The best thing about having a Van is you can recreate your favourite scenes from
the best movie of all time Point Break, and I'll do that at the end of this video!
Hello everybody it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today the Volkswagen
T5 Kombi things that I love about it right let's get cracking. Before we get
started there's a link above now about the things that I hate about the
Volkswagen T5 Kombi but I don't even know why I made that video and if I was
you I wouldn't even bother going and watching it because this Van is SUPERB,
but it might be useful if you're thinking of buying one second hand and then
for the first minute or so we'll just go for a lovely little drive, now this
particular model is the Volkswagen T5 Transporter Kombi 2.0 Turbo
injection with a six-speed gearbox and one of the things I really love about
driving this Van is the visibility, and although my missus would rather have a
car even she admits that the visibility in the Van when you're driving is
absolutely fantastic just allows you to see over the top of any other cars when
you're pulling out of a junction, and on the road the Volkswagen T5 Kombi just
drives really really nice, and in the back we've got the three
seats and these fold down which I'll show you a bit later on and we've got
lots of space in the back and we've got nice arm rests on the driver and
passenger side and again I'll show you these a bit later, so the driving
position is just really nice everything's adjustable the steering
wheel and the seat, again I'll show you that a bit later on, this is the one with the
six-speed gearbox and it's absolutely super smooth,
now in my 33 years of driving and riding motorcycles but mostly driving vehicles
I have to say that the Volkswagen T5 is one of my favourite vehicles to drive
it's just really nice and smooth plenty of power and great visibility and loads
of space in the back, I mean there's a bit of wind noise and road noise but not
as much as you'd expect and here we are doing 70 mph in sixth gear and
we're cruising at 2,000 rpm, the good thing about this particular model is
it's got Hill Hold, so if you pull up on a hill and you put your foot on the
brake and then you push the clutch down put it into first gear and you're
waiting to pull away you do not need to pull the handbrake up it will hold it on
the hill and then as soon as you push the accelerator and release the clutch
then off you go really handy little feature that, on this
particular model you can also turn off the anti-skid control this is really
useful if you want to hack it around some motor racing track, basically the
anti-skid device is on all the time it's designed to maintain your traction when
you're just driving around on a slippery surface but there might be situations
when you want to turn it off and have complete control yourself, anyway that's
enough of the driving let's just pull over and show you inside and around the
Van, and there's a link above now about the fuse box locations and how to check
the fuses on this Van. Now on my particular model I've got the rear
tailgate not the rear doors and this is really useful if you go out on a really
windy day like I am today going out for a bit of a Surf, and this is me here on
a wave, you come back it's really windy it's freezing cold you can park up your
Van open the tailgate and you've just got a bit of protection from the wind
and the rain also that's really beneficial if you're camping say or you're
having a barbecue you can just lift that tailgate up and if it's raining you can
just stay out of the wet grab a bit of shelter
and then once you finish close the tailgate and get changed in the back of
the Van, get the heating on and get all nice and toasty. Okay so now we're inside
the back of the Van, on my Kombi we've got the three seats
on the back, a two and a one, so you can pull this strap here and this double seat
folds down this gives you lots of extra room that single seat also folds down
I'll show you that in a minute, so this is me with my nine foot six longboard
in here and it just goes straight in, and unless you're absolutely a mega tall
basketball player you can have lots of room in the back plenty of legroom, and
there's a link above now about how to reset the service light on your
Volkswagen T5. On the Volkswagen T5 you've got twin sliding doors one on
either side now this is absolutely fantastic if you've got children in the
back and you're parked up on a busy road they can get out of either side so they
can get straight onto the pavement no matter what side you've parked on, now
this single seat actually lifts forward with this lever here gives you a bit
more access and this single seat does actually lift out of the chassis you can
just lift that lever up and lift it out you will be able to lift the single seat
out on your own, but the double seat you will need help because it is so heavy, on
this particular model I've got the rear reversing parking sensors and you've got
