Miserable SMOL van for a miserable LARGE person

[Lacquer Peel]

With the Berlingo on hold because the thought of working on it makes me miserable, the autoshite bike Polo diesel being scrapped and my being judged safe to be released back into the community I needed some cheap wheels.

 

 

Wow, must be zero emissions or a recovery truck!

 

 

Oh, Partridge. Everyone rags on the SDI engines but this thing pulls well. 320touring reckons it can be mapped to beyond 90 TDI power levels! I'm looking forward to trying that when we meet up.

 

 

Tara must be a big lass.

 

 

Fitted with scaffolding.

 

 

I.C.E by John Deere. There's a spurious Bluetooth symbol on the unit but no obvious way to operate said wireless technology. Think it's just for hands free calling via an adapter.

 

 

Yellow = sporty.

 

 

Some cancer but it's fairly solid.

 

[Guest Hooli]

I don't believe John Deere have hands free technology.

 

I'm basing this on the fact that 90% of tractors seen around here are on the phone for 100% of the time they are on the road.

[320touring]

Looks a write, we can try an ecu reading and apply mappery no bother

[Sigmund Fraud]

Winner !!! Are those veg-friendly, like the earlier models ?

[320touring]

Winner !!! Are those veg-friendly, like the earlier models ?

Yep "they love the lard"!

[Supernaut]

Yep "they love the lard"!

Me too...

 

Wait.

 

 

 

 

Anyway. Where are the photos of the whole van?

[KruJoe]

 veg-friendly...?

 

Do you really think this thread would exist if not?

[Lacquer Peel]

Me too...

 

Wait.

 

 

 

 

Anyway. Where are the photos of the whole van?

 

From the eBay listing.

 

 

 

Photos do lie.

[320touring]

That looks no bad. Welcome to the Seat club

[Jim Bell]

Inca well.

 

Almost a pun.

 

Almost a car. Mostly a van. Red is the fastest colour. Corners from Muller.

 

A poem.

[alcyonecorporation]

Yeah, that's copasetic.

[Guest Hooli]

It's a Caddy really isn't it?

[Lacquer Peel]

Sort of. Both built in Spain by SEAT, designed as a replacement for the Terra but with VAG hardware.

[Jim Bell]

Its an Incaddy and really should be badged as such because of lols.

 

Pokerface.

[Lacquer Peel]

I do have a Caddy badge sitting around somewhere.

[Joey spud]

Tara must be a big lass... Excellent.

[Jim Bell]

Tara must be a big lass... Excellent.

I bet she cooks a good breakfast.

[83C]

I know a big lass called Tara.

 

I'll not ask her weight though.....

 

Back on topic, smol van is good.

[Lacquer Peel]

The ECU isn't communicating with anything, boo! Thanks to 320t for meeting up with me in Perthshire to try it out. The Fabia is bloody rapid with a remap on private roads.

[320touring]

Was a good day oot:) should get a meeting thread set up for it!

[Lacquer Peel]

 

[320touring]

Do the evry mod to the pump wiring!

 

Oh and get a new filter on it:)

[Lacquer Peel]

 

The SEAT badge fell off when me and 320touring were attempting to remap the SDI powerhouse. Weep.

 

I'm quite chuffed with the SMOL VAN so far. Maybe I'm just happy to have any transport at all. In rural Scotland or anywhere with shit public transport and towns spaced far apart it's near-essential. I've covered more than 1000 miles in it so far, to dates, to meet friends, appointments, job interviews and jobs.

 

It's happily slurping near enough 100% waste vegetable oil which I get for free, my daft idea to put it in massive barrels to tidy up the hotel's shed necessitates a van or a trailer. The Inca goes okay considering the power deficit, but with the usual low power caveat of not having the power to overtake corner dawdlers.

The handling is really good for a van, with a solid axle on leaf springs and no weight in the back you'd expect it to pirouette on sharp greasy bends but it clings on. It reminds me of my Mk2 Polo but with power brakes and much better steering.

 

These vans are good, I rate them. Hard to avoid scene tax with the Caddy versions now unfortunately, especially if you want a turbo.

[lexi]

Looks a proper little van. Only thing is climbing down into it?  All right if you are used to manhole work

[KruJoe]

dates

 

Ooh, I need to get over to the open forum and catch up!

 

Good to see an update on this, glad it's a positive one. But (sorry to be so predictably Autoshite) good god, man, those wheel trims are CRIMINAL.

However, knowing you, you likely found them near a cattle grid and stuck them on just for trolling lolz. In which case - Good work!

[Lacquer Peel]

The offensive trims came with it, and they are awful. The steelies are really grotty, I guess a wire brush and some Poundland black paint might sort them out for a couple of days.

[Cavcraft]

Yep, w/trims need frisbeeing off alright. It actually looks a useful sized van that, decent room for a smoll van. In fact, weren't some converted into day camper type things?

[chaseracer]

...weren't some converted into day camper type things?

 

Day?  Either morning or afternoon only, looking at the size of it.

 

[Lacquer Peel]

Some people have converted them into SMOL campers, you can remove the bulkhead and flip the passenger seat down for length. 

[Guest Hooli]

The LWB version is long enough for a camp bed to fit in