Author Topic: VW MK3 Caddy Rimmage 6/5 (Read 69933 times)

keith · « **on:** February 17, 2011, 08:52:25 pm »

As most of you know I sold my Edition30 and went into the unknown world of Vans, not much difference eh?
Now buying a MK3 Caddy isn't as straight forward as you think as i found out trawling the caddy forums. Three choices 140ps 6speed 2.0 TDI, 104ps 1.9 TDI 5speed or the 85ps 1.9 SDI the first is the most saught after then the 104ps and then the rather slow SDI. Up here in Scotland there are lots of the SDI's about due to there reliability and there low running costs so Co's favour them, I quickly ruled them out as they are just to slow if it even looks at a hill its clams up. So i went about looking for a 104ps model within my budget looking for elec windows, heated mirrors of poss low mileage and full serv history. problem number one vans are mostly high mileage or in poor condition so this scaled my search down to 2 vans within 200miles of my house lol. I wont bore you with the first one that was meant to be mint. So I ended up buying a 1 owner 56 Plate Reflec Silver 104ps C20 with 52k on the clock owned by a small engine rebuild company soon as I saw it you could tell it was well looked after paintwork was in fantastic condition with just a couple of stone chips, seats were as new as they had covers fitted from new. Full serv history and regular oil changes. Heres some pics

Now as this van is to be used for my business for which I attend shows I wanted it to have a few extras as the edition30 was always a good talking point and we always made it part of our stand so modding the van was a logical step. With vans though you are very limited to what you can do fortunately the Caddy shares a few things with the Mk5 Golf and the Vw touran a popular mod is a seat upgrade with the mk5 gti set up bolting right in I prev owned a gti cloth interior but sold it to Matt Poss on here

scouring ebay though I found an Audi A5 Leather front seats asking price £250 in the next town to me only 10mins away Happy days so i went to visit them and as they had been on the bay for a while the guy wanted rid so a deal was struck for 200

Fitting them involved a drill to the seat bases and chopping of two lugs on the base of the seats. Fitted here

These have electric lumbar support and are possibly heated so I need to figure out how to wire up the seats, any advice pm me

keith · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2011, 08:56:34 pm »

Next as with all cars it was a quick change of the headlight bulbs to some from powerbulbs, L/H side is the new bulb.

A wee clean of the engine bay as it had been done ever lol.

Next on the cards is to do a 312mm brake set setup conversion thanks to Jon tfsi

and a Mk5 MFSW from Apollo13

so updates to follow

apollo13 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2011, 09:57:50 am »

Looking good Keith

Let me know a bit about the heated seats and I may be able to help you out

VC · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2011, 12:09:54 pm »

what rims have you got in mind?

s3dubbin · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2011, 12:36:35 pm »

Andy "toast" has a lovely mint set of ch's that he will swap you for a box of seedless grapes and an ambi pur air freshener.

keith · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2011, 05:56:31 pm »

Quote from: Very Cherry on February 18, 2011, 12:09:54 pm

what rims have you got in mind?

Good question VC, I am wanting to see how the van would fair with the weight in the back plus lowered on 18's.

Quote from: s3dubbin on February 18, 2011, 12:36:35 pm

Andy "toast" has a lovely mint set of ch's that he will swap you for a box of seedless grapes and an ambi pur air freshener.

I seen them but not sure if the sliding door would clip the wider rear wheels.

VC · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:08:10 pm »

dude.... slam these on:

then drop it like its hot

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,25402.0.html

stealthwolf · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2011, 03:47:17 pm »

Leather seats look cool and a great excuse for interior retrim in leather!

Not sure about the porsche rims, though it may be VC's photoshopping skills.

keith · « **Reply #8 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:15:54 pm »

Quote from: apollo13 on February 18, 2011, 09:57:50 am

Looking good Keith

Let me know a bit about the heated seats and I may be able to help you out

Heres the attachments under the seat, seats have airbags so one for that, they also have electric lumbar controls.

danishmkvgti · « **Reply #9 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:24:18 pm »

Quote from: keith on February 19, 2011, 07:15:54 pm

Quote from: apollo13 on February 18, 2011, 09:57:50 am
Looking good Keith

Let me know a bit about the heated seats and I may be able to help you out

Heres the attachments under the seat, seats have airbags so one for that, they also have electric lumbar controls.

The lumbar supports just need a + wire, as for the airbag plug you just need this:

apollo13 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 19, 2011, 07:34:00 pm »

Keith the yellow one will be for the airbags for sure.

Could you do a better picture of each connector with the wires showing? or just list the colours?

Do you know what year of A5 they were from?

keith · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2011, 08:17:45 pm »

Quote from: apollo13 on February 19, 2011, 07:34:00 pm

Keith the yellow one will be for the airbags for sure.

Could you do a better picture of each connector with the wires showing? or just list the colours?

Do you know what year of A5 they were from?

Yellow connector has Brown, Blue, Black
Red connector has Red/Black , Brown
Black Connector has Red/Black , Green/Blue, Green, Brown
Green connector has Red/White, Brown, Black/White

I will get some pics if req.

MattPoss · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2011, 11:24:24 pm »

Looking good so far Keith, looking forward to seeing this develop

Will one of the seat plugs not be for the seatbelt warning light?!

Matt

keith · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2012, 12:23:23 am »

I forgot I had this on here but done a few changes.
First up as you can sort of see in the previous pics the caddy's door cards are plain grey plastic and hard wearing so a popular mod and one which is hard to come by is the touran door cards

they need a wee bit of cutting but well worth it. Heres the new ones fitted took months to get them
Old

And new touran ones

after that it was time to bin the RCD300 and get something better so i got a good deal on a kenwood ddx4028BT good unit with bluetooth, dvd, ipod.

Now for the big stuff, I needed to have to get another car as well as run the van which would have been dear so I thought about retro fitting seats. I went to VW who came back with a silly price so i set about getting the parts myself best place to start ebay

htere were two options a kit for £800 which was just the rear seat and another from a co who do disability conversions on the caddy maxi so i got in touch with them and they could do 95% of the stuff for £400 result then the guy said they were up my way doing a demo and could deliver for free

nice!
I will keep this short but you remove the bulkhead and then have to cut out a floor panel reveal the foot recees for the seats, weld a new seat mounting and some floor anchors. Bearing in mind I have never done this before I am well chuffed with it.