four on here so as soon as you put it into reverse that kicks in and you can
see it on the display in the middle and it gives you an actual diagram of what
is close to you so I'm reversing up to a large brick wall and it's showing me how
close I am so if you just get out the back you can see how close that I've got,
and that is so useful I would never be without a Van or a vehicle now without
rear parking sensors, and on this Van I've also got air conditioning which is
absolutely fantastic and in fact I've just replaced the pollen filter on this
Van and there's a link above now about how to do that. We've also got driver and
passenger airbags just to make you feel a little bit safer,
now I know it is a given but this Van has got electric windows which you can put
up and down on either side and also you've got electrically operated wing
mirrors, what you can do is you can actually adjust each mirror just by
moving that joystick up and down so you can either adjust the passenger side or
the driver side and these mirrors are also electrically heated so if you put
the rear demister on and you've got the knob in the middle there then it will
actually demist them, you can also fold them up so if you're parked in a tight
space or a tight road it just stops them getting bashed off, oh hello. And as I
spoke about earlier the driving position is fully adjustable so you can adjust
the seats and the steering wheel I'll just show you that now so this driver's
seat here you can either lower it if you're super duper tall maybe you're a
basketball player but if you've got really short legs and you're not a
basketball player then likewise you can just pump that lever the opposite
way, now we've got nice arm rests here so that's a really nice driving position
you can move the seat in and out backwards and forwards with this lever
here you just pull that, you've got the arm rests on passenger and driver side
and you can adjust the backrest as well backwards and forwards you can get the
ultimate driving position, and you can also adjust the steering wheel there's a
link above now about how to do that, on this particular model we've got the side
windows in the rear on both sides and these just slide open you've got this
catch in the middle,
and as you slide it back you can look it into those holes in whatever position,
once you pull these levers here which I have to say are a bit flimsy and you can
lock it in one two three four or all the way back, now a word of warning here
these windows are the worst inventions ever and they WILL LEAK, there is nothing
you can do about it they will leak, apparently this is the
same on the Volkswagen T6 as well they still haven't managed to fix the issue,
but it is still nice to be able to get those side windows open and get some
fresh air in, on this particular model we've got alloy wheels all round and
we've also got disc brakes all around front and rear so the stopping power is
really good, and spoiler alert coming up, this Van has got a spoiler, and you've
also got the high LED brake light up there now just show you that here there
we go, you can see the bright light at the top just underneath the spoiler, now
on this model we've also got six tie-down points so if you're carrying
lots of luggage in the back or something pretty hefty you can tie it down to
these tie-down points you've got six of these, 2 at the front, 2 in the middle and
2 in the back, I'm always using those to tie down if I've got bikes in the
back or things like that.
Also got 4 speakers on this Van, 2 in the front dashboard and 2 in the doors, these
are absolutely fine, we've also got a rear vent on the pillars here so you can get
all toasty in the back, and very importantly we've got a drinks holder and
your 12-volt cigarette lighter but not for lighting cigarettes because we don't
do that, and we've also got a vanity mirror on both sides so if you're
feeling particularly vain you can get ready using the vanity mirror, also we've
got our sunglasses holder superb, and we've also got these grab handles here
in case you're absolutely careering around some racetrack, I can't use this
side because that is where 'Animal' lives! And we've also got a nice feature here just
an anti-theft device on the fuel you cannot open the fuel cap door unless the
door is unlocked and open. And the best thing about having a Van is recreating your
favourite scenes from Point Break. 'Little hand says it's time to rock and roll'...
'I love this ******* job'.
'Bodhi this is your ******** wake-up call man, I am an FBI agent'.
'Look at em, like some kind of tribe, got their own language, you can't just walk
up to those guys, you have to get out there, learn the moves, get into their head,
pick up the speech'. And I hope you enjoyed watching that as much as I
enjoyed making it. Everyone that's COOL has got a Van, BA Baracus from The A-Team,
obviously Bodhi from Point Break and Scooby-Doo. Time for a lovely cup of tea.
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