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- Hi, guys.
This is the Kiravans Door Store,
an ingenious solution
to make the most of the empty cavities
in your sliding door on your Volkswagen van.
Like anything in these small vans,
storage is at a premium.
We saw an opportunity to make use of some space
and we've come up with this.
It's really well-constructed,
it's a hard-textured plastic,
very similar to the other plastics
on the Volkswagen van.
Three storage bins,
very easy to pop on, shove it into the cavity
and you get poppers with it, you just push those in.
So let's take a quick look
at how we actually mount this into the door.
So before we get started,
there's a few things you need to look out for.
Once you've taken off the original panel
that was on your door,
you obviously have your three cavities,
you will have a wire for the lock running here,
it'll probably be poppered onto that,
you need to un-pop it from there
and just let it lie flat in there.
On the very odd occasion,
we've heard of a van that has got a wire
going through this hole here.
If that's the case,
this product may not be suitable
because you won't be able to physically
get the pocket into that cavity.
Any other wires,
as long as they're sort of stuck back
towards the back of the cavity,
you should be okay.
This material we've stuck on here
is sound deadening mat.
It's very thin,
so you can put a layer of that
into the back of each cavity.
And this one on the front here, on the top,
and the middle cavity is our 7 mil insulation foam,
it's a self-adhesive insulation.
It'll fit in there,
it'll fit in there,
but don't put it in the bottom
or you physically won't be able to fit these pockets
into your door.
What else to look out for?
Best not to insulate on these raised bits,
top and bottom here,
because space is at a premium.
Once you've prepped your door like this, if you want to,
then you can go ahead,
offer up the Door Store
and start popping it on.
So I'll just go and grab my poppers
and we'll do that now.
So to get the Door Store into place,
Simply slide it in
like that.
You'll find that the pre-drilled holes in the Door Store
line up with the original holes on the van.
Grab one of your poppers.
Push it into the locating hole.
And then simply tap it into place.
Okay.
Then you just continue to do that
all the way around the Door Store.
It's usually worth putting them in loose first,
just to make sure you've got a good fit.
The ones around the outside are very straightforward.
The ones in this middle row here,
you do need to hold that in quite firmly
before you tap them home.
Okay.
And then to get at the ones in the bottom,
you can just...
Let me just tap these ones in.
You may need to just open the door slightly
to get these bottom ones in.
Okay, so there we are,
that's that job done.
Doesn't take very long, just a few minutes.
And obviously,
you've got three really useful storage bins now.
Once you've got your Door Store installed,
obviously be aware,
when you open your door,
this door is gonna slide back next to your van,
leaving a relatively small gap.
So what you don't want to do
is load up these pockets with stuff
that protrudes out into the van
and then as you open it,
there's a potential for scratching the paintwork.
So just be very aware of that.
Apart from that, it's really easy to look after,
it's rain-proof if it gets damp when your door's open.
If it gets dirty, just give it a wipe down with a cloth.
And yeah, I think you'll really enjoy
all the extra storage this gives you.
Thanks for watching, see you next time.
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