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Take ignition key to key shop ( rip about 100 bucks) Research dimming led lights. Colours are a bonus. So cool. Remember all this money is not thrown away. One: it's an investment for the kind of lifestyle i want to build for myself. Two: when it's finished its easily worth 10k on the resale.

Still waiting for my order. It's been almost a month. Good news from UK provider: We are in the process of establishing an EU warehouse, based in the Netherlands to serve our EU customers. This will restore the service to what it was prior to Brexit. We are very close, and the new website should be launching by the end of this month. We have already taken delivery from Living Supplements there and have ALA and DMSA available. With the parcel shipping from within the EU, we will charge VAT at the Spanish rate on the sale. There are no further/hidden charges, and customs won't be looking at it as it comes from within the EU. We've already done some tester orders to Spain and it's working well. We've got 3 shipping options to suit your speed/cost/reliability preference, Correos, DPD and DHL Express. DPD would be 3 days, and DHL would be 1-2 depending on location. That's amazing. Good News part 2. My local pharmacy has 60 MG ALA pills

✅ sprayed rear bumper with black bumper paint. The finish is pretty amazing. Old me would say it's meaningless - but damn it's truly beautiful. ✅ Removed the excess glue from the windshield. Buy undercoat paint for when I fix the paint around the windshield.

I've just re-read the whole thread and I must say i've done quite a bit of progress in the 10 days that I have been chipping away at the progress. Some takeaways : When in doubt , remeber this is just my first proyect and most likely I'll own a camper van for the rest of my life. Go try your best and learn from the mistakes. There will be more proyects like this . Pocket journal with a bullet TO DO list. Plan the day the night before. Updated To do list : Fix possible roof leak spots Paint the roof white with a spray ( the whole van is fresh painted besides the roof ) Purchase car battery Plug in that new fat fuse to the fuse box Need to pay the insurance . Fix paperwork ITV ( spanish MOT ). Get appointment. look up quality seat cover. Paint the bumpers with the bumper paint ( if it works, cool. If not, buy new bumpers. ) Buy a bottle of Raptor truck liner for a cool bumper finish? + paint the rims ? brainstorm ventilation options. Floor ventilation, wheelarch ventilation, etc. fix screeching windows brainstorm ventilation options. Floor ventilation, wheelarch ventilation, doorstep ventilation , etc. Fix Ignition + repair the key. It's so worn out I'm worried it may snap. Brainstorm cool easy functional interior designs. Tie a cord to the back door so that I can open and close it easier. Look for a cool colorful 2x3 meter carpet for the floor. look for some way to make the floor softer

I'm going to invest 25 bucks in micro perforated vinyl. You can see from inside out but not from outside in. It's suposed to last one year. I'll give it a try. only bad thing would be that if there is light inside of the van, the interior can be seen from the outside. But I'll just get some extra window covers from the inside for the night i guess.

Analogies like that are just gold. Another one that helped me with voice tonality is speaking as if im the president ( to nail that assertive tone) Looking forward to more of these

Varnished the panels a second time.✅ Found all the plastic pieces I needed to fix the doors and make them look neat.✅ 160€ bucks. Total waste of money but It's gonna look smooth and brand new. All volkswagen t4 pieces are so overpriced overall. God damn my van lol. I think I'll have to purchase some seatbelts as well. If I remember correctly they were worn out as well. Also a normal radio. This one is so old.

✅ fixed windshield leak with poliurethane glue. It was messy as fuck. 6/10 result. I'll have to clean up later. Damn that was so much challenging than it had to be cause I made the hole for the glue to come out too small. I was legit suffering because of how much force i had to apply to the glue pistol. ✅ unscrewed and varnished the wooden ceiling panels. Ideally I'd varnish it twice but I'd have to purchase another can. I guess it is important so just go and buy it. ✅ screwed in and " Fixed " The rear view mirror.

