Will it pass an MOT? - Iveco Daily Camper Vlog 34

[@Mad109R]

Haha the John & Alex show take to the road, well done guys i never doubted it would pass 👍👍👍👍👍

[@high1voltage1rules]

I didn’t know ya did a video John lol, Well it’s good it passed the MOT guys, now to finish the internal conversion. Best of luck guys, speak soon. 👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍

[@sgw8903]

Ah, the joys of getting an mot in an old vehicle first shot. For a tight turning circle, you should try the old Commer vans. They had a naŕower front axle. Dissadvantage being that with 4 wheel tracks, you hit every pothole in the road....OAT

[@johndragonman]

OAT from the forum? :D

[@sgw8903]

@@johndragonman Yes. I have watched quite a few of your vids. Never seen you quite as chuffed as getting that van through the test though. ☺

[@Peter195267]

congrats on passing the MOT, so I guess the work starts too finish the van.

[@johndragonman]

plywood floor has gone down!

[@juri14111996]

nice, i get my iveco Daily at the and of this week.

[@juri14111996]

F****** The dealer just sold the van to someone else (i had reserved it till the end of this week) :(

[@toekneemartz]

That’s normal with the indicators matey

[@johndragonman]

only when you have electrical faults lmao. very common to have chaffed wiring on the chassis. this is flashing quick to alert us that a bulb is out.. however they have had leds fitted to them.

[@toekneemartz]

Oh right we had these at Severn Trent and all of them blinked fast,even thou we did vehicle checks daily and never a bulb out

[@irish-thinker4429]

The test here in ireland is way way stricter

[@johndragonman]

never expected this to pass to be fair but it was fine while we had it in for the test. clutch pedal has snapped now so it's off the road again. very flimsy plastic..

[@irish-thinker4429]

@@johndragonman ha ha she will keep you busy man I'm glad it passed for you ,if had to do torsion bar bushing in the front axles of them dailys,its a hateful job

[@johndragonman]

@@irish-thinker4429 mate.. EGR cooler change.. what a nightmare!

[@irish-thinker4429]

@@johndragonman I'm gonna keep an eye on how you go Plan on doing a camper myself this year

[@blueviper1099]

Do you have an email? I wish to contact you about that Toshiba T1950CT you had in that video- I recently bought one and think I have a similar problem yours had, and you fixed it with some wires connecting to the battery pins? I was wondering if I could get more details on that

[@johndragonman]

yeah i just manually connected the battery to a 12v 2 amp power supply. i just had 2x bare wires then threaded them through the battery pin loops and slid the original battery back in. thats all i did, after a while of it being powered like this the charging circuit started to work again. the battery does need new cells in it though. they do not charge evenly. causing the charging fault... even with no battery in :/

[@blueviper1099]

@@johndragonman Thanks so much! I will try that soon and update. I was also wondering about the battery- you mentioned the cells could be replaced with double As? how would that work?

[@johndragonman]

@@blueviper1099 i cant remember what kind of cells it uses again.. if it uses Ni-MH then just replacing with standard AAs of the same type would work. you'd have to take the original battery apart and try to remove the old cells and solder in new. alternativly you could upgrade the battery to lithium and add in a new charging port on the battery its self along with a battery management circuit for the replacement lithium cells. so long as its around 12v output the laptop will run. if i could find an old 486 laptop with a better LCD and built in sound it is something i would do.

[@blueviper1099]

@@johndragonman Yep, they are Ni-MH. I'll look into replacing them. The only thing I was thinking of was the AAs aren't usually rechargeable, (not unless lithium, like you said) so would I have to just replace and resolder the batteries when they die? I think I will probably just get some sort of battery recharger holder that will fit in the case, solder it to the connector, and put a hole in the case for a charging port.