hello if you're new here i'm sheen and i'm annie and this is shane only van life
and in today's video we're going to be giving you five things to know about owning a t25
plus we're going to be giving you a bonus tip at the end we have turned this van into our tiny home
on wheels over the past year and have taken it on many trips around ireland we know the
struggles of owning a vintage fan from snap and bells to breaking drives so we thought we would
share with you the five things we think you should know about owning a t25 so the first thing you got
to know about buying a t25 is that you're going to cause an awful lot of traffic jumps now this here
is only the 1.6 so the slowest one you can get i don't know i can't speak for a 1.9 turbo but
if you own a 1.6 man you're gonna cause serious a lot of traffic jumps we've got so many people
right behind us lying on the horn because they are stuck behind us for ages so just
bear that mind when you're going to buy one it's going to be very slow people can get really mad
extremely mad yeah like what's up hey that thing going to go where some fella come up beside us
come on he's tracy's best yeah so the second thing you need to know is that
these ones are a head turner they are so iconic that people always come up to us to
tell us that they used to own a van like this or they just come to chat they love the van children
sometimes sometimes wave for some reason people also take pictures and videos so it's really nice
you can make lots of friends but bear in mind that if you're going to toilet getting changed
you want a bit of privacy people just can't come up randomly and talk to you so it's nice
but you might miss the privacy sometimes the third thing to know about running a t25 is
the lack of storage so these vans are so small and especially if you have the ones that are
don't have a high roof you're just gonna have very limited storage and even the ones that
the storage that you have is taken by your water tanks so this is all taken by your water tank
the sink you can put your oranges in there but you know you can't put much more then you have
the fridge that takes enough a lot as well your gas we have the gas in here and then all our
electrical stuff is under the bed so we're left with a couple of drawers for kitchen utilities
and then our clothes are at the back with like two drawers at the back and
that's all you're gonna have so take the essential yeah so the good thing about owning a lowry fan
like this with a pop top is that you can get on the barriers into places that are only 2.1 meters
but they lack the storage of a high top which we would like but you have to take the good with the
bad so far so good but we would like some more storage so the next point to know about owning
a t25 is that they are going to break down we've talked with this fan on two road trips and we've
broken twice so far so on our first trip to actually you remember in the first in the first
vlog we broke the cv joint coming out of galway which was a bit of a pain and then just this
morning we snapped the alternator belt coming out of one door so this here is a 1.6 diesel engine
and they are going to break down so just bear that in mind when you're going to buy your t25
that you will have some breakdowns so make sure you always carry a toolkit with you and
you know how to use it this is just a simple toolkit out of half words that has everything
that you need to fix this van on the side of the road like all volkswagens you're probably going to
be using a size 13 so your 13 socket and your 13 spanner will probably get you out of most holes so
make sure you always bring a toolkit with you so this brings us on to our last hip and is this is
how unpredictable these vans can be so for example you can get out in the morning your temperature
gauge will not work but 10 minutes later it'll start working same as your fuel gauge sometimes
it works sometimes it doesn't so you don't always have to be aware of that and one thing that you
have to be aware of is how to spot a fault when it happens so for example this morning
when we were coming out of door and our battery light in here if you can see it came on then i
knew something was wrong and the battery wasn't charging so then i was fit to get out check the
engine and i could see that the belt was snapped and i was fit to change it alongside the road
and for a bonus tip if you hold a t25 make sure you carry spare belts with you because
this is the second belt we have snapped in about two thousand kilometers one more trip
one for trip so if you go to a long road trip bring plenty of belts i bought five
so i'm just going to show you my spare parts box for when we do breakdown so in here i
just want to be jumping it's because you never know when your battery's going to go flat yes
this is the aftermath of one of their all-needle belts these are the uart leader belts that i got
from a just campers and here's another selection of beds that came with the van
part of this morning's belt another bed i know the belt that broke
i know the belt
that's all the belts so you never have enough just in case
jesus brings so bad so there you have it guys there's five things to do about owning a t25 plus
a bonus tip plus the bonus tip don't forget about that one that's the most important one actually
yeah you could be stuck but i bet so thanks very much for watching i hope you enjoyed and any
of you out there that have a t25 if you think of anything else please drop it down in the comments
in case we don't know it and the rest of the viewers could know too so as always don't forget
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well over the last few weeks we've always at 800 subscribers so it'd be nice just to get to that
a thousand mark pretty soon as always thanks for watching and we'll catch you in the next video bye