today we've got something really exciting we're going to pick up our brand new van
and i'm not going to tell you what it is you're going to have to watch this video to find out
for the first person to guess what it is let me know in the comments below and i'll give you a
shout out in the next video let's go get it it's white it's got roof bars and it's got bird food
it's got two seats it's got wind-up windows so it might be pretty old
it's got a 1.6 engine it's got steel wheels as you can guess it it's a vw we have bought a vw
crafter van i'm only joking guys it's not a vw crafter it's a vw caddy maxi 2014 white one
next project there we have it guys we have got a volkswagen caddy maxi
it's 2014 1.6 engine it's white as i said before and you can tell it's got really nice
service history the garage you bought it from is local so that was ideal uh they've just done a
fresh campbell water pump full service the mot history is super clean the body works really
really nice um so yeah it's gonna be a great project the inside that's a bit of a different
story it's not very good inside but that's why it's gonna be a really good project so we're
gonna do lots of videos showing you guys how to's of doing the whole conversion so hope you follow
along and these videos will really help you guys out and it will make it into a really nice camper
so now we've seen the outside let's have a look what's going on on the inside
and see the little bit of the mess i was talking about
so we're in the back of the van now guys as you can see it's a bit of a mess but that's really
good for us it's going to make a really good project so we're super super excited because we've
got something that was like really good there'd be no project with that and no videos for you
guys to follow along so as you can see it's like a builder's band maintenance van maybe a painter
and decorator it hasn't really been looked after that well but you know it served its job for the
guy who owned it so as you can see there's lots of scratches around the edges so we're gonna have to
paint all that up make it look nice again there's little bits of rust around the edge you know what
you normally find in the van this kind of age so we're gonna you know treat that ham right it make
it all look really good um obviously there's bits of specs up here i don't know they've had
like a bit of party back here paint or maybe it's like doritos there's some orange specks
all over the roof and they've repainted a bit here so i don't know what's been going on in this van
you know it could have been one of those weird bands but you know that's that's what's happened
so we're gonna rip all the roof out we're gonna rip the floor out the plywood on the doors is
pretty good to keep that this plywood here is pretty good as well but our plan is to clad it
all down the side so you think that'll look a lot better for a camper so we're going to rip
it all out so if anybody wants this plywood drop us a message in the comments or pms um and we can
sort our price and send that to you you know so you know we're not going to waste anything
um but yeah let's have a look in the cab so before we go in the cab as you can see here the plastic
trim is a little bit dirty so again we're just going to clean all that up probably use back to
black get it all looking nice and also got the bulkhead here so again we'll take all that out
as well so we're in the cab now pretty standard cab it's pretty nice you've got your heater radio
as you can see the seats are a bit tacky so we're going to vax them clean them up all nice
we'll then customize the cab we'll get some floor mats we'll get stuff to put on the steering wheel
the foot pedals you know we'll give it a really deep clean and make it really really nice but yeah
i think that's pretty much all for the cab if you guys any ideas were missed and make the cab better
let us know in the comments as well so that's pretty much it for the band tool guys we're super
super excited for this i mean i absolutely love the color i don't know if i actually prefer the
white to the blue i'm not really sure on that one but we'll see when we get along whether
the blue looks really nice british gas caddies they've got a big following but
the white i don't know they won't just look pretty smart yeah i like i like this drawing it's
got big old tires you know i know they're steel wheels instead of alloys but bigger tires a lot
smoother rides a lot nicer to drive i mean just look at this bonnet like they just look so good
it just looks great it's pretty windy so thanks for watching guys that is the end of our band tour
thanks very much for everyone helping us get into a thousand subscribers so far we bought this van
as a hobby and you know because we love doing conversions i love the old ones so much just
want to do this one and after this i want to do a t5 and then after that i want to do a sprinter
so i'm really really hooked on van life and doing all this if you could subscribe that
would really help us out because it really helps support the channel and it makes
doing these videos a lot more worthwhile because we're trying to help you guys out
share our processes so we're going to do loads of how-to videos to show you on the full scale how to
convert a vw caddymax from start to finish so in our next video we're going to start the conversion
by taking out the bulkhead and the flooring and cleaning it all out and starting the installation
so please hit that subscribe button follow along for the next video thanks for watching