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...

There isn't much to say about this job as it is very easy. Prep wise I did take the time to touch up and repaint some areas of the roof that had paint damage that the rail base plates would cover up. As you can see on the right I had one of the soft ally fasteners round off on me . My work around was to carefully cut a slot into it with a junior hacksaw blade then use a large flat bladed screwdriver to remove it. Pretty standard stuff but it is nice to get the chance to illustrate it actually working.