✅ screwed in all of the wooden plates to the ceiling. This was the very last physically exhausting task left. The rest is going to be a breeze. ?? Tomorrow I work 13-16 and 19-23 What I can do : Fix the rear view mirror I purchased. Glue the windshield leak ( lol let's do this one already. I've posponed it for like a week) Clean the seat I purchased. Unscrew the wooden plates and varnish them twice ( important )

I had the idea to go to the scrapyard early morning since i was dripping my friend off at the airport and it's 5 min from there. I finally got a driver's seat! It's not perfect but its way better than mine. Anf it's original, worth like 300€ online. I got it for 50 bucks. I also got the rear mirror for 10 bucks. I didn't notice but it's slightly damaged. But im pretty sure we can get it fixed. I could have bought the right mirror I needed but i thought they would have it at the VW house. I was wrong. They have nothing. Also I went through pretty much all of the scrapyards so what is left is looking for online scrapyards or car part sites fot what i need ( both mirrors and door plastics. Once I've got this and I paint the bumpers the van is pretty much perfect. Besides the roof ( leaks, paint) and the leaky windshield.

Tomorrow wake up at 07 AM cause my friend asked to drime him to the airport. Its 45min each way so ill be back around 9 AM. Take van's paperwork to the VW house to order dem plastic parts. Finish screwing in last roof plate. Unscrew everything and varnish it. Glue the windshield leak ( finally) Car putty the roof tomorrow or the day after. Next week we going to the scrapyard to look for some seats. Paint bumpers Fix door plastics When all this is done I'm basically waiting for the carpet to arrive ( one week left)

I could invest in some decent lighting since I pretty much need to stop work at 18:30 because it gets dark. Getting some lights for my garage would allow me some extra few hours of work.

Today was good but I didn't get as much accomplished as I"d like. That's a trend with me. I have high expectations for myself usually i don't even start the endeavor if i think i won't meet them, which is bad case of perfectionism. I did put honest effort. "Ask and it's given". I've never read that book but that title already gave me some cool results in life ( a raise for example) and today an electric drill that I needed and I didn't know we had. I wasted hours struggling to drill the barr metal with this other battery- drill. It didn't have enough power and also it ran out of bettery soon, taking hours to fully charge. I asked and I was given lol Same thing with the hydraulic jack I needed to hold the wooden plate for the roof. In my last attemt i tried to make it work without the jack and I got so frustrated that I quit the project for 2 months ( again) Ask and it's given ( sometimes) I'm thinking about starting to upload some progress pics, but IDK if I'm willing to put the extra effort lol

✅I got everything I needed from the hardware store. They accidentally charged me 10€ extra for something I didn't order and didn't take. Now im finantially destroyed. (Just kidding - but it's sux. I'll be checking the receipts from now on ) ❌I forgot to take the paperwork for the van when I went to the VW store so I couldn't order anything. Reason being is I didn't check my pocket journal before heading out. Learn from this. The my drill's bettery is ?? and it's slowing me down. I'll just work with what I have. I'm not going to buy a new one must for this. Also the drill's keeps breaking even though I'm careful not to snap it. Is it my bad or it's just a crappy product? + I got the last wood pieces I needed. The guy cut it to the size I needed and for cheap . I love Leroy Merlin. I wish I knew this option before lol cutting all the pieces by hands.

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Tomorrow is Monday and shops are finally open. Also it's my day off work and I can have a nice productive day If I plan correctly right now and execute tomorrow. Lomeña car parts shop opens at 8:30 - Take the van's paperwork for them to find fitting pieces- What I want from there : Ask for mirrors ( all three, inside and outiside ) . On amazon they are 30€ each. Compare the prize. Also ask if they have transparent blinkers instead of the orang ones i have. Ask for rear windshield tints. But battery as well? I think it's too soon. If I buy it now it's just going to stay there. Maybe Lomeña also has the plastic stuff. Hardware store is next street as well - opens 8 AM. Buy black poliurethane glue for interior ( the one I had purchased last time is gray - oops - or someone just used mine and left me a grey one ) Also buy a sharp knife, All of the cutters we have are absolute garbage. Maybe they have a good mask for when I'm spraying the glue on the inside? CBA having weird lung tumors in 10 years. I expect to spend about 30€ on it. Bite the bullet. don't be cheap with health. 30 € is nothing compared with being dead at 30 because of accidentaly breathing in some stupid glue. Also buy like 3 white spray cans for the roof. I'll wing it since the whole van is painted fresh besides the roof that no one will ever see. Not going to pay 300`€ for that lol VW House ( next street actually ) Plastics ( window crank handles, door handle, plastic grip ( for both sides ) - they will probably have to order them. I'd like them in black though. Maybe Lomeña also has this plastic stuff. Ask for the plastic step and rear step plastic part IDK what they're called exactly but I understand myself lol. Most likely they will not have any of this and they will need to order it. Do it and then go to Leroy Merlin and get some wood or plastic plates to finish the ceiling. Measurements : Horizontal 120 CM . Vertical : 93 CM + 60 CM + 70 CM. Ask dad where our hydraulic jack is. It will come very in handy to build in the ceiling. Otherwise it's extremely obnoxious and unnecesary complicated. There is probably more stuff I'm missing and I may have to do two trips but that's life. More action and less overthinking is good ( at least for me )

@Bogdan In short, moving heavy metals around is heavy on the body and you requiere these supplements to help your system cope with the stress. They particularly counteract the bad things mercury does to your body and are inexpensive and easily available. [...] There are some things that mercury does to every human. It interferes with mineral transport. That means that certain minerals are not getting properly absorbed, not getting transported to where they are needed, and are lost readily. In particular, mercury poisoned people are deficient in magnesium and zinc. These two minerals are desperately needed by enzymes. Mercury causes oxidative damage. The vitamin C and vitamin E are included in the core four supplements to protect to some extent from that oxidative damage. Mercury causes other nutrients to be in limited supply but these are the 4 that everyone really needs to supplement when they are toxic.

Fix some of the plastic roof screws by wrapping the bolts with teflon tape Look for some cool headlights ( ask in car part shop, or be ready to pick them up from the scrapyard ) Ask dad how to DIX fix the seats and if the finish would be any nice. Otherwise look for second hand seat or maybe pay a professional ( E X P E N S I V E ). I'd rather avoid the last option but man these seats are sexy: EDIT : Forgot the option of frankensteining some seats from a different vehicle that are compatible with mine that are in great shape! Most likely this is what we'll do.

What can I do tomorrow? it's sunday and shops are closed. Monday I can grab lot's of stuff that I'll recompile tomorrow night before sleep. For tomorrow I could fix the roof leaks with some car putty, I can grab some gloves after work and fix the windshield leak with the poliurethane glue, I could unscrew the bumpers and spray them with the bumper paint ( lets hope this works lol ) . I could attach a rope to the back door so it's easier to close. Ew, all of this is really boring. I'll take tomorrow off and I'll just do the "cool stuff" on monday (getting wood, shaping it, drilling the holes, ordering the plastic parts from the VW house, and also the side mirrors. ) GN - np don't need to burn myself out. Long term vision.

Remember to get some gloves first.

sounds cool. I'm down. Although some people here are mentally unstable lol

My dad surprisingly had a good idea : carpet the doors in the same way I did with the driver's cabin floor. That should do the trick. Just purchase new door handles and window cranks ( yes I have manual windows, 1998 VW t4 - short version and low roof ) Leo would call this " a newbie fantasy "

@PurpleTree this is nothing. I SEVERELY underestimated the work requiered for this proyect. 100x underestimated, no joke. Most likely I'm not going anywhere yet. I need to pay off a loan that I had to take ( I'll be done with it in 10 months ). After that most likely I'll explore Madrid, Valencia and then France, Italy and Swizzerland. That's what I have in mind for now . it's good that I can't travel yet because it makes me a bit more grounded and long-term perspectived , since it's one of my weakspots. I'll be chipping away at this proyect for the next 10 months and I'll be enjoying it locally for now until I can finally uproot : )

✅ Carpet the driver's cabin floor. I do have enough carpet but probably not enough glue ( just one can left) - i had enough glue for 95% . In 2 weeks ill finish the rest when my order arrives from the UK. Im 90% sattisfied with the finish. Not bad. Look into different tint options. I can DIY with dad but I need to decide what kind of tint to buy + it needs to have the adecuate paperwork. Lets fix the windshield leak and we good for today.

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