I went to B&Q and got a set of 12 LED down lights for £20 (the box was open) and at some point later got a hole saw and some time to get this job done. I have taken the time to photograph as much as possible for you to do the same should you wish to do something similar. When planning this, I was particularly keen to keep clutter to a minimum and keep an OEM looking. As such I decided to make these new lights slave off of the sliding door light fitti...

I live in Lincolnshire and one thing Lincolnshire does well is fog.  Time for some fog lights. I was bought the LED fog light kit from Travelinlite10  for a nice combined birthday/ Xmas gift (cheers mum). The kit comes with everything you need as well as some helpful instructions complete with pictures to reduce your chance of crapping it up. The only real variation from the image on the right was that the replacement switch has a painted silver knob which looks loads better than the original all back one pictured and the chrome plated metal one I have. The fit was fairly straight forward as you are just following instructions so I won't go into pointless detail. One of the only deviations from this instruction was that I took a bit more time on the drilling clean up. Also I didn't have a 12mm drill bit so that was bastardised with a 10mm. I should have checked before starting.... It doesn't mention it on the instructions but it is always a good idea to ...