While responding to YouTube comments from my youtube channel, I couldn't get
it out of my head... When is my Westy Bravo from Venture Libre gonna come for my Vanagon???
Special delivery let's see what it is !!!!
Yes my Westy Bravo finally came !! This is great tool storage, we're gonna install
this on the VW Vanagon and do a review and see if it's worth it or not. What type of
quality is it?? These things aren't cheap so let's get to it!!! Let's take a
closer look at this bad boy, let's zoom in here and we can see the stitching is
really good :) I got the grey, my Vanagon is brown, but I thought about it and and
the grey looked kind of cool so I wanted to get the grey. Anyway you can see
here's one pouch, you can buy different type of pouches, it just clips here
there's four so you can see it'll go there or I'll move it up near the top
right there we can pop it there because of the price I didn't want to buy
another one just until I got this and sort of examined it and made sure it was
good before I spent more money the leather I can tell you is really soft so
it's really good it does seem very very good quality now how are we gonna mount
this to our Vanagon? Well there's these little clips right here so we're gonna
screw those to the back of the Vanagon and then what will happen is we got to
line them up with these other clips here on the back and then this pretty much
just clips on and it will just hang on there and support the tools so let's head outside and do it.
Alright so we're inside the Westy right now we have our
Westy Bravo over there and we are going to install it right there, now mine
didn't come with any instructions but I did a little bit of research and this
stuff is not the easiest to drill into on your cabinets so you want to have a
marker so you can mark it and then a punch so you can just break
through because it's got this type of coating on it, and then it'll be easier
for the screws. So here are the screws, so here's the screws what
comes in the kit so you have two types of these black things now you have one
of these and one of these, you actually don't use these you can throw these away
these are if you are using fabric and you put it through like this to hold it
then that will be for the fabric but because we're just gonna screw it on to
the Westy we don't need this part. All we need is these, and then we're gonna
put the screw right through it just like so, there we go and that should hold it
just like that, so that's what we're gonna use is just these ill hats and the
screws okay so the one issue that I came into was this thing right here and if I
pan behind there I'm gonna try to zoom in if I can there you go right there
we cannot we can't remove this because it's actually holding our panel so what
we have to do on the Westy Bravo is we just have to pull it under here a little
bit I'll show you as I mentioned there's this thing here we got to get below it
so we just got to pull this down just a little bit and there is enough room you
can see where my finger is just to get it there so we got to make sure that
it's just just there that last one all the other ones will be okay so you just
want to make sure in the beginning you don't put it right at the top because if
you put it at the top I find that with this you're gonna go right on this
unless you can really stretch it out but I mean I don't think you should really
stretch it oh so I think it's better just to put it down a little bit like
that so I'm holding it in position just like this and we know here's our two
little things there whatever you want to call them so I have my permanent marker
so I'm just gonna undo my permanent marker like so and what I'm gonna do it
has to go right in the center so I want to make sure I'm lined up right there so
I'm just gonna take this down and right about there there you go you can see
there's a mark and I'm looking to myself yeah I think I got it pretty pretty much
where it's supposed to go maybe over there, a little mark, so we're gonna put
one in and then what its gonna do is it'll hold this and then we can keep
going all the way around okay so we marked our
little things there mine is the bottom one so I'm just gonna put my punch just
like so give it a little tap and there you can see I've broken through the
layer of whatever this is so now I should be able to screw on the first
snap there we go and now as you can see we can just sort
of adjust it rather have it nice and tight here and have a little gap there
then have it like this and I'm just gonna put a little mark like that where
we think it should be just like so there we go
centered perfect so here is the first one I actually over tighten this one
just a wee bit it really doesn't take much. I was able to fix it with a socket
but you can see how it just fell off so the head of the screw just pulled right
through, so be careful.
So it's all installed as you can see looks good like I says we have that
little bit of gap at the top it is necessary here you're barely ever gonna
see that but the nice thing is it's nice and tight all around there and then when
we back off we can see it just looks fabulous so the only thing I have to
decide is I bought one of these pouches does it either go over there or does it
go there and you can see if I back up there's the four spots one two three
four and there's a one two three four so I just have to decide if I want it there
or up there now for the beginning I'm thinking I'll put it on the higher one
and the reason is if I have screwdrivers or anything poking out of here it won't
interfere with this at all so I'll snap that one up on these ones right now so
that's pretty much it for my video folks don't forget to give it a thumbs up I
put a lot of effort into my into my videos the one thing I want to say is I
just wish it had better quality clips I wish that clips that you saw me screwing
on earlier when Bandit and Bo were sort of having their fun I wish those clips
were a little bit better quality because they do deform quite easily and the
screw can pop through and they can come out so I wish the clips were a little
bit better if you over torque one you'll quickly know you can take a socket flip
it on its backside and then just I guess get it back into shape that's what I had
to do with was the one that I had there that I over torqued a little bit but
other than that all went well the quality of this seems great and anybody
that has a Vanagon knows for sure that you're going to want to have your tools
handy because you never know when you may need to change a fuel pump or that
fan belt or whatever may break down so it's it's a really really handy thing to
have so that's it hope to see you on my next video so I would hope you subscribe
at least give it a thumbs up at the minimum and that's it GarageKing over
and out I'll see you on the next one thanks :)