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Many thanks all. Very much appreciated!

Can anyone recommend a welder in the Sheffield region? I need a weld above the NS rear jacking point and the body shops I've contacted don't want to take it on. I've tried reaching out to Metal Mickey/Plastic man but I've not had a response (not sure if he's still active?) Any help is appreciated.

Cheers Rob - appreciated!

Can anyone recommend an automatic transmission specialist around Sheffield (or even North of the Watford gap :D ?) My 1.9 Auto first has become very clunky going into drive and then when running in to second gear. When fully loaded coming back from Cornwall this week it started slipping in third. No...

Yeah, doesn't look very substantial does it?!

I had exactly the same problem with the catches and so eventually fitted a rock n roll bed. It fitted fine and now of course the bed is a lot safer than the Autosleeper original. Sorry Paul, I'd missed your post. What bed did you end up going with and did it impede any of the cupboards (especially ...

An update - VanWurks came back very quickly with good info (and the offer to come and measure up using one of their beds). They did however say that they believe their bed will impede the bottom right cupboard - might struggle to change the gas! TBH I think most (all?) beds are going to be like that...

Yeah, that would do it!!

Cheers chief. I was expecting a serious amount of cash when I opened up the link (being an integrated seat belt and the testing that would have had to come with that) but that's a really reasonable price! Very pleasantly surprised. P.s. Nice blog by the way.

jamesakers wrote:Rusty Lee's 3/4 beds are 1050mm width but he does custom sizes too: http://www.vwrustylee.com/vw-beds/

Yep think I've narrowed it down to them and vanwurks. Have asked the latter for a bit more info on the dimensions. Cheers!

Oh yeah so what was that big mallet for. :D :D Seriously though, thanks for that. Yeah it does look deep enough to take a R&R without interfering with the cupboards etc. Going to have to get a few dimensions off the various suppliers and see what's what. Ideally want to be able to keep as much o...

jamesakers - I've quite literally just been sat in there working on the seat belt (one step forwards, nine steps back - the usual!) and I was thinking the same thing. It's all fairly unique in there and I think I'll have a lot of adjusting to do to make a standard R&R work (guess I could fork ou...

cannot help you but have often wondered about the "pooh" quality of the fittings myself as I want to replace mine as well,hopefully someone will have a great idea Scottbott - yeah I saw your post back in the archives and so I wasn't hopeful. :cry: Out of interest did you investigate R&...

Wondering whether anyone has come up with the usual 80-90's ingenious solution with regards to upgrading the catches for locking in the rear seat back rest as originally fitted by Autosleeper? I've currently got a couple of flimsy slide locks (one's even been downgraded to cheap plastic) and are hel...

Cheers Jed, I will read with interest!