VW T4 CAMPER BUILD - EP4 (DIY Slat Bed, Slide Out Kitchen & Storage Ideas)

Welcome to my van conversion series.
Follow my videos as I buy my first van and go head first into the deep end with no prior experience of van conversion work.
Please bare in mind these clips are a couple of weeks old and at the time I hadn’t told anyone about my plans to travel Europe on my own as at the time they were just thoughts and ideas in my head, hence why to some the idea of pulling apart a perfectly fine van seemed a waste of time!
I got my van off Facebook marketplace and viewed it In the dark in a questionable area of Birmingham with a lovely chap in a tracksuit. Not by any means the way I’d recommend buying your first van but I was getting good vibes off it.
I’m trying to make it a living space for myself to travel across the whole of Europe whilst learning a thing or two along the way and sharing my journey with you. I’ll be making plenty of mistakes and probably have second thoughts about some things I do but it’s a race against the clock as I aim to leave the country on July the 4th to enjoy the back end of Summer 2022.
The van itself is a 2001 Volkswagen T4 in Fresian Green, the colour stood out more than anything with most campers being white, black or grey which appealed to me. It’s got a lot of “character” for sure… it’s a 1.9TDI with 67 of the finest brake horsepower with the engine just broken in at 191,000 miles! When it gets up to 60mph it sounds like a Boeing 747 except the only thing taking off on this van could be the solar panels!
Special shout-out to my dad for helping me on the interior, lots of it wasn’t filmed as it was just all hands on deck given the timeframe we all had to work with!
Any questions, queries, tips or feedback please let me know!
Music: Another Time
Musician: LiQWYD
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