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I'm currently on a site at Platja de Pals in NE Spain, not a million miles from Girona. I've just been chatting to a new arrival about her van, which is interesting to say the least.
It's a 1995 (M reg) Volkswagen T4 Eurovan apparently made for the Canadian market but later sold to someone in Japan, then later imported to the UK. It's left hand drive and appears to be an official Westfalia conversion with a pop-top roof, making it a three berth.
Liz tells me she had no troubles with it until she came to go up and down the mountain roads crossing the border from France into Spain. Traffic was heavy, very slow moving and stop-start, and the vehicle overheated a couple of time, quite dramatically it appears. Adding extra water and being very gentle appears to have done the trick, but she had a scare when trying to go up mountainous roads out of Lloret de Mar, so she backed off and it calmed down. Could this be a knackered thermostat?
Her other problem is that the fridge doesn't seem to work on EHU, only on leisure battery and when the vehicle is running. I've had a look at it... it's not a Dometic model; seems to be marked up as one of Westfalia's original fittings. It's more like a large fitted cool box in appearance (with a top lid like a chest freezer) than a traditional fridge, and there doesn't seem to be a switch with facility to change between gas/230v/12v..... would this suggest that it is indeed a glorified cool box that only runs on 12v.... from leisure battery and engine?
The last issue is that whilst here she unfortunately backed into a tree so the RNS light cluster is broken and the bumper is very cracked.
My questions to Funsters are...... does anyone know of a garage or similar in this area that might be able to have a look at the overheating issue... or anything like a breakers yard or similar that might be able to source a light unit? Any idea's about the fridge issue?
Simon
It's a 1995 (M reg) Volkswagen T4 Eurovan apparently made for the Canadian market but later sold to someone in Japan, then later imported to the UK. It's left hand drive and appears to be an official Westfalia conversion with a pop-top roof, making it a three berth.
Liz tells me she had no troubles with it until she came to go up and down the mountain roads crossing the border from France into Spain. Traffic was heavy, very slow moving and stop-start, and the vehicle overheated a couple of time, quite dramatically it appears. Adding extra water and being very gentle appears to have done the trick, but she had a scare when trying to go up mountainous roads out of Lloret de Mar, so she backed off and it calmed down. Could this be a knackered thermostat?
Her other problem is that the fridge doesn't seem to work on EHU, only on leisure battery and when the vehicle is running. I've had a look at it... it's not a Dometic model; seems to be marked up as one of Westfalia's original fittings. It's more like a large fitted cool box in appearance (with a top lid like a chest freezer) than a traditional fridge, and there doesn't seem to be a switch with facility to change between gas/230v/12v..... would this suggest that it is indeed a glorified cool box that only runs on 12v.... from leisure battery and engine?
The last issue is that whilst here she unfortunately backed into a tree so the RNS light cluster is broken and the bumper is very cracked.
My questions to Funsters are...... does anyone know of a garage or similar in this area that might be able to have a look at the overheating issue... or anything like a breakers yard or similar that might be able to source a light unit? Any idea's about the fridge issue?
Simon
