Thanks to the superb customer service provided by Jim at Dormobile we were amazed to receive our new bunk covers on Monday this week, as opposed to Wednesday next week! To say I was excited was an understatement.
We already had the bunk stripped and painted and on the dining room floor looking like this.
It was a small matter to reassemble the bunk with the new cover on, making sure that the narrow end of the material was at the narrow end of the mechanism.
Tonight we tried to fit the bunk. We had already decided to replace all the fixing bolts with new, and had picked these up from our local hardware place. They are a very useful shop as I can go in with a filthy nut and bolt, ask for 8 new ones 'just like this' and 8 new ones will appear from Out The Back.
Now, at this point Dear Reader, it is important that you understand that the bunks were not fitted when we got Brian, and therefore all we had to go on was a mysterious 'RR' written on one end of the bunk we had taken to pieces.
One bunk. Two potential positions, (drivers side, passenger side) and two potential ways around (narrow end at the front, or narrow end at the back). This gave us 4 potential ways around, so clearly VW law was proven true, and we put it in all three wrong ways first. This is partly because the right way looks so very wrong.
Here is the bunk in situ.
I'm not sure if it is clear from here, and I will take more pictures, but the mechanism sits either side of the roof frame, so that when it is open the pole sits on the l shaped bracket in the picture. This means that the other side of the mechanism sits close to the canvas - almost precariously close! It looks as though the metal will go through the canvas when the bunk is opened, or through the canvas if you try to shut the roof.
However, the bolts lined up, and so we cautiously opened it - and there was space. We closed the bunk, rolled it round, and very carefully shut the roof. Amazingly, there was room! The metal doesn't even touch the canvas. Clever chaps these Dormobilers.
There was, of course one last test to do.
The child test.
He is a reasonably sized 10yr old, as mentioned before, and seems to fit quite nicely. He is very excited about sleeping in at Busfest at the weekend after next (when we are also paying our deposit for the new ATT interior!)
Tomorrow I shall take the second bunk apart, and strip it down ready to paint.
Brian is making a visit to Paul at Mid Norfolk VW at the weekend to have a heat exchanger and a gaiter done, and should be back on Tuesday, in time for us to fit the bunk, prep Brian for a weekend away, and be ready for a fab weekend at Busfest!
Obviously, there will be pictures!